r/cakedecorating

My youngest daughter's Itsy Bitsy spider cake for her 2nd birthday. I loved her excited "Spider!" as I brought it out. ❤️🕷️

A couple recent birthday cakes. 😇

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I had been in the hospital neurology dept for 3 days prior to making this cake. I wasn’t up for it but gotta make a kid happy. Sloppy fondant and everything but kid was over the moon.

It was quite the challenge but I think it came out fine.

For my gran’s 80th. Vanilla chiffon, lemon mousse, fresh salty lemon curd, blueberry compote, vanilla bean Italian meringue buttercream, and lots of blueberries 🤸‍♀️

friend of the family asked me to make their anniversary cake which they are celebrating today! I thought I would use patriotic colors to tie in to today’s festivities 🇺🇸

The cake itself is 6 layers of Sally’s Baking Addiction’s chocolate layer cake recipe with milk chocolate ganache and chocolate pastry cream alternating throughout - covering in vanilla bean white chocolate ganache (that gave me a lot of trouble haha) and vanilla SMBC piping! I did the lettering by doing buttercream transfers and I’m super happy with it as someone who does not have the steadiest hands and has also had trouble with writing on cakes!

My only complaint is I wish I had taken the time to flatten all of the dots instead of leaving them pointed 🤦‍♀️

This is for my 3 year old. He loves Spinosaurus. He was supposed to be red but I was hesitant with the red food dye as he is still a toddler. It is completely gluten free and vegan except for the marshmallow eyes. What do you think?

Chocolate cake with raspberry filling and Swiss meringue buttercream for my son's birthday!

Lemon zest cake with wild blueberry compote and blueberry buttercream

I roped myself into making my husbands cousins birthday cake every year, after feeling sorry that her birthday got overshadowed by the Independence Day holiday.

Everyone has to blow out a candle on their birthday!

So the past four years, I have been making her favorite box cake and using the store-bought icing which is always melting and goopy and limits what I can do.

This year I got brave and decided I was going to make icing from scratch for the very first time, (it’s a no dye American buttercream, I know black is a strange choice for her birthday cake, but it was husbands insistence as an ode to the death of her 30s as she is 40 this year.) The inside is a vibrant pink (her fav color) three layers.

Since I was going to that effort, I wanted to really try and showcase some piping, which I also have no experience in, because why not.

Now after two days of making this, I need to tell y’all that you are incredible. Cake decorating is so much work and time. I’m so glad I only have to do this once a year.

White cake, vanilla buttercream. Weenie dog theme cause it was cute