Gillian's Cool Custom Cakes

Cake for a "Ralph's Ices" Biggest Fan

2009-12-06T17:41:00.003-05:00

Could you imagine anyhting better than a chocolate replica of a "Ralph's Italian Ice's" cup. This cake is three layers of moist chocolate cake filled with choclate frosting. It is covered in white fondant and iced with vanilla buttercream. The top is sprinkled with reese's pieces.

New Law Office

2009-09-01T17:29:00.004-04:00

This was eight vanilla cupcakes surronding one big vanilla cake. Five cupcakes have names written on them in frosting and the other tree are law office supplies. The middle cake is to congratulate a new law firm!!

Quilt Cake

2009-06-15T18:37:00.001-04:00

This cake is a moist dark chocolate cake. It is made to resemble a quilt, it was made for someoone who loves to quilt. This peticular cake a very similar to a quilt that i have seen a picture of.

Talk to the "Lamed"

2009-06-12T18:35:00.002-04:00

This cake is made to look like the hebrew letter lamed.
It is a devils food cakefrosted in vanilla butter cream. I decorated it with polka dots and wrote congratulations mollie on it. The cake was made for a graduation party.

500 CAKE RECIPES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2009-06-03T20:09:00.010-04:00

On the weekend of May 29, a 3-day long book expo came to New York City, it was called Book Expo America. At the Book Expo there were many different types of cooking and baking books. I was able to get my hands on a couple: 500 Cakes By Susannah Blake and 500 Cupcakes By Fergal Connolly. The recipes in both the books are so simple and clear. They have a beautiful picture of the cake or cupcake on the page to the right of the recipe and the desserts just look and taste incredible. My favorite part is that with almost every recipe comes a delicious variation with flavours you wouldn't even think of using in a cupcake. My favorite cake is the pound cake because it is so fluffy and has a great taste and texture. My favorite cupcake is the little caramel cupcakes because the caramel is so gooey and you can really taste the coffee.

Hello Summer Fun!!!!

2009-05-29T18:27:00.000-04:00

Nic Loves Strawberries

2009-05-15T20:18:00.003-04:00

This cake is a vanilla cake with a hint of lemon flavor. It has two layers filled wth a light and airy strawberry cream filling with a bunch of fresh strawberries. It was frosted with a homemade whipped cream and fresh halved strawberries on top!!!

Xavier's Super Cake

2009-05-14T20:12:00.001-04:00

Roses, Roses, Roses

2009-05-03T20:09:00.009-04:00

This cake is made from a dark chocolate devils food batter. It was covered with light pink fondant and beautiful pink and white roses around the sides. On either side of the roses I out a small green petal made out of fondant as well. On top of the cake I wrote "Happy Birthday Irene".

Sam's an Islander Girl

2009-04-29T20:26:00.000-04:00

Peaceful, Smiling, Balloons

2009-04-22T20:23:00.000-04:00

I Met Rachel Ray at the Food Network!!!

2009-04-17T22:33:00.005-04:00

Today my friend Jen took me to the Food Network and I got to meet Rachel Ray. It was soooo cool!!! Here's a picture of me in Rachel Ray's kitchen and she even autographed her Big Orange Cookbook that Jen bought me. "Gillian S'up? Bake On! XOX Rachel Ray". She was so nice and spent a lot of time talking to me. I gave her my business card. I wonder if she'll check out this site. She asked me to post on her blog. What a FANTASIC day!! Thanks Jen!

Stephanie Lights Up The Room

2009-04-08T09:32:00.003-04:00

A Special Cake for a Special Award

2009-04-03T09:29:00.003-04:00

Duggie Loves Roses

2009-03-31T09:12:00.005-04:00

This cake is made from a moist and rich devils food chocolate cake recipe. I covered the cake with white colored fondant. I covered the fondant with small medium and large elegant pink roses. I added a sweet touch with a beautiful little green petal on opposite sides of the rose. Around the two layers I put small white dots to finish off the cakes. On the bottom layer of the two cakes Iwrote Happy Birthday Duggie!!!!

These are Really Cupcakes!!!!

2009-03-30T09:10:00.001-04:00

I Designed This Cake!!!!!!

2009-02-28T23:07:00.012-05:00

Fly Away!!

2009-02-22T09:08:00.001-05:00

Artist's Palette & Paintbrush

2009-02-13T23:44:00.006-05:00

Clowns and Polka-Dots!

2009-01-19T09:06:00.005-05:00

I decorated this cake with multicolored clowns and polka dots. This cake was for a birthday party with a lot of children. It is a rectangular sheet cake made of choclate and vanilla... I used bright colors because they were fun colors!!!

"Max"imum Birthday

2009-01-18T23:40:00.006-05:00

This is a chocolate with buttercream frosting on the outside and was made for a boy who was turning 15. His favorite hockey team is the New York Rangers so I incorporated their colors Red, White and Blue. GO RANGERS!!!!

"Kit Kat" Kake

2008-12-23T22:29:00.009-05:00

Calling all chocolate lovers! This was a chocolate cake, with vanilla wafers in between. It was covered in red colored fondant and had crimped edges for a real candy bar look. On top I iced the Kit Kat logo and Happy Birthday. Around the board I scattered some other candies like M&Ms, Kisses, Laffy Taffy and others. What a great candy cake!!!!!

Great Skate Cake

2008-12-16T21:04:00.000-05:00

This cake was ice cool. It was an ice skate for a skating coach! Chocolate cake covered in white buttercream frosting and the laces were blue liquorice. The blade was tinted gold with a little bit of shimmer dust. It was an awesome cake

Peace, Love & Happiness

2008-11-16T20:22:00.017-05:00

This world cake is a vanilla globe frosted in blue and had copper fondont continents. It "floated" on top of a dark blue regtangular cake that looked like outer space. All seven continents were on the globe. I made this cake for a bat-mitzvah. The meaning of this cake was world peace. I wrote in two different langugages, Hebrew and English.

Sailin' with Irini

2008-11-02T14:09:00.006-05:00

This was a chocolate sailboat named Irini.
On top of the sail I put a directional and on the base I put a life preserver. They were both made out of fondant. The date on the corner of the right sail is the boat owners actual birthday. On the smaller sail I put a strip of sprinkles for decoration.

Mom's the BEST!!!

2008-09-22T14:12:00.001-04:00

This was a chocolate cake frosted in bright orange buttercream and decorated it with pink buttercream. This cake was shaped like a heart and had absract shapes on the sides. On the top I out lined the heart and wrote "Happy Birthday Mommy" for my mom's birthday.

Lights, Camera, Party!!!

2008-09-07T01:03:00.017-04:00

This cake was a sure movie starter. It was a chocolate clapperboard! This cake was for a ten year old's birthday who loves to act. The gold glitter was Pearl dust and I used sugar letters so it would look more realistic.

The "Flash"

2008-08-24T21:58:00.008-04:00

Alexander is my little cousin who loves his "Superheroes", Spiderman, Batman and the Flash. He asked me to make him this "Flash" cake for his fifth birthday today. The cake was chocolate because that's his favorite.

Golden Wedding Anniversary

2008-06-15T21:31:00.001-04:00

This was for a wonderful couple who celebrated their "50th" wedding anniversary. I frosted this cake in white and brushed it with "Gold" pearl dust which seemed most appropriate for this anniversary. I made champagne glasses from fondant and brsuhed those with "Gold" pearl dust as well. I placed them at the bottom of the cake so they could toast their special day.

It was a "Super" Birthday!!

2008-05-24T21:05:00.002-04:00

This "Superman" cake was for a great little boy who loves his superheroes and wanted sprinkles on his cake. The Superman logo is very popular and I have made it for both boys and girls. Scroll down a little bit and you can see it in pink and purple.

Sara's "7th

2008-05-05T21:25:00.001-04:00

This was a number "7" cake for Sara's seventh birthday. She wanted a chocolate cake in the shape of a seven with white frosting and balloons.

Barbie Doll Cake

2008-04-19T11:03:00.000-04:00

This cake was for a girl who loves barbies and always wanted a barbie cake. The bottom of the dress was a chocolate cake that was frosted in pink and decorated with purple stars, her two favorite colors. She kept the barbie doll as a memory of her birthday cake.

"Face" Cake

2008-03-29T11:11:00.000-04:00

This cake was made for a grandmother's birthday party with the faces of all her grandchildren. I used a vanilla wafer for the face and personalized each one to look like each grandchild. Each grandchild got to eat their own face which made it more tasty.

Cherry Cake for Jaime

2008-02-24T11:45:00.002-05:00

I made this cake for a friend of mine who loves cherries. So not only did I make the cake in the shape of a cherry but if you look closely you'll see the I decorated the cake with cheeries on top!!!!

I Love Baseball

2008-02-15T20:54:00.000-05:00

This was a Valentine's Day cake for Hal. Baseball has been a very important part of his life.

Clowns Galore!!!

2008-02-01T11:26:00.003-05:00

I decorated this cake with lots of colored clowns! It was a vanilla cake that was frosted in orange and had clowns in many different positions. Some

were sitting down, some lying and some were even falling of the cake. This was a fun cake to make because it had so many bright colors!

Happy Birthday Cathy!!

2008-01-20T22:28:00.002-05:00

This was one of my early cakes that I made for my aunt's birthday. The cake was chocolate and I frosted it in white. I decorated it with pink and green roses.

Fondant "Present" Cake

2008-01-20T22:25:00.001-05:00

This was a cake covered in fondant and made to look like a present. I covered a vanilla cake in white fondant and colored the fondant purple and pink for the ribbons and decorations. I alternated colors in the stars to make them pop out.

Camoflouge Fondant Cake

2008-01-18T22:27:00.005-05:00

I made this cake for a W.W.II nut , who always wears army shorts even in the dead of winter. This was a fondant cake that I colored to look like camoflouge. On top I made a dog tag out of gray colored fondant and made little balls to look like the chain. He went nuts when he saw this.

Hockey Cake

2008-01-07T21:04:00.004-05:00

Ari is an all around sports kid but loves the "Islanders", so for his birthday, his folks ordered a hockey rink cake. I frosted the cake in the Islander colors and put his initials on little hockey pucks. Ari had a great birthday party, got lots of presents and had a terrific cake, a natural "Hat Trick".

Supergirl Syd's Birthday Cake

2008-01-07T21:03:00.001-05:00

This cake was for Sydney's 12th birthday. She's a "Super" kid so she got a "Supergirl" cake. I can make the "Super-person" logo for either boys or girls and you can customize the colors of the logo. If you look above you can see a "Superman" logo in blue and yellow.

Fish

2007-12-27T21:02:00.006-05:00

I made this "Fish" cake for Peter who loves fishing. He has been fishing since he was little and usually goes with his dad. He takes several fishing trips each year and one week a year goes all the way up to remotest part of Alaska by helicopter to fish for Salmon.

Sleepover cake

2007-12-22T16:42:00.004-05:00

Rachel and Gabi are twin sisters who had a sleepover for their birthday. What better way to celebrate their sleepover party than with a sleepover cake? They were completely surprised when they saw this cake and all the girls who slept over loved it. Each one wanted a head and a pillow.

Christmas Tree

2007-12-22T16:40:00.001-05:00

In the spirit of the Holiday season I made this Christmas tree cake. I decorated a chocolate cake with green icing and covered it with different candies as ornaments, I used an ice cream cone to look like the tree trunk.

Snowmen & Raindeer

2007-12-22T10:16:00.002-05:00

These were for a Holiday office party with lots of people and instead of a large cake I made individual cupcakes. To keep with the holiday theme I made vanilla "snowmen" and chocolate "reindeer" Each "snowman" and "reindeer" were decorated differently. For the "reindeer" I used pretzels for the antlers and M&M's and non-parels for the eyes, nose and mouth. The "snowmen" were marshmallows and decorated with pretzel sticks for arms, and assorted candies for everything else.

Rainbow Cake

2007-12-22T10:05:00.001-05:00

I made this cake during one of my cake decorating classes. We were learning how to decorate with"stars". This was a vanilla cake that I covered in blue frosting to look like the sky. I pipped the rainbow out of different colored stars. At the end of the rainbow I used white frosting to look like clouds. I brought the cake into school and let my friends enjoy the cake.

It's a "10"

2007-12-08T22:43:00.005-05:00

This week my sister turned ten and I made her a special cake out of a one and a zero. Her favorite color is purple so I iced the cake with purple icing. I tried my hand at making flowers. Not bad for a first try. I am taking cake decorating classes and I know my cakes will get better and better. Come check them out and see for yourself.

My First Custom Cake

2007-11-26T21:20:00.002-05:00

I just started my very first business "Gillian Cool Custom Cakes" and this weekend I delivered my very first custom creation, a "Swimming Pool" cake for a seven year old boy. He absolutely loved the cake. When we arrived he jumped out of the pool and brought all of his friends over to check out the cake. As you can see from the pictures my cake was quite a success. Nothing but crumbs left in the end.
Here it is before.....

And here's what was left after all the kids got at it......

Welcome

2007-11-26T21:04:00.001-05:00

Hi ! my name is Gillian, my name is spelled with a G but sounds like a J. I'm 11 1/2 years old and I've been cooking since I was two years old. When I was about two years old I woke up on a Saturday morning and my brother was hungry so what would any two year old do? I went into the fridge and I took out the bread and the cream cheese. Then I went into the freezer and I took out the chocolate chips. I put the cream cheese on the bread and I sprinkled the chocolate chips over the cream cheese. I made one for my brother and one for me and then I went into my parents' room and I said to my parents do you want one? and my mom woke up and said what are you talking about? And I showed her the sandwich. Now I told you about myself.
-Gillian