Camoflouge Fondant Cake

I made this cake for a W.W.II nut , who always wears army shorts even in the dead of winter. I covered this cake in fondant 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.

Mollie Gets Blessed

This cake was to celebrate the gathering of a group of women to share their thoughts and good wishes at a "Blessing Circle". I wanted to make the cake colorful and tried to keep all the shapes rounded to keep in line with the circle theme. Mollie loves chocolate so I placed all the lettering on a chocolate square.

Halloween Birthday Cat

Not sure whether it's lucky or not to have a birthday on Halloween but Moreen loves cats so her birthday cake had a "Black Cat". Talk about a "treat", there was no trick to this cake.

Peace, Love & Happiness

This world cake is a vanilla globe I was able to fashion by layering cakes and then carving them into the globe. I frosted in the "World" in blue to replicate the oceans and used copper fondant for the continents. All seven continents are on the globe. It "floates" on top of a dark blue rectangular cake that looked like outer space. I made this cake for a Bat-Mitzvah. The meaning of this cake was world peace. I wrote in two different languages, Hebrew and English.

Artist's Palette & Paintbrush

 

This was a welcome cake for an artist who was visiting New York. In keeping with the artist's theme I carved the cakes into the shape of a palette and paint brush. I added colors to the palette to simulate the paints and added color to the tip of the brush to make is seem like there was paint on it.

Golden Wedding Anniversary

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 brushed those with "Gold" pearl dust as well. I placed them at the bottom of the cake so they could toast their special day.

Baking with Friends

This was SOOOOOOOOOOOO COOL!!!!! As a young baker I was given the chance to review this book before it was printed and the authors included my review in the printed edition. 
I'm published now!! 
The book has great recipes that even little kids can make. The authors were autographing their book at Book Expo America and asked me to bake some of the recipes in the book and hand out samples. That's me with one of the authors and the book's publicist, Pam Atherton. It was so much fun handing out sweet treats  (and missing a day of school).

Roses, Roses, Roses

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".

Circles and Dots

This cake was wrapped in white fondant and inspired by the paper plates used at the party. I made the circles on circles just like on the plate and added little white dots with icing. I've included a picture of the plate so you can decide for yourself how close I got.

Sam's an Islander Girl

 

Sam is a skating teacher at Iceland where I train and skate. She's also an "Islander Girl". You know, she skates on the ice during timeouts and stuff like that, sometimes she throws t-shirts into the crowd and gives away other stuff. When I found out it was her birthday and my skating teacher wanted to get her a cake to celebrate we couldn't think of anything better than the "Islander" logo.  My Ranger-loving brother won't forgive me for making an Islander cake.....but who cares. 

Happy Birthday Sam!!!!!!!

I love this cake but still root for the Rangers whenever they play the Islanders!!

RanKees-Yangers!!!!

 

Josh and Max share a birthday, were born in the same hospital and have gone to school together since kindergarten. They're best friends and treat each other like brothers from other mothers. Josh lives for the Yankees and Max (a Met lover) bleeds Rangers' blue. Max and Josh celebrated their 16th birthday together (they were others) so there was no better cake possible that one that was half Rangers and half Yankees. 

Go RanKees!!!!!!!  

GoYangers!!!!!! 

Oh never mind.

A Guy for All Sports

This cake was for a real sporty 8 year old's birthday celebration. Ari couldn't decide which he loves more, soccer, basketball, football or baseball. So the only thing to do was make a cake that celebrated all of them and that's what he got.

For "Ralph's Ices" Biggest Fan

Could you imagine anything better than a replica of a "Ralph's Italian Ice's" cup. This cake is three layers of moist chocolate cake filled with chocolate frosting. It is covered in white fondant and iced with vanilla butter cream. The top is sprinkled with Reese's pieces. I took pictures of this cake to our local Ralph's and the owner posted the pictures. So Awesome!!! He let me put my contact info on the bottom of the pictures so who knows maybe I'll get some more orders. A girl can hope, can't she?

Quilt Cake

This cake is a moist dark chocolate cake. It is made to resemble a quilt, it was made for someone who loves to quilt. This particular cake a very similar to a quilt that I've seen in a picture.

New Law Office

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

Hello Summer Fun!!!!

This was the last cake I made as part of a Bat-Mitzvah project. During the past year, I visited an after-school program each month to spend time with elementary school kids who had no place to go after school. I would play games and spend time with them. At each visit I brought a cake to share. Sometimes it was for birthdays and this time since it was the end of the school year I made a farewell cake and wished them a great summer.

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

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 flavors 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.

Talk to the "Lamed"

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

 

Peaceful, Smiling, Balloons

Here's another one of those cakes that I made for the after-school group where I volunteer every month. There were no birthdays so I decorated it with things that everyone likes, a peace sign, smiley face and balloon.

I Met Rachel Ray at the Food Network!!!

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!