He is Risen cake!

An old friend from high school recently got back in touch with me on facebook after finding out we were adopting and she made my day because she first told me that since I last knew her in school, she had come to know the Lord!  What amazing news that was to hear!  She has been so sweet and ordered this three tiered fondant covered cake for easter for her church!  She also ordered two coffee cakes to go along with it for her church's "coffee hour" tomorrow!  She also asked me to make an adoption poster sheet up to set by the cakes so people can find out about our adoption and the fundraisers and such in case they want to help!  What a great heart she has!  This is a chocolate and white cake with buttercream icing underneath fondant and buttercream and fondant decorations!

Gavin's mod monkey 1st birthday cake!

Good friends of our, Chad & Sarah, have an adorable little boy named Gavin!  He is turning one and I am making two different birthday cakes in the same theme for two different parties!  Below are pictures from the first cake!  The second cake I am going to try and get brave and actually hand sculpt a monkey or two for the cake!  Stay tuned to see how that turns out! :0)  I realized after making the smash cake that my friend is probably going to want to kill me later after Gavin eats it because its blue icing and I can just imagine blue everywhere on little Gavin once he's done eating! :0)  Sorry Sarah... :0) heehee

Autumn's birthday cake!

My niece Autumn LOVES horses and pink so I decided to do a fence around the side and molded a horse out of fondant however it was my first time so it wasn't exactly perfect or the way I wanted it but I think she will still love it.  All is buttercream except the horse!  

Happy Birthday Autumn!

New Valentines wedding cake!

This is a cake I made for a friend of a friend who is getting married today, on Valentines day!  How cute is that!  I believe her colors are red, black and white so she wanted a white fondant covered cake with black swirls on it!  I think its beautiful and I hope they all enjoy it at the reception!  Congrats Alyssa!

                                           Here's the picture of the cake I took before delivery!

 

Here's a beautiful picture of the cake that their photographer took...

Its a 3 tiered (6 cakes total) two of them white and one chocolate.  Buttercream is in between the layers and underneath the fondant!  Swirls and border are hand piped on with buttercream!  

Love, april

Fondant cakes!

A lot of people ask me about Fondant so I thought I would do a post on it! 

Fondant is a great icing that is similar to a marshmellow taste.  Its in a consistency where you have to roll it out kind of like dough and then place it on top of the cake and smooth it all out!  What I LOVE about fondant is that it instantly brings the cake up a notch!  You cannot acheive the same smoothness and texture and elegance with buttercream as you can with fondant!  What's also great about fondant is even if someone at your party/wedding does not like it, they can tear it off and buttercream is still underneath for them to enjoy the cake!

Lots of people LOVE fondant and some people do not like it!  However, I think that you have to have a good fondant in order for it to taste good!  I use the same fondant that Duff from Ace of Cakes uses and I LOVE it! 

Yes, fondant is a little more expensive but if you have the budget for it, its SO worth it!  Below I will post some pictures of all the cakes I have done whether they are big or small that have fondant over top the buttercream! 

Twin 1st birthday cake..

This was probably one of my if not my favorite cake I have ever done! It was for a friend of a friends sisters twin boys first birthday! Brown and blue and white fondant decorations with polka dots and #1 made out of gumpaste and sticking out of the cake with two small 4 inch round smash cakes in buttercream!

Time to upload some more cake photos...

I have 1 or 2 more photos from Auri & Sam's wedding cake to post and a cake I made for my mother and father in law for their birthdays! The last cake is a one year anniversary cake I made for a couple! It has fondant roses with pearl dust hand-painted on!

Sarah's 10th birthday cake!

Here is a picture of my niece Sarah's 10th birthday cake! She wanted taylor swift so she got taylor swift! Chocolate cake with buttercream icing, edible image and fondant dots and butterflies!

WooHoo! My cake was published in a magazine!

Silly me got SO EXCITED this morning because as I opened my new MailBox news issue which comes out every few months, I had a big surprise. I got to a section where they showed various birthday cakes submitted by cake decorators and there it was...the birthday cake I did for my dad two years ago (when I was still very new at this, as you can tell by the AWFUL hand writing)...but I do love this cake because it was so much fun making the tools and designing the measuring tape and letter to dad to look as real as possible. So...here is the page of the magazine...i scanned it so I could put it on here! So excited...i just submitted a whole bunch more photos...who knows...maybe in months to come i can find more of my cakes in the magazine...that would be awesome!



The bottom middle cake is mine and the right middle paragraph is the paragraph about my cake! I wish I could make it bigger...if you want to see a bigger version...email me at aprilcstarkey@gmail.com and I can send you a bigger one where you can see the writing and such!

Love, april

Sam & Auri's wedding cake!

I had the priveledge of making my brother in law and now my sister in laws wedding cake! He proposed to her with chocolate covered strawberries so they wanted them all over the cake! Their cake turned out very simple, elegant, garden style and beautiful! They picked a good design! I hope they liked it! I believe they did! These are just a few pics, hopefully once they get the professional ones back I can get a copy and post it here as well!

Love, april

Two wedding cakes to post!!!

Hello! This week I made two wedding cakes! One was a small one tiered buttercream wedding cake with purple flowers on it for my husband's co-worker!

This second one I finished today for a wonderful couple that go to my parents church! They have been married many years with three boys but they never had an official ceremony or reception so they did that today! Here is the cake they had me make for them! Its three tiered fondant covered with fondant daisies and hand pressed diamond cut pattern!

After the topper and flowers were put on and around it that she wanted...

Linda Birthday Cake!

Hello! This cake below was made for my sister's MIL. Her name is Linda and since she is a mom and a grandma, they had me put all three! I hope she likes it! Its a half sheet WASC cake with vanilla buttercream frosting! YUM! I just drew a whole bunch of vines all over it and swirls and then added some spring like flowers and leaves! To get the circle border in the middle so nice, i used the rim of an 8 inch round pan and pressed gently into the cake and then went around the indentation and filled it in with a border! If I tried to make a circle on my own, it would SO be lopsided! Multiple views below...beware! :0)

Love, april

in the box and ready to go!