Mortgage Burning Cake

My manager at the hospital and I were talking about cakes and she asked if I would make a cake for her mortgage burning party that she was having in a few weeks. We talked about what she wanted and came up with a general idea of a two tiered cake with a house on top with a sign that says "mortgage" that would be on fire. 

I made the house out of Rice Krispie squares, dirty iced it and covered it in fondant. The cake itself was like the engagement party cake I did a while ago which was a lemon cake with a raspberry compote filling and cream cheese icing. My marshmallow fondant was used and coloured by hand (holy, I now have killer forearms from colouring that cake!) Total hours: 8. 

This is what I ended up creating.

Rice Kripie house :) Had to get shaved down a little on the sides because it wouldn't fit on the top tier! Oops haha!

:)

Engagement Party Cake II

Engagement party cake for my cousin. His fiancé requested hot pink and black.

Cake Course Fun!

Well hello!

It has been an eventful Summer! I've been to Vegas, Oroville, the Sunshine Coast, Penticton, and a bit of everywhere else! All while working full time at the hospital and making cakes on the side! Now I'm back at school and good ol' waitressing (aka back to the grindstone after a tease of a glimpse of my future after school is done)...

ANYWAYS! At the beginning of summer I was taking one of the Wilton cake courses from a cake store in Abbotsford. It was seriously SOOO much fun! It was the fondant and gumpaste course. I use my own marshmallow fondant instead of the Wilton of Satin Ice fondants used by that store which has a bit of a different consistency but I will need some serious guts one day to try to make my own gum paste... Until then I've been using Satin Ice gumpaste which is awesome and colours really well. Here's some pictures of the flowers I made in the course as well as my final project for the class :)

Rose bud

Carnation

Calla Lily 

Mum

Daisy

Transporting this cake was interesting haha! I was slightly terrified!