Zebra Star Cake

 This two tier zebra cake was red velvet with cream cheese filling on the bottom tier and strawberry cake filled with strawberry Italian meringue buttercream on the top tier.

 

 

adding zebra stripes 

 

 

 finished bottom tier

 

 

  smooth straight edges

 

 

 

finished top tier 

 

 

 zebra stars

 

 

gumpaste and chocolate #1

 

                                                              matching base board ribbon

              

 

Sketch VS Actual

 

 

  

                                                      VOILA!! IT IS FINISHED :)

Catfish Cake

Sculpted catfish cake for my dads birthday. The front half was red velvet with whipped cream cheese filling, so it looked kind of gross when we cut its head of haha!

Hello Again!!

Hello!!! So it's been a really LONG time since I've updated this blog! I have more pictures to post from this I've done this year...which isn't much but I'm happy to announce that I'm returning to making cakes again :) so if you have something coming up for November December January or February please let me know!! I'm excited to pick up where I've left off and continue my cake journey with you all!! If you get a chance to please find me on Facebook as Estrella's Cakes and please click "Like" as I post on there more than I would update here :)

Hot Pink Zebra, Polka Dots and Stars Quinceanera Cake

My new favorite cake, it fed 200 people! Top tier was red velvet cake with chocolate ganache filling and cream cheese filling. 2nd and 4th tier were vanilla cake with vanilla italian meringue buttercream. 3rd tier was Devils food chocolate cake with chocolate ganache filling and chocolate italian meringue butter cream.

Each tier has a different design which made this cake fun and unique, the quinceanera decided on polka dots on the bottom and i was a bit unsure of it but it actually came out nice!

Surrounded by gumpaste stars and more stars attached to the cake on each tier.

Candy #15, gumpaste stars and feathers on a scroll work decorated cake.

Zebra's stripes and stars

Stars and polka dots with her name Marianna on the bottom tier and the cake board had a zebra print border.

My best scroll work ever ;)

My work space

Beautiful Hot Pink disco dusted stars

Midnight black disco dusted stars

Silver dusted stars

Sea of stars!!!!!

Floral & Lavendar Baby Shower Themed Cupcakes and Topper

Baby shower we did for my cousin, lavendar and purple floral themed shower and i made her a cupcake tower, filled it with cupcakes in floral cups with butterflies and honey bees and a topper

The topper was a small personal present cake just for her, strawbery cake with strawberry filling and strawberry italian meringue buttercream since she is always craving strawberry anything

Bumble bee's and butterflies!

Cupcake flavors included devils food chocolate with italian meringue chocolate buttercream, strawberry cake with a strawberry in the middle and strawberry italian meringue buttercream, and vanilla cake with vanilla italian meringue buttercream

I even made her a diaper cake! my very first time doing this lol...loved the colors :)

Introducing Chef 'E'

This is lil Chef E

he has the coolest chef outfit any kid could have ;)

he has been cooking since he was a baby lol...eyes always on the stove, grill, and mixer ;)

here we made cream cheese frosting and i let him lick the spoon AFTER we iced grandma's cake lol...he was a happy baby....

i had to practice piping for school and he wanted to do it too....

lol this is how it ended up looking...

"Just Married" Wedding Cake

My very first wedding cake, all vanilla with vanilla italian meringue buttercream and strawberry filling with strawberries.

This was an interesting choice of cake, it was very different than your average cake because she wanted the cake to be offset with pillars to hold it up, and she wanted black and red lettering all over the cake. We added small red roses to the cake for a finishing touch to this romantic cake. I did make a small mistake writing the last name before applying the border so it covered it a bit :/ but now i know.

These are my gumpaste roses...they look pretty realistic!

Yo Gabba Gabba Cake

Yo Gabba Gabba cake made for a 2 year old that LOVES Brobie :) Flavors included vanilla cake with vanilla Italian meringue buttercream, chocolate devils food cake with milk chocolate ganache filing and chocolate Italian meringue butter cream, and strawberry cake with strawberry flavored Italian meringue butter cream

 The cake for the party included the main characters of the show and a little white chocolate boom box!

 He had his own smash cake made into a Brobie head just for him.

Mini boom box painted in silver.

The Luau Birthday Party

My NEW favorite cake! LOVE LOVE LOVE the colors for this cake! The sun light from the window hit this cake just perfect for a beautiful and bright colored picture! this may have been my toughest project yet simply because the flowers just would not come out right...i made 4 different attempts worrying that i would have to buy fake ones and adorn the cake with them, but i was totally dedicated and determined to do as she wished and i refused to give up. After about 7 attempts trying 6 different ways i finally succeeded and then "35 hours with no sleep" later I had this cake 30 cookies and 48 cupcakes ready to go!

Finished product here at my work space. Top tier in strawberry filled with strawberry Italian meringue buttercream, middle in devils food chocolate filled with milk chocolate ganache and chocolate Italian meringue buttercream, and bottom layer in vanilla filled with vanilla Italian meringue buttercream. Covered in fondant and adorned with gumpaste Hibiscus flowers.

front cake view

back cake view

Purple and Yellow Hibiscus Flower

A Pink and a Blue Hibiscus

Orange with Yellow Hibiscus

Purple and Pink Hibiscus

My gumpaste colored and ready to go in 6 beautiful tropical colors!!

6 beautiful flowers! not all survived but somehow we made it work.

Hibiscus Vanilla Almond cookies with vanilla butter frosting

orange and teal

teal and hot pink

Hula Girl cupcakes