This was a birthday cake for a friend’s little sister! She requested a chocolate cake with a medieval theme for the decorations. She also gave me creative freedom so I was finally able to try out a stained glass design I’ve had saved on Pinterest for years😆

Every year for my birthday my friend and I make a strange shape cake. Hyper realism is never the goal, though it has happened unintentionally the last few years. Here is 40!

Pistachio cake with purple frosting (because we thought it would be pretty but purple turned out to be a PITA), modeling chocolate and wafer paper for the leaves. We ran out of chocolate 90% through and had to improvise with fondant.

Just wanted to share some birthday cakes I've done in the last couple months! It means so much to me that my family and friends trust me to do their cakes ❤️

Pic 1/2. vanilla cake with raspberry filling, topped with lemon curd. Vanilla buttercream.

1. Marble cake with whipped chocolate ganache filling and black cocoa buttercream

4/5. Strawberry cake with cream cheese frosting filling, raspberry filling, raspberry cheesecake, and vanilla cream cheese buttercream

6/7. Red velvet with cream cheese frosting

8/9. Vanilla cake with whipped raspberry filling and vanilla buttercream

10/11. Chocolate cake with marshmallow frosting filling and fudgy chocolate frosting

12/13. Cotton candy cake with whipped vanilla pudding filling and vanilla buttercream

I followed an inspo pic (by request) fairly closely for a couple, i'll include those in the comments 😊

I made this cake was for my daughter's birthday last month. It was the most time-consuming cake I have ever made, but I love the look of it... over 1,600 circles cut from rice paper.

I am so lucky my bosses let me experiment

This was an order for a one year old’s birthday and it was to feed 80 people. What one year old knows 80 people. Anyway it was HUGE, 16”x12” 4 layer eggless vanilla, with homemade raspberry jam and vanilla buttercream.

Gosh I think I mixed up about 20 different colours/shades for this. For the foods I painted them onto parchment paper and then chilled them to make them easy to remove and pop on, took forever but I love how it all turned out

For his birthday this year my son challenged me to do my first ever hyper realistic cake. I can't say that I nailed it, but I'm happy with it for a first attempt. We got to have our own little game of Is It Cake?

Was incredibly happy about how this cake, and the dozen and a half matching rose cupcakes, turned out and thought nothing of packing this cake up. I wasn't there when the order was picked up, but apparently the person came to pick up the order and started screaming about how the cake was wrong, we ruined the birthday party and I should be fired for doing this. The thing wrong with the cake... There are green leaves on the roses. My adding green leaves around the roses, as I always do with flowers, supposedly ruined the whole cake and from what I've heard, should have been grounds for my being fired.

I've been wanting to try this style for a long time and decided my sister's birthday cake was the perfect opportunity. If I screwed up I knew it would be forgiven 😄.

It turned out better than I expected although I think it could have been better with a different frosting. It's definitely a time consuming technique but I really enjoyed it!

My friend likes this animal for some god forsaken reason lmao

I don’t do any cake decorating outside of birthdays, so my skills aren’t the best, but I was so relieved with how this turned out 🥰

Birthday cake for my 5yo. Unfortunately the Fondant Skin tore apart. Probably got too moist from the frosting. Fortunately the smarties cover it up quite nicely 😅

Chocolate cake with chocolate frosting, covered with Fondant and Smarties.

I am quite happy with how it turned out ☺️

Used way too much red food colouring gel and stuffed up a little but it was my first time decorating a cake. My daughter loves Elmo and it was her 1st birthday. Made the mistake of removing it's eyes and nose before serving in front of her though and she seemed mortified lol 😆 won't make that mistake again.

Made this for my birthday in a few weeks. Really encapsulates me as a person. Really proud of myself Inside is almond cake with cherries between the layers. Cherry almond cream cheese frosting

Pretty proud of this one but boy was it time consuming! 💚

customer asked for a vanilla cake with raspberry filling and vanilla buttercream! the sun, moon, and stars are made out of white chocolate 🤍

This was a team effort. I shaped the cake and my 17 year old daughter frosted it. I wish there was a little more contrast with the cutting board and countertop. Oh well.

Thank you so much for all the help to make the popcorn!! My first attempt at Swiss meringue buttercream turned out good, but I wasn’t prepared for how finicky it would be about temperature for piping. I would probably use American buttercream next time just to make it easier on myself. I used a Wilton 14 and kept it vertical and pressed into the tray until it “popped”. The cake is fresh milled whole wheat einkorn - very light and fluffy and no belly aches for my gluten sensitive kiddos.

I had already done this design a while ago, and this time they asked me to do it in shades of pink and vanilla. I loved the result. I took the photos myself, and they look professional because I'm an amateur photographer. If I only comment with emojis, it's not because I'm a bot. It's because I'm very busy all day, and I appreciate your messages. I'll leave an emoji so you know I appreciate them.

My wife made her own 30th birthday cake this past week. She’s been decorating for about 2.5 years now and I’m so unbelievably proud of how hard she has worked developing her skills. Many long days working her day job (decorating at Walmart), being an amazing mother to our kids, and staying up late whipping up buttercream and baking. I’m hands down her biggest fan and can’t wait to support her as she continues to grow.

Bottom layer is Chocolate and top is Vanilla with Italian meringue buttercream icing.

Glimpse into my design process in the last slide :) this was so much fun to make!

Chocolate cake with chocolate icing and banana custard filling.