New cakes!

Well it is 12:11 am, which means it is more than 2 hours past my bedtime, but I have been working on cakes for about four days straight now and I wanted to post them and celebrate them being done. The first cake is one I made for a woman I work at who has a baby shower to attend this weekend. No one is sure what the sex of the baby is, but the nursery is decorated with zoo animals, so I decided to go with that theme for the cake:

Half of the cake is chocolate and the other half is vanilla. The decorations are made with sheet sugar (which is disgusting, but so much fun to work with!) I just used cookie cutters to make the animals. The elephant's ears are made from hearts. The Lion's mane is made from stars.

Tomorrow when the icing has decorations have had more time to set, I am going to go back and cut some of the edges to make sharper edges (mainly the grass on the bottom.)

The final cake was for the lovely and talented Hillary Brown who graduated from Ballard High School this year. She is going to Lindsey Wilson on a pretty hefty scholarship, so we are all very, very proud of her. I made the "2011" myself. It took a few days to harden enough to put it on the cake, but I think it's cute and worth it. When I took this picture, not all of the gum paste and covering had dried, so you can see a bit of that on the cut outs. I haven't show it to her yet, so hopefully she will be surprised tomorrow.