Did you hear? I've started a new blog.

I guess I've been a little quiet on this blog lately. It's not because I haven't been busy but rather that I've had to split my time up a bit and away from my studio. If you hadn't seen already, I've started up a new blog that will feature all my cake decorating adventures. Custom Cakes by Lori will show process photos, final pics, tips I've learned and links that I think are helpful for the cake decorating hobbyist.

Vegan vanilla cake

I hope you join me over there and we indulge our virtual sweet tooth together.

A plane birthday cake for a 3 yr. old

Recently, as a way to make some extra money, I started offering my creative abilities in creating custom cakes. I've posted up signs and put up some Craigslist ads and I've  gotten a little bit of interest from people. The other day I was able to deliver a custom birthday cake for a 3yr. old. I can now add airplane cake to list of cakes I've created.

The client decided on a fondant covered chocolate cake. Because this was for a little boy I decided to go for a cartoon look and give the plane a happy face. Thanks to the help of a Google image search I was able to get some idea about how to construct the cake. Below are pictures of how I created my cake. 

I'm pretty happy with how the cake turned out and luckily for me I have another cake order coming up. Stay tuned for that one as I will be doing a frozen buttercream transfer for that one.