Confections

Shai-Hulud? More like Pie-Hulud! LOL. I made a sand worm from Dune for Pi Day 2024. It’s a chocolate pie with chocolate teeth and crushed graham cracker for the sand. (Tiny freman for scale.)

PIEdro Pascal / Pedro PIEscal. A strawberry pie with a crust decorated to look like Pedro Pascal’s The Last of Us character, Joel Miller.

A gingerbread house with candy windows that lights up from the inside!

A fancy opossum cake for a ‘possum-loving gal.

my first attempt at painting on an iced cookie with food gels

a cake commission for a “wild one” birthday party

pumpkin spice bread with a bat design embedded within

pumpkin spice pancakes with a fun Halloween twist

Inside is a chocolate cake drizzled with cherry simple syrup and cherry buttercream.

Honoring the Brood X periodical cicadas, these are buttery graham cracker cookies topped with marshmallow and enveloped in dark chocolate.

Festive and interactive rainbow piñata cookies - break them open and a bunch of sprinkles fall out!

Superb Owl pie! I made this apple pie in celebration of Super Bowl LV, aka Superb Owl Sunday. :)

Snowmen Macarons - peppermint shells with crushed candy canes in the buttercream filling

a mixed berry pie made to look like a jack-o-lantern

Pro tip: when you use little monster potatoes to make a sweet potato pie, the pie becomes a monster!

saucey, cheesey, doughy skulls

some super easy Halloween-inspired snacks

a simple Halloween-inspired cake

My first attempt at a mirror glaze… to wish a friend a happy birthday and welcome the fall. Spice cake with cream cheese frosting inside.

Heart-shaped box of chocolates with anatomical heart. Chocolate cake inside the box, rice krispy inside the heart.

I made myself a birthday cake that was chocolate inside with coffee buttercream that has crumbled Oreos inside. Chocolate ganache drip on top.

A cake for the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History to celebrate the discovery of a new bird species!

pink, purple, and teal layers of cake inside!

A classic, simple wedding cake with a vintage feel for a small wedding at a country estate.

A tank with a great message as a groom’s cake for a wedding on a military base. :)

vanilla cake “dough,” berry buttercream “sauce,” modeling chocolate “cheese,” and candy toppings - fondant crust is bruleéd as well!

vanilla with chocolate chips inside - one with milk chocolate “chips” and one with dark chocolate “chips” (hershey kisses)

Pokéball cookies to celebrate Detective Pikachu

conversation heart cookies for Valentine’s Day 2019

for a 30th birthday

A colorful fish for a 1st Birthday!

For a mermaid-theme birthday party!

For a transportation-theme 3rd birthday party. Chocolate inside.

Iced sugar cookies for a transportation-theme 3rd birthday party.

A massive ice cream sandwich cake (with mint ice cream inside!) for my ice-cream-loving friend’s welcome back party.

made for fun for a BBQ I hosted

A Snorlax (Pokémon) cake that didn’t turn out as I planned/hoped (proportions are wrong, the fondant was being annoying, etc.)… but it’s all a learning process. Blueberry vanilla insides.

A Disney princess castle cake

A colorful drum for a "sights and sounds" birthday party

A beach theme cake for my youngest nephew's beach theme 1st birthday party. Bottom water layer: vanilla, middle sunset layer: chocolate, top mini sandcastle: healthy apple smash cake.

My friend requested a birthday cake that was a rainbow inside... so: Rainbow Yay Cake! :D

For Easter, I decided to practice making my own buttercream frosting finally, and also try the surprise-inside concept. For this cake, m&m's spilled out of a cavity in the center when cut...

A "carrot cake" for a friend. It's a chocolate cake inside.

A silly/macabre heart cake for Valentine's Day 2017.

December 2016

December 2016

Princess and the Pea cake for a book-theme birthday party

1st anniversary cake for women-only bouldering group at my climbing gym

starting to play with cakes more... for an end of fall sculpting session celebration