GORGEous Cakes by Kris

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Piano Recital

This Cake was made for a beautiful little girl's first piano recital debut! It was a Sour Cream cake with Chocolate Pastry Cream filling and Swiss Meringue Buttercream icing! Yum!

Saturday, November 19, 2011

Stork Nursery Baby Shower Cake

This Nursery diorama is made out of handmade sugar doughs. Pastillage, Gumpaste and Fondant make up every detail of this 100% edible labor of love/work of art! Check the details closely... there's a lot to see! The cake is a rich, dark chocolate cake layer and a sour cream white cake layer, filled and covered in a delicious buttercream icing.

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Apples in a Barrel cake

This cake is a Fresh Apple cake, filled with a creamy apple cinnamon filling and iced in a Brown Sugar Swiss Meringue Buttercream icing, and decorated with a fondant wooden barrel. These apples are actually Apple Jacks cereal treats (like rice crispy treats), covered in fondant! Aren't they cute!?!

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Jesus, The Good Shepherd

John 10:14 says, "I am the Good Shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me." I made and donated this cake to raise money for new Bibles for the Children's Ministry at my church. This cake is 100% edible!

Saturday, October 8, 2011

Designer Handbag, Purse Bling

Isn't this a Sweet Handbag?... I mean, CAKE! This is actually a 5 layer, 24 carat Golden Butter cake with Chocolate Fudge Buttercream filling, and decorated to look like a designer handbag! The gems and pearls surrounding the purse, um, I mean Cake, are all edible sugar. In fact, EVERYTHING is edible sugar, including the "hardware"! This cake was donated to raise moneys for Child Abuse Prevention, and I am VERY pleased to share that it secured a very pretty price! Yeah!

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Football Helmet Cake

This fondant covered Grooms Cake is a Sour Cream White, with a caramel coconut filling, on a fondant board. AND it is doing Double Duty! The Bride will present the cake to the groom, as a surprise, for his BIRTHDAY, directly after the wedding ceremony! Hmmm... Wedding and Birthday on the same day... he'll never have a good excuse to forget HIS anniversary!

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Hummingbirds and Cherry Blossoms

This Rich, Chocolate cake is filled with Whipped Chocolate Ganache and fresh Raspberries, covered in a silky Swiss Meringue Buttercream icing and wrapped in White Chocolate Fondant. The tree is made of Chocolate Modeling Clay and it is covered in gumpaste cherry blossoms. The gum paste hummingbirds are in flight and drinking deeply from the sweet cherry blossoms on the top of the cake.

Sunday, August 14, 2011

Pretty Poppies and Yummy Cake!

Oregon Hazelnut cake layer and Rich Chocolate cake layer filled with fresh, locally picked Marion Berry White Chocolate Mousse filling comprises the bottom tier of this beauty! The top and middle tiers are a delicious Carrot cake with a traditional Cream Cheese filling, all wrapped up in a delicious, silky Swiss Meringue Buttercream Icing.

Friday, August 12, 2011

Gum Paste Poppies and Poppy Buds

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Celebrating Life Abundant!

Is there a better way to celebrate friendships and end a fabulous meal, than with a piece of delicious cake? Mmmmm...

Monday, July 25, 2011

Elegant!

Let the Drooling Begin! This beauty is a Sour Cream White Cake filled with homemade Marionberry White Chocolate Mousse, and iced in a lovely Chocolate Swiss Meringue Buttercream. YUM!

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Simply Elegant

The top and bottom tiers of this sweetheart of a cake are Sour Cream White cake filled with Raspberry filling and fresh Raspberries. The middle tier is Decadent Chocolate cake filled with Raspberry filling and fresh Raspberries. So YUMMY!

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Fire Truck Grooms Cake with Wedding Cake

This unusual wedding cake is a lovely chocolate cake with fresh strawberry filling, and untraditionally iced in a dark chocolate brown chocolate buttercream! The bride and fire fighter groom figurines, as well as the ladder, were all hand made out of various sugar materials. The fire truck is decorated with buttercream (no fondant allowed in this order), with gelatin front windows.

How It All Began...

Once upon a time in 1996, a girl named Kris married a guy named John. Kris' very best friend personally attended Kris in all of the typical wedding needs of a bride. However, Kris would allow VERY little to escape her personal realm of "control," so the entire reception dinner (feeding 25 dear and precious friends) was personally made by her, including her own, simple yet lovely, wedding cakes.

Kris learned a very valuable lesson that day... BRIDES should ALWAYS have their receptions, no matter the size, 100% CATERED!

A few years later, the church that Kris and John attended hosted a pot luck.

Kris sat at a table where a beautiful young woman was discussing her up and coming wedding. It seemed that there were many details that needed to be taken care of. When the beautiful young woman mentioned that she was still looking for someone to make a wedding cake, the simple minded Kris piped up and announced that She had made her own wedding cakes! Well, the beautiful young bride-to-be became very excited and quickly asked, "would you make mine?," to which the not-quite-sharp-enough-to-be-cheddar Kris replied, "Sure!"

On the drive home from that pot luck, Kris shared her happy news with John, who, registering a degree of shock on his otherwise sweet face. John exclaimed, "KRIS!?!? Don't you think that the beautiful, young bride-to-be is going to probably have more than 25 people at her wedding???" To which Kris' expression morphed into a short of fogged bewilderment. John then added, "AND, don't you think that the beautiful, young bride-to-be is going to expect her cake to LOOK like a PROFESSIONAL cake???" to which Kris found herself shrinking into the seat of the car; her face registering a pained look of PURE PANIC!!!!

After recovering from a just-missed, near mental breakdown, Kris got serious and researched cake decorating (which caused her to also have to practice DEEP BREATHING and relaxation learned from previous birthing classes).

It was soon apparent that Kris was in-"WAY-over-her-head.' She held a meeting with the beautiful, young bride-to-be and her dashingly handsome groom-to-be to discuss the details of the cake that they were expecting Kris to provide. Kris conducted the interview with the outward crisp-coolness of any self-respecting cucumber.

It was revealed during that pivotal dialogue, that the bride loved and desired a Banana cake and that the groom loved and desired a Chocolate cake! Kris, in all of her unchallenged and proven brilliance, volunteered the following sage wisdom of marriage: "Marriage is all about learning to compromise in love. So, let's start that process with your cake! What do you think about having a Chocolate-Banana cake?" The ecstatic Bride and the Groom LOVED that idea and solidified their decision. Chocolate-Banana Cake it was to be!!

WELL, guess what?? Kris could find NO recipes for Chocolate-Banana cake!!! There were NO recipes to be found for Banana-Chocolate cake!!! NOT EVEN ONE!

Kris finally took her head out of the deflated brown paper bag, feeling much better after, again, practicing the deep breathing exercises, and decided, with a steeled resolve, that all was not lost.

Over the next few months she conducted experiments with recipes, the results of which caused her beloved John to add daily to the girth of his belly. Some of the resulting "cakes" were delegated to the trash (never to be spoken of again...), while others were considered to be mildly successful.

Kris then had a epiphany and enrolled in a course that was offered at Michaels Craft store. She learned, through the Wilton Cake Decorating class (for dummies) that God had, indeed, given her a hidden and precious talent that was to develop and become a major passion in her life!

At the end of this long and life altering process, a cake was born. A Chocolate-Banana cake that caused the Bride's father weep with happiness! A cake that was every bit as beautiful as a professionally decorated cake is expected to be. A cake that began as an innocent act of an imbecile, volunteering to do the impossible, and learning VOLUMES about herself in the process. A cake that introduces the hundreds of cakes that follow it in the "Kris' Cakes" photo album, a brag book typically reserved for darling pictures of adorable grandchildren!

That spring-board, milestone event marked the very specific moment when Kris realized that she was Born to Bake and Decorate CAKE.

The rest, as they say, is history.

The End.