GORGEous Cakes by Kris

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.

Graduation from High School 2011

"Mom" wanted Jaci's actual 'mug' on the figurine, so I scanned her picture and then printed it out on rice paper. The 'mug' affixed to the gumpaste ball very nicely!

Happy Birthday Lynne!

Yummy! German Chocolate cake with Chocolate buttercream icing and a lake of dark chocolate ganache.

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Snow People Winter Birthday Cake

This birthday cake was for 2 women and 2 boys. The entire cake and the snow people were completely edible, except for their arms. The cake was a White Velvet Cake with White Chocolate Cream Cheese icing. The snow people were made out of cake, and fondant, with a little bit of buttercream icing for the snowballs! The snow bunkers were formed out of rice crispy treats and covered with fondant.

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Peas in a Pod are VERY popular!

My Daughter liked my previous baby shower cake so much that she requested it for herself! Here is my second go at the Peas in a Pod themed baby shower cake.

Friday, September 17, 2010

Pea Pod Baby Shower cake

Pea Pod Baby Shower cake...

Saturday, September 11, 2010

Bridal Shower Gift Box cake

Bridal Shower Gift Box cake: Cherry-scented Chocolate and Almond White cake were the delicious interior of this "gift," filled and wrapped in silky buttercream icing. The "tissue" paper was made out of gum paste and fondant, and the bow and ribbon were made from gelatin! The gift card, made from gum paste, actually fits inside the gelatin envelop that is sitting on top of the box lid, beside the bow.

Sunday, September 5, 2010

Neapolitan Tuxedo Cake, with a Twist!

This was a twist on my Tuxedo Cake: Dark Decedent Chocolate cake on the bottom layers, Sour Cream White cake on the top layers and a yummy Raspberry Cream filling. I made 4 gum paste Cymbidium Orchids and 8 roses. Gum paste swirly's and a fountain-like topper made with glass beads, (that will now become earrings and necklace for the new Bride!) The color matched the wedding theme color perfectly! *A very special note about this cake is that the Groom came to the cake consultation, by himself, and planned ALL of the details of this cake, as a surprise to his beautiful bride. Awwwwwww.

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Nathan Wellman Water Treatment Plant & Bill Locke Water Transmission Line!

This chocolate cake, ordered by the Mayor of White Salmon, Washington, was made for the City of White Salmon Dedication of the Buck Creek Nathan Wellman Water Treatment Plant and Bill Locke Water Transmission Line!

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.