Harley-Davidson Cake

My Brother's birthday

This year I decided to make my oldest brother a Harley-Davidson themed cake since he loves them so much. I chose a chocolate cake with nanaimo bar filling, dirty iced with homemade peanut butter icing, and covered with my homemade marshmallow fondant. It is a tire with the 'Motor Cycle Harley Davidson' symbol hand piped onto the top NOT using a stencil. My family loves my cakes because I do not make them super sweet. They are a little sweet (because they are cake after all) but not so sweet that they give you a tooth ache like many store bought cakes. The wrench is also molded out of my marshmallow fondant.

 

Deej

2nd Nephew

While I've done all of my first nephew's birthday cakes, I have only done a few of my 2nd nephew's. My 2nd nephew's mom married my brother and became part of our family.

Grave Digger

First of all my 2nd nephew's birthday is July so it is extremely hot and we do not own an air conditioner. My butter cream is always extremely stubborn and I have to go between piping the icing on the cake for a few minutes, to putting the bag of icing in the freezer for a few minutes so that it stops trying to melt on me. I made it entirely out of cake and it was my first monster truck I have ever done. It's not perfect but my nephew really enjoyed it.

Camouflage Jeep

All I got told for this birthday was that he wanted camouflage. So I decided to make him a jeep 4x4 ing through rocks. Everything was again made entirely out of cake and homemade butter cream frosting. On the base I also added crushed oreo crumbs for dirt and oreos as the tires.

Chocolate Family Cake

This cake was for his family birthday, so I was told to do something simple for it. It is a simple round cake with homemade chocolate icing, and orange colored butter cream icing. All I did for this was pipe hunting objects around the sides.

Hunting Cake

This was one of the first fondant cakes I had ever done. It is a two tiered round cake with a camouflage rice crispy treat gun wrapped around the cake. I mixed the colors to make the fondant camouflage. (My fondant is always homemade, NEVER store bought) I piped an orange browning head on the face of the cake and used fondant and gold shimmer dust to make bullets to place around the cake.

Duck Dynasty Cake

Finally this year he wanted a Duck Dynasty cake. So since his favorite is Uncle Si, I decided to do this cake. It is Si coming out of the water with a duck decoy on his head. This is suppose to be the crazy way he decided to hunt the ducks that day. Since his hands are 'lethal weapons' he felt that if he let the duck come to him he would be able to get more of them. I dirty iced the entire cake with my homemade peanut butter icing and covered Si and the duck in my homemade marshmallow fondant. Every part of this cake is edible. It is entirely cake. The base was covered in blue colored piping gel to give it a swampy watery look.

I was extremely happy with how this cake turned out and my marshmallow fondant is just right, no super sweet like most fondants.

Deej

First Niece

Butterfly

My niece's first birthday she chose a simple butterfly cake. We were looking through different cake book and she found this butterfly cake and decided that that was the one she wanted. So all I did for this cake was carve it, and roset it with homemade butter cream frosting. She loved it and he piece ended up more like a baby smash cake.

Bubble Guppie Cake

For her second birthday cake she wanted bubble guppies, since that was her favorite show. So I layered round cakes, and piped all the bubble guppies around the sides with homemade butter cream frosting. I also used a small teddy bear cake pan turned on it's side to make Mr. Gouper in 3d on top. I did not use any stencils at all. Everything is done completely by hand.

Snow Princess Dora

Since my niece's birthday is at the end of November I decided to make her Dora the explorer cake a snow princess theme. The cake is homemade butter cream, silver shimmer dust, and pink pearl sprinkles. Dora, Boots, and Swiper are made out of gum paste. Nothing is store bought. I made everything for this cake. This was the first time I had ever used gum paste and I was very happy with how Dora, Boots, and Swiper came out.

First Nephew

When I was 14 I got my first baby nephew. So I've done all of his birthday cakes since he was born. My little man is turning 6 this November and has loved every cake I have done for him.

Baby Elmo

His first birthday cake was baby Elmo. Nothing super complicated since he couldn't really choose for himself yet. He just knew that he wanted cake. So I piped the entire cake with homemade butter cream frosting and hand drew baby Elmo on top. I did NOT use a stencil, all I did was look from a picture that I had printed of the internet. I have never and will never use a stencil to design my cakes.

Baby Elmo turned out amazing and my nephew wanted to dive right in.

Bee Cake

His second birthday he wanted a bumble bee cake. So I stacked cakes to make a hive, used three half egg pans to makes the bee's bodies, and three cupcake eggs to make the bee's heads. I used butter cream frosting and did rosets on everything. I cut fruit roll-ups into rainbow wings and antenna. I also used smarties for the eyes and decoration on the hive.

 The bee's were a hit and everyone loved the style and taste.

The Cat in the Hat

For his third birthday he was obsessed with the cat in the hat (he even dressed up as him for Halloween). So I to a large slab cake and hand drew the cat in the hat on it. I used homemade butter cream icing to pipe it and used piping gel for the milk. I did NOT use a stencil, I looked at the book to draw him like the true cat in the hat.

Everyone was so amazed by this cake that they didn't want to even cut into it.

Iron Man Cake

His fourth birthday was when he loved iron man. So once again I took a slab cake and piped iron man onto it with homemade butter cream frosting. The background is made to look like steel plating with bolts punched through it. I also used gold shimmer dust to give iron man a little more shine. I used a little piping gel on his chest since that's what glows.

 Spider-man

Finally his last birthday cake was a spider man cake. I did this cake a a two tier cake, the bottom tier being the buildings that you always see in the comic books, and on the top of the top tier I piped spider man. I also piped spider webs throughout the cake. This was again done with my homemade butter cream frosting.

This has been his favorite cake so far, but there is still definitely more to come. He was already informed me that this November he wants a Superman cake for his sixths birthday. So we'll see if that's what he still wants by then or if he has some other grand idea. Either way no matter what he chooses I know that I'll make something that he'll love.

Deej

The Science Brain Cake

I have been out of school for a couple years now, but in Biology 30 we were asked to create a diorama of the brain, and to label it's components. So I decided to create a cake. I created this cake when I was about 17 (I'm 20 now), so it's not perfect but it did it's job.

The first thing that was needed was the legend. The inside of the brain needed to be numbered so that you could see which part of the brain went where. Then the outside needed to be color coded so that you could see which part was which. To ice the base and pipe the legend I used a normal homemade butter cream frosting.

 The Brain was made out of half of an egg pan, and two mini egg cupcakes. I trimmed down the egg cupcakes to shape the cerebellum and the medulla oblongata, to make them more realistically shaped. I then dirty iced it with my butter cream and ran rope licorice around the outside to create the texture like a real brain. (This is where the fondant is bubbled out.) After that I covered it in a homemade butter cream fondant that I had made and colored pink. Taking a small paint brush I then painted the sections of the brain different colors with gel icing coloring, to show the separate sections of the brain.

 Next it was time to do the inside of the brain. Taking my paint brush and gel icing color once more I painted this diagram inside the cake and labeled them with their numbers. I finished the cake by piping some dots around the base and the bottom of the brain.

This was one of the first 3d cakes I have ever done, and I did it as a school project. It got 100%, bonus marks for originality and everyone thought it was delicious. I really enjoyed doing this cake and hope you like it too.

Deej

Welcome

Welcome to my blog for my cakes 'Day-Dream Cakes'. To start off I know that the name is a little corny but I wanted a name that started with 'd'. So my naming process consisted of me looking through the dictionary at all the 'd' words to find a name (Since my name starts with 'd' I wanted the name to start with 'd' without having to put my name in the name). 

Now that been said, let me start out by saying that I do NOT do cakes professionally. I do cakes because I like baking and my family enjoys it that I create their cakes. Everything I make is homemade, that I personally make. 

On this blog I will provide pictures and little write ups about each cake I have done, and I may even post some of the recipes I used. These things are not posted to be made fun of or to be ridiculed. If you do not like something about my blog then I ask for you to please keep it to yourself. So please enjoy, and I hope you like what I have created.