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.