LSU Tigers cake

I may end up doing a tutorial on this cake.  It could be done for any sports team and it looks really neat in person. 

The cake is iced in buttercream but I textured fondant panels and painted them to look like tiger fur before putting each panel on the cake.  Its a really great technique that I came up with one day.  This cake was for a friend.  You can't sell anything that says LSU or Geaux Tigers because those words are copyrighted.  I think its pretty unfair but thats the way the world is.  The top is airbrushed purple and then everything else is piped buttercream.

Those little footballs are candy footballs I bought from Oriental Trading.  They came in a pack of about a hundred individually wrapped footballs, soccer balls and baseballs.

Zebra Print Birthday Cake

This cake was a 9" and a 6".  I prefer to have more than 2 inches difference between tiers because I just think it looks better.  It leaves more room to decorate as well.  The board is fondant with a zebra pattern.  The letters, polka dots, ribbon, balls, bow and 10 topper are all fondant.  The cake is iced with buttercream.

Strawberry Shortcake

Wilton has a great selection of shaped pans.  I used them a lot when I was first starting out doing cakes.  This was one of my first cakes using Wilton shaped pans.  A family friend started me off on my collection of vintage cake pans.  She gave an entire box of pans when she retired from baking.  Since then, I've started collecting vintage pans on my own.