Mega Rayquaza Cake
My niece wanted a Mega Rayquaza cake. It’s not really the most conducive shape for a cake, but I like a challenge.
Norbert(a) Cake
We’re all Harry Potter all the time at our house these days. So for his 8th birthday Sam wanted a cake of Norbert hatching out of an egg on Hagrid’s table.
Cars Pit Crew Cake
My little friend Isaac really likes the pit crews from Cars. Fortunately, if there is one thing I’m good at, it’s making anthropomorphic vehicles out of gum paste.
History of Life Wedding Cake
This is the third wedding cake that I have ever made. Which means that, amazingly, there are three couples in the world with that level of trust in me. The bride is in law school and the groom is a paleontologist. The wedding was on September 3, which is the anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Paris.
Love Makes the World Go Round Cake
My friend’s granddaughter’s birthday party theme was Love Makes the World Go Round. So I came up with this cake, which is meant to suggest the earth traveling around the sun on an outer space cake board.
Terraria Celestial Event Cake
Alex, for her 10th birthday, requested a Terraria celestial event cake, with a four-sided pillar, each side of which corresponds to a phase of the celestial event – Nebula, Stardust, Vortex, and Solar – and includes the appropriate monsters.
Terraria Blood Moon Cake
For Sam’s 7th birthday, he wanted a Terraria blood moon cake. Apparently, when there is a blood moon, a lot more zombies come out and there are some kinds of zombies that only appear in the blood moon. So we settled on a design where the moon changed from blue (regular moon) to red (blood moon) and a bunch more zombies rose up out of the ground.
Inside Out Cake
This Inside Out cake was for my friend Isaac’s ninth birthday, which is why it’s in the shape of the number 9.
Edible Dramaturgy: Exploring death and fetish through candy
This is a performance I did with my friend and collaborator Kristin Hunt at the Makers Exhibition at the 2015 Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space. The menu consisted of single peas, pea gummies, pea soda, capsaicin spun sugar, red wine gummies, black pepper conversation hearts, and pea cake balls filled with garlic marshmallow.
Clash of Clans Cake
For her 9th birthday, my niece had very specific requirements – a Level 6 Clan Castle from Clash of Clans with an Archer Queen and Barbarian King as well as archers and barbarians.
Enderman Cake
For Sam’s 6th birthday, he asked for an Enderman cake (from Minecraft, of course). He specified that it should have a Minecraft backdrop and that it should be holding a cake saying “Happy Blockday Sam.”
Darth Vader Cake
Icing Smiles is a great not-for-profit that arranges for volunteer cake decorators to provide special cakes for critically ill children and their siblings. This is the first cake that I’ve had the opportunity to make through them.
Schoolhouse Rock cake
My little friend Isaac loves numbers, so for his eighth birthday we decided he should have a cake based on My Hero Zero from Schoolhouse Rock.
Dem Bones Cake
My niece and nephew’s preschool has the delightful tradition of having the pre-K kids perform a little skit based on one of their favorite books as part of the end-of-the-year graduation ceremony. This year, Sam’s class chose Dem Bones as their book so, of course, I made him a Dem Bones cake. Ever since I saw this video, I’ve been wanting to try to make a zoetrope cake, so this seemed like the perfect opportunity.
Emperor Palpatine Whoopie Cushion Cake
My niece and nephew and I play a game called “Emperor Palpatine Whoopie Cushion.” Essentially, the kids put imaginary whoopee cushions on a chair and then I, as Emperor Palpatine, sit on the chair, make a farting noise, and chase them around the room shouting about how I’m going to destroy them. So, for his fifth birthday, Sam requested an Emperor Palpatine whoopie cushion cake. Here is what I came up with.
Fruit Ninja Cake
My friend Isaac is turning seven. He really loves the game Fruit Ninja and he really loves numbers, so I went for a Fruit Ninja cake that prominently featured the number seven.
Minion Chicken Coop Cake
While my mom and I were taking a cake class at the Wilton School, we had a very nice Skype call with my niece and nephew. They told us that they were planning to be minions from Despicable Me for Halloween. We also had a very entertaining conversation about whether or not they were building me a chicken coop. So I made the cake I was making for class a minion / chicken coop cake.
Dinosaur Skeleton Cake
This is a cake that I made for a class at the Wilton School on tiered cakes and buttercream. I don’t do many buttercream cakes or many traditional tiered cakes, so I’m pretty pleased with the results.
