Mega Zygarde Cake
My nephew’s birthday cake request this year was the Pokemon Mega Zygarde. It’s a little glowing guy with a big rocket.
Sukuna’s Fingers Cake
My niece and I are big fans of Jujutsu Kaisen. For her birthday, she wanted a cake based on the roll of Sukuna fingers that Jogo unrolls during the Shibuya Incident.
Koraidon Cake
Koraidon is a Pokémon from the new Pokémon Scarlet game. My nephew wanted him in his battle form for his birthday cake.
Jason Cake
My niece’s 15th birthday cake features Jason, a character from an expansive world of her imagination.
Hollow Knight Cake
In keeping with our Hollow Knight Halloween costumes, Sam wanted a Hollow Knight cake for his birthday this year.
Valkyr Pusheen Cake
Another cake celebrating my wonderful niece! It’s Pusheen dressed as Valkryr, one of Alex’s favorite frames from Warframe.
Spike Roller Cake
This very pink monster is a mini-boss from Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening. It’s chocolate cake with milk chocolate ganache icing. The spike roller itself is a tube of dark chocolate with white chocolate chip spikes and milk chocolate mousse inside.
Isaac Caboom Cake
Based on Duke Caboom from Toy Story 4, the figure on top of my Isaac Caboom cake was supposed to do a daredevil jump off the end of the cake. Like many of my cake mechanisms, it sort of worked eventually, but not as well as I had hoped.
Ancient Red Dragon Cake
Our love of Dungeons and Dragons continues! For her birthday this year, my niece requested an Ancient Red Dragon, guarding a d20, sitting on rocks that spell out “Roll for initiative.” At this point, I’m becoming something of a dragon specialist (see my Frost Dragon Cake and my Norbert(a) Cake), so this seemed well within my skill set.
Frost Dragon Cake
My creative brief for this cake was a frost dragon from Dungeons and Dragons. Because no dragon is complete without a miasma of ominous fog, there is a dry ice fogger hooked up underneath the cake board.
Guardian Skywatcher Cake
For his 9th birthday, my nephew asked for Guardian Skywatcher from Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. It was almost, but not quite, a total disaster.
Miss Fritter Cake
Look – it’s another Cars-based cake! And one of my best, if I do say so myself.
Bluebird Cake
For her granddaughter’s birthday, my friend asked for a cake that somehow combined the themes of bluebirds and the universe. I came up with this cake that’s sort of a cosmic bluebird in a space nest with planetary eggs in it.
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.
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.