Monday, June 3, 2013

A weekends worth of cakes...


Chocolate cake carved to look like a xbox
covered in black marshmallow fondant. Remote is rice krispy
treats shaped and covered in fondant.
 
 


Marble cake with butter cream icing
and fondant accents.

Giant chocolate chip cookie cake

 
Chocolate cake with butter cream
and fondant accents.

Yellow cake with butter cream icing
and fondant accents.
 
Chocolate 8" and yellow 6" cakes
frosted in butter cream with fondant accents.
 

10" chocolate with peanut butter, butter cream filling
and 6" strawberry with fresh strawberry butter cream.
with a matching smash cake.  
 


Monday, May 20, 2013

My latest cakes...

 
8" chocolate cake
with butter cream icing
and fondant accents.
A toy Grave Digger truck was to
be added right before the party!

                                           This is 10" vanilla cake
                                           with butter cream and covered
                                           in fondant. Made to resemble
                                           a dirt track. A toy Toyota truck was
                                           added before the party!
                                          This cake was for my mom's birthday 
                                           it's 8" of chocolate cake and 6"
                                          of vanilla cake all butter cream and
                                          the yellow circles are from fondant.
                        
 
This cake is 8" of chocolate
with butter cream filling and
covered in fondant.
The Spider-Man is a candle


Smash The Cake...

I was so glad to partner with
the talented Erin Brown
from Erin Brown Photography
to bring you these pictures
of one of my cakes being
used for a smash the cake session!
 
 
 








Thursday, May 9, 2013

Teacher Theme cupcakes...

Teacher/ Nurse's Appreciation
I made these cupcakes for my son's
Teachers/ School Nurse/ Office Staff.

Band-aids and Pills
(fondant)



Chalkboards & Apples
(fondant)

Girl Monkey Cake...

 
 
This is a repeat design of a cake
I made for a baby shower.
This time I made it similar and for
a birthday cake!
 
The cake is 10" & 6" vanilla
filled with butter cream and
covered in fondant
with fondant accents.
 
 
 
 

Motorcycle Cake...

This cake was made for a
sweet customer who wanted
to surprise her boyfriend
with a cake that had a picture of
his actual bike on it!
My first time using an edible image
but I am so very pleased with the results!
This cake is an 8" chocolate
with ganache filling and covered in butter cream
 
 

Another Doc McStuffin's

 
 
This little lady sure is popular!
My second Doc McStuffin's Cake
This one is a 10" chocolate cake
all butter cream with a fondant
accents.
 


Pretty Cake...

 
This is a 10" Chocolate cake
all butter cream with fondant accents
 
 
 
 
 

Erin Brown Photography

   
 
Please check out this incredibly talented photographer
Her work is absolutely breath taking...
                                      Please watch for  an upcoming post!
                                     Where she and I collaborated to bring
                                      you all an awesome "Smash The Cake"
                                      photo shoot!               

Sunday, April 14, 2013

Diary of a Wimpy Kid cake!!

 
"Diary of a Wimpy Kid"
cake for my nephew J.T.
who is a huge fan!!
 
8" yellow cake with butter cream
frosting & fondant accents.

Cookie Cake...

 
 
Chocolate chip giant cookie cake
with the Littlest Pet Shop theme!
All edible hand-cut from fondant logo
and butter cream frosting.
 
 

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Recommendations...


Noelle Austin Ferguson

 Big thank you to Cakes By Greta for making Austin's adorable and yummy birthday cakes, we LOVED them and everybody kept asking who made the cakes! You were so easy to work with and went above and beyond to make everything just perfect, would HIGHLY recommend her to anybody :-)



Julie Chambers Austin 
 
 Really good tasting cake!!! Sometime you get pretty, sometimes you good good taste but not often you. Get BOTH!! Highly recommend cakes by Greta!





Sarah Crowder Snow
 
 The cake was amazing! It felt wrong cutting into it. lol You outdid yourself, Greta! I'm excited to order another cake from you soon.

Demita Taylor

Sophia and the beautiful cake that Greta made


Sarah Shelhorse Christman

 Thanks for the awesome, amazing cupcakes! They were delicious and a wonderful treat


oh my goodness, greta, everyone went crazy over the cake!! a lady sitting at the table beside me even asked who made it!! it was so delicious too! thank you again for everything! i'll definitely be using you more often in the future!!...

John Deere...

This cake was made for a little boy's 1st birthday!
 
I made this cake a vanilla 10" with butter cream
and chocolate 8" with ganache! 
I loved the original design that the mother sent me from
 
 
 I absolutely love the picture
that the mother sent me!
 
I was honored to make this cake for
such an adorable little boy
and a wonderful family!
 
Happy Birthday Austin!!
 

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Pink Mustache cake...

I was asked to make this cake by a sweet lady who
wanted to give her daughter a girlie mustache cake for
her birthday...I loved the idea and was honored to make it!
The cake is a 6" round chocolate cake with
butter cream filling and fondant accents.
 

Shamrock Cake...

I made this cake with the leftovers from the PBR cake
I thought my own little family would enjoy a St.Patty cake
and they sure did!
 
 

PBR cake...

This is a 1/2 yellow cake & 1/2 chocolate
sheet cake with the PBR logo.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Valentine's Day Party...

Valentine's Day
 
Every holiday my kids like when we
do something special and have
at home parties.
 
This year for Valentine's Day they came
home from school to find
the kitchen decorated like this
 


                                                            They each got a special treat from
                                                            Mom for being my little loves!

Dora's Backpack cake...

Backpack
 
Dora's friend Backpack
this is a chocolate sheet cake
covered in fondant with
fondant decorations.
 
 
 

Dr. Seuss week...

Dr. Seuss
 
I made this cake for my son who is in Pre-K,
 this week they are learning about Dr. Seuss.
I thought it would be fun to celebrate
by having cake in a couple of Seuss themes.
 
 
This cake is a 10" chocolate
 & 6" yellow.
 
The cake is covered in fondant
and hand made fondant figures and toppers
 
 
 
 

Virginia Tech...

Virginia Tech
 
This cake is an 8" chocolate
all butter cream
 
The decorations are hand cut
fondant.
 
 
 
Happy Birthday to my Papa!
 
~Greta

Camo Cake...

Camo Cake
 
This cake is an 8" chocolate
all butter cream
 
The decorations are hand cut from
fondant
 
 
 

Cowboy Cake...

Cowboy Cake
 
This is a 10" chocolate cake
covered with Satin Ice fondant
the horse and cowboy are from
gum paste.
 
 


Saturday, February 16, 2013

Football Cake...

 
I made this cake for my nephew Campbell.
His only request was marble cake with a football!
I decided to do a field with a football popping out the top.
The cake is a 10" round 2 layer marble cake with
butter cream filling and icing. The letters are with
the tappits set and made with marshmallow fondant.
The football was baked in the Wilton mini wonder mold
and covered in fondant.
 
 
 

Saturday, February 9, 2013

Mario DS cake...

This is my favorite cake!
I felt like a kid making it and seeing it come to life
was so exciting for me:)
 
The cake its self is chocolate
with butter cream and fondant accents
 
 
 
My favorite pictures are from
the recipients of the cakes!
I love seeing the smiling faces:)
 
 


 
Happy Birthday Jackson!

Cupcake Cake...

Giant Cupcake cake to match the napkins
for a 1st Birthday Party!
 
All cake is yellow sponge cake with butter cream
the shell is chocolate tinted purple.
 
 
 

 
 

Our Anniversary Cake...

 
Our Anniversary Cake!
 
Chocolate cake with chocolate ganache
fluffy butter cream and in a chocolate shell!
 
Happy 3 Years Babe!
 
 

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Doc Mcstuffin's cake...

This is the cake I made for one of my
mother-in-law's daycare kids.
She has been too cute asking me
everyday for the past two months
if I was going to make her a Doc Mcstuffin's cake...
Well Miss Emma here is your finished cake!
I hope you like and Happy Birthday:)
 
 

Sunday, January 13, 2013

"Old Man" cake...




"Old Man" cake for my step-father's 50th 
Birthday Celebration.

The cake is chocolate with ganache filling and butter cream
I hand sculpted the silly decorations

This cake was inspired by a cake on Pinterest
the original image can be found on cakecentral.com