Covey's Cake Creations

Triple Chocolate cappuccino Goodness

2011-10-28T05:43:00.000-07:00

Triple Chocolate cake layers with chocolate cappuccino icing and chocolate covered expresso bean garnish.

Zebra-riffic

2011-10-21T18:16:00.000-07:00

Fondant cake with hand painted monogram and the zebra stripes were made with Wilton's new sugar paper. I loved working with the paper. The color was a rich black that did not bleed onto the fondant.

Race to the Finish!

2011-10-21T18:12:00.000-07:00

At the party the mom added the cars to the finished cake. The chocolate royal icing had dried overnight and cracked a bit during transport, but the finished cake was wonderful! The only fondant on the cake was the red finish and start and the red flame, everything else was royal and chocolate icing.

Transformers

2011-10-21T18:10:00.001-07:00

Fondant cake with fondant accents over a rich yellow butter cake and an extra thick layer of buttercream icing for the kiddos to enjoy.

Vegan Kitty

2011-09-23T18:39:00.001-07:00

Vegan cake with natural colors. Too Fun!

Chugga Chugga

2011-08-19T13:17:00.001-07:00

I seriously wish that one of my kids was into trains. This cake is sooooo cute!

Chugga Chugga

2011-08-19T13:17:00.000-07:00

I seriously wish that one of my kids was into trains. This cake is sooooo cute!

Dragons!

2011-08-16T12:02:00.000-07:00

Dragon cake--no dye--big challenge!!!

We had two parties so I had to make two cakes. We moved less than 2 weeks before the party and it was crazy!! With 1/2 of everything in boxes it was a big challenge to do. While we were out to dinner the dragons attacked the family cake. It was pretty funny . . . easy to do a 2 layer dye-free cake with just a simple border. Bright candles added color.

The hardest though was to satisfy my little boy's wish for a 3d "fire-breathing" dragon cake. I convinced him that fire was not going to happen and smoke would be the best I could do. I bought some aquarium tubing and a cheap plastic toddler cup with a straw. I threaded the tubing through the cake and the head (rice krispy) and out from under the fondant "sea." Everything was made from scratch and the fondant was a bit too dry after the mixing and mixing and mixing of natural colors to try and get the dragon dark grey. Light grey was the best I could do with blueberries and other natural colors. It turned out pretty cool though!

I modeled the legs and tail and head from rice krispy treat and the body is a chocolate cake.
Here is Elijah testing the smoke.

I think he likes it!

Princess cake

2011-08-08T04:31:00.001-07:00

I made this for my little girl's third birthday. Her brother and sister are allergic to food dye so I used beet juice to get the pink color and I used white sugar. Everything was homemade. The turrets are rice krispy treat. The top layer was chocolate and the bottom layer was vanilla.

More Cakes from this Summer and Fall . . .

2010-11-30T07:43:00.000-08:00

What I've been up to . . . .

2010-11-30T07:39:00.000-08:00

Something Fishy

2010-10-22T07:15:00.000-07:00

More Cakes

2010-09-01T10:59:00.001-07:00

WHOA Nellie

2010-08-27T10:59:00.001-07:00

I used marshemellow fondant to cover the cake and for the bridle. The horse is solid chocolate--dark chocolate and corn syrup--modeling chocolate. The cake was a pudding enriched yellow cake tinted with purple gel coloring to achieve a tye-dye effect.

Spidey-riffic!

2010-07-30T16:07:00.001-07:00

This is a 100% dye free cake made with chocolate buttercream and buttercream icing with a plastic spiderman and chocolate buildings.

Planet Cake

2009-09-07T17:52:00.001-07:00

"Welcome to Planet Mom" is our theme for MOPS this year. I was excited to try my hand at "carving" a cake. I wanted a big half circle earth cake with some sort of 3D element. For the 3D element I decided to go with cookies shaped like stars baked on lollypop sticks so that we would have even MORE to enjoy (who really "enjoys" eating fondant??). It turned out great!! I put the cake in the fridge so that it would be sure to support the cookies until they were eaten.

Giddayup!

2009-08-27T05:35:00.000-07:00

DINO-mite

2009-08-08T17:02:00.000-07:00

I'm so excited! Here are the updated pictures of the cake. I made the cake from white cake and the volcano is rice krispy treats. I iced with chocolate and regular homemade royal icing. The dinosaurs and the trees are fake plastic. My original plan was to make them from modeling chocolate but I couldn't get the fine detail I wanted. The "rocks" are mini-marshmellows rolled in chocolate icing and coated in hot chocolate mix. Inside the volcano I wedged a shot glass and coated the rim with icing to hide it more. In the glass I put dry ice and water when it was time to light the cake. This made a HUGE amount of smoke and it looked like the cake was erupting. The shot glass kept the krispy treat fresh. It worked wonderfully! The icing was tinted with natural tints--clorophyll for the green, blueberry extract for the blue and carrot extract for the lava. My little one is allergic to food dyes so I have to use the natural ones. With a traditional client I would have used gel colors.

The impressed 3 year old crowd :)

The birthday boy enjoying his waterfall.

Erupting Lava!

Another View of the Lava

Here's the cake---pre-eruption

Here's a completely unrelated picture of the "Lava punch" I made with dry ice--it was a HUGE hit!

Crocodiles!

2009-08-06T04:54:00.000-07:00

I made these cupcakes for my little boy to take to VBS--the theme was Crocodile Dock. I made the heads out of modeling chocolate and put sprinkles underneath per his request.
He loved them as did the other 3 year olds.

Lovin' a Lobster!

2009-08-03T07:27:00.000-07:00

My first adventrue with Modeling Chocolate!! I had a blast sculpting this lobster for my dad's birthday out of white modeling chocolate. It was so fun to work with. I think I would do much better with something a bit more cartoon-like, but I am very pleased with the results. The one thing I didn't like was the lobster's "paint job." Because my little one is allergic to food dyes I had to make the Lobster white and then paint it with water based fruit extract dyes. Chocoloate is so oily the water based stains kinda beaded up. If I were doing this for a non-allergic client then I would have kneaded the gel color into the white chocolate and the painted on the darker shading.

Baby Shower Cake

2009-04-26T21:32:00.001-07:00

Ballet Cake

2009-04-25T03:26:00.000-07:00

This cake was for a little girls dance recital. The mother did not want fondant anything and wanted the whole cake to be edible. I used twinkies for the slippers and fluffy homemade white icing for the ribbons and swirils. The only non-edible portion of the cake are the laces on the shoes which are actual ribbons.

Here's another version of the same cake fora two year old's birthday--She wanted roses on hers.

Super Mario Cookie-Cake

2009-04-11T12:36:00.000-07:00

Yep--I do cookies too!

Look out Duff!

2009-03-27T17:50:00.001-07:00

Power tools . . . meet cake decorating!

This is my first really awesome 3D cake--I used wood screws, a honkin' dowel and made a 3D beanstalk. Hope Dylan likes his "Giant Cake!" Fe Fi Fo Fum buddy!

Thomas Cake

2009-01-17T07:15:00.001-08:00

(Close up of the engine)
(I added some "smoke" to the engine in the next shot)

This is actually "Gordon" who has a #4 instead of Thomas' #1. I thought it came out great! It is so cute!

Zoe Cake

2009-01-10T18:10:00.001-08:00

1st Birthday Cake--Boy

2008-11-28T17:38:00.000-08:00

The mom described what she wanted and gave me one of the napkins (on the floor). She said she wanted primary colors but not red, stripes on the side and some polka dots. She wanted the message to read: Happy First Birthday Luke. This is what I came up with--she loved it!

Fun with Fondant!

2008-11-06T06:57:00.000-08:00

Fondant Baby:

Fondant Groovy Cake:

Pablo from the Backyardigans with a Fondant beak:

Recent Cake Samples!!

2008-07-31T18:20:00.001-07:00

It's been a while since I updated the blog. Here are some of my most recent cakes.

Cake Samples!

2007-08-02T09:15:00.001-07:00

Cakes for looks:
This gallery goes back to my beginning days of decorating up through the present. (The newer cakes are near the top). I haven't taken pictures of all my cakes but here is a pretty good sample.

Cakes for Flavor!! These cakes focus on tremendous flavor and aren't decorated as much. The flavors can be used as layers in a more traditional cake.

Dark Chocolate Torte with Dark Chocolate Garnishes

Reeses Cup Cake: Rich chocolate layers with peanut butter-cream cheese icing and crushed peanut butter cup garnish
Sinful Chocolate Bundt--need I say more!!
Pineapple upside-down cake--a classic!
Strawberry Poke Cake with Whipped Icing