Mickey/Minne Mouse Dual Birthday Cake

My friend Jamie has 2 precious kids who share a birthday month. They recently went to Disney World and wanted to carry that theme over into their double birthday party. She asked me to make this cake that replicated one that she found on the internet. It was a chocolate cake with almond buttercream icing. The decorations are made from red and black rolled fondant.

Sushi

I was really excited about making this cake. It was for a former co-worker whose wife was pregnant. She had been craving sushi and since she was pregnant she couldn't have REAL sushi. So, for her birthday I made this sushi cake for her. It's a yellow cake with almond buttercream icing. It's covered with rolled fondant and the sushi is also made of fondant.

Sponge Bob

This cake was also chocolate with chocolate buttercream icing. It was made for my friend Courtney's son's birthday. I was really pleased with how this one turned out.

Horse Cake

This cake was made for a little girl's birthday. It's a chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream icing. It's decorated with thinly rolled fondant.

Here is a birthday cake for someone's surprise 30th birthday party. It's a 2 tiered cake. The bottom tier is chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream icing and the top is yellow cake with white buttercream icing. Both layers are covered with black fondant. The candles are also made of colored fondant. The 30 on top of the cake in the second picture is made of a fondant and gumpaste mixture. It isn't in the first picture because it broke right before the party, so I had to improvise. Oh well.

This cake was for a surprise 50th birthday party. It's a yellow cake with white buttercream icing. The flowers are made of black fondant.

Here is a yellow cake with blue and white buttercream icing. The van scene is made of fondant.

Sand Castle Cake

Here is my sand castle cake. It was for a 7 year old girl's beach themed birthday party. The top tier is chocolate cake and the rest are yellow cake. They're all iced with almond buttercream icing. The icing is coated with ground up graham crackers, which made excellent sand.

One of my co-workers has a husband who is graduating from nursing school. His "scrub top" cake is butter pecan with butter pecan mousse filling. It's iced with a thick layer of almond buttercream then decorated with fondant.

This cake is for my husband's newest Godchild and his cousin on their Christening day. This is a yellow cake with butter pecan mousse filling. It has been iced smoothly with white buttercream. The cross on top is made from royal icing apple blossoms and the bows and trim are fondant.

God bless Gavin & Drew.

The Knights

This cake was made as a favor to my husband. His boss's father was coming in town to meet with a group of his high school friends. This cake represents their high school fraternity (the Knights), symbol (the shield), and colors (black and gold). The "Skip" written on the cake is LSU's own Skip Bertman. I'm an LSU fan so I think that's pretty cool.
The cake is chocolate and it's filled and iced with chocolate buttercream icing. The cake is decorated with fondant and piped with black buttercream icing.

Operation...buzzz

This cake was made for the employee picnic at the hospital that I work for. It's a replica of the famous and fun game Operation. The cake is butter pecan and the filling is butter pecan mousse. It's iced with almond buttercream icing and it decorated with fondant.

Kentucky Derby Hat

Another co-worker was leaving us and moving to Kentucky. And what could be more Kentucky than the Kentucky Derby? No self respecting southern lady could attend the Kentucky Derby without having a proper hat to wear...well, in this case, eat.

This was a chocolate cake with chocolate icing covered in white fondant. The daisies and fantasy flowers are made of a mixture of gumpaste and fondant.

Transformer

My nephew Christian's 6th birthday was in February and he loves Transformers. I made a chocolate cake with chocolate filling. It was iced with almond buttercream icing. The Transformer logo was made of fondant and sprinkled with red shimmer sugar.

Happy retirement Julie

On of my co-workers was retiring and I made her a cake. This one was a white cake with buttercream icing. The daisies are made of gumpaste.

Mardi Gras Birthday Cake

This cake was made for 2 sisters, Maddie & Olivia, who both celebrate their birthdays during Mardi Gras season.

It's a 3 tiered yellow cake filled with strawberry preserves. The cake is decorated with yellow almond flavored buttercream icing. The final touches on each tier are made from purple and green fondant.

It's a Boy!

This cake was for my best friend Rebecca's baby shower. It's a 3 tiered yellow cake with almond buttercream icing as the filling. It's covered with a thick layer of almond buttercream then decorated with white and blue fondant.

This birthday cake was made for Susan who is an avid gardener. It is a yellow cake with buttercream filling. The "dirt" on top of the cake is crumbled chocolate cake and the vegetables are sculpted fondant.

Geaux Saints!

Here was my second attempt at a fleur de lis cake. It's a chocolate cake filled and iced with chocolate buttercream icing. It's covered with white fondant that was later painted with edible gold dust. Black buttercream icing served as the border around the bottom of the cake.

Cody's Turning 1

This cake was made for my friend Kelly's son, Cody. For his first birthday we made a yellow cake with almond buttercream filling and icing in 2 shades of blue. The yellow polka dots are made of fondant.

And, no, we didn't use alphabet shaped cake pans. This was hand carved from 2 sheet cakes. Look out Ace of Cakes!

Baby Shower Cake

This cake was made for one of Trecy's best friends. She's having a baby boy in March. This is a white cake with chocolate buttercream filling. The top and bottom layers are covered with almond buttercream and the middle is chocolate buttercream. The baby's monogram is icing on a fondant plate. The bow on top is also made of fondant.

Christmas Cakes

These two cakes were made for Christmas gatherings.

The Christmas Tree cake is a yellow cake filled with white chocolate mousse. A generous layer of butter cream icing is covered with fondant.

The second cake is also a yellow cake filled with buttercream icing. It's iced smoothly with almond buttercream icing. Santa and Rudolph are made from sculpted fondant.

Baby Cakes...Cakes For All Occasions

My name is Dana McKinney. I'm from New Orleans but now live on the Northshore of Lake Ponchartrain in Louisiana. I've been married for almost 5 years and have 1 beautiful daughter. I'm a Speech Language Pathologist who recently became interested in cake decorating. In August of 2008 my daughter turned 1 and I wanted to make her first birthday special. Her name is Quinlan Kelly. I wanted to incorporate her wonderfully unique name into her birthday celebration so, I decided that her cake should be in the shape of a 'Q'. At that time I had had no training in the area of cake decorating, but I had been watching LOTS of cake decorating shows. I figured why not...I'd give it a shot. Well, I did it. Her cake was as cute as can be and a new passion had been discovered. A few months, and cakes, later Baby Cakes came to be.

My friend Trecy Brown (pronounced Tracy) and I have been baking together since then and our business is just getting off the ground.

Trecy is also from New Orleans and after a stint in Tennessee as a teenager she moved back to Louisiana and migrated to the Northshore also. She and I have been friends for almost 10 years. Trecy is has been married for 7 years and has two sweet boys. She's a Dental Assistant, but like me, would rather be baking.

We're ready to bake a custom cake for your special occasion. We will design a cake for you based on your ideas. Prices will be designated at the time of your order.

We look forward to working with you to make your special occasion one to savor.