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| a raised garden bed with crushed oreo "dirt", fondant vegetables, and garden posts |
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| close up: fondant lettuce made using mini rose petal cutters and tulip vainer, then dusted for depth |
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| close up: fondant carrot tops |
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| close up: fondant tomatoes with royal icing vines |
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| The cake was surronded with wooden slats to give the look of a raised garden bed |
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| The sweetest garden ever |
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| close up of the penguin - a cute little arctic friend |
I started with a color scheme of purple, black and white and then I threw in yellow and lime green. The horizontal black and white stripes are a fun background for the circle discs pressed with different textures. Those textured circles became the unifing theme for the dessert table.
While I worked on the cake, Hector started to work on the cake pops and Rose started to make the sugar cookies, which we decided would also be on a stick.
I repeated the textured circle theme to decorate the wall behind the table. I took 12x12 pieces of scrapbook paper and cut various size circles out to be hung as the back drop. We added balloons to the sides and once all of the elements were on the table the finished look was nothing short of perfect!
The left side of the table...
In the back was grape flavored purple licorice whips, sour apple-o's, and giant jawbreakers. In the front was mini cupcakes (yellow cake with milk chocolate frosting), cookie pops decorated like whirly pops, an cupcakes topped with textured discs to match the cake and a pot of red velvet cake pops covered in white chocolate and purple and yellow drizzles.
The right side of the table...we repeated some of the treats for symmetry, but we did add banana laffy taffy, green sour candy and Hector's caramel dipped pretzels (knots and rods) with purple and yellow drizzle. 
Details...and more details...
mini cupcakes with chocolate frosting and yellow sprinkles in purple papers
close up of the cake and the texture on the circles
Red velvet cake pops dipped in white chocolate and drizzled with purple and yellow and then arranged in a black pot with green ribbon curls
caramel dipped pretzel rods and knots with matching purple and yellow drizzle 
sugar cookie pops decorated like lollipops
vanilla cupcakes with matching yellow textured fondant circles, purple sprinkles and green polka dot papers
there was even color matched soda, lima and pineapple Jarritos!
The best part of making this cake was our teams brainstorming session. It was so fun to remember the haircuts (flock of seagulls), the sayings (grody to the max), and the neon colors that were everywhere from sunglasses to paint splattered bandanas.
All of us had a different approach to the cake so the list of possible items to include on the cake became very long. Some of the things that didn't make it on the cake were risky business sunglasses, snorks, Howard Jones, Beat Street, any of John Hughes movies, and hacky sacks. But this cake is an homage to all of those who are proud to say they cuffed their acid washed jeans, remember when MTV played music videos, and looked at life through slits in their sunglasses.
Yes that is a rubics cube (made from rice cereal treats) and pictures of Cyndi Lauper and Gem; I used to love watching Gem and always wanted to have wild pink hair! We also created a classic NES controller, the Thundercats logo, edible images of Miami Vice, The Goonies and Run DMC. The cake was just as fun to make as it is to look at and think " OMG! I remember ..."
Yes thirsty for cake. We have had so much fun creating cakes that resemble drink bottles and while we could make a soda can or bottle, or even a carton of milk, the requests we get are for alcohol bottles, cans and kegs.
This is a cake we created for a birthday party at the Dream Ultra Lounge in downtown Sacramento. The Patron bottle cake stood 2 feet tall and the limes were 8" long. We use rice cereal treats for the cork, limes and salt shaker and hand painted the label. We also created a custom stand, which is a mirror, for the cake to sit on. It was an amazing cake for an amazing party. Photos curtosy of the http://www.dreamultralounge.com/
But maybe your not into taking shots and prefer a mixed drink. Then this might be the cake for you.
This Hennessy Bottle cake stands about 14" tall and it serves about 20 people. We hand paint the bottle and label. 
But don't worry all you beer drinkers, we got you covered as 
well!
This Hefeweizen Keg cake was painted with an edible metalic silver glaze and then the hand painted label was placed on the front.
And for those of you who like a bottle over a cup... We have a Corona bottle cake.
This bottle stood 22" tall and it amazed even me. Complete with a lime wedge, made of marshmallow, the cake made you look twice and question the fact that it was cake.
The bottle had a sheen on it that made the Corona bottle look like it just came out of the fridge.
We painted the cake golden yellow and then gave it a pearl coat. We hand painted the label and the lime.
I think the craziest part was delivering the cake an hour away from the bakery. But it made it to the party and was a big hit.
But there is still the beer drinker who will grab a can over a bottle or cup, and we have made cakes for them too.
We have not only made a single can , but also a case of beer cans.
The birthday message and rocket close up. We cut out letters and then piped over them for extra color.
We make our cakes to be viewed 360 degrees, so here is the back side of the cake. It also has full decoration with atoms bursting, atom string and chemical symbols. 
just another angle of the cake...
We also created a smaller version of the cake for the birthday boy. He wanted a chocolate cake so we made him his own chocolate cake and the big cake was a tier of lemon and a tier of marble. We took the beaker from the top of the big cake down to picture with his cake.
