Birthday Cake


Age 17

This cake was made for my neighbor Eve's eighth birthday. The cake is made of chocolate and vanilla cake layers with vanilla Swiss merengue buttercream icing, rolled in sprinkles, decorated with piped buttercream borders, and topped with a hand sculpted fondant horse and fondant letters spelling out: HAPPY 8TH BIRTHDAY EVE!

Chocolate Butterfly Cupcakes

I made these chocolate cupcakes with chocolate buttercream and topped them with gold-dusted fondant butterflies.

When the Snow Falls Cake

Age 16

This cake was made for another children's book release party for a book titled When the Snow Falls. It is three layers of chocolate cake filled with multicolored buttercream to match the warm colors in the illustrations of the book. The sides are iced with blue buttercream and decorated with white fondant and sugar sprinkles for the snow banks as well as a fondant tree and a fondant bunny hopping away, as seen on the cover of the book. The top has a circle of white fondant that I painted with food coloring to match the font on the cover.

Monument Maker Cakes and Cupcakes

Age 16

This cake and these cupcakes were made for a children's book release event for a local author. Her book, titled Monument Maker, tells the story of Daniel Chester French, an artist known for his creation of many monuments, most notably the Lincoln Monument. The cake is composed of chocolate cake, filled with cookie dough flavored buttercream, frosted with a dark chocolate buttercream, and topped with fondant letters and bits of chocolate dusted with an edible silver powder to resemble a stone monument. The cupcakes are made of vanilla cake, frosted with chocolate buttercream, and topped with fondant letters and hand-cut silhouettes of Abraham Lincoln, all dusted with the edible silver powder.

Mini Wedding Cake

Age 16

This is a 4 layer tiered wedding cake made for my family for a themed dinner night during quarantine. This cake has 16 layers of moist chocolate cake, filled and frosted with vanilla Swiss merengue buttercream, decorated with piped borders, and topped with fresh flowers.

Unicorn Birthday Cake

Age 15

This is a chocolate cake iced with vanilla buttercream and decorated to look like a unicorn for a customer's birthday! The horn, ears, and letters are sculpted out of fondant and painted with an edible gold paint. I cut the unicorn's eyelashes out of a sheet of black fondant and made the mane by piping dollops of colored buttercream.

Concord-Carlisle Cupcakes

I made these cupcakes to celebrate the end of my team's volleyball season. I used fondant to create the Concord Carlisle school design and placed them on top of chocolate cupcakes iced with Oreo cookie buttercream.

COVID Cake

Age 16

This cake was made during the beginning of quarantine. This chocolate cake is iced with American chocolate buttercream and topped with a fondant-sculpted "virus" character.

Three Little Pigs Gingerbread Houses

Age 14

I made these gingerbread houses for a contest. The "straw" house is constructed of vanilla cream wafers and chopped up gum to look like straw. The "stick" house is made of pretzel sticks and topped with a chocolate bar roof. The "brick" house is made of gum with grey buttercream "grout." The pigs and wolf are hand-sculpted from fondant!

Wedding Shower Cake

Age 15

This is a chocolate cake iced with vanilla buttercream and topped with hand-crafted fondant flowers for a wedding shower. I also painted the initials of the couple onto the top of the cake with food coloring.

Valentines Cupcakes

Age 16

Some vanilla cupcakes with dark chocolate buttercream and topped with heart sprinkles for Valentine's day!

Carebear Birthday Cake

Age 16

This flourless chocolate cake is dusted with powdered sugar. I hand-cut a template to lay over the cake before dusting so that it would leave behind a carebear design with the initial of the birthday girl in the belly.

Flourless Chocolate Cake

Age 14

I created this flourless chocolate cake for my Mom's birthday. I used a heart stencil and dusted powdered sugar on the cake and topped it with a raspberry border.


Chocolate Birthday Cupcakes

Age 15

These cupcakes are made of chocolate icing and piped with a mixture of three different chocolate icings. They are topped with cut-out fondant initials of the birthday girl (P) that had been dusted with edible gold powder.

Camping Cake

Age 14

This is a chocolate cake iced with chocolate buttercream and topped with hand-sculpted fondant pieces including a campfire, a canoe, a tent, and a sleeping bag. The cake also includes an underwater effect, which was done by layering fondant over the cake and painting with blue and green food coloring to mimic water. I finished with fondant fish to show the underwater portion of the cake.

Chocolate Dipped Cream Puffs

Age 17

These are cream puffs made out of classic pâte à choux pastry, filled with vanilla bean pastry cream, dipped in bittersweet chocolate, and dusted with powdered sugar.

Sheep Cupcakes

Age 13

I made these sheep cupcakes for my sister's birthday. They are vanilla cupcakes topped with chocolate icing and cocoa-dusted marshmallows as the "fur" of the sheep. The face is made of a chocolate dipped Milano cookie and piped icing for eyes.


Mini Fall Cupcakes

Age 15

These mini spice cupcakes are topped with fluffy vanilla buttercream and hand sculpted fondant pumpkins and leaves.

Coconut Easter Cake

Age 14

This is a vanilla cake frosted with coconut buttercream and topped with coconut merengues as well as three fondant flowers.

Simple Two-layer

Age 16

This is a simple vanilla bean cake frosted with chocolate Swiss merengue buttercream. The borders are piped with different sized star tips for a 3D swirl effect.

Fondant Turkey Cake Topper

Age 13

I hand sculpted this turkey cake topper out of fondant. The turkey sat on top of a chocolate cake frosted with chocolate buttercream.

Reese's Birthday Cake

Age 13

This is a dark chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream topped with an elaborate pattern of Reese's Pieces candies.

"Favorite Things" Birthday Cake

Age 12

Though this cake was bought from a bakery to celebrate my 13th birthday, I added hand-sculpted figures of my favorite things on top, including a fondant hippo, a fondant cupcake, a fondant hedgehog, and a fondant-wrapped Barbie doll mermaid.

Fathers Day Cake

Age 11

I made this cake at a cake decorating event at a local bakery. They provided us with a plain frosted cake and multiple piping bags of colored buttercream to pipe onto the cake.

Rainbow Layer Cake

Age 11

This is a six layer vanilla cake dyed to be a rainbow.