Billa Cakes: Portfolio: Elmo First Birthday Cake

Billa Cakes is the brain child of one hot mama: Me! It's named for my daughter Sybilla, who is my inspiration and motivation. I love baking and as an artist, it gives me an outlet for my creativity as well as an opportunity to help create memories for a lifetime.

Currently this is a hobby to gain experience, but someday I plan on making it into a full time gig! My training includes some classes from my local baking supply shops, the Food Network and the internet. I am a full time student in the School of Hard Knocks.

My hope with this site is to showcase my work as I develop my business and to share my learning experiences with others so they can learn too. Thanks for following along!

Saturday, October 11, 2008

Portfolio: Elmo First Birthday Cake

A good friend of mine approached me about doing her son Conner's first birthday cake. He loves Elmo and that was her only request. After thinking long and hard and looking at many different images of Elmo cakes on Google Images, I chose to do a simple sheet cake with a 3D element on top. Elmo was created in a Wilton mini bear mold, his ears were then lopped off, and he was iced in reddish buttercream. I then used food coloring to dye shredded coconut 'Elmo red' and rolled Elmo in it until he got the furry look we all know and love. Then a few touches with some buttercream and voila! 3D Elmo smash cake! Birthday boy loved it so much, he didn't even wait for us to finish singing Happy Birthday before grabbing it and proceeding to munch away happily.