Cakes by Holly Jo

Stars and Ribbon

2011-01-08T08:05:00.001-08:00

Made for my cousins daughters 1st birthday. The first 2 pictures below belong to EverGlowPhotography Made October 17th 2010.

B&W wedding cake (another one)

2011-01-08T07:33:00.001-08:00

This one was for my cousin Doug and, now new wife, Teagan's wedding. Teagan sent me a few cakes she liked to give me ideas, but wanted me to come up with the final results. All she said was round or square, you decide, no flowers and black and white. All the black detail work is by eyeing it and done by hand. Made October 15, 2010.

Laundry!

2011-01-08T07:22:00.000-08:00

This is a cake I wanted to make for myself someday, since it seems I am FOREVER doing laundry!!! But, before I had a chance to make it for me, one of my daughters friends wanted this for her fashion themed party. Made October 15, 2010.

Topsy Turvy

2011-01-07T22:56:00.001-08:00

My first attempt at a topsy turvy cake and using the cricut cake machine. This was made for my sil's birthday. My brother helped me with this cake. It was alot harder than I figured it would be. Made October 23, 2010.

Chocolate Bar

2011-01-07T22:49:00.001-08:00

Daisy picked this cake from one of my cake books. Next time I will make it look like a twix or a caramilk bar or something, to make it look more real. Made October 22, 2010

Flowers

2011-01-07T22:40:00.001-08:00

A friend of mine ordered this for her MIL. I believe it was her 80th birthday. Made November 9th, 2010.

I love this look. Straight down from the top and you can't see any "stems"

Spider

2011-01-07T22:36:00.000-08:00

I made this cake for my nephew's first birthday. I think this spider is so adorabel. Made November 3, 2010.

Pigs and Cows

2010-10-16T09:46:00.000-07:00

Made these for Zipporah and Sydney's 8th birthdays. Pig made August 2010, cow made September 2010.

Mission Homecoming

2010-10-16T08:54:00.000-07:00

This cake was made for a missionary returning home for a mission in Colorado ( I don't remember the exact mission name) made August 2010

skittles and bounty bars

2010-09-28T14:52:00.000-07:00

This cake was made for my son's 13th birthday. It is topped with skittles and surrounded in bounty chocolate bars, and then wrapped in fruit by the foot. made May 2010

Squares and Circles!

2010-09-19T23:49:00.001-07:00

Kinda a neat change. No one has ever wanted a cake using both round and square pans before. I quite like it. The topper isn't the real topper. The bride was supplying the topper and she wasn't there when I was finished, so we did a make shift topper for the picture. Made April 30th, 2010.

Ivory and Pink wedding cake

2010-09-19T23:41:00.000-07:00

This wedding cake has handmade fondant roses on top. The beading at the base of each layer is with pink butter cream, though most hte pictures you can't tell what color it is. Made April 24th, 2010.

Castle cake

2010-04-24T19:51:00.001-07:00

Made this cake for Owen's 5th birthday. He had his first friend party and was so excited. Some of the kids thought the cake was real and wanted to play with it, and some did after we sang happy birthday and I had cut into one side. so funny!!!! made April 21, 2010.

Don't mind the black eye, he was jumping on one of the couches and fell and hit his eye on the bench.

Anniversary cake

2010-04-17T13:50:00.001-07:00

I made this for the 50th anniversary of some of my cousins grandparents. It took a lot of work, lots of detailed fondant work, but I enjoyed every minute of it!!! Made April16 (though I finished it at 230 in the morning so technically made on the 17th) hahaha

They wanted to have a bit of something of both their grandpa and grandma on it. So their grandpa works with wood and grandma does spinner stuff and also has a lot of framed flowers. So I gave each one side, then joined them in the middle to complete it.

bird house close up

bench close up

calla lily ~ framed flower

calla lilies, tulips, daisy's, and basic flower

saw

screw driver tools

tape measure

Baby shower cake

2010-03-13T14:56:00.000-08:00

There was a surprise baby shower for my sil Felisha, and Tate asked me to make the cake. So I did. made march 2010

Black and white wedding

2010-03-11T13:44:00.000-08:00

This wedding cake was made for Megan and Blaine. (Megan's mom is my first cousin and all of us are in the same ward at church) I was so nervous about all the free hand black icing swirls, because once it is on the white you can't take it off without leaving a stain, but I took my time and it all worked out. The calla lilies were hand made by me. My first real attempt. Though I have messed around with them before just to see. made February 2010

flowers close up

Pink guitar

2010-03-11T13:27:00.001-08:00

The next two cakes I made for Kiki. She is a friend of both Abigail and Lynnette. She wanted 2 cakes, so I was glad she picked two easy ones. made February 2010

Whale

2010-03-11T13:18:00.000-08:00

The second cake for one of Lynnette and Abigail's friend. made February 2010

3D frogs

2010-03-11T12:41:00.000-08:00

These are the cakes I made for Ezra's first birthday. We bought him a giant frog stuffed animal when he was born and I took his picture with it every month so we could see how much he grows each month. I have decided his favorite animal is a frog. hahaha! I made a small one so he could chow down on his very own cake. made January 2010.

there were two froggy's sitting on the fridge,
two froggy's sitting on the fridge. haha

close up of big frog

big frog

close up of small frog

Ezra with the small frog.

Bouquet of flowers

2010-03-11T12:29:00.001-08:00

I am not sure what happened but my pictures didn't turn out so great for this one. Everything looks so dull. It really had bright colors on it. So bright purple, blue, pink and red flowers, made out of fondant. The stems are also fondant that I rolled to look like stems. Pretty neat I think. made January 2010

Monkey's gone bananas

2010-03-11T12:04:00.000-08:00

This is another monkey cake, only I added more details and made it better. I love how it turned out! I made this for a friend who is in my January 2009 moms group. Her son turned one a week before Ezra. They love it! Made January 2010.

First a close up of the bananas, again I am so
impressed with how well they turned out! LOL!!

Front view

from the top

monkey 1

monkey 2

this cake I made special so that the

birthday boy could dig into his very own cake!!!

Burger and fries!!!

2010-02-13T00:34:00.000-08:00

This cake I made for Lynnette for her 11th birthday. I also made another one that is bigger a few weeks later, but they look pretty much the same. Made December 2009.

fondant cheese and veggies

"fries" pound cake and red icing

order up!

Piggy bank

2010-02-10T22:22:00.000-08:00

I made this piggy bank cake for Daisy's 12th birthday. I love it, it turned out so nice!! Made October 2009.

Care Bears

2010-02-07T21:54:00.001-08:00

I made this cake for Zipporah's friend Jailynn. She wanted a care bear cake and so I browsed with her on the computer to see what she liked. She really liked a cake similar to this. I made this October 2009.

Red roses

2010-02-07T21:33:00.001-08:00

This cake I made, but didn't put it together at the wedding. I only put it together at home to make sure it looked ok, then it was taken in pieces and put together there. So the flowers ended up arranged a but different. A friend of mine who makes cake too, had me make this for her sisters wedding. She asked me because she was planning everything else for the wedding as well, so having someone else make the cake was just a good idea. I did make the roses. I can't remember exactly, but I think I made this August/Septemberish 2009.

Forrest's head

2010-02-07T21:18:00.000-08:00

ok so this cake came about because Forrest was looking through my cake books for ideas and asked for a cake the was a giant keg with two little drunk men drinking from the spout, I said yeah um NO! and then he said well then can you make a cake of my head. So I did. hahaha Made may 2009.

each curl was put in individually

no a perfect match, but not too bad either.

Tate and Felisha's 2 wedding cakes

2010-02-07T20:47:00.000-08:00

My brother Tate and his wife Felisha had two receptions, so I made them two cakes. One reception was in Raymond, Alberta. I made the one four tiers and they cut out of the bottom layer and we wrapped up the other layers and they flew to Toronto with Tate and Felisha for the next reception. Which already had a few layers of cake waiting from when Tate flew over a few days before their wedding. Luckily cake freezes really well and covered in fondant it travels really well too! The Toronto cake was 5 tiers high. So in the end, I used some of the same cakes, but they are decorated differently. Sadly after one picture of the first cake, my camera completely died! wahhhh and with he second cake, we got there late so I was putting it together in front of people, so I just took a couple of quick pictures and that's it.

Cake #1 Alberta reception

Cake #2 Toronto reception

piggies

2010-02-07T20:34:00.000-08:00

I made this cake for Sydney's 7th birthday. The little piggies turned out so cute!! made September 2009.

m&m's and kitkats

2010-02-07T20:21:00.000-08:00

I never ate this cake, but I bet it was soooo yummy!!! The sides are covered in kitkats and the top is covered in m&m's. I made this for my friend Joelle, October 2009.

Baby dinosaurs

2010-02-07T19:50:00.000-08:00

I made these baby dinosaurs for Zipporah's 7th birthday. I made two cuz they were so small. So one white egg and one purple egg. I think they are so cute!!!! The "sand" they are on is brown sugar, a cool trick I learned from watching Cake Boss. LOL!! made August 2009

Butterfly Wedding cake

2010-02-07T19:40:00.001-08:00

This is a 5 tier cake, each layer is a different flavour of cake. The topper was a family heirloom of the brides. I wish I could make butterflies, but that isn't a skill of mine yet, so I bought these butterflies and I think they are made with feather. If you look really close along the beading at the bottom of each tier of cake, you can see that there are two purple beads in between each big cream one. If you click ont eh first picture and see it bigger you can see. The cake is covered in buttercream that I iced smooth. I wasn't able to get as good of pictures of this cake as I wanted. The tent it was inside was hot and yellow, so all my pictures have lots of yellow in them.

Snake Pit

2009-09-28T12:43:00.000-07:00

Made this June 17th, 2009, for Joelle's son. I believe he was turning 6.

fondant snakes

buttercream icing

Momma duck and her ducklings

2009-09-28T12:40:00.001-07:00

This was made for a second birthday for Michelle's daughter. I made this June 2009.

duckling

momma and her babies

Drifloon

2009-09-28T12:32:00.000-07:00

This one was made for the son of a friend. Drifloon is a pokemon. She said her sons all loved it said the boys took tons of pictures. I made this beginning of July 2009.

Drifloon and a pokeball

Monkey Cake

2009-09-28T12:21:00.000-07:00

This cake is pretty much one of my most favorite cakes that I have made. I really just love it!!!
I made this around the 12th of June, 2009. I made this one for Michelle.

Fondant monkey

fondant bananas I made. I love how they turned out. They look so real!!

Here is the monkey and his banana mess!

Little Bo Peep

2009-09-10T22:37:00.000-07:00

I made this cake June 9, 2009 for my friend Melanie.

2 hour dragons

2009-06-30T22:49:00.000-07:00

This is what you get when both your grade oners have a class presentation the next day about families and went to bed all worried about not having anything to share with the family. At 8 pm I started baking cakes, then cooled them in the freezer and decorated them. Yup moms pulls through and each girl got to take a cake to school, and it was worth staying up until 130am. Too bad there isn't a super fast way to cook and cool cakes. hahaha Made June 2009

Circles

2009-06-30T22:27:00.000-07:00

I made this cake for Colleen's birthday. I know it looks like a small wedding cake, but I wanted her to have a big, nice birthday cake. Make June 2009.

AKU

2009-06-28T23:31:00.000-07:00

This is an AKU cake I made for Owen's 4th birthday. Aku is the bad guy on Samurai Jack. If you don't know Samurai Jack, google it. Made April 2009

Owen making is Aku face. hehehe

First Wedding Cake

2009-06-25T20:43:00.000-07:00

This was my first ever wedding cake. All the roses are hand made. It is all cake no foam.

close up of the flowers

Skater cake

2009-06-25T20:38:00.000-07:00

I could only find one picture of this cake so far, so when I find where all the others are hiding I will add more shots of this cake. I made this cake for my sister in law, Laura for her birthday. That her in front and my brother Kipp and their son Asher. Sadly I am not much for character molding yet, some day I will be better. Made April 2008

Jewellery box

2009-06-25T19:59:00.001-07:00

I made this for Little Miss T. when she was living here. This was for her fourth birthday. Made July 2008

Feliz Cumpleanos

2009-06-18T19:09:00.000-07:00

This was made for our friend Gaby. Made March 2009

The Big Red Car

2009-06-18T19:02:00.000-07:00

In the big red car we like to ride....... Calliope is obsessed with the wiggles, so for her second birthday on top of getting all the Wiggles talking dolls, I made her this big red car cake. Made February 2008.

Little Monster

2009-06-18T18:56:00.001-07:00

I made this for a foster son of ours, who has since returned home to his dad. It was for his 3rd birthday. Made December 2008

Spoiled kitty

2009-06-18T18:49:00.001-07:00

This was Lynnette's birthday cake made for her 10th birthday. Made December 2008.

Spiderman

2009-06-18T18:42:00.000-07:00

This cake is covered in fondant. The web was made with black buttercream icing. Made November 2008.

Bee cake

2009-06-18T18:39:00.000-07:00

I made this cake for my friend Joelle's birthday. They battled a wasp's nest under their front step all summer long, so I thought a bee cake was fitting. Made October 2008.

3 tier square wedding cake

2009-06-18T11:34:00.000-07:00

This was my second wedding cake. I made this for my cousin Alex's wedding. That is her and her now husband in the last picture the night before they got married. Made April 2008.

Merv the Nerd

2009-06-18T11:26:00.000-07:00

This was a birthday cake for a friends son who was turning 14. Made June 2007

Blue dinosaur

2009-06-17T14:11:00.000-07:00

This is Owen's first birthday cake for his third birthday. He liked two different cakes, so I thought "why not" and made him both. This is a blue dinosaur. Made April 2008

Green Dragon

2009-06-17T13:46:00.001-07:00

This is Owen's second birthday cake for his third birthday. A green dragon. Made April 2008

Owen loving his cake.

Fairy cakes

2009-06-17T13:10:00.000-07:00

The first one I made for Calliope's first birthday. The second one I made for a daught of a friend on mine daughter. She turned 5, so I made it in brighter colors, and added a few more Fairies. First one made February 2008. Second one made April 2008

Fairies cloes up

Calliope with her cake

Blowfish cake

2009-06-17T12:56:00.000-07:00

This is my blowfish cake. The fins are melted white chocolate and the spikes are hershey hugs and kisses. Also made for Marissa for one of her birthday's. Made October 2007

Goldfish

2009-06-17T12:46:00.001-07:00

Here is another Marissa birthday cake. It is a goldfish. the fins and mouth are made of colored white chocolate that I melted and piped onto wax paper and let sit, then attached to the cake. hahaha it is pretty funny actually. haha made October 2006

Cake class cakes

2009-06-16T12:24:00.000-07:00

I took the cake classes at Micheals and these are the cakes I made for that. I really wanted to learn more about working with fondant, and so the classes were really great for that.

handmade fondant roses

Ladybug

2009-06-16T12:17:00.000-07:00

I made this because I wanted to try out the marshmallow fondant recipe that is all over the internet. Made February 2008

Baby buggy

2009-06-15T21:44:00.001-07:00

This was a baby shower cake made for my friend Colleen. Made April or May 2008

Ponies

2009-06-15T21:30:00.001-07:00

Well not really whole ponies, just their heads!!! hahaha I made this for Zipporah and Sydney's joint friend birthday party when they turned 5. Cakes made september 2007

Zipporah's

Sydney's

Pokemon cakes

2009-06-15T21:12:00.000-07:00

I made these cakes for my friend Joelle's son's birthday. I was just to do turtwig, but thought the pokeball just made it a ton more better. Made July 2008

pokeball

turtwig

Graffiti

2009-06-15T18:48:00.000-07:00

This is my graffiti cake I made for Forrest's 11th birthday. Someday I am going to learn to air brush paint and then I am going to re due this one. Made May 2008

Smurfs

2009-06-15T12:34:00.001-07:00

Here is my attempt at smurf figures. hahaha It is more of a smurf knock off cake really. Abigail wanted this for her 9th birthday, and it was a little funny, because she didn't even know what they were. Oh well, smurfs are making a come back, I am sure my kids will be watching smurfs soon enough, on TV like I used to. Made May 2008

Flowers in a basket

2009-06-15T09:24:00.000-07:00

The flowers in this one are made with royal icing. The sides are made to look like a basket. I made this one for one of my cake classes with the intention to use it for a birthday cake for Peggy.

Race Track

2009-06-15T09:15:00.000-07:00

This is Owen's birthday cake I made for his 2nd birthday. Crushed cookies and candy sprinkles and tic tacs made up the track and grass. Made April 2007

Little Lamb

2009-06-15T09:05:00.000-07:00

Abigail's favorite animal is a lamb, so I made this cake for her 8th birthday. It is made with a 3D cake pan. One day I hope to be able to give this one another try, now that my skills have improved, I think this is one cake I ould really do a whole lot better. Made May 2007

Big Red Van

2009-06-15T09:00:00.000-07:00

This was a thank you can I made for a family that had given us their big red van. Our blue van had started on fire under the hood while I was travelling to my parents. I was alone with all the kids, not fun. The repairs were not worth the price of the van. I don't know what we would have done if this family wasn't so giving. We only had yo pay a bit in repairs to pass the vehicle inspection. Made around April 2008

Daisy for a Daisy

2009-06-15T08:30:00.000-07:00

Daisy's 10th birthday cake. October 2008

Butterfly

2009-06-15T08:27:00.000-07:00

For Lynnette's 8th birthday, I made her a butterfly cake. I can't find a picture right now of just the cake, but you get the idea enough in this photo.

Dog cake

2009-06-15T08:22:00.001-07:00

Daisy loves dogs, so on her 8th birthday I made her this. October 2005.

Daisy with her cake

Billy

2009-06-15T08:12:00.000-07:00

This is a Billy cake. Billy from the cartoon Billy and Mandy. Forrest still loves that cartoon. Made May 2007

Just added this so you can see what Billy really looks like.

Kitten's

2009-06-15T08:07:00.000-07:00

These kittens's were made for Lynnette on her 7th birthday. December 2005

Lynnette is the one in the middle

Turtle Family

2009-06-15T07:33:00.000-07:00

The turtle family was made for Owen's first birthday. Every part of the turtles are edible. Made April 2006

close up of the parent turtle

close up of baby

back of turtles

Cookie Monster and Elmo

2009-06-15T07:28:00.000-07:00

I made these cakes for Zipporah and Sydney's 3rd birthday's. Made September 2005

waiting to blow out the candles.

Penguin party

2009-06-15T07:07:00.000-07:00

This one was made for my daughter Daisy's birthday. Though she picked it for her birthday cake, it would make a great Christmas cake as well. Made October 2008.

Penguin close up

Daisy with her cake

Lollipops

2009-06-15T07:05:00.000-07:00

Lollipop cake made for my friend Lindsay's birthday. December 2008

Ice cream cake

2009-06-15T06:56:00.000-07:00

This is Marissa birthday cake. I love this cake. The first picture is what it originally looked like, then Chris had the wonderful idea to drizzle chocolate on top. The chocolate really made the difference. Cake was made in Ocotber 2008

Marissa with her cake

Catch Phrase

2009-06-14T22:09:00.000-07:00

This one was made for friends of ours who love to play games, especially catch phrase. Cake was made summer 2008

Daisy's

2009-06-14T21:59:00.000-07:00

Here is one I made for friend who had a miscarriage. Pathetically sometimes the only thing I can think of is to make a cake. Guess that's what happens when you love making cakes. Cake was made September 2008

Make-up bag

2009-06-14T21:16:00.000-07:00

This is a cake I made for my daughter Zipporah's 6th birthday. The accessory's are plastic toys, everything else is edible. Cake was made August 2008.

Getting started

2009-06-14T20:52:00.000-07:00

Well, a friend suggested I create a blog just for my cakes. I thought it was a great idea. So over time I will be posting my cakes that I have on this computer and will be possibly scanning pictures from before I owned a digital. I do think my skills have improved greatly since I have gotten a digital camera so those might just randomly be put in.

Since I have decided to make cakes on the side for extra money, I am hoping this is a place people can come and see what I can do.