My Cakes - actually one of my first ones :)

These are one of my first master pieces :) I know they are not anything extreme but I thought it would be worth to share them and give some cute ideas.
We made this cake with two little girls I used to babysit. Their mom left a cake box on the table for us to bake a cake for their grandfather's bday... and this is what we did :) She sure didn't expect this one :)

These baskets were our homework for my first Wilton Cake Decorating class... it really is a good way to start :) If you are interested... just go to any Michael's store... the classes are lot of fun...

... and BEARS... who wouldn't love Bear Cakes ? :)

This one was for my little niece in Czech... I usually don't have my tools and idea books, but this is what we came up with :)

Another cake for my family, actually three people, my brother and his daughters celebrating together....

Cake for my niece Petra. She came to visit us here in Canandaigua....

This one was for Marci. She was the manager in a company I used to work for... she was moving from Missouri to FLORIDA... :) I would go in a flash! :)

Cake for my friend Peggy...

... and very simple ideas....

A very special Cake for my mom's 60th B-day

We just returned form our trip in Czech. My mom was celebrating her 60th b-day. We just couldn't miss this chance to be there for her and see the whole family at the same time. While living here in the US, I have missed a lot on all the parties and reunions, so it was a very special visit. Of course, I had to make a special cake for my mom. I didn't know exactly what and how it will turn out until I a made the base and dress up the Doll in a fondant dress. Well, I was motivated by a very old photo of my mom, holding me and my sister. She was gorgeous, skinny and with the longest legs. :-) Now, all of her kids are gone, but she has two tiny dogs, so I thought I would try to make a cake with a doll looking like my mom 36 years ago (just like on the old photo), but with two dogs instead of us. :-) I was also getting rid of this beautiful decorative shopping cart. I loved it but the boys wanted to play with it and got hurt every time they did. So, here is what we came up with. My MOM, shopping for her big b-day party, having her two dogs along. She is also dressed in similar cloths she is wearing on her photo. Actually, It was even closer, but right before the party, I jumped in the shower and since no one was watching my boys, Lucas took the doll and ate half of her clothing, including a button on the skirt and her necklace. We were running late already, so there was only enough time and Fondant for a quick touch ups and cover ups. The scarf covered torn sleeves and the second button was added in Photoshop :-) I cried a little but everything ended up just fine! The cake had a success and no one would ever tell there was something wrong :-) Enjoy!

The doll's dress disappeared in few seconds. Everyone was so eager to taste the skirt! :-) All the guests jumped on the cake like bee's on a sunflower. It was sooo cute! And the cake was sooooo yummy!

These cakes weren't for my mom's party, but were also made for a very special occasion:
MORE SPECIAL WEDDING CAKES:

I do have few more older cakes I would like to add too. I did few wedding cakes. mostly dolls, and two of them were for my own wedding :-) How funny! I just love making cakes for fun...

This one was for our Wedding reception in Czech Republic.

... and this one for our reception in New York.

I used to work with a girl in Missouri who was getting married. I asked her to describe her dress and this is what I came up with .... what do you think? :-)


...cake for a wedding shower, one large and four small umbrellas.


The dress, flowers and accessories were the exact replica of her Wedding Look.

Soooooooo so cute!

Here is few really cute cakes. The little angles were made for my husband's 41st Birthday from his two son's, each being one of the angels. The heads are really edible. I made them out of candy melts, after I created a mold with a special molding gel and a real, Anne Geddes doll. It really turned out cute..... kinda freaky though :-)

Yep, we really eat it! :-)


This one was made for my friend Katya, and her B-Day....



The little man on this cake is Conner. I made this cake for his Christening.

Finaly, this one I made for a baby shower.... who's? MINE! :-) Very unusual but I really wanted to make this cake and had to find a good ocasion :-)

Iveta's Sporty Cakes

Spring is finally coming and all the sports are starting as well. Here is few sporty cakes I made in the past.... I really wish I had more time to make more fun cakes. One at the time.... :-)

My Round Cakes

Here are some very simple round cakes. Most of the decorations are made out of sugar and watter with food coloring. It is made on a wax paper and piping the edges with thicker paste and filled in with the thinner paste. Let me know if you would like a recipe! It's very simple! You can premake them and store them for years! They are edible.
This is my very first cake with the roses ;-) can you tell?


I made this Eeyore cake for Jesse to bring to school for his 4th B-day. He was so proud of this one, because he helped me to make it...

YOUR Cakes - Tammy's BOOs

My friend Tammy, from Arizona made these cakes for this year's Halloween. They have this wonderful custom to BOO their neighbors for Halloween. For those who don't know this, every year in their neighborhood they go around and boo people by leaving a treat on their door step. They are fantastic Tammy! I love them and I am so excited you let me share them with others! Thank you! I hope you will send some more!



This is Tammy and her beautiful family...

YOUR Cakes - Vladka's Cakes

This cake is sooooo funny! It's called Mole's Cake and they are really selling this cake in the box in Czech. :-) My sister in law, Vladka made this cake. Thanks for sharing! Love it! :-)

I just got another wonderful cake from Vladka. Lots of M&Ms and look! How cute! :-)

She made this cake for her daughter, Kristynka.

YOUR Cakes - Liduska's colorful cakes

This is my mom and her creative soul :-) She loves everything very busy and colorful. Let's see.... This is a bear shaped cakes decorated with any star tip. She put marshmallow sticks around the base of the cake :-) Cute!

I really liked this cake. The frosting was fantastic and so was the cake. Can you tell? :-) This is my sister and me trying really hard to finish the last piece...

YOUR Cakes - Monika's Fruit Cakes

This is Monika, my sister:

... and these are her masterpieces. She just purchased the cake base and filled in with fresh fruit (peaches) and poured jello over it. It is up to you if you would like to put some frosting on the bottom.

YOUR Cakes - Send Us Yours!

I always wanted to start a chat room with cakes. It is so nice to have someone to help or advise on making cool cakes. I was hoping to get as many poeple as possible to join my blog, so that we can ALL share and help each other. So, please, start emailing your master pieces to me so that we can give ideas to others. Can you join us? I will call this section YOUR Cakes and whenever someone sends a cake that isn't made by Iveta, I will add YOUR Cakes in the title. If you can, just add few short instructions how you made it and let's start something fun! Send this link to as many friends as you can, so that we can start sharing! If you have questions on how to make Any of these cakes, either Iveta's Cakes or YOUR Cakes, feel free to email or leave a comment!
Email your photos and short description to iveta@lakeviewphotography.com. I will publish your cakes shortly after I receive your email. Don't forget to add a picture of yourself, either with or without your cake!

Caterpillar Cake

This is a Caterpillar Cake made for my little niece, Verunka and her 1st birthday.

I can't believe we didn't get a picture of Veronika with her cake! We sure did get some other shots... this is my sister and myself... eating the cake!

.... poor Caterpillar .... faceless cake :-) It sure was yummy!

Naughty cakes ;-)

I had a very hard day today, and I find the blogging somehow relaxing. So I decided to post few new cakes. I mean .... old cakes .... I made these few years back, and you will know shortly who they belonged to: This big-chested cake was made for my friend's boyfriend.


I made another chested cake for my older brother Pavel. He hates his picture taken but he knew he wouldn't get away with this one :-)! He was soooo embarrassed! :-)


I didn't make this Cigarette cake. My mom did. She caught my 15-yr old brother smoking and this was her way to tell him, if Cigarettes, then only Cake ones! :-) It was so funny! :-)


And this is my younger brother ... blowing his candles on his cigarette cake.

Barbies in style

Here is another addition to my cake diary. Looking at all the cakes I have done, I might be able to separate them into sections. These barbies are one of my first pieces. They are really cute for little girls, but since I have two boys, most of my cakes are for boys. That's why the girly ones are somehow special ;-)
This orange barbie was for my little niece, Kristynka


The purple barbie was a gift for my good friend Dana from Missouri


... and this is Dana with son Izac


The next two barbies were a special order for my friends, again in Missouri. The pink one was a gift for a niece.


This blue cake was made as a joke for my girlfriend's son for his 22nd b-day.

Yummy egg breakfast

How about breakfast to bed? :-) I love getting up to the smell of fresh fried egg and bacon sandwiches... Doesn't happen every day, but ones in a while, my husband and kids surprise mommy and make a breakfast to bed for me. I don't think this cake is the right kind of breakfast you want to get up to. I made this cake one day after watching the Food Network channel... they made a fried egg cake with yolk running out after the first cut. I had to try this! I made my own eggnog and poured it in a cavity inside the cake. It was fantastic! Honestly, the bacon is also edible, but took a lot longer to make than the whole cake!

Pumpkin

It is Halloween today and everywhere I look, I see pumpkins! I actually did make one pumpkin cake before, along with a candy melt candle... It was such a fun cake!