Sunday, February 22, 2009

Welcome!

Welcome to Cakes by Alana! I'll be posting pictures of all of the cakes that I've done so far. If you have any questions about the cakes, please feel free to email me at CakesByAlana@Gmail.com. If you would like to order a cake for your next event, I would be honored to make it. All I need is a picture of whatever item you would like it to look like, your flavor preferences, and a little time. So look around, enjoy, and please let me know if there is anything I can do for you.

Thanks for checking it out!

Alana

Nike Dunk Sb High Lucky 7

This was a strawberry cake with fresh strawberries baked in and a vanilla buttercream filling. Happy birthday, Gene!

Sunday, September 28, 2008

Basketball Court



This is a vanilla cake filled with whipped cream frosting and fresh chopped mango and strawberries. It's covered in fondant and painted to resemble a basketball court. It was made for my friend Mikey's birthday. Happy birthday, Mikey!

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Houston Texans Cake



This is a chocolate fudge cake with almond whipped cream frosting in the shape of Texas with the Houston Texans logo. It was made for my cousin's husband's birthday. Happy birthday, Frank!

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Butterfly Cake



This is a german chocolate cake with coconut pecan filling and covered in fondant. Happy birthday!

Sunday, June 22, 2008

Wedding Cake 2


This is a vanilla cake with cream cheese frosting and fresh strawberries covered in fondant. It was done for Ginger and Oscar's wedding on 8/3/08. Congrats!

Saturday, June 21, 2008

32' Carver




This is a not-quite-accurate replica of a 32' Carver yacht made for my dad's friend Steve Avila. There's a bottle of Tarantula tequila on top. It's a sugar-free carrot cake with sugar-free cream cheese frosting.

50th Anniversary




Congrats to Kimmy's grandparents on 50 years of marriage! This is a lemon-raspberry cake with Chocolate frosting and gold lettering.

Birthday



Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting covered in fondant.

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Baseball Field





This is my brother Jonathan's graduation cake. It's funfetti with vanilla frosting, covered in fondant. I wasn't able to find a left-handed batter, so he became the pitcher. Congratulations, bud!

Sunday, April 6, 2008

500kv Transmission Tower



Another Riverside Public Utilities custom creation. (Happy birthday to Reiko and Kelly!) Confetti cake with vanilla frosting.

Candyland!





These two cakes were made for my cousin Briana's 10th birthday party on 04/05/08. The Candyland board was made of vanilla cake with Bavarian cream filling and fresh strawberries. Real candies were used on the top. The small present was an individual chocolate cake with chocolate cream cheese frosting. The bow is made of fondant.

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Peeps Cake!





I made this one for my mom's birthday/Easter party. The cake is vanilla with butter cream frosting and fresh strawberries. I covered it in tan fondant and created sand with graham cracker crumbs. The shells are made from the fondant and the water is berry blue Jello. Peeps top it off as ducks on the water.

UFC 79





I made this cake on December 29, 2007 for a party held in honor of UFC 79. It was a vanilla cake with strawberry frosting. The cage was made of milk chocolate. George Saint Pierre dominated Matt Hughes that night. It was a great fight!

Thursday, December 20, 2007

Emulex Christmas Cake 12-18-07





This is the Christmas cake I made for my dad's office. The mountains at the rear as well as the house on the right are made of carrot cake with a banana cream cheese frosting. The trees are ice cream cones and royal icing and the penguins and presents are made of fondant. Everything on the board is edible.

Thursday, December 13, 2007

Ukelecake



This is a Ukulele cake that I made for Philip's birthday on August 31, 2007. As you can see in the second picture, it is to scale. The body of the ukulele was made of vanilla cake with cream cheese frosting and fresh mango and strawberry filling. The fret board was made out of fondant. The entire ukulele was edible.

Sheet Music

This cake was made for Philip's birthday celebration with coworkers. The music you see is actual sheet music for the "Happy Birthday" song on piano. The cake was vanilla with cream cheese frosting and fresh strawberry filling.

DDR

I made this cake for my friend Gerard's birthday. It is a Dance Dance Revolution machine with figures of Gerard (as the Pokemon Jigglypuff in pink), my boyfriend Philip (as the Pokemon Pikachu in yellow) and a giant fish on top of the machine. The cake was vanilla with a buttercream frosting and fresh mango filling.

The Barbie

This was the first cake I was hired to make. It was all chocolate.

MPC 1000


This is an MPC 1000 music sampler that was done for my friend Alan's birthday party. It was big enough to feed over 150 people.