...it's always a toss-up between taking a picture with or without flash. The flash presents a glare but the no-flash makes the cake look gray instead of purple. oh wells.. just envision a prettier purple!
This cake was made for my colleague, Frank. He's a huge fan of the Office (best show ever!), hence this cake is modeled after Dwight Schrute's motivational tool: Schrute Bucks. (see Season 3, The Job). He's also from Ghana, hence the references (I was going to make it a Ghanaian cedi rather than a dollar, but a cedi has too many pictures on it to put on a cake!)
I think this is now one of my favorite creations. In addition to being obsessed with Stata, my colleague Matt also happens to love apple. This birthday cake is modeled after the iphone (I say this because some colleagues who I will be kind enough not to name did not know what this was!!!). Some highlights: the maps application is a location in Pittsburgh, where Matt is from. And the "free" section is filled with M&Ms, since Matt has a candy jar that we all tap into every once in a while. I think the rest is relatively self-explanatory in that the apps are things Matt likes.
One of my new colleagues deemed himself 'Stata rockstar,' so a Stata birthday cake it was!
This cake was made for Elizabeth.
One of my colleagues requested my services for her sister's birthday cake. They enjoy going to the beach and they tend to drink Mike's hard lime when they are there. Hence, the beach scene with the limey sun. Yay for a satisfied first customer!!
This cake was made for one of my freqy colleagues. He just got his phd... hence the gown. The end.
This cake was made in appreciation of one of my colleagues, Andrea. Here she's portrayed as the superhero that she is!
This cake was created for my roommate, Michelle. Not only is she obsessed with coffee, but she used to work for Pura Vida Coffee Company. http://www.puravidacoffee.com/ Hence, this cake was created in the style of a bag of Pura Vida Coffee, with a birthday few modifications and 'OR grown' instead of 'shade grown'.
If Alpa were a South Park character, she would sooo look like this. hehe :). 
This plane cake was made for my brother after he got a job working for a company that sells a small computer thinger for recreational aircraft. He loves planes, and now he's learning how to fly them!
What happens when you combine a girl who worked at Disney Land with the Facial Action Coding System? ... a Disney Action Coding System cake
...not just any Ketchup, but Heinz. Michele could be the Heinz spokesperson. She loves it and no other ketchup compares. Naturally, a ketchup cake was the only cake that could be made. (disclaimer: there was no ketchup used in the making of this cake). Embellishments include vanilla and juicy pear jelly beans, red sugar crystals, and melted chocolate chips.
This was inspired by Kelly and the make yourself into a South Park character website: http://spstudio.linda.hosting-friends.de/spstudio.html (a supercool website if you haven't been... I highly recommend it.) This cake features Kelly holding a beer barrel candy in her right hand and a tapeworm in her left. hah
This cake was made for my awesome officemate, Kristi. She is obsessed with Law and Order SVU. She freaked out for this cake. hah.
This cake was made for a colleague of mine, Derrick. He loves the color green, hippos, and he plays a lot of basketball. Interesting candies used in this cake: the ears and teeth are chiclets, the eyes, nose, and large basketball are M&Ms, and the small basketballs are pumpkin shaped candies upsidedown.
If you wanted to combine the British and Barbados flags, this is probably what it would look like. This cake was made for Marnina, one of my friends who studied abroad in both England and Barbados.
This cake was for Steph's birthday. Similar to Carrie, she was also from CA, hence the palm tree. This time we cut the cake out into the shape of a palm tree instead of drawing it on a cake. She also likes monkeys.
