Assorted custom cupcakes with deluxe buttercream decorations. Made in Chicago, IL Credit to L&O Photography

Gluten and dairy free chocolate cake with pink and purple ombre rosette decorations. Custom birthday cake made in Chicago, IL Credit to L & O Photography

Blue velvet space themed cake for a 6th birthday!

This cake had hidden planets! This is what it looked like before layering

A view of the hidden planets as the cake was being sliced

My first smash cake! Those rosettes look especially cute on tiny fists. Credit to L&O Photography

Smash cake with the recipient! Credit to L&O Photography

Piped buttercream flower decorations on pink confetti cake

Marbled chocolate and vanilla inside

Playing around with techniques with extra candy melts!

With fondant butterflies! I love making my own birthday cakes.

Shore Cake Supply offered this amazing class taught by Andrea Gorigoitia!

Three tiers with purple ombre.

Final project of the intensive class at Give Me Some Sugar

It's not often that an unusual flavor request is this visible!

Hand piped buttercream and modelling chocolate!

Emily's Sagittarius galaxy birthday cake

Emily's Sagittarius galaxy birthday cake

The culmination of my first lessons in fondant and gum paste

Shaped cakes are not usually my specialty, but I do make exceptions!

My second attempt at anatomical cakes, this RACK-spberry polkadot bikini was a thank you gift to Dr. Sammy Sinno.

The inside was technicolor velvet swirled!

Genoise sponge, jelly filling, topped with marzipan.

Rainbow swirled cupcakes to celebrate Chicago's Pride!

I don't just do cakes! I got to go back to my Scandinavian roots and make some cinnamon rolls for the favors at a wedding.

The most literal of Pardine Pastries, to benefit the incredible Harmony House for Cats

Honey infused with a little sting of lemon

One Fish Two Fish Red Velvet Blue Fish, and Thing 1 and Thing 2 cupcakes

Had so much fun with this Mother's Day order!

Chocolate root beer cupcakes with kahlua cream cheese frosting and a maraschino cherry garnish

Jammie Thumbprint cookies - gluten free and vegan - to accommodate the dietary restrictions of the world's cutest sous chef

My original teacher (mom!) and I took on the daunting task of an enormous gingerbread structure... having never used that medium before.

All the winter goodies I grew up with - fudge, sugar cookies, vanilla kranser, marzipan, and rum balls