Navy Day 2015 - composite boat cakes

For Navy Day we raced in a Fairmount/Vesper composite women's 2x so I made each club a cake with the victory mug on it.  The Vesper cake was vanilla and FRA was chocolate, both had vanilla icing.  The mugs were freehanded using piping tools and a toothpick as a paintbrush.

Our awesome composite boat!!

Vesper cake with a champion mug!

Sports Bra Injury

Over the summer I got a stress fracture on my rib.  The first doctor I visited did not look at the injury and diagnosed it as a "pinched nerve from a sports bra".  After another week and 2 1k races in a day, I went to see a sports medicine doctor who diagnosed me with a stress fracture on my rib.  I still like to joke that the injury was due to a sports bra ;-)

Sports bra was free-handed with icing.  Most people thought it was a pink pretzel!

Boathouse Wedding Cake

I made a wedding cake for my friends who were getting married at Fairmount Boathouse.

The bottom layer was vanilla lemon pound cake with a white chocolate grapefruit ganache filling and the middle and top layers were chocolate pound cake with chocolate raspberry ganache. There was a white chocolate ganache exterior on all of the layers.

Baby on Board

For the Schuylkill Navy Regatta, the bow of our women's 4x was 32 weeks pregnant.  To honor this, i made a vanilla cake with chocolate sour cream frosting documenting our "5 person quad".

Decorating process:

I sketched out the silhouettes with a toothpick and then filled in the frosting with a toothpick like a paintbrush.

For our newest fan I knit this FRA letterman jacket:

Flipped boat

One morning in May I flipped my single while on the race course so I ended up in the Schuylkill.  To commemorate the moment, I made this cake.  Note the duckling sprinkles swimming in the water.  I have not flipped since this!

Oar painting cake

To encourage participation the FRA oar painting afternoon, I made a cake for the volunteers:

Gingerbread boathouse row

For the holiday season I created all of the houses on boathouse row out of gram crackers, candy and nuts. It was featured on row2k!  http://www.row2k.com/potd/12-20-2014/Gingerbread-Boathouse-Row/2706/#.Vi2YyLTtJUQ

Construction of FRA (#2 Kelly Drive):

Boathouse row surrounded by holiday desserts: