Welcome to Custom Cakes!

My name is Autumn Castillo and I am a self-taught cake designer. I have been creating custom cakes for 2 years now and it is truly a passion of mine. I enjoy the challenge of creating cakes that are stunningly beautiful and taste fabulous!

I would love to design your dream cake for any occasion. Special occasions deserve special cakes!

Take a look at my portfolio of cakes and contact me today to start planning your unforgettable masterpiece!

PLEASE SUBMIT REQUESTS FOR QUOTES AT LEAST 2 WEEKS IN ADVANCE.

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I am a self-taught cake designer. I have taught 8th grade math for 5 years in Arizona. My son is a year old and is the greatest joy of my life. I find immense joy in baking and designing cakes that are not only beautiful, but taste amazing! I am dedicated to making the cake the centerpiece of the party that will never be forgotten!

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Thursday, July 29, 2010

Sunny Days....


Ernie holding his rubber ducky by the lamp post. Elmo is sitting on top of the cake.



Big Bird



Cookie Monster and his cookies! Yum Yum Yum Yum




This Sesame Street themed cake was chocolate cake on the bottom tier with a cream cheese whipped cream filling. The top tier was a banana pecan cake with banana meringue filling with fresh bananas, pecans and a caramel drizzle as the filling. The cake is iced in vanilla swiss meringue buttercream. All figures are handmade out of fondant. Too cute!!

Monday, July 19, 2010

Cake pops




A friend of mine emailed me a new website about cake pops (Bakerella.com). Seeing how adorable they looked, I had to give them a try. All of my taste testers :) say they are absolutely wonderful! They are very sweet: cake and icing mixed together and then dipped in melted chocolate. The second picture are just some truffles I did with the same batch. Super cute!!

School Spirit!


This strawberry cake is made from fresh strawberries and is filled with cream cheese filling and heavenly chocolate buttercream. It is covered in buttercream icing and decorated with fondant stars and polka dots. The top logo (WV) is of the high school the client attends. The cheerleader is handsculpted from gumpaste.

Its a Jungle!





This cake was made for my son's first birthday. The top tier is strawberry cake with homemade cream cheese filling. The bottom tier is chocolate cake with white chocolate mousse filling. The cake is covered in fondant. I hand-sculpted each figure from gumpaste as well as the tree (with help from my amazing husband). The grass is buttercream icing around the animals. The cupcakes had fondant animal faces on top of buttercream icing and strawberry and white almond cake.

Le Bebe~






















This 2 tier Paris themed baby shower cake is red velvet cake with homemade cream cheese filling in the top tier. The bottom tier is chocolate cake with strawberry filling. The cake is covered in buttecream with a damask black royal icing pattern on the bottom. The top tier features edible miniature roses, crystals and feathers.

Ooh la la!



This bachelorette cake is white almond sour cream cake with buttercream filling. The cake is covered in fondant and has a damask black royal icing pattern as the bottom part of the box. The top of the cake has fondant tissue paper with a hand sculpted lavender bra with black lace.




Cute in Black and Pink!


This cake is marble cake with buttercream filling. It is covered in fondant with fondant polka dots and fondant fabric roses.

LV




This Louis Vuitton purse and wallet are chocolate cake with buttercream filling and heavenly chocolate buttercream filling. The cake is covered in chocolate fondant. The LV decals are handpainted in gold luster dust. All details on cake are made of fondant.


Sleep Little Baby



This 2 tier pillow cake was red velvet cake with homemade cream cheese filling. The cake is covered in fondant. The hand-sculpted figures are also made of fondant.






Garden Party




This garden party birthday cake is white almond cake with buttecream filling. The cake is covered in yellow buttercream icing and decorated with hand-sculpted fondant flowers and butterflies.

Sports Birthday

This cute 2 tier cake is covered in buttercream icing with fondant accents. All sports items are hand-sculpted of fondant. The baseball hat is cake covered in fondant.













Baby Tree


This unique 2 tier cake features a letter block with the baby's initials as the top tier. The bear, chest and tree are exact replicas from the baby shower invitation. The cakes are covered in ivory buttercream with fondant accents from the baby shower invitation.

Graduation Hollywood Style!




This cake was designed for my students' 8th grade promotion. The film reels are marble cake covered in fondant. The main cake is chocolate cake with buttercream filling. All accents are handmade of fondant and edible (except for trophy).

Cow cake

This adorable 2 tier cow cake is marble cake with heavenly chocolate buttercream filling. The cake is covered in fondant and adorned with handscuplted cows, baby and accents. All accents are edible.








Rock on Graduate!


This sculpted cake was an exact replica of the graduate's own guitar. The neck of the guitar is rice krispies treats covered in fondant. The body of the guitar is red buttercream icing with fondant accents. All parts of this cake are edible.

Whirly Pop Birthday!




This 2 tier cake was so colorful and a blast to make!!
The cake is covered in fondant with fondant polka dots. Each lollipop is handmade of fondant and painted with a pearl glaze. The ribbon curls are also made of fondant.

5 Alarm Fire

This 2 tier cake was chocolate marble cake with fresh raspberry filling with a raspberry glaze.
It is covered in buttercream icing with edible fondant accents.
This cake was made for a graduation of a firefighter/EMT.
This fire helmet is a chocolate marble cake covered in fondant with actual Phoenix Fire Department logos and the graduate's last name.




















Divine Wedding






This wedding cake was three tiers of chocolate marble cake with white chocolate mousse filling and heavenly chocolate buttercream filling. The cake is covered in ivory buttercream with fondant accents and red royal icing jewels. The cake is adorned with fresh red roses, a monogram letter and crystal accents.
The design was provided by the bride.
These are two wonderful friends of mine in whom I had the honor of making this cake for.

Anniversary Cake

Miniature wedding cake with old fashioned buttercream piping. Both tiers chocolate cake with white chocolate buttercream and heavenly chocolate buttercream. Topped with fresh roses and crystal accents.

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Monogrammed Cupcakes

These cupcakes were chocolate chip sour cream cake with buttercream icing. Each set of 3 cupcakes were monogrammed with the couples initials and placed in individual boxes.

Hawaiian Birthday


This hawaiian 50th birthday cake is covered with fondant and decorated with handsculpted and painted tropical flowers and leaves. The bottom tier was chocolate cake with hazelnut filling. The top tier is white almond sour cream cake with buttercream.

Anniversary

This 40th anniversary cake was covered in fondant with quilting around the bottom tier, scrolling on the second tier and swiss dots on the top tier. The bottom tier was chocolate cake with chocolate raspberry mousse filling. The second tier was lemon cake with lemon filling. The top tier was white cake with vanilla filling.













Under the Sea


This 3 tier birthday cake was for twins' first birthday and was covered in blue buttercream and many handsculpted fondant sea creatures and fish. The cake flavors were strawberry, chocolate and vanilla with buttecream filling.

Stars

The Stars cake were four cakes all covered in fondant with a quilting pattern around each cake with silver fondant stars and hand painted stars with each girls' name on a star with rhinestones. A tiara topped the 2 tier cake. The cakes were chocolate and white almond cake with buttercream filling.

Blushing Bride





This bridal shower cake was a white almond sour cream cake with strawberry buttercream filling. It was covered in fondant with a quilting pattern and dots around the cake. a handscuplted (1/2 cake and fondant) bridal gown adorned the top of the cake with a bouquet of roses and petals sprinkled around.

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