Barbie and Football

I'm at it again, I needed to get creative again and am so glad I've had the chance in the last two weeks, first I made the Barbie cake below for Ruby's 3rd Birthday. Ruby is an easy customer, she loves fondant, gumpaste, and the color pink. She will eat anything with sugar in it as her Mom says. I liked Barbie plain and simple but I'm sure the birthday girl would have loved some more bells and whistles on it. I did write her name across the split in the skirt before it went home but didn't take another picture. Above is Kyle's 8th birthday cake. It was a fun one to make and I hope he likes it!

Baby Rattles

More baby rattle cupcakes. These are so fun to make and so easy! I chose to use the sprinkles and a single pattern because the last time I did these I thought they started to look too Easter'ish. The two on the bottom that are all blue I dropped into the sprinkles so those were for tasting by the hostess' husband and daughter.

Becki's Wedding Cake

I had the opportunity to do a wedding cake again a few weeks ago. I will update the site with it's construction in progress photos soon but here is the final product. Unfortunately I forgot my camera when delivering it so these were from my phone. It was ivory fondant with sparkles and ribbon.

A couple more

Cupcakes for a bachelorette party - the wedding is a on a beach so we kept them basic with the sandy color and the blue matches the bridesmaid's dresses.
Bev's 60th Birthday cake. The color did not show up well on camera but it was very bright and pretty, teal and purple which I wasn't initially excited about but the colors surprised me. It was modeled after the party invite with the polka dots.


Check back soon, I am making Halloween cupcakes as a craft for my MOPS (Mom's) Group and

I have a wedding cake coming up in early November that I'm really excited about!

August was cake month

The month of August was all about cake. The third week in particular as I did three cakes that week and had to turn down three others. I did develop a good system though, it was a great learning experience and I am still learning so much and experimenting with new ideas all the time. Now that I don't have any orders in the pipeline I will have to try to have fun with some new recipes and flavors.

Baptism in blue

This was a Birthday cake for all the grandkids' birthdays, they celebrate together once a year. This was the most challenging cake, nothing wanted to cooperate for me. I finally gave up on making tinkerbell and spiderman and bought the candles. The cell phones, flat screen tv and princess I made out of fondant.

Monkey for a 1st birthday boy complete with his own cake for mess making.
I made the bananna out of fondant

Groom's cake - a tree stump with a little tackle box and fishing pole

this was one of the easiest cakes as all you have to do is splotch the icing on, the messier the better

Spiderman cake for a little boy's birthday. I used cookie icing for spidey right from the grocery store as I have tried and tried to make my cookie icing with different flavors but it has never tasted as good as the store bought version.

Garden Party

My friend Angela's Bridal Shower was a garden party so I thought I'd play with gumpaste and make some flowers. It was fun making the flowers. I haven't done a lot of that yet and I have to say I like the look of these better than buttercream flowers.

Baptism part deux

I was lucky enough to get a second order for this cake. I did change it a little bit from the first one I did. I like having a chance to do the same cake over again, I get to do a better job and tweek things I didn't like the first time.

More bugs and a butterfly

I've been in a lull lately and was itching to make something when I recieved another order for bugs. I was really excited to do these again only bigger and better than before. They turned out really cute and were a big hit for a 15 year old's birthday. Now, I will really have to get better at photographing these. Normally by the time I am done and I am so tired and have to get them boxed up for delivery so the photos are taken in haste.

"baby" birthday cupcakes

These cupcakes were for Reagan's 2nd birthday. She is really into dolls "babies" and cars, I decided to do the baby route instead of a car. I used starbursts for the blankets, mini Nilla Wafers for the heads and a few jelly beans and Teddy Grahams for feet and lovies. I like cupcakes, you can do so many variations and if you goof one up it's so easy to start it over.

Baptism cake

this cake was for a baptism

Cupcakes galore!

Baby rattle cupcakes. These were for a babyshower. I made 60 total and they were almost all gobbled up. I started making other designs as you can see by the one with squiggles but I thought they looked too Easter'ish.

Tigger (wearing a kilt)

I made this cake for a baby shower. I know, it's not a traditional shower cake but little Liam's room is in Pooh and friends and Dad is Irish and thought it would be a funny combo.

Valentine's treats

These are chocolate mini cupcakes with chocolate fudge frosting decorated with sprinkles, candy and melted white chocolate. I placed some in a heart shaped candy box for just a little extra cuteness.

New cake/cupcakes

Piper's 4th Birthday cake - she picked out the star theme 6 months prior, there was no way I could make anything differently

ant cupcakes for Konnor's 5th Birthday

given the chance to do the ants again I would use M&M's for their thorax and melted chocolate for their legs and of course they'd be much bigger as well

Cake Gallery

Here are some of the cakes that I've made

Wedding Shower cake
Fondant rose and gumpaste carnation

Clown cupcake, it tipped over in the car but you get the idea

Wedding cake - not fully decorated with flowers as it was traveling a great distance before set up

This one was very cute but nothing like it was planned, I was originally going to make a 2-dimensional flat cake and shape it into a bulb but I was having fun with the layers and liked it. My husband was insistent on having a topper so I let him design that.

this one was made for class

Piper's 1st Birthday cake - covered with fondant

Reagan's 1st Birthday - Giraffe covered with fondant and painted with food coloring

another class cake , we were just playing with different fondant techniques, this is not a designed cake by any means, the daisies were fun to make and really easy

Wedding shower cake, very elegant

top of the cake, I had actually just learned how to make roses the day before so I was impressed that they resembled roses at all

royal icing butterflies to top a cake

Front of teapot cake - iced with buttercream, fondant flowers, handle and spout - made for a 2nd Birthday

Backside

Spongebob - this was made before I took classes or even considered taking this up as a hobby

another cake for class - just playing with roses

Another class cake - basketweave technique and royal icing flowers

Butterfly cake - another one of my earlier cakes. The butterflies were fun to make. This was Piper's 3rd Birthday cake