DirtBike

For my son's 4th birthday - I made not one ... but 2 dirtbike cakes!

One for our family party & one for his friend's birthday party the following day.

Good thing it wasn't a difficult cake.

He LOVED it and so did our family and his friends.

Cupcakes

I made cupcakes for a friends birthday tonight.

She is doing a multi-colored theme ... so that is what the cupcakes are.

Didn't want just totally plain colors - so added a little different textures to each one.

They turned out simple - and cute!

Peacock's

I made peacock themed cupcakes and a small cake for a baby shower that a friend hosted. The cupcakes were SO cute! Red Velvet with Cream Cheese frosting & vanilla buttercream to decorate. She said everyone said how YUMMY they were and cute too.

She put peacock feathers onto the top of the cake. Wish I had a picture ... but, I don't! Maybe soon?

16th Birthday

For my nephew's 16th birthday - I made him a car cake. His favorite/dream car is the 2010 Camaro, so - I made it to resemble that. Of course in his favorite color! Turned out cute.

Tink Cake

A 2nd birthday cake for Marissa.
Her party is a Tinkerbell theme - so I made Pixie Hollow!

I did a regular cake & also a matching mini cake for the birthday girl.

The fairies are little toys - not edible, but cute!

Swimming Fish Birthday

A birthday cake for my niece! She turned 7 and had a swimming/fish party. She just moved across the US - so wanted to make her an extra special cake!

Bridal Shower Cake #2

Another bridal shower cake. This one for my future sister-in-law, Emily. This was a themed shower - 27 dresses. So, I made the cakes ... what else - dresses! One was marble and the other strawberry. The pink skirt one, I wasn't sure if it was going to make it to the shower. When it baked, it baked hollow inside. So, it didn't have a very good structure. It cracked & eventually during the shower - the back part of it came tumbling off. It looked cute while it lasted!

Candyland Birthday

For my daughter's 2nd birthday - we had a Candyland themed party. I saw so many inspiration cakes with a replica of the candyland game board ... but, they just weren't cute enough! So - I thought this idea was definately cute enough for my little 2 year old. Once the cake was covered in fondant - it was actually really easy to do. Most of the cake was candy and buttercream. Just lots of little details. It was all worth it when Sam woke up in the morning and saw her cake. Her eyes got huge and she said "WOW - Pretty Cake" and then of course "MY cake". Too cute! With all the candy we had at the party, we could have skipped cake all together...but, what's a birthday without cake!

I represented a few of the different "lands" of Candyland : I have no idea what these places are really called?? King Castle (with ice cream cones), Lollipop Land (with lollipops and jelly bean grass), Peppermint Land (with what else - peppermints), Gumdrop land (with dots and the tree).

My birthday girl with her cake.

The lollipop side of the cake.

The peppermint side of the cake. I wanted to put candy canes ... but couldn't find any & was too lazy to make them out of fondant.

Blowing out the candles!

Bridal Shower

I did a purple & white bridal shower cake with polka dots and three colors of buttercream flowers. The bottom layer was: strawberry and vanilla with vanilla frosting and the top layer was white cake with lemon buttercream frosting. Both were yummy. I got lots of wonderful comments too!

Like...

This is the best cake I've ever had.

This cake is SO pretty.

The cutest bridal shower cake I've ever seen.

I love the cake.

WOW! Did you actually make that.

So, needless to say - even though I'm my toughest critic and could see all the flaws and imperfections ... everyone else thought it was wonderful! I did writing all the way around the bottom layer that said "Congratulations Cassie".

The Bride to Be with her cake!

Cowgirl Cake

A cake for my friend Rachel's 30th birthday hoedown/moving to Texas party. Had SO much to do this weekend, so didn't get to spend a lot of time on the cake - but still turned out cute. I used my new bake even strips ... love them! The cake stayed super extra moist and was so evenly baked. I didn't want to make frosting, so I just used the chocolate I had for writing. I wanted to do pink though.

Cake Class

Terrible picture ... took it with my camera phone (which obviously is not great). This is the cake that I made in the final class of my cake decorating course. I did it all white - roses, peonies, scallop border. It doesn't look that great in the picture, but my husband said "It looks like a wedding cake".

I might take another class in a few months to learn how to do more fondant flowers.

On the Farm.

A tractor cake!

I made this for a cake decorating class that I am taking. It is learning basic's & this week was practicing stars. I chose the tractor - because my son's preschool is learning about farms. I didn't want a cake sitting around my house, so thought I'd tie the theme in with school & bring it there for the kids to enjoy. His class is the raccoons & looking at the picture, I just realized I forgot an "O". Guess I am tired!

Roses

I have finally gotten around to taking a basics cake decorating course to learn for to work with icing. In our class we will be learning lots of things - including roses ... .I was just too impatient to wait, so I gave it a go for my mother-in-laws birthday cake. My first roses turned out really good. The cake was not bad either. A new recipe ... for "inside-out pineapple lemon cake".

Spring Cookies

It spring & for dessert on Easter - instead of a real/big dessert (after we all ate too much anyways), I made sugar cookies. It was a three day process.

Thursday - Andy & I mixed the dough

Friday - my mom, niece & Andy rolled out the dough, cut the shapes & baked them

Saturday - I frosted & decorated all the cookies

They are really cute, but not cute enough to not eat. They tasted as good as they look.

A Panda Cake .. A Panda Cake

I made a Panda cake for Kasey's 1st birthday. My first official paid job, which is exciting. I originally wanted to do something a bit different - but, this is what my customer wanted. It turned out cute.

Kasey on her birthday