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

Daffodil Cake

This is a cake of fondant daffodils for my mom & dad's birthday's.

It turned out super cute.

All of the flowers are hand formed - and took a while to make them.

Everything is edible - except the bow and the toothpicks which act as the center of the flowers.

Very springy cake.

One of my FAVORITES!

Super Mario Bros. Cake

A cake for my nephew's 5th birthday. His birthday theme this year is Mario. I've never played Mario, so ... I got my inspiration from cakes online.

Andy's Safari Birthday

For my son's third birthday - we had a safari theme. I made cupcakes (lions, zebras, elephants and monkeys) for him to bring to preschool and then I made 2 cakes - one was for his actual birthday. The other cake ... I never quite finished. He got the flu, so we had to cancel his birthday party. We did eventually celebrate with the cake ... but, I never actually finished making all the animals to put on the cake. I really loved the cupcakes & they were a BIG hit with the preschoolers! I also LOVED how the lion cake came out ... he was so cute. The cupcakes and lion cake were all buttercream - no fondant, so that made it even more fun. It reminded me of the way my mom used to make all of my birthday cakes.

My other birthday party cake ... with only one animal - a giraffe!

Teddy Bear

Here is the birthday cake that my niece requested - a Teddy Bear.

Happy Birthday Hannah & Todd!