On the fly!

I was visiting my sister-in-law and it happened to be my nephews birthday.  He was having a "fiesta birthday party".  So of course he needed a Sombrero Cake!  Or a Mexico Hat as my niece called it.  :-)  I was not at home, where I had the perfect pans for this cake, so I had to get creative.  I think it turned out pretty well for being out of my element.  At the birthday boys request, this cake was a lemon cake with lemon butter cream and covered in fondant.  I considered adding a little chili pepper powder to the fondant chili's but in the end decided not to.

Happy Birthday Dallin!  Thank you for letting me make your cake!  Love you.

August, 2010

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A Mile Stone!

This cake marks a major mile stone for me!  One year ago I was paid for my first cake!  Last year this little cuttie turned 4 and wanted a flip flop cake.  This year she is 5 and it's all about Hello Kitty!!

The top tier is cherry chip cake with cherry frosting.  The bottom tier is strawberry and white cake, checkerbord pattern, with strawberry frosting.  Strawberry Nerds filled the boarder very well.  Hello Kitty is all MM fondant.  She really looks like she is falling over but truely she was not.  Her head is tilted a bit but that was intentional.  I could not get her wiskers to stand up to save my life, so they ended up pressed aginst her face, still cute though. 

June 15, 2010

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Monsters Inc.

My boys turned 3 this weekend! WOW! They wanted a "SulleyMazowski" cake. So I let them pick out the flavors. Sully was a 4 layer dark chocolate fudge cake covered in cream cheese frosting, a skill I am still perfecting. Mike Wazwoski was a lemon cake covered in marshmallow fondant.

I love it when I get to eat a peice after all that work!

May 16, 2010

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Oldies but Goodies

Being as I am on a self-appointed "cake hiatus" and am not planning on returning until the twins' 3rd birthday, I thought this may be a good time to post a few of the cakes I made in the past... before the blog.

The Pooh Bear cake was for Kendra's 1st birthday.  Gotta go chocolate all the way...makes for better "first time cake" pictures. :-) Raspberries around the edge, her personal fav at the time!

This was a Birthday cake for my Grandma a few years back. It was a spice cake with pumpkin pie ice cream in the middle, a cream cheese/butter cream frosting and dark chocolate cut outs.  It also had some gingersnaps crumbled around the edges.  This would have been a VERY yummy cake, however it was my first attempt at an ice cream filling and I didn't give it long enough to set up.  It made a real mess when it was cut in to!  But it was pretty before.

The Lady Bug cake was for Kendra's 2nd birthday. She had a fun party with all her little friends and was also a lady bug for Halloween that year.

I think part of me wanted to have kids so I could make birthday cakes and Halloween costumes! :-) This was the first year Kendra had 2 birthday cakes.  (that has almost become a tradition now)  The Princess castle was for her "friend" birthday party.  I was a mess that day as I had 5 month old twins at the time!!   But that didn't mean Kendra didn't deserve a rockin party (insert my BFF to the rescue) ~ maybe she was even more deserving that year as I had just turned her world upside down by bring two new babies into it.  It's possible the TWO cakes was my way of compensating?  The second, crayon box, cake was funny, because I have pictures of me decorating that with a baby on my hip!  Both were fun to make.  I had no idea I would taking cake decorating so seriously 2 1/2 years later!  Good times!

A Return Customer!

A while back I did a Coach Purse cake for a friend of my Mom.  Well he called again and asked for another cake.  This time it was for his wife's baby shower.  He gave me the invitation as inspiration and $150.00 budget.  Although that was a bit much for a cake for 25 people, it gave me freedom and I think it turned out great!  This cake may even be my favorite cake I have ever made.

This was a French vanilla cake with strawberry filling & bit of a bonus.  Instead of just the strawberry filling I usually do, I added REAL strawberries this time with a touch of brown sugar sprinkled on top of them.  It had a cream cheese/butter cream frosting and a little fondant.  The larger peas were a little challenging.  I tried to make them out of cake but that didn't work.  So I tried strawberry ice cream.  That didn't work very well either.  So I had seen this done before (but never really liked the idea) and really it was my last chance, so I made them out of rice cereal.  I don't think I will be using this very often, but it was necessary for this cake and it worked fairly well.  Then my favorites new trick (I learned for the wedding cake, last week) I covered it with luster dust!  What an awesome trick to cover flaws and make it sparkle.  And who doesn't like sparkle? 

February  27, 2010

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Blue and Gold Scout Cakes

A friend called and asked if I could help her makes some cakes for the Cub Scouts Blue and Gold dinner.  Since I had WAY OVER LOADED myself this month, I said yes but only if she could do all the leg work for me.  I didn't know I was going to get the flu the day before I was to start baking.  I did get healthy fast but even just the baking and decorating was still a challenge having just done the HUGE wedding cake.  Not to mention this was only one of 6 jobs I was doing in less than four weeks. (that is a lot for a fulltime Momma of 3)  I will NOT be doing that to myself again!!  The Cub Scouts liked them and in the end, that made all the stress worth it.  It was a special Blue and Gold to me as my nephew was getting his arrow of light that night.  This was a large order for about 80+ people.  It was 3 11x11x2 inch chocolate cakes, one for each badge, Wolf, Bear and Webelos.  Then a golden vanilla 1/2 sheet decorated as a scouting shirt and a hat added at the last minute to make sure we had enough cake.  Each cake is covered in chocolate butter cream and then with marshmallow fondant and I used food coloring markers to write the words and draw the faces of the bear and wolf badges and several things on the scout shirt too. 
A HUGE thanks goes to my sister-in-law for this one! I could NOT have done this without her!!! Love ya Jules.

February 25, 2010

Give the gift of flowers to someone you LoVe!

This is my quick happy birthday gift.  It can be made is any flavor but my fav is the chocolate with fudge.  The white flowrer cake was a white cake with strawberry filling (by request).  The others were a dark chocolate cake with a fudge filling.  The card gives instructions to revome the flowers and place upside down on a microvable plate.  After heating, it kind of becomes a lava cake!  Yummy!  You can even eat the fondant flowers (that I am still perfecting).  It can also be filled with icecream!  $25.00

Purses 1 & 2

In an effort to try and get all the past cakes I have done on this blog I am combining a few.  These are both purses.  They are totally different events and times.

Purse #1

A while back this guy that works with my Mom needed a cake made that  described his new wife.  She is a Mom of many but still like classy things.  He wanted a "Coach" purse with "Mom" things falling out of it. Well me not being a very "classy Mom" I had no idea what a Coach purse was, so I had to do a little research. Then I just thought of what falls out of my own purse as a Mom of many!  The cake was a white cake with strawberry filling (as requested) with mostly butter cream frosting.  Each of the C's (that partially define a coach purse) are painstakingly hand painted on with butter cream frosting. The phone, lip stick, crayons, pacifier and fish crackers are all made from fondant, as well as the "COACH" tag and pure handle. This was definitely the beginnings of my fondant work. Oh what a door that opened for me!

This was only the 2nd cake I was paid for and still very unsure what to charge for it. I think Mark did the math for me & I made something like less than a dollar an hour for all the time I put into it.  But that didn't matter to me at the time.  I just had so much fun doing it!!  He recently called me back and ordered a baby shower cake (and gave me a MUCH larger budget).  Keep checking the blog to see that one at the end of February.

September 2009

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Purse #2

This cake was more recent and was for a VERY good friend of mine. It was her baby shower and the cakes were intended to look like the invitation. These were all chocolate cake with chocolate butter cream under that pink and green fondant. These were SOOO YuMmY!!! I hope all the cakes I have made for people taste like this one did! Again there was a lot of learning done on this cake but I still liked how they turned out. I cant wait to hold that baby!!

February 2010

Kendra's 5th Birthday

When my baby girl turned 5, I cried!  Ok not really but it did make me sad to see her hold up all five fingers when asked how old she was.  We do birthday up big around here so she was able to have 2 parties, one bubble gum party with 5 of her little friends and the other a Care Bear party with of our family. 

Both are white cakes, tinted light purple and pink and covered in butter cream frosting.  However the gumballs are fondant.  The cup cakes around the Care Bear are heart shapes an decorated by the birthday girl herself with a little help from her brothers.

October 21, 2009

Hamburger or Cheesburger?

We had a few bar-B-ques to go to last summer.  I did a Hamburger for the first one and it was such a hit.  But Mark said he wished it had some cheese on it.  So I did a Cheeseburger for the second.  Both came with a small order of fries and a side of ketchup.
The buns are yellow cake and the meat is chocolate cake.  They are covered in butter cream and have real sesame seeds on top.  The lettuce, tomatoes, pickles and cheese are rolled out and flattened large gum drops, as well as the fries.  The ketchup and mustard is just butter cream frosting.  This was all in fun!

September 2009

Nerf

This was for a friend of mine, well actually for her 10 year old son's Nerf birthday party.  I really had fun with this one!  She brought me the toy gun and it sat around for a few days while I thinking of how to do this cake.  My boys thought it was the coolest toy ever, because we have nothing even remotely gun related in this house.  The bullets are made of fondant and totally edible. The cakes are done in butter cream.  The gun is chocolate cake and the target is a white cake, colored to match the patter of the icing. (does that make sense?)  When you cut into it, it was 3 different colors.  I had fun with this cake.

November 2009

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Soccer Ball

This cake was for Kendra's first end of season soccer party. It was an ice cream cakes with fondant, and the grass was tinted cocoanut.

June 2009