Yellow Wedding and a Cowboy Birthday

Big weekend! First up, my friend Jon got married yesterday... his fiancee's grandmother makes cakes but she has been in poor health so they asked me to make the cake. The bride, Chelsea, is VERY easygoing-- not a Bridezilla at all! She had no real requirements or even guidelines- I love brides like that! :)
Their invitations were black and yellow, simple but trendy. I tried to pull some of the details of the invites into the cake but the best part was the "I DO" button I put on the second tier. Each tier of the cake was a different flavor: white with buttercream filling, chocolate with chocolate fudge filling, butter pecan with cream cheese filling and strawberry with cream cheese filling.
The second cake this weekend was for my friend Katie's little girl Kaia. Katie is an amazing scrapbooker-- she makes a lot of the cake toppers that I put on some of my more elaborate cakes. Kaia had a rodeo-themed party so we went with a denim and bandanna print design for her cake.

Happy Birthday Maddie!

Baby Maddie gets her very own post!

Maddie turned 1 on July 1. While I made a shower cake for her impending arrival MORE than a year ago, this is the first cake I got to make specifically for Maddie. Her mom gave me no guidelines-- I got to make whatever I wanted! I did my best to make Maddie a HUGE-mongous cake that would still look like the partyware her mom bought.

Here is Maddie's cake:


Here is Maddie discovering what the button on the grip of her new Power Wheels is for:


Here is Maddie enjoying her "smash" cake:


She was so funny! Her Aunt Jess stuck her finger in the icing to taste it and Maddie got mad and waved her away-- every time someone else got close to her cake she tried to swipe at them!

Catch Up!

Independence Day

I donated a "cake certificate" to an auction for CMN and when redeeming it, the client requested a Fourth of July cake. I had an idea that I always wanted to try but not too many people order Independence Day Cakes! And when they do, they are pretty set on what they want. This client gave me carte blanche...

This is what she got:


Looks like a pretty basic cake, right? Uncle Sam's Star-Spangled Hat? Simple and appropriate I thought.

But, of course, I couldn't make just a SIMPLE cake. Here's the cake after it was cut:


It was six layers of red velvet cake layered with white buttercream icing. I took the core out of the top few layers of the cake and dropped two layers of blue cake in the center.

Catch-Up

I am in the middle of a "cake-break"... but I can't quit cold turkey!

Cakes from the Past

I haven't made a cake in over a week! Its a nice vacation... but I bought hubby and iPad for his birthday last week so I have been looking through his old pictures on it. I came across several cake pictures that I didn't have posted so I thought I would share!

Books and Basketballs

I had two "projects" last night which is unusual for me on a weeknight unless I am getting ready for an auction.

The first thing I made was a kindergarten graduation cake for a little boy. His father asked me to make something different but not babyish so I made a stack of books.

The second thing was cupcakes... inspired by the baseball cupcakes on Sunday, a friend asked me to make basketball cupcakes for his fiancee.

This Weekend

I was busy this weekend! I started with two cakes for a friend's daughters. They celebrate their birthday within the same month so Dad decided to allow them each to invite 4 friends for a hotel slumber party. I tied their favorite colors into cakes that featured the images of their friends too!
Saturday was cupcake day! The first batch was for a little girl and her friends celebrating at a garden party-- they planted seeds and made hats so I made flowerpot cupcakes with dirt and worms topped with sugar cookie "flowers"!
The second batch was for a little girl celebrating her fourth birthday at a local bookstore with a reading of the book Pinkalicious. Apparently, the little girl turns pink from eating too many pink cupcakes-- I hope this doesn't happen to my clients or I'll be out of business! I duplicated the cupcakes from the book.
The final cupcake event of the day was for a wedding shower. I used beautiful cupcake wrappers created by my fabulous scrapbooking friend Katie! The flavors were strawberry with cream cheese icing, red velvet with cream cheese icing, double chocolate with fudge buttercream icing, chocolate peanut butter, chocolate mocha and chocolate mint.
Sunday brought one last effort: a baseball themed party! I made a nearly-life-sized bat and baseball cupcakes.

Final Catch-up Post

Catch Up Part 2

Playing Catch-Up AGAIN!

Catch up...again!

I've made several cakes over the last few weeks... now I need to get them posted to share with all of you.
Pink and zebra... always a big hit!


Alli got a big award in school but her dad couldn't make it to the award ceremony... so we planned a special cake for her!


Ravin wanted the Jonas Brothers (who doesn't?) so we made this tie cake with photos of the Jonas Brothers in star frames around the cake.

My favorite over the last few weeks has to be the Rock Band cake for Lincoln's first birthday... when his dad first came to me with the design request, I wasn't sure I could pull it off but with some help from a lady at Signed Sealed Delivered with the topper, I pulled off a pretty good cake!

Finish to the Weekend

Only a few things to make this weekend...

The first was a gift cake for Emily.
The second was cupcakes for a baby shower: Sam is the first baby for my friends Jason and Katie. They had a boy/girl shower this weekend-- DH and I were unable to attend due to the fact that he had a cold but we dropped the cupcakes off at the party.

The Start of a Big Weekend...

Last night I made two cakes and about a million cupcakes-- or so it seemed at the time!
First up was Peace Sign cupcakes for Ashley... Ashley is my friend Christina's daughter. She was very specific about what she wanted. When she and her mother came to pick them up last night, I realized to what extent the child is OBSESSED with peace symbols! She had a pair of peace symbol PJ pants, a peace necklace, peace earrings... I used marbled bright colored gumpaste to get a tie-dyed look and I made 24 peace symbols with the help of my darling husband!
Next I made a Florida Gators cake. Kelli-- a girl from work, is totally in love with Tim Tebow so this was the perfect cake for her!
Finally I made a 6" square cake for the top of a stack of cupcakes. Julia and I bought napkins for a wedding celebration at work and I based the cake design on the napkins.