Two Birthdays

These are birthday cakes for my Mom and Brother in Law

My mom LOVES making jewelry. So I did the jewelry theme, put a strand of pearls and some extra "gems" on it. It turned out very pretty. I love the marbleized fondant. (It looks blue, but it was a deep purple) Purple and pink pearls around the base

My brother in laws:

Cody loves sports. One of them is golf! So I did this cake for him. I really liked how this one turned out!

The first cake is White cake with Strawberry cream filling, the second cake is Yellow cake with Chocolate cream filling.

Happy Birthday!

Bunco Night!

Let the Good Times Roll!

This cake was for a valentines day themed BUNCO night!

Red Velvet cake with cream cheese filling

Cute Valentine Cookies!

Dang

Cute

Cookies!

My favorite one of them all!

Me and My friend Jen made these Valentine cookies last night. We had SO much fun making messes, flooding the cookies in with royal icing and decorating them with all sorts of fun designs! I love them!

Muah!

He shoots! He Scores!

Basketball.

This was a HUGE sheet cake. Made for an 8 year old who loves basketball!

And the crowd goes wild!!!

Buttercream Burgers

So Easy! So Fun! So yummy!

You can't have burgers without FRIES!

I made these cakes for my brother in laws birthday. They are chocolate cake, Reese's filling and all buttercream! I made the french fries out of yellow cake and put them in a parchment triangle as the bag. I love this cake!! It is soo cool! :)

Buns were made out of a glass bowl for the top and a round for the bottom, then the meat is just chocolate cake, then lettuce, ketchup, mustard and the filling played as the mayo!

I'll definitely be doing these ones again!

Little Mermaid & Cupcakes!

These cupcakes were delicious! So moist, so cute, so simple.

Little Mermaid

Requested by 4 year old Kayla for her birthday party on Monday. She wanted chocolate cake, then I filled it with Oreo. That seems to be pretty popular. But hey, it's SO good!

She wanted all buttercream.

What a fun cake, The techniques were simple, but it came together so cute!

Bridal Shower Cake

The end of the year is always the busiest time for me. Family, friends, Christmas ect...

I made this cake for my cousin who got married on December 30th, which is my husband and my anniversary! We've been married for 3 years now. Where does all the time go? But it's been a great 3 years!

I took these photos on my cell phone. They are not the best quality, I wish you could see this one in person. I really loved this cake. The pictures just don't cut it. Good thing I got a new camera for Christmas!!

Strawberry Buttercream -- MMM!

For my first 'vine' cake I think it turned out cute!! I love the daisy's. They were so pretty!

Here's to 2010!

Where I will learn MANY more tips & tricks for cake decorating! I can't wait!!

P.S. I already have my first wedding cake booked!

Congratulations Kara!

June 2010!!

The Latest...

My husband had a birthday this month! He kept telling me that he didn't want cake for his birthday. But I had this cake in mind since the day I saw it on kevinandamanda.com so i just had to make it for him. He LOVES Reese's. So I did it for him anyway. He actually LOVED it! I just covered the whole cake in Reese's, made a the best chocolate cake ever recipe from Kevin and Amanda's site then make her buttercream recipe with a 1/4 of a cup of smooth peanut butter mixed in. Yummy!

Then on Wednesday my friend Leeann turned 19. She asked me to make her birthday cake. She said she wanted purple and yellow and the design was up to me.

This is a white cake with cream cheese filling. Buttercream frosting and the dots, bow, '19' & banner are fondant.

Leeann!

Me & Leeann!

Cake Wrecks.com

I am a huge fan of this site. I watch it every day on my following list so I can see the latest wrecks! They CRACK ME UP!! It is so hilarious to look through the many cakes people can actually wreck. And I've noticed most of them are made at your local grocery store.

I admit, maybe I have had a few of those when I first started learning to decorate. I just cannot forgive myself for this one:
The colors don't really flow, the buttercream roses were my first attempt ever, and THAT LINE... The HIDEOUS purple squiggle I just had to do under the poorly written yellow words! But hey, at least I spelled it correctly, right? It's a shame, I know.

The other day as some friends and I were walking through Albertsons I just had to make a stop by the cake section. I laughed as I looked at their 'pine cone' buttercream roses, I laughed even more when I saw their 'pregnant' barbie cake that in reality was way too tall to look normal, but I almost died laughter when I saw this:

Luckily one of my friends had their camera on them, the phone photos just weren't cutting it.

First of all, What kind of turkey is that??? It looks oddly shaped, moldy, over cooked and has a lace up bodice on!

Second, why are there paper tassels coming out of the moldy legs?!?

wouldn't know what to expect when biting into a piece of this cake. I think it would be interesting.

Now, for those of you who have some time on your hands go here to Cake Wrecks and I guarantee you will laugh your butts off!

Have a nice day!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Cuppy Cakes + My new best friend

These are some cute cupcakes I made for some friends birthdays last weekend:

Party Hats

Cute cupcake boxes

This is my new best friend. My mom and dad bought me this for my birthday! It sure beats the heck out of using a hand mixer :o)