My first, and most likely my last, Wedding Cake

This is the wedding cake I made for my sister. It was crazy big and took a long, long, long time to make, about 3 days. Everything but the cake topper was edible. I used butter cream frosting, the tiers were 14 inches, 12 inches and 10 inches. We changed the original design a bit, but it still turned out lovely so who can complain, epically with a free cake.

Friend Cake

I had a great time making this cake for a friend's birthday.
And it almost made it to the party in one piece. It fell slipped to the floor of my car when I braked in front of the house where the party was being held. Oh well. It was fun to make.

Strawberry Lemonade Cake

It's not as pretty as some, but I think it tasted great.

I made a lemon cake and added strawberry pie filling for the filling and the top. It was decorated with whipped topping. I was going to use strawberry whipped topping, but since my husband didn't want a pink cake, I went with the original.

First "professional" cake

A friend of a friend needed a cake for her little boy's birthday last week. I was able to make this cute cake.

It was fun to make a boys cake for a change. I used the Wilton charater pan and put in on a 1/4 sheet cake. Super easy.

Pretty Flower Cake

It's been a long while since my last post. I made my sister in law her birthday cake this year. I did a peach cake, it was very yummy.I decorated it with little peach flowers. I haven't decorated a cake for awhile, it was fun to get my things out and play for awhile.

Father's Day Cakes

I saw these on Bakerella so can't take credit for them. I totally fell in love with them and made some for my husband for his Father's Day treat. They are little slider cupcakes with a side of cookie french fries. So fun!

Wizard of Oz

I am so happy that my older girls seem to finally be getting out of the princess stage. It's not that I don't love princesses, it's just that it gets old really quick. So this year my four year old wanted the Wizard of Oz for her birthday cake. Here's what she got.I must say it won't have turned out half as cute if I didn't have the little figurines made by barbie just in time for her birthday. I found them at Wal-Mart and they worked out perfectly.

Birthday cake

Wow, its been awhile since my last post. Opps, sorry. So here is one of the cakes I made last month. It was for my daughter who was turning six.
She wanted a Strawberry Shortcake cake, but all the ones I had seen were totally boring white sheet cake with a figure on top. Not my style. So I came up with this idea.
The hat band is made out of Airheads (the candy) and the strawberry in front, out of Starbursts. Everything else is frosting folks and it was gooo-ood.

Class Cupcakes

My oldest daughter is now in kindergarten. Among other things, this means that now we are obligated to bring cupcakes to her classmates on her birthday. It was a lot of fun. My daughter mixed up the cake mix and helped me make the cupcakes. She loved feeling like she made them all on her own.
We made 24 swimming bears cupcakes. She saw these cupcakes in a magazine and had to have them. They were so easy!! We frosted them blue and added the bears floating on fruit by the foot or in a gummy lifesaver. We found the fish at a candy store. Everyone in her class loved them.

Another cake that didn't turn out excatly right.

My wonderful husband told a group of friends at work that I would make a cake for them. He told them I make great cakes and talked it up quite a bit. So I started making this cake and it went horribly wrong. The bottom layer cracked and wouldn't hold the top layer. The top layer kept sliding off. Then I ran out of frosting. It was such a pain. So I ended up getting some candy and chocolate frosting from the grocery store and here's what we ended up with.
It looked a lot worse before the "grocery store fixes" I just wished it could have looked better since my husband had talked it up so much. I'm sure his co-workers were thinking "This is it?" There is always next time I suppose.

A Smurfs Cake

See I do cakes for adults too.What you don't think that this is an adult cake?? Well, I made it for my sister who is a grown up! She never had a really fun cake so I decided to go all out for her this year.
This cake is a mushroom house with three little smurfs peaking out of the windows. It was fun to make, but very time consuming. I covered it all in Marshmallow fondant for that nice clean look. Then I put it on my feet cake stand to add just a little more whimsy. Happy Birthday Big Sister!

Clown Cake

It's true, I love to do kids cakes. Here's why:
You just can't beat that smile can you? This cutie was having a clown party and his favorite colors are orange and blue, so here you go. One of the first things I learned in my cake decorating class I took years ago was how to make clowns. I haven't done it since. It came right back to me though and it was worth the smile I got from my cute nephew when I was done.
Made with simple round cakes and the clown heads from Wilton. (I do buy a lot of Wilton stuff don't I?)

Frist birthday duck and ladybug.

My baby just turned one. For my older girls I made a cute little duck cake for their first birthdays.
The night before the big day I was thinking about my little ones cake and I just decided that I have done enough duck cakes and am ready for something different. So there's what my baby ended up with.
She loved having her own little ladybug cake to eat and it looked so sweet. I decorated the ladybugs with Marshmallow Fondant which was so easy to make and so good to eat. I recommend it to everyone. And it wasn't as hard to get the black and red colors as I thought it would be. Just used a lot of color tint. I love how it turned out.

Started as Valentine Cake, Ended up as Easy Chocolate

Here is what happens when you make a cake with the "help" of a four and two year old. You may ask yourself, what's the problem, this is a cute cake. And it is, it just isn't what I wanted it to be. I told my daughters we were going to make a valentines day cake for Daddy. I made a chocolate cake and decorated it with chocolate frosting. Then I made a chocolate heart on the top. The idea was to put the sprinkles inside the heart. Well, four and two year olds, love sprinkles (at least mine do). So we ended up with sprinkles all over the top. It was cute, it just didn't have the valentines day flair I wanted. The border is just a simple shell border, the edging on the side is made with a cool tool I have, you just run the tool around the cake and da, ta, super easy.

Another Princess Cake

Here's another princess. Surprised? You wouldn't be if you knew I have three daughters. The oldest is only 5 this year so I know that there are many more princesses in my future. For now, here is Giselle. She is a new character from Disney, from the movie Enchanted. My girls just love this movie. I decided to do her in her wedding dress for the simple reason that it's really the only one she wears in the movie that was full enough to use this cake pan.
It is a simple doll cake with the Wilton wonder pan. I used an Ariel barbie, Disney doesn't sell any Giselle barbies. None that I could find anyway. Since Giselle has long red hair I felt like it'd do.