Saturday, December 13, 2008

Over the Hill 60th Birthday Cake



This started out as an Over the Hill cake for Richard's 60th Birthday, but turned into a "still climbing."  I love the way it turned out and the look of the rocks.  Hope you have a great Birthday and 60 more!

Top tier is yellow cake with chocolate filling, and the bottom is strawberry with buttercream filling.   





Monday, December 8, 2008

University of Texas Longhorns Cake

This cake was a total experiment! We had a friend who is a big Longhorns fan (boo!) and he had a birthday so I thought I would try some new things!
This is my first topsy turvy cake - it almost toppled, but I did manage to save it.
The bottom tier is red velvet with cream cheese filling, and the top is chocolate cake with mocha cappuccino buttercream filling.
Happy Birthday Greg!
(Go Razorbacks :)

Friday, November 21, 2008

Bridal Shower - Red & Black


This cake is for a bridal shower - the bride's colors are red, white and black.
Top tier is chocolate and bottom white - both with buttercream filling.
This beautiful design was inspired by Classic Confections - their cakes are spectacular!

Friday, November 14, 2008

Argh! A Pirate Cake, mateys!


This be a cake for Captain Noah who be turning three this week.
Okay, enough with the pirate talk but I fell in love with cake.
It was fun to get my creative pirate juices flowing!
Top tier strawberry cake with vanilla buttercream filling, bottom is white with lemon.
Happy Birthday Noah! Arrggh!

Saturday, November 1, 2008

Strummin' Good Guitar Cake



Guitar cake for Frank's 39th Birthday!
This is one of the few cakes that I've made that I actually
got to have a piece - it was yummy! Chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream.

Friday, October 17, 2008

Soccer Cake


Soccer cake - white cake with vanilla filling.
Happy Birthday Daylee!

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Race Car Cake

Chocolate cake with cookies-n-cream filling.
Happy Birthday Michah!

Monday, September 15, 2008

Elizabeth's Birthday Cake





Chocolate cake with cookies-n-cream filling.
Happy Birthday Elizabeth!

Saturday, September 6, 2008

Pink & Brown Baby Shower Cake

This is a baby shower cake for a friend of mine from church.  Her nursery is going to be pink and brown!  It is chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream filling, tinted pink to match the icing.
Props go to Pink Box Cakes for the design.
Congrats Kendall!

Saturday, August 16, 2008

Volleyball Birthday

Here's this weekend's cake for one of my Jr. High girls at church. She loves volleyball so hopefully she'll love her cake! The bottom cake is white cake with white filling; the ball is chocolate cake with chocolate filling.
Happy Birthday Lauren!!

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Peanut Butter Cake Truffles

I've finally figured out what to do with all those cake scraps - cake truffles (also lovingly known as cake balls). Here are some cake truffles that I made for the last meeting of our Jr. High Bible Study for the Summer. They are made out of white cake, a little bit of creamy peanut butter, some buttercream icing, dipped in chocolate and decorated. Yum!

Friday, August 1, 2008

Cross Cake

This is for a church bake sale!
White cake with vanilla buttercream filling - good luck with the sale!!

1st Birthday Cake

This was a fun kid's cake for a one year old birthday party. The parents gave me free reign, and just gave me the picture of the decorations for the party (that's my favorite way to work!) The bottom tier is white cake with lemon filling, middle is white cake with strawberry filling, and the top is white cake with vanilla buttercream. The little truck is cake, too and is for the little guy to smash to pieces!

Saturday, July 19, 2008

Baby Animals Baby Shower Cake

This is a baby shower cake I did for this weekend. Top tier is yellow cake with chocolate filling, and bottom tier is white cake with vanilla buttercream filling. This was my first attempt at making fondant animals, and I learned a ton while having a blast watching these little guys come to life! Thanks, Mary for asking me to so this cake!

I have to give credit to We Take the Cake for the cake design - I made a few modifications and did my best. Go take a look at her stuff - her work is amazing!

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Just for Fun Cupcakes

Since I have been gone for a few weeks and cake orders in the summer have slowed down, I was itching to bake! So I use my Jr. High girls, that I work with at church, as motivation to get the powdered sugar flowing. My house was this week's place for our Bible study so I wanted to give cupcakes a whirl.

I made confetti cupcakes with French vanilla cake batter and colored sugar sprinkles. The icing is regular buttercream tinted a "oh so girly" pink with edible shimmer, and a fondant flower to top it off. I thought they turned out pretty cute for a last minute, thrown together dessert and they were pretty tasty too!

Saturday, June 21, 2008

Wedding Shower Cake


This is a sweet little cake I did for a wedding shower. The bride's colors were green and coral. Flavors: Chocolate with strawberry filling, and white with lemon filling. Here's a picture of it on the table - they had a beautiful spread!

Congratulations Sara! And thank you ladies for letting me make such a fun cake!!

Friday, June 20, 2008

Hannah Montana Birthday Cake

Here's a birthday cake for Isabelle who is turning 2 this year! Again I have to give credit for this awesome design to ATasteofWhimsy - go check out her incredible cake designs! Flavors: white cake with pink tinted buttercream filling, strawberry cake with buttercream, yellow cake with buttercream.

Go here to see my other, smaller version of this Hannah Montana Birthday cake.

Thursday, June 19, 2008

Motorcycle Birthday Cake

This was a yellow cake with chocolate buttercream filling and frosting. Frank rides a motorcycle that has a flame job on it - I hope he enjoys his cake!! (Let me know if all your teeth turned black! :)

Friday, June 13, 2008

Graduation

My last graduation cake of the season!
Flavor was white cake with vanilla buttercream.
Congrats Andrea!

Thursday, June 12, 2008

Ju Ju's Birthday Cake!

This cake was for Judy, a fragrance model that works for Angel. They wanted it to be an "Angel" cake so these are the colors of the box and I traced the bottle to get the right shape star. Flavors: white cake w/ white buttercream filling, chocolate cake w/ peanut butter filling.

Happy B-day Judy! Thanks for letting me crash the party!

Friday, June 6, 2008

Princess Presley

This sweet cake is for Princess Presley who is turning one this weekend! I love this cake - it's just so girly!! And you may not be able to tell unless you zoom in, but the whole cake sparkles! Flavors: Strawberry w/ vanilla buttercream, chocolate w/ peanut butter, chocolate with cookies-n-cream, and white with pink filling.

Happy Graduation Hailey!

A sweet girl in our youth group is graduating tomorrow, and she asked me to make her a cake to match the super cute napkins for the party. So here it is! Flavors: confetti cake w/ chocolate filling, white cake w/ chocolate chip cookies in buttercream, and chocolate cake w/ cookies-n-cream filling. Congrats Hailey!!

Wrestling Birthday Cake!


A mom contacted me about making a wrestling WWE ring for her boys' birthdays. They are 3 years apart - to the day! I hope Timmy and Micah love their wrestling ring cake - I think it's ready to see some action! It was chocolate cake with cookies-n-cream filling.

Saturday, May 31, 2008

A Harry Potter Birthday for Hugh!



This cake was a blast to do - thanks, Brandi, for calling me! Her big boy, Hugh, turned 5 this weekend and Harry Potter was the guest of honor at his birthday bash.
It was white confetti cake with cookies-n-cream filling.
Happy Birthday Hugh!

Sunday, May 25, 2008

40th Wedding Anniversary Cake


This weekend was my parent's 40th wedding anniversary! Dad wanted to surprise mom with a fun party with friends and family - so he called me early in the week and asked me, "can you just build me a cake?" He didn't care what was on it or what it looked like so I took this opportunity to try some new things!

I have been wanting to try royal icing accents - I made a ton of pieces and almost all of them broke when I tried to attach them to the cake! I learned a lot about what works and what doesn't (mostly what doesn't!)

Bottom tier was white wedding cake with white buttercream filling, middle was yellow cake with raspberry filling, and top was chocolate cake with chocolate filling.

Monday, May 19, 2008

Garden Party Cake


My good friend is a member of a garden club in the area, and requested a "garden" themed cake for their get together tomorrow. She gave me free reign to do whatever I wanted....scary I know! But this is what I wanted!

Top tier is chocolate cake with peanut butter cream filling, middle is white cake with vanilla buttercream (tinted sky blue). and the bottom is yellow cake with chocolate buttercream filling. I'm getting hungry just writing this down!

Saturday, May 17, 2008

Hannah Montana Cake

This is a birthday cake I did for this weekend - obviously for a little girl who loves Hannah Montana! The top tier is french vanilla cake with chocolate fudge filling and the bottom tier is chocolate cake with peanut butter cream filling. Hope she likes it!
I can't take credit for the design, I borrowed heavily from someone on Flickr who has awesome cakes - go check out atasteofwhimsy!

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Bob the Builder Birthday Cake

Happy Birthday Sebastian!
The was a cute little Bob the Builder cake. White cake with vanilla buttercream filling.
The road under construction is chocolate icing, Hershey bars, and Oreo cookies.

Sunday, May 11, 2008

My Momma's Cake


This is the little cake I made for Mother's Day for my Momma - the top tier was strawberry cake with vanilla filling and bottom tier was chocolate cake with peanut butter filling - yummy!

Saturday, May 10, 2008

Happy Mother's Day!


Here's another fun cake from this weekend - needless to say my kitchen is a mess! A girl I work with asked for a cake that was not too fun, and not too pretty but a little bit of both - I hope she likes my idea for her request! I love this cake - it's just so cute! The top tier is yellow cake with chocolate buttercream filling and the bottom tier is chocolate cake with white buttercream icing. Yummy!

Nursing School Graduation Cake


This is a cake I did this weekend for a friend of mine whose niece is graduating from nursing school! I am so happy about the way this cake turned out and my friend seemed pleased, too! It is a strawberry cake with chocolate filling - I made the cupcakes with little nurses caps on them for some extra cake since the party got a little bit bigger than expected!

Brett's Birthday Cake


This was my first attempt at using fondant. It was for my niece's 13th birthday party! The top tier was chocolate cake with strawberry filling, and the bottom layer was yellow cake with chocolate filling.

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Mimi'S 90th Birthday


I did this cake for my sister-in-law grandmother's 90th birthday party. They said they wanted pretty instead of fun so I decided this would be a great time to try my hand at gumpaste roses. I haven't had a class on this - just read about it in a book so the learning curve was straight up, but I am very pleased with the way they turned out.












Usually my fondant is smoother than this - I tried a new kind and did not like the way it performed! I think I'll stick with my old recipe from now on and not have bubbles!! I think this one tastes a little bit better, but the taste isn't worth the "bumpiness" on that top layer - oh well - that's why I try new things out on family :)

The top tier was chocolate cake with cookies and cream filling - bottom tier was white cake with pink buttercream filling to match the ribbons.