Wakeboard Cake

Happy Birthday to my wonderful husband! He turned the big 4-0 this year. He is an avid wakeboarder. The board is Styrofoam covered in fondant. I made the wakeboard bindings by using a baby bootie template and hand painted the logo on the board. It is a chocolate mint cake with mint buttercream.

Smurf cake

Two tier buttercream covered smurf cake with fondant and gumpaste details. Smurfs figures hand made by me. I still need some practice on my figures but I think I did ok for a first attempt at anything like this. Happy 5th Birthday Makenna!

Elmo!

First birthday cake for one of my best friends' little boy. This is the first fondant figure I have attempted. I am pretty pleased with how Elmo turned out.

Happy Birthday Little Victor Robert!

It's All Coming Up Roses

A bouquet of Roses for the wonderful midwife I work for.

It has been a tough year for her and thought she needed a pretty cake for her birthday.

She LOVED it.

It is banana cake with cream cheese frosting, her favorite.

I used Duff's easy rose technique for the flowers. The were pretty easy to make, still alittle time consuming but not nearly as much as the technique I used on my first attempt as roses in January. I think they turned out pretty well and will use Duff's trick for any future roses.

Sundae cupcakes

Fun little Ice Cream Sundae cupcakes for a co-worker. Chocolate cake with

vanilla swiss meringue buttercream. Yum.

Good Luck Mary, We will miss you!

I made this cake for a co-worker who had to move away. We really are going to miss her.

It is lemon cake with lemon curd filling and lemon Swiss meringue buttercream.



My Famous Banana Cupcakes!?

My banana cake/cupcakes seems to be my most popular flavor. My co-workers are always looking forward to a time when I will bring a batch in. One of my coworkers told me when I brought these in last time that they were the best cupcakes she has ever had, and she's a self proclaimed cupcakes expert! She's eaten at some of the well known bakeries and cupcakeries so I take that as a huge compliment.

Anyway not to toot my own horn but I am always amazed and the feedback I get when people taste and/or see my cakes.

I also had fun playing with melted chocolate on these. I love the little extra it brought to the cake and it was so fun and easy. Can't wait to use that technique again.



Graduation Cake

Its been a while I know, but I took a little break due to a couple of vacations in the month of  May.

Here is a cake I did for a middle school graduation. I heard this girl had a rough go at middle school. I sure hope the kids in high school treat her better. She is an amazing, talented kid.

The cake is red velvet with cream cheese frosting.

Purple Dahlias

Banana cake with cream cheese filling for

one of the doctors/owners of the clinic I work at.

It was her 50th birthday. 

I used the dahlia tutorial found on the Sweet Creations by Stephanie blog page for the flowers.

They were fun to make and turned out pretty well.
Thanks Stephanie!

Daisy Cake

Cute little daisy cake for a mom who remembers how her son would go out in the yard

and always bring her back bouquets of white daisies especially for his Mama.

Chocolate cake with Chocolate Swiss Meringue Buttercream.



Pink Cake withWhite Bow

This was a birthday cake for a co-worker's sister.

She wanted it to look like a present, and it had to be girly.

The Birthday Girl loved it.

Pink Anenome Cake

White Chocolate cake with Raspberry Swiss Meringue Buttercream.

So Yummy! I think this is my favorite flavor.

Purple dots and pink flowers

This cake was for Jordan, who was celebrating her first birthday.

The big cake is Chocolate cake with Oreo buttercream

and the birthday girl's cake was vanilla with vanilla buttercream.

I am pleased with how this one turned out.

Hope the family enjoyed the cake and hope Jordan had a great first birthday!

LEGO Cake

Cake for my co-worker's son's birthday. He is a LEGO maniac. Hope he likes it.

It is chocolate cake with Oreo cookie buttercream.



Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Ok, so I know I'm a day late, but I got busy yesterday and forgot to post my

"Lucky" Green Velvet Cupcakes.

 My co-workers enjoyed them, and it was a fun addition to the day.

Black and White Swirl Cake

Cake I made for one of the provider's birthday in the office. It turned out OK. I think I should have used a smaller tip to pipe the swirls. I also need more practice at piping period, but I love the bow. The red really pops with the black and white.

It is Banana cake with cream cheese frosting. Yum!

Red Dot Cake

I made this cake for my manager, although she hates to refer to herself as a manager, whose birthday was yesterday. She loves red and has a red lunch bag with white dots on it so that's where the inspiration came for this cake. The flower on the top is a loose interpretation of an anenome, a flower I really want to learn how to do well because I think they are so pretty. I can't wait to try them out again sometime, and do it the right way.

The cake and cupcakes are both red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting.