Saturday, September 4, 2010

Kaela's 9th Birthday

Give Your Doggie a Bone


One of the activities we did for Kaela's birthday party was to have each child decorate their own "doggie treats". I made 60+ bone shaped sugar cookies, and had the kids decorate three treats. I provided icing, melted chocolate, sprinkles, dog bone candies and colored sugars for them to use. Most finished products looked like the ones pictured above. All the kids had a great time decorating their "doggie treats". And of course, the took them home in a doggie bag!

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Zander's 3rd Birthday

"The force is strong with this one."
This Darth Vadar cake was made for my friend's son's 3rd birthday. It was a white cake with chocolate buttercream icing. When I first got the order I thought I was going to make Darth Vadar black, but when I was asked for a white cake with chocolate icing, I decided to make him brown. I am glad I went this way because of how hard black is to make. I used brown piping gel to give the facial pieces their sheen.

Thursday, June 3, 2010

Train Cake

Chug-a Chug-a, Choo Choo
All Aboard to the Splash Pad


I made this cake for my friend's son's birthday. He loves trains, and chose the 3-D cake. I used the Wilton 3-D Choo Choo Train cake pan. It is a chocolate cake with all buttercream decorations. I made it more steam engine like with my colors and add-ons, rather than a little kids train. This cake took longer than I antcipated because of all the star tip piping.

Saturday, May 22, 2010

Milee's 6th Birthday

Magical Rainbow Unicorn
This cake was made using the Rocking Horse cake pan. It was a funfetti cake with buttercream icing. The horn was a rainbow spiral lollipop I had ordered through Oriental Trading. My daughter's birthday theme was unicorns and rainbows. She designed how she wanted the unicorn to look (mane and tail had to be rainbow, a heart needed to be on the back, and pink icing had to fit in somewhere). I painted the icing bag with red, blue, green, orange and yellow and filled with white buttercream icing to make the rainbow mane and tail.

Sunday, April 4, 2010

Easter Cookies

Spring Has Sprung!

My girls and I made these for our Easter Celebration. They are sugar cookies with rolled buttercream icing. The detail work is with white royal icing. The butterflies have edible silver balls for their eyes. We outlined some of the tulip flowers with the royal icing, but decided we liked the plain ones better.

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Cassie's 4th Birthday

Reach high, think big, work hard, have fun!
My friend's daughter was having an Imagination Movers themed party. I was given a picture by the little girl of how she wanted her cake. The original picture had four tiers, but I decided to go with just three. These cakes were made by using 8 x 8 and 13 x 9 pans. They are yellow and funfetti cakes. No filling this time. I used the 8 x 8 as my base and then cut down the 13 x 9 into smaller squares to stack. The entire cake is iced in buttercream frosting.

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Lucky Cookies

These are sugar cookies with rolled buttercream icing. I made them for my daughter's Daisy Troop. I wrapped each cookie in a clear bag and tied them with green ribbon that read, "Made With Love" on it. I forgot to take an after picture.

Friday, September 4, 2009

Kaela's 8th Birthday

Fun in the Sun

My daughter had a Fun in the Sun themed party for her eighth birthday. She chose the cake design she wanted this year. The top cake was chocolate, iced with buttercream frosting. The swimsuit was made from fondant. The flip flops were also chocolate cake, but covered with fondant, and decorated with fondant accents.

Saturday, August 15, 2009

Zander's Dinosaur Cake

DINO-MITE BIRTHDAY!!


This was my first attempt at a sculpted cake. My friend's son was turning two and having a dinosaur themed party. I was so happy when my friend liked this cake and I got a chance to do it. I used the Wonder Mold cake pan for the body (chocolate cake), the mini ball pan for the head (yellow cake) and then marshmallows to make the tail and feet. I star tipped the entire cake with Tip #21, using buttercream icing. His spikes are chocolate triangles that I made using orange candy melts, and free-handing triangle shapes on wax paper and letting set in the fridge. As you can see in the first photo I also made chocolate and yellow cupcakes that read Happy Birthday using candy molds and orange candy melts. Kids and adults alike loved this cake.

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Jukebox Cake

A Rockin' and Rollin' Good-Bye

I made this cake for my co-worker who is leaving to move on to future endeavors. This will be his going away cake. I decided to do a Jukebox because he is very into music and likes retro items. The cake is a devil's food cake with vanilla filling. It is iced with chocolate buttercream icing. All the decorations are made with buttercream icing.