Wednesday, February 23, 2011

R2D2

S-U-P-E-R AWESOME!!! This cake turned out so fun! It was a combined birthday party for a family, but mostly picked out for the twins, Bryan and Parker (4), who love Star Wars. I am way proud of this one. (Am I allowed to brag?) It was french vanilla cake with a whipped chocolate ganache filling. (This would make a cute groom's cake too!)


Beth

Super cute, super easy. The bride was so easy going, and doesn't even like cake! So we eventually came up with an idea, and it turned out adorable! I especially liked the ribbon she picked out for the border! French vanilla cake with raspberry filling on both tiers.

Kayti's Baby Shower

I was so excited to make this cake for Kayti's shower...it is so adorable! I'm not sure quite how well you can see the detail, but it is all "quilted" so it looks like it was sewn. Then I made a "button" to attach the wing. It was french vanilla with strawberry cream cheese filling. Congrats Kayti...and Aaron!

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Lost and Found

I made this cake for a friend's birthday last year, but then didn't know where I stored the picture! I just went through some folders on my computer and found it in the most random place!

Beckie

Winter Wonderland themed wedding! This cake was covered in sugar crystals to give the look of ice. (The picures are horrible, but I chose the ones with the flash so you could actually see the sugar effect). It was really pretty in person!

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Jessica

I did this cake MONTHS ago! I forgot my camera, and just now got a couple pics of the cake. The color is all funky, and I tried to do my best to lighten them up a little. (I think the window directly behind the cake was causing issues). Anyway, the cake was red velvet with cream cheese filling. Then it was frosted in buttercream, and covered with white chocolate curls done by hand! It was absolutely beautiful in person, and the flowers were so bright and vivid! I hope you can imagine it's fulll glory!

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Tasia's Birthday!

I did a trade with a local photographer to get pictures for my 1 year old daughter, in exchange for her daughters 5th birthday cake. Tasia loves the Polar Express, and that became the theme for her party. The cake was three layers of confetti cake with strawberry filling.


Here are a couple pics Olga took of my daughter, who was NOT cooperating that day, but she was awesome and you can check her out at www.EndlessMemoriesPhoto.blogspot.com!

Camille

This bride picked such a fun cake to go with her red and black themed wedding! The whole atmosphere was so beautiful, and the cake had center stage under a huge gazeebo in the middle of the room. Chocolate cake with bavarian cream filling, french vanilla cake with stawberry creamcheese filling (which was amazing I must say), and chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream.

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

I GET TO CLAIM THESE...RIGHT?

I had 2 friends in the same week ask me to help them with a cake. I am all about helping people, and by that I mean coaching them on what to do, and making them do it themselves :) Anyway, they both turned out awesome!! One was for Gavin's 3rd birthday (hopefully obvious), and the other for Garrett's bithday, a die hard Jazz fan. Congrat's to my cake decorators in training!

Sophia

This wedding was on New Years Eve, what a fun night to celebrate! I hurt my back that morning and was told I couldn't do the cake at all! (I could never do that to a bride.) So I called in reenforcement, my sister, to help finish the job. Thanx to her, it turned out beautiful! Bottom layer was cream cheese chocolate cake, with a whipped chocolate ganache filling, and the other two were french vanilla cake, with bavarian cream. (And I still never met the bride! I hope it all went well!)

Annemarie

This cake was so fun to make, and soo delicious to look at! Two layers were cream cheese chocolate with raspberry filling, and one was a spice cake with bavarian cream filling...all topped with an absolutely amazing chocolate ganache dripping down the sides!

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Paige

Cake wreck #2. OK, the cake turned out adorable, but it was supposed to have 4 tiers! I understand there is nothing I can do to prepare myself to NOT drop a cake, it's just an accident!...but now I have done it twice...it's getting old. Paige totally picked an amazing cake, I hope I was able to do it justice even a little. Cream cheese chocolate cake, red velvet cake, and lemon cake...all with cream cheese filling.

'Tis The Season

I decided to enter a gingerbread house contest...I was proud, it turned out soo cute! But apparently all the other contestants were professional gingerbread architects! So, alas, no winning for me. But it's totally cute, huh!?




Monday, December 6, 2010

Sally

Ahhh, my nemesis...buttercream. We all know it tastes better than fondant, I just loathe it! I love the flawless look of fondant, and I HATE that buttercream is practically impossible to make smooth. Reguardless of the my issues with the tastey frosting, the cake turned out pretty cute. Cream chees chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream filling, french vanilla cake with bavarian cream, and french vanilla with bavarian.


Hannah

This wedding was very pretty! Her cake was two tiers of french vanilla with bavarian cream, and one fench vanilla with strawberries.

Birthdays, Birthdays, and...a Birthday!

BIRTHDAY AND BABY
Well, here is my first official cake wreck...you would not realize from the picture, because I did't include it. It was for a 60th birthday and a baby shower combined. I made 7 dozen adorable baby bites, and a 2 tier "turtle" cake (chocolate with caramel filling...soooo delish). Yes, you read that correctly...2 tiers, that is where the wreck comes in. I was there on scene, just about to add the 2nd tier to the top, when FLOP! it lands upside down on the table! Luckily it landed solo, and not on top of the bottom layer. The family was very understanding and we decided to just display one tier, for obvious reasons. I was so frazzled I never even got pics of the baby bites...but we all know how cute those are.

SOUTH KOREAN PRINCESS
Once upon a time there was a little girl born in South Korea. One day a magically wonderful family came and adopted her, and took her home with them to the United States! Over the next year she learned what most girls learn fairly quickly, and that is that she is a girl...and therefore a princess. Good thing she figured this out in time for her 2nd birthday! Her mom wanted her to feel special like a princess, but still incorporate her heritage...so we did cake bites with the South Korean flag, and some princess ones too. And then added a "smash" cake shaped like a crown. This family will definately live happily ever after!



I DIDN'T DO IT...OH WAIT, I DID
This Bart Simpson cake was for Jason's birthday...a total hit! French vanilla cake with raspberry filling.

KAILEE BUG
This was a suprise cake for a girl named Kailee...aka: Kailee Bug. French vanilla cake with strawberries and cream filling.

BOB...BUT FOR ELI
This cake was for Eli's birthday, who absolutely loves "Monsters VS Aliens". French vanilla with chocolate buttercream.



COOPER'S 4TH BIRTHDAY
Have you ever had the moment where you have your child's birthday all planned out...and it's going to be awesome! You are going to do a Peter Pan theme, make a pirate ship cake, your child is soo excited! Then, the night before the party, your child says, "I can't wait for my MOTORCYCLE party!" (screeching record comes to a halt, er...what?) So what is a mother to do?...throw a motorcylce party. Now don't get me wrong...if I had done any real planning for the party, I would have said "too bad sweet child of mine." But as it turns out, I hadn't even started to bake yet, so I made a different cake...with a motorcycle. It turned out great, three tiers with a road spiraling around the outside. Chocolate/chocolate chip cake with bavarian cream cheese filling, french vanilla cake with raspberry/lemon filling, and french vanilla with chocolate buttercream filling. No regrets!



FOOTBALL CUPCAKES
...to take to school, chocolate cake with cream cheese baked in the middle!

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Sarah

Easy peasy lemon squeezy...but with no lemons. This cake was just simple and nice, all she wanted was chocolate cake with buttercream filling...like I said, EASY!

Monday, November 1, 2010

Nicole

This bride put her money where her mouth is...and by that I mean she got a small cake, and then ordered 300 cake bites to serve the guests! She knows how to please the people! Her cake was fantastic too, cream cheese chocolate cake with strawberry cream cheese filling, and cream cheese frosting! (And i love the layered effect on the cake, so cute!)



Sonia

If you are going to do four tiers, make it count! Each layer was different and delicious: carrot cake with cream cheese filling, german chocolate with bavarian cream filling (and marshmallow frosting), strawberry cake with lemon filling, and a confettie cake with raspberry filling! SOO yummy!