John Deere Tractor

Farm Themed Brithday

John Deere Tractor cake with Farm Animal Cupcakes

Lady Bug

Lady Bug 1st Birthday Cake

 

 

Lady Bug Smash Cake



 

 Individual Construction cake to honor the customer's nephews birthday.

 

Farm Cake

Farm field cake in which the customer put a tactor in the field for her little farmer boy's birthday.

 

Hawkeye Second Birthday

 Iowa Hawkeye Football themed 2nd birthday cake.

Smash Cakes

 

 

 

Monster Cake

Monster's Inc Cake

Bow Ties & Staches

A Little Gentleman's first birthday party isn't complete without mustaches and bowties!!

Minecraft Take Two

Minecraft is much more popular than I thought, kids love this game!

Chocolate Cake with Vanilla Buttercream Frosting, covered in Marshmallow Fondant

Iowa Smash Cake

Smash cakes are my favorite, especially for little one years you know!

Mr. Wes turned the big One a few weeks ago with an Iowa Hawkeye themes birthday. 

 This time instead of just using Hawkeye colors only, I wanted to included the tiger hawk. Luckily I have a cookie cutter that was the perfect size for this cake that I was able to use as a template.

Happy Birthday Wes! Go Hawks!

Baseball Cake

**I have some catching up to do. I am very behind on keeping this blog up to date and hope to get back on it!

I love making first birthday cakes. Sports themed cakes have been very popular for little boys birthdays since I've been making cakes.

I made this baseball glove out of a double layer 9-inch round cake. The baseball on top of the large cake was made from a small ramekin.

With a round baseball smash cake.

Sports Cake

I love when clients come back! I was lucky enough to make Charlie's first birthday cake, an Iowa Hawkeye theme found here. This year he had a sports ball theme, including basketball, soccer, football, and baseballs. I included all four into one cake!

Buzz Lightyear

Buzz Lightyear Cake for a 2nd birthday.

I got to make Peyton's first birthday cake last year, seen here, so I feel privilaged to get to make his second cake this year!

This is a 2-layer vanilla cake with a chocolate mousse filling and a chocolate buttercream frosting, covered in marshmallow fondant.

I made the wings out of cardboard then covered then in fondant, so they aren't fully eidable!

Jackson's 1st Birthday

I had the honor in making our close friends, Chad and Kelsey's son Jackson's 1st birthday smash cake and cupcakes.

 With a Mickey Mouse theme in a blue and white color scheme.  

Cupcakes: Chocolate Covered Strawberry and Chocolate-Chocolate Chip with Chocolate Cream Cheese topped with marshmallow fondant Mickey Mouse and "2's".

Happy 1st Birthday Jackson Jones!

Baptism

Another first for me....my first Baptism cake!

I got the honor of making our friends Chad and Kelsey a cake and cupcakes for their son Jackson's Baptism. I always feel so honored when asked to make special cakes for any occasion and especially for this precious little boy! 

White Vanilla Cross cake with light blue marshmallow fondant ribbon.

Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cupcakes with Chocolate Cream Cheese frosting and each topped with a fondant cross

These cupcakes were definitely a hit with all of little Jackson's family!! 

Happy Baptism Jackson and may God bless you! 

Thomas the Train

Last week when I brought my latest cake creation from the cake decorating class to work my coworkers were all very impressed. One of them, Mary, had a vacation planned for this week  to drive down to visit her daughter's family in St. Louis and thought it would be a fabulous idea to bring a cake with them. So Mary got to thinking what kind of cake, what flavors to pick and what to put on it. Then she thought of her grandson.....he just LOVES Thomas the Train so she requested Thomas.

This is a chocolate chocolate chip cake with vanilla buttercream frosting and I even sprinkled chocolate chips between the layers.

I got a call at work today from Mary who is currently down in St. Louis, or I should say her grandson. When I answered he was on the phone telling me "Thank you"....he's 2 years old and it was the cutest thing!!! Mary said as soon as she opened the box for him to see the cake he yelled out "It's Thomas!" She took a video of it to saw me when she gets back and on the video he also say "Thank you Brenda", I love it! Now that makes me feel awesome and is a major reason I love doing this!!!

Airplane Birthday

This past weekend I got the pleasure to be able to make my nephew's 2nd birthday cake. I can't believe he is already two! It was so much fun watching him . He is so much more active than his first birthday, running around everywhere non-stop. I didn't see him sit still till it was time to open presents and have cake then he was off again.

The birthday theme was Airplanes so of course Carter needed an airplane cake.

Flying through buttercream clouds

 I tried to match the birthday invitation as best as I could

 With matching cupcakes topped with marshmallow fondant 2's for some.

 The Cupcake Tower! Steph had matching cupcake toppers for the rest to follow the theme

 Cake Time.

 Singing Happy Birthday to the birthday boy!

 Carter loved the frosting more than the cake

 "Carter is two"

Happy Birthday Carter!!!!  We love you so much!

Star Wars and Hawkeyes

You might not think they have anything in common but a 7 year old boy would tell you different. Our friend Annette's son is turning 7 this weekend and having an Iowa Hawkeye themed birthday party. Although his mother thought he would want an Iowa cake and cupcakes for his party when she first asked me, turns out Linkin's final request was a Star Wars cake with Hawkeye cupcakes instead. Love it! The birthday boy gets what the birthday boy wants!

Dave was pretty excited about this cake (as he is about most character cakes I make). He made sure he asked Linkin who he would want most from Star Wars and he stated Chewbacca. I tried looking for ideas on-line but most of the Chewy cakes just looked like big blobs of chocolate frosting. I did find one good cake for my inspiration and think I came pretty close to getting it.

I used a Lemon cake (per request) in a 9x13-inch cake pan. Once cooled I rounded the top for Chewbacca's head and used those cake scraps to build up a little dimension around his eyes, nose and mouth so he wasn't so flat looking. I used a Lemon Cream Cheese frosting that I tinted and used left over marshmallow fondant pieces for the eyes and teeth. I drew the eyes on with edible marker.

May the force be with you Linkin! Happy 7th Birthday!

The Birthday Boy