Monday, June 10, 2013

Gender Neutral Baby Shower

I had the pleasure of making one of my cousin's a cake for her baby shower. Sarah is due with their first child the middle to end of June and decided they wanted to wait to find out the gender of Baby Drey!


For a neutral themed cake, I incorporated both blue and pink along with green, brown, and orange with bows, buttons, and stripes.
The beautiful mama-to-be, the grandma-to-be and the cake lady.

Sunday, June 2, 2013

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

Sunday, May 26, 2013

Pig Cupcakes

Birthday Pig Cupcakes
These are Fresh Strawberry cupcake with a Strawberry Buttercream frosting adorned with marshmallow fondant for the snouts and ears.
So cute! 

93rd Birthday


This is a 2-layered half sheet cake, half Chocolate and half White filled with Raspberry Jam filling and covered in one of my favorites White Chocolate Raspberry Buttercream.
 
I swear it weighed 15 pounds! This was one heavy but wonderfully smelling cake :)
To celebrate a friends grandma turning 93 years young.
 
It made me realize I desperately need to work on my hand writing skills for cakes, another reason why I love using fondant for letter.

Friday, March 22, 2013

Greg and Anna's Wedding

Another wedding in the books!

Our friends Greg and Anna finally tied the knot!! The wedding was over St. Patrick's Day weekend. It was an absolutely beautiful wedding ceremony and very fun reception, photo booth and great DJ included ;)

The bride and groom had a yummy dessert table with delicious cake pops from Urban Sugar located out of Des Moines, IA in an assortment of flavors, along with cream cheese mints.

They wanted their own small cake to cut for the cake cutting. Their colors were dark grey and true red with damask print on their invitations. So for their cake Anna requested a dark grey fondant covered cake with red damask print.

Two of the bride and grooms close friends also had their birthday's on their big day so they wanted to do something special for them. They requested their own birthday cakes to help celebrate their birthday! Isn't that so cute?!

Hot pink and grey zebra print fondant cake with hot pink and light pink fondant border

Assumption High School "Flying A"

Greg coaches at Assumption, Chad coaches at West....they thought it would be funny to give Chad his rival high schools logo :)

All three cakes

Grey fondant covered cake with red damask print

The newly married couple cutting their cake!

Congrats again Greg & Anna!!

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Under the Sea

"The seaweed is always greener
In somebody else's lake
You dream about going up there
But that is a big mistake
Just look at the world around you
Right here on the ocean floor
Such wonderful things surround you
What more is you lookin' for?

Under the sea
Under the sea
Darling it's better
Down where it's wetter
Take it from me
Up on the shore they work all day
Out in the sun they slave away
While we devotin'
Full time to floatin'
Under the sea"

I just love "The Little Mermaid". When I think of an Under the Sea party this song pops in my head and plays over and over.

I had the pleasure of making little Miss Gracyn's birthday cake again this year. Her favorite Disney princess is Ariel! So for her birthday this year she had an Under the Sea birthday party theme and her mother requested the most perfect cake for her...


An aqua blue ombre ruffle cake!

It was my first time making BOTH fondant ruffles and using the ombre effect. I watched a couple tutorials on YouTube for tips then tried it out on my own. I love how it turned out.

 Up close ruffles, my favorite picture :)

The cake is made from a 4-inch round top tier and a 6-inch round bottom tier. Both tiers are chocolate cake with white chocolate buttercream covered in marshmallow fondant. In order to get the ruffles to stick up and not break, I mixed equal parts fondant with pre-made white gumpaste purchased from my local craft store.


Better Than Sex Cupcakes

Chocolate Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Frosting and Strawberry Cupcakes with Strawberry Buttercream.

Chocolate-Chocolate Chip Cupcakes with Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting

I love looking at this cake!