40th carolina blue and brown birthday cake :)

This cake was a lot of fun to make! I was asked to make a carolina blue/brown cake with music notes and to be creative with the rest :)
Bottom tier: Vanilla/almond Buttermilk cake, chocolate fondant. Top tier: Guinness chocolate cake, Bailey's icing, fondant.
Details are fondant and gum paste

Give away!

When I reach 500 likes on my facebook page I will randomly select two people to win a dozen sugar cookies or cupcakes if the winners are local and would prefer cupcakes :)
So, if you aren't already a fan on facebook and want a change for free goodies just head on over and like my page and share with friends. If you are already a fan you have already been entered.

Spiderman cake

Another superhero cake! I really enjoyed making these. I wasn't sure how the spiderweb was going to turn out but I am really happy with it :) Vanilla cake, vanilla butter cream, covered in fondant, fondant and butter cream details

batman cake

I had been wanting to do a superhero cake for a while so I enjoyed this one
Chocolate cake, buttercream, covered in fondant, with fondant details

Ariel Cake

I have to admit I was intimidated about this cake! I am not girly and if you do an image search for Ariel cakes you will come across some scary looking cakes! This cake turned out much better than I expected. I am really happy with how it turned out :)
Strawberry cake, vanilla butter cream, covered in fodant, fondant details.

Ambulance cake

This was a fun, different cake request, a feminine ambulance. The little girls mom had tried to talk her into princesses but Reagan said no :) Buttermilk cake, vanilla icing, fondant details.

flower cupcakes

Justin's grandma's birthday was this past week and we got together to celebrate last night. I enjoyed maybe some gumpaste flowers to top them. Half chocolate, have buttermilk vanilla, all filled and topped with butter cream.

Safari babyshower cupcakes

I have 3 friends due the first week of March! Jenn and Lisa are due a couple days apart and in the same small group from church. They are both having boys so I decided to go with blue cupcakes with cute little animals and buttons :)
Once again I went with my favorite buttermilk cake and almond/vanilla icing, fondant details .

bows and buttons cupcakes

I had the pleasure of making these cupcakes for April and Jeff's babyshower this week. April and Jeff are staff with CRU in the triad. A couple years ago I made their wedding cupcakes. So I was happy to be able to provide cupcakes for the shower of their sweet sleep upcoming baby.
This were my favorite combination: buttermilk cupcakes with almond/vanilla butter cream. The details were fondant.

Guitar babyshower

Emily contacted me a while back to ask if I could make a cake for a friend's baby shower. The nursery is being decorated with a guitar print so I took that as inspiration for the cake. I love the color combination! Buttermilk cake with chocolate buttercream

Magic Hat

This was fun and a little challenging. The mom wanted buttercream instead of fondant so we decided to go with chocolate buttercream as it takes so much food coloring to get to black the icing starts to taste funny. The cake was also chocolate. The bunny is covered in fondant and the ears are gum paste

Lili's princess castle cake

As with previous years Lili knew exactly what she wanted. This year it was a pink princess castle. She requested strawberry cake, a crown and fondant. You can't tell from the picture but the whole thing was covered in edible glitter for my favorite girly girl :) Personally, I am not a huge fan of pink but, I enjoyed this cake as I knew this is what she wanted.

wedding shower flower cupcakes

I was asked to make simple pink and purple cupcakes for a wedding shower. Half of them are lemon with vanilla butter cream and half of them are buttermilk with lemon butter cream all filled with vanilla butter cream

Hello Kitty Cake

This was a simple cute, last minute order. The mom requested something with little icing and hello kitty. It's cream cheese icing, so it's not as smooth as butter cream. The details are fondant and the cake is a vanilla butter cream.

Ladybug Cake

The past three years Eva has had very detailed descriptions of what she wanted for her birthday cakes. This year she decided she wanted a simple cake. She requested a pink ladybug. Chocolate cake and mostly buttercream. She doesn't like fondant but said it was ok if the spots were fondant. I really like how it turned out. I hadn't decorated in a while and it reminded me once again how much I enjoy it!

30th Birthday present cake

I hadn't done a gift cake in a while! This one was fun to make but a little challenging as we are getting ready to move my kitchen is even more crowded than usual! The cake is vanilla buttermilk with vanilla butter cream, covered and details are fondant.

Carolina's first year group

I am not sure what the first year group was but this was a nice simple cake to work on. It was a pretty big cake 11x15 I think. Orange buttermilk cake with almond icing, details are fondant.

5th birthday cupcakes

These were done for a little girl's 5th birthday. The only request was that some of them have flowers. They are chocolate cupcakes filled and topped with vanilla/almond butter cream and the details are fondant

Toodles inspired cake

Eli is a big Mickey Mouse playhouse fan. So, for his second birthday we went with a toodles inspired cake. This was a pretty big cake, the middle part is 10in and the ears are 6in. All orange flavored buttermilk cake with almond butter cream and fondant details.

Primary color cupcakes

I am really happy with how these turned out! The birthday party didn't have a theme, just primary colors. So, we decided to go with the kids initials for the design. The birthday girl loves pink so hers was the pink one. I always have fun making Chloe's birthday cupcakes last year I made the yo gabba gabba cupcakes and the year before it was Minnie

under the sea cookie pops

These were done for a little girl's first birthday party. They were fun to make, I forget how much I enjoy cookie pops. I love how they turned out! I am even considering doing an under the sea theme for Jack's birthday as they were so cute (they were cuter in person than the picture)

Daisies!!

This cake was a fun challenge. The cake is chocolate, with raspberry butter cream filling. Which meant I made raspberry preserves for the first time!
I took a bunch of pictures of the cake with my new camera than deleted them all thinking I had already uploaded them :(

cupcakes, cupcakes and more cupcakes!

A while back I had the pleasure of making Karen and Mike's wedding cake. Karen's brother recently got married out of state and they had a reception in Winston this past weekend. This time around I got to make 10 dozen cupcakes. 2 dozens of each chocolate with chocolate butter cream, chocolate with vanilla butter cream, vanilla with chocolate butter cream, vanilla with vanilla butter cream, 1 dozen red velvet with vanilla butter cream and 1 dozen red velvet with chocolate butter cream, all filled with vanilla butter cream.
Here are some pictures:

Master Dater 1st anniversarry

For Erin's company Master Dater first anniversary they had a big party at Rum Runners.
The top and bottom tier of the cake are chocolate, middle tier is vanilla all with vanilla/almond butter cream, covered in fondant. This cake was my first big project since Jack was born and it made me realize how much I enjoy cake decorating :)

Angelique requested a chocolate cake with chocolate icing. I decided to go with the gerber daisy as I wanted to try out a new flower kit I recently got.

thank you cupcakes

These were made for the staff of Durham OB/Gyn as a thank you for all their work during my pregnancy. Vanilla cupcakes, chocolate filled, topped with vanilla/almond buttercream and fondant details.

Cobra Kai

For Naoshi's birhtday his wife asked me to make a Karate Kid inspired cake. I don't know much about at all about Karate Kid but my husband says the Cobra Kai were the bad guys. The cake it self is a 14in yellow cake, chocolate butter cream with fondant details. The symbol took me a good while to make but I am happy with how it turned out :)

Firetruck

Buttermilk cake, almond-vanilla butter cream, fondant details. This cake was for Caleb and Mac's 2nd birthdays. Caleb's mom wanted a simple cake with a firetruck as their was going to be a fire truck at the party :)

Baby shower!

Last week mom threw us our final baby shower! This was the third shower we had but the only one I was allowed to make things for. Mostly, because I just told mom I was making a cake and just showed up with the cookies and helped out with the traditional Brazilian brigadeiros and beijinhos. The shower was a lot of fun and we can't wait for baby to get here!

Movies/Up cake

For Elsa's 5th birthday she had a birthday party at the Varsity theater which will let you bring in any movie you want to see. She picked up. So this is what we came up with to tie in the movie theater theme as well as the movie. The cake is a yellow/chocolate marble with almond butter cream. Details are fondant and gum paste. This was a lot of fun to make, I was afraid the balloons were going to break but they worked well.

Soccer cupcakes

Chocolate and vanilla cupcakes with candy melt soccer balls. I hadn't done much with candy melts before. It took a long time to make as the molds I have only make 2 at the time I am really happy with the results, next time I will just get more molds!

St. Patrick's day

These were for a last minute St. Patrick's day order. The cupcakes are vanilla, basic butter cream, sugar sprinkles and fondant shamrocks.

More bugs!

Cupcakes for a teacher's (Ms. Gardner) birthday.
Vanilla cupcakes, butter cream icing, fondant details.