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.

Bugs!

For Matthias birthday he was having a party at the Butterfly house at the Museum of Life and Science. So, we went with bug cupcakes and a butterfly cake

Bunnies, Carrots, Dora, Diego and boots!

For Charlotte's 4th birthday she had several requests: Dora, Diego, Boots, bunnies and carrots!

After talking to Charlotte's mom we decided to go with the bunnies and carrots on chocolate cupcakes and a strawberry cake with the others.

The bunnies I made with fondant and the rest is butter cream

The characters for the cake are also fondant while the rest is butter cream. Charlotte was very excited when I delivered the cake :)

Lena's birthday

For Lena's birthday instead of having a typical birthday party so decided she wanted to go to a movie and lunch with some friends. She requested chocolate cupcakes, with chocolate icing and pink flowers and well as pink and red cookie pops with her friends' names on them.
I enjoy making cookie pops! This time we decided to go with fondant instead of royal icing.
These would be fun for valentines! I may end up making some if my other idea for valentines doesn't work out.

Tea Party Birthday Cake

For Josie's birthday she requested a chocolate cake with blue butter cream and fondant details. The flowers are royal icing the rest of the details are fondant.
She later told me the cake was better than she had dreamed of! I can't think of a better compliment than that!

Firetruck birthday cake

For Jade's 3rd birthday he wanted a cake with a firetruck. The cake is a butter yellow cake, filled and covered in butter cream. The Firetruck is fondant.

Baby shower cake

Yesterday we had a babyshower for 2 of the couples in our small group that are expecting. The color scheme was green, yellow and purple so I wanted the cake to have those colors.
The cake is a yummy buttermilk cake with vanilla/almond butter cream. The cake is covered with and all details are fondant.

Tabitha's princess castle

For Tabitha's 3rd birthday she wanted a princess castle.
Both tiers (8in and 12in) are chocolate cake with vanilla butter cream. She's not a fan of fondant so it's mostly butter cream with the details in fondant. The cobber stones are gumpaste/fondant mix so it would keep it shape, the little white flowers are royal icing. The princesses are from Toys R us as I didn't want to attempt to make 5 princesses out of gum paste.
In the future I would love to try out a castle covered in fondant but I am happy with how it turned out and she loved it so that's all that really matters :)

Princess Bear

For Isabelle's 5th birthday she had a party at build-a-bear. She requested a strawberry cake with chocolate icing and that the bear wear a crown and purple dress.
It's not often that I do cakes with the basic star tip, but she didn't want fondant. I hadn't done a bear before but I am pretty happy with how it turned out.

Snow flake cookie pops

I love baking cookies and have really gotten into the holiday spirit this year. These are some of the cookie pops I made yesterday. I will post more cookies as I make them/remember to take pictures before giving them away.

Habitat For Humanity

A while ago grandma asked me if I would be willing to make a cake to donate to a Habitat event she was helping out it. The cake was a basic yellow cake with buttercream and covered in fondant. You can't tell by the picture but the cake is 19x13 and took 3 lbs of fondant to cover it.
It took a lot longer than I was thinking it would but I am happy with how it turned out

Sebastian's starwars cake

Sebastian has been into starwars for a couple years now. Last year we did a Starwars Lego cake in the lego colors. This year he asked for a similar cake in green. The cake it self is a vanilla buttermilk cake, iced in butter cream, details are fondant.

Kate's birthday cake

Kate is one of the awesome 12 kids I have the pleasure of babysitting. For her birthday this year she decided she wanted to celebrate at a horse farm, so when it came to the cake we decided to have horses on it as well. The cake is self is chocolate with vanilla butter cream. The cake is covered in fondant, the details are also fondant with some pearl dust.

Jane's first art show

I have known Jane and Howard for a few years now. Howard is an awesome sculptor you can see his amazing wood work here.
His wife, Jane, has really gotten into photography lately and had her first show recently. We are really excited to get some of her prints to decorate the second bedroom with.
Howard requested a simple yellow cake with chocolate butter cream. The details are fondant.

Mom's cupcakes

Mom became an US Citizen a couple weeks ago! We are really excited and of course had to celebrate. I decided to go against going a big flag cake as she doesn't like fondant and made these cupcakes instead. This was one of 3 projects I had that weekend.

Pirate Cake!!

For Erin's speed dating company Halloween Party she was planning on making a 3 tier cake. With everything else she had to do I offered to help out. This cake was a lot of fun to make! The bottom tier is 3 layers of dark chocolate , the second tier in yellow cake, the top tier is alternating layers of chocolate and yellow cake all with butter cream. All 3 tiers are covered in fondant, the big skull is gum paste. The coins and swords are plastic which Erin had already purchased.

Baby shower/marathon cake

This cake was for a joint baby shower/ pre Nike's women's marathon party.
The cake is self was chocolate with vanilla/almond butter cream, covered in fondant, the little details on the side are gum paste.

basketball birthday

Reed told his mom Friday morning he wanted a cake for his sleepover Saturday. I don't usually do cakes this last minute, but as it was a simple cake and I really enjoyed working on both of the cakes for his sisters in the past I decided I could pull it off. Reed really enjoyed his cake and reequested a very similar cake for his actual birthday a few days later.
Both cakes were yellow cake with butter cream icing, filling and details.

There's a party in my tummy...

So yummy, so yummy! you must watch this video
I haven't seen too many episodes of Yo Gabba Gabba but I love the episode in where they talk about eating fruits and veggies. These cupcakes were made for the little girl I made the Minnie Mouse cupcakes for last year. The cupcakes are chocolate, filled and iced with butter cream. Details are fondant and gumpaste. To stay true to the character colors I hand colored all the fondant. These were much more time consuming than I expected but I am really happy with how they turned out and hope to get to make more of them in the future!

David's Birthday cake

David loves icecream cake. This year once again he asked me to make one. I had to keep the decorations simple as the cake starts to melt pretty quickly and I had to put it together in a couple minutes. The cake is mom's favorite, flour-less chocolate cake, the ice cream is drumstick, iced with whipped cream. Decorations are fondant and butter cream.

Carolina themed birthday cake

This cake was made for two Carolina and chocolate fans. The cake it self is a chocolate flour-less cake, very dense and rich but really yummy, with chocolate butter cream.
The decorations are fondant.

second annual Christmas in July

This year we went with a beach/tropical theme for our Christmas in July party. So, I decided to stick to the theme and make tan snow man cupcakes. They are redvelvet with butter cream icing, one of Justin's favorite combinations.

4th of July Birthday

Jackson was born last year on July 4th. So, for his first birthday Angie ordered cupcakes and a smash cake in red white and blue. The cake is a buttermilk cake with vanilla butter cream.

Under the Sea

This was A LOT of fun to make! The top layer is strawberry, the bottom layer vanilla.
All the details are fondant/gum paste. The Little Mermaid is a candle.
Took forever but it was worth it, the birthday girl was excited to see it when she came to pick it up

USA

I made these for the USA vs. Ghana match yesterday. The map in the center was Katie's idea

25th Birthday

We got to celebrate Logan's birthday Friday
1/2 of the cupcakes are strawberry with chocolate butter cream
the other are vanilla buttermilk with vanilla butter cream
All with fondant details

Princess party!

This was a fun cake to make!! Alison wanted and all pink cake with a bow for the birthday party.

I also made cookie pops for her party gifts.

Eeyore

This cake was for April, who loves Eeyore. The cake it self is a flourless chocolate cake with butter cream icing. The details are fondant/gum paste.

Logan's birthday

Thanks Lisa for the picture! Logan is one of the leaders of our small group. I talked to his lovely wife Lisa who said he likes strawberry cake. So, this was a my gift to Logan, strawberry cake with chocolate butter cream.