Harvest Festival Cakes

September 13, 2014

   Lana's school hosted a Harvest Festival and asked for cake donations for the cake walk and cookie donations for the treat table.  I was happy to try out some fun fall cakes.  I kept it simple making 2 vanilla cakes and 2 chocolate cakes.  I covered them with butter cream icing and fondant circles in yellow, orange, and red of course.  I added my signature iced pumpkin cookie in the center because who doesn't like some cookie with their cake.  The pumpkin cookies for the treat table were actually larger than the ones on the cake, but I kept with the same decorating theme.

 

4th of July Shirts

July 4, 2014

  I just love making matching shirts for my girls!  Did you noticed we added another little cutie to the mix?  It's taken me awhile to get back into baking, sewing, and posting.  We have new schedules and just more to do with three little girls, but it's worth it.  Each year we head downtown for Independence Eve and I just love an excuse to make matching shirts.  My older two have an opinion about their fabric choices and I made the mistake of taking them with me to JoAnn's.  At least they love their shirts and feel like they helped in the designing process.  I also made matching fabric bows, with their fabric choices.

 

Hello Kitty Birthday Cake

June 14, 2014

   It's Lana's 5th Birthday and she decided on a Hello Kitty theme.  She had me slaving away in the kitchen all week creating cakes, cake pops, and cookies. Lana also wanted a variety of flavors. The heart cake is half chocolate, half strawberry, and the Hello Kitty cake is vanilla.  The heart cake is decorated with butter cream icing and the Hello Kitty cake was covered with fondant.  How did I get that perfect bow?  It was easy, I just melted candy melts, poured them in the bow section of the cake pan, and set it in the fridge for 15 minutes.  This perfect bow easily popped out, what a great finishing touch.

   These cake pops were a labor of love.  Mixing the right amount to icing with your cake scraps to make your cake balls is key.  Too much icing just doesn't work.  I used a little icing to add white chocolate chips for the ears and dipped them in white candy melts.  I tried white chocolate but too much dripped off.  I then pipped on the eyes, nose, whiskers, and bow with left over icing from my Hello Kitty Cookies.

Spiderman Cake

June 7, 2014

   What little boy wouldn't love a spiderman cake?  I love the simplicity of this cake and the matching spiderman cookies each child got to take home in their goodie bag.  This was a 2 layer 10 in round chocolate cake covered in blue butter cream icing with spiderman's face piped on and outlined with his signature web.  I offset the cake on the cake board so I would have room to write the child's name and age.  This cake was a huge hit and there wasn't a slice left to take home. 

Puppy Birthday Cake

June 1, 2014

   I just loved how this puppy cake turned out!  It is just adorable and so closely resembles the puppy on the invitation.  I made two dome cakes, a small vanilla, and a large chocolate cake.  These were covered with a layer of butter cream icing and white fondant.  I then cut and added chocolate fondant for the spots, tail, and shaped fondant for the paws, mouth, nose, and eyes.  Put it all together and you get the cutest puppy birthday cake.  Don't forget about the cookies.  Each guest got a choose a puppy, paw print, or bone to take home.

Barbie Mariposa Cake

May 18, 2014

Yes, that is a cake Barbie Mariposa is sitting on.  Abby requested a pink and orange two tier cake covered with fondant to look like a flower for Barbie Mariposa to sit on.  I made two vanilla cakes and colored them pink and orange.  These were stacked and covered with pink fondant and sprayed with a purple mist.  I also made butterfly cookies on lollipop sticks for all the guests to enjoy as a favor in their treat bags.