Ka Chow!

This cake was so fun! It is a 1/2 sheet cake with a Lightning McQueen charachter cake on top. It is a pound cake covered in buttercream. The dirt road is crushed graham crackers. I was so excited to make this cake for one of my best friends from high school that I reconnected with over Facebook!

Jacob is 1!

My sweet little cute nephew turned 1! I made this cake for him and he got his own cupcake. His mother is very protective of him getting too much sugar, like we all are with our first so no big smash cake for him! Turns out, he could have cared less about that cake anyway. My brother had to take the icing and put it on his lip and he was still not impressed! He must have been just over tired because no one in our family ever turns down sweets!

This was a double layer 10" round on the bottom and three 8" rounds on top. They were filled with lemon curd and iced in lemon buttercream with cream cheese fondant accents. This could also be a baby shower cake.

I love Autumn!

I really do love Autumn! There is just something about the cool weather with the leaves changing that just makes me want to stay inside and bake! I have done a fall cake for the past couple of years. The chocolate cake here was for my friend's birthday last year. It was her 39th. I did not make her a cake this year (her birthday week turned out to be a week where I had several other cake orders) but in retrospect, maybe it is better to have a bigger celebration for 39! The other Autumn cake I did was for the birthdays at my kid's school. It was for September, October and November birthdays and you just can't fit that on a cake and it still be pretty! I drew the leaves and acorns free hand and filled them in.