Cookie Cakes?

I had a request for a cookie cake. I have never done one of these but it was fun! It took me a while to get the cookie right since I was working off a regular cookie recipe. I made the cookie four times! The first time I just totally burned it because I was working an intense sewing project. The second time it was just a little more done than than I wanted it. The third and fourth time it turned out great!

Most of the time I don't have any extra cake for my family so they were all thrilled that I messed up and since I cut the bats from a bar, there was some of that left over too! Plus when there is leftover cake, there is usually not any leftover icing! Cookies are good with or without icing!

Horse cake!

Okay. I am going to be honest. I did not want to do a horse cake! Maybe I was intimidated. Maybe I just didn't have any inspiration. Not really sure. But this was for my sweet, sweet cousins so I was doing the cake no matter what! So I did surfed the net and I found a horse cake with the fence. I think it turned out really cute. :)

More Cupcakes!

These cupcakes were for my son's first grade teacher! These are cream cheese cupcakes with chocolate buttercream frosting. They were really good! I think I found my new "yellow cake" recipe!

I walked by a bakery last week and I couldn't resist going in to check out what they had on display and naturally since I had three kids in tow, we got some treats! I got a cupcake and a petit four for me and my youngest son (my older two were holding out for slushies that I promised for patient, well behaved shoppers!). They were really cute but not really good. I would love to have a bakery (after my kids move out!) but I think the whole point is that they taste good. I love cute but I never want to trade cute for delicious! Life is too short to eat bad cake!

Baptism

My sweet angel of a daughter was baptized last Sunday. We are so proud of her! We were blessed to share our celebration with some close friends of our family whose son was also baptized in the same service. This was a cake that I made for a party after the service. I made this one and the "Girl Cake" at the same time. With the kind of crazy schedule I keep, I hope no one will hold it against me that that they are so similar! Gotta keep it simple sometimes!

Girl Cake!

I love pink and brown. I know that makes me such a girl. So I really wanted to do a girl cake. This cake was for the staff who had summer birthdays at my kid's school. I worked there last year. It is a private school with a small amount of staff who happen to all be women. So I knew I was safe making a girl cake for them. Except this year it turns out that there is a man. I don't know him-I just saw him from the carpool line. I really hope he did not have a summer birthday. It is bad enough that he has to be surrounded by women colleagues all day, but I hate to think of him having to eat pink cake too!

Cupcakes!

This was a fun request! This customer had a tiered cupcake cake for her rehearsal dinner when she was married so she wanted to try it for her daughter's birthday. I had to make sure I knew what she was asking for but once I figured it out, I was sold! The stand I bought to do this is really versatile. I added a coordinating ribbon. I am looking forward to finding cute ribbon patterns and making cupcakes to match!

Who Lives in a Pineapple under the Sea?

I had a lot of fun with this cake. It is a pound cake with chocolate Italian Meringue Buttercream filling and iced with buttercream icing. It was for my girlfriend's daughter whom I have know since she was less than 2. I wanted her to love her cake so I sent her 6 pictures to choose from. This is probably too much info for a 9 year old. I will have to remember that for future reference but I am glad that I did because I ended up making this cake from ideas from 3 other cakes we saw on cakecentral.com. Check out this website. They have amazing cakes. The only problem is that there are so many, you will look at cakes for hours!