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.

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!