Sweet Celebrations

wedding shower cakes and an update

 
Yum!  Chocolate is my favorite.  It's been a while, I know, so I'm going way back to May and try to catch my blog up.  What better to start with than this chocolate cake I did for a wedding shower.  It has chocolate buttercream icing and chocolate ganache on top with strawberries.  Talk about death by chocolate...

So for an update, we've been super busy.  But then again who isn't, right?  Summer was fun but over way too fast.  Then we moved into fall with school starting.  My oldest started first grade this year and my baby began K-4. 
 

Then there was soccer which took up a lot of our free time for a couple of months, but the boys had an awesome time.
 

And finally, I went back to work full time.  This has been an adjustment, but really not as bad as I thought.  After six years of working part time and the kiddos being in school and loving it, we decided it was time.  But the downside is I just don't have enough time to decorate cakes like I would like to.  I am planning to do a few here and there just because I enjoy it so much.  So I want to go ahead and apologize in advance if you ask and I have to turn you down.  However, please ask and the sooner the better.  If you ask me to do a cake for you now for say January, I can't turn you down because I don't really have any plans for that far in advance....most of the time.  ;-)

I will leave you with this wedding dress cake I did for another wedding shower.  Yellow cake, cream cheese filling and buttercream icing.  Have a great weekend!

 

construction zone

A very good friend of ours had a birthday back in March.  His party theme was construction vehicles and turned out super cute.  The party was a blast!  All the kids brought their power wheels over and rode in the birthday boy's front yard.  I know my boys had so much fun and it looked like all the other kids were having fun as well. 

My oldest and his passenger friend.  A small look into the future, huh?
 

The birthday boy

My "too cool" nieces.
 

My little man being silly as usual
 

And since this is a cake blog and all, here is the cake.  It was white almond cake with cream cheese filling and iced in white butter cream.  The signs were fondant, the "asphalt" was oreo cookies mixed with a little cream cheese icing, the trucks were all toys and the logs were cracker sticks painted brown.

 

And one more of the birthday boy about to blow out his candles.
   

a cake for nana

Hello!  It's been awhile.  I have no excuses, only blog laziness.  I have at least five cakes to share and the list is growing.  So I'll start with a cake I did for a very special day honoring my Nana.  Nana was a girls softball, volleyball and track coach years ago.  She was honored with a very nice ceremony and the new softball field in our town was named after her.

It was an honor for me to make the cake.  I tried to incorporate all of the sports she coached. 

Softball...

Volleyball...

And the track is around the very bottom of the second tier.  There's also a megaphone and pom poms because, you guessed it, she was a cheer leading coach as well.

I can't remember exactly what flavors I used.  I think one was white almond cake with cream cheese filling and another was chocolate cake with peanut butter filling.  Thanks for looking!  I'll try not to be a stranger.

  
  

my cousin's baby shower

We had a baby shower for my cousin's wife back in the first part of December.  Since then they have had their beautiful baby girl.  She is so pretty and the new parents are tickled pink and the grandparents, well they are on cloud nine as is Aunt R.

I used the same cupcake stand as before and added a 6 inch cake to the top. 

it's 2010 and i'm back

I've been MIA for the last month or more.  It seems I unintentionally took a blog break with all the Christmas busyness.  We had a great Christmas even though it was super busy.  I didn't do a whole lot of cakes over the Holidays but I did do a few and I will be sharing them soon.

From our family to yours, Happy New Year!

And my boys would like to thank Santa for their new toy shot guns.  They like guns.  A little or maybe a lot.

I leave you with a white almond cake with chocolate buttercream icing.  I made it just for my husband.

 

dog bones

These cute little dog bone cookies were for Sassy's son whose third grade class has been reading the book "Because of Winn Dixie".  The cookies were peanut butter.  I haven't read the book, but apparently the peanut butter has something to do with it.  Very cute idea, I thought, and my cute-as-pie niece agreed.

  

And then she was all tuckered out and found a comfy spot on the floor to take a quick nap.

my first wedding cake

Finally, at last, I'm sharing with you my very first wedding cake.  The picture to the left is a little teaser, but first let me explain. 

I was extremely nervous to do a wedding cake for anyone so my policy was I DON'T DO WEDDING CAKES.  Never say never....

My aunt, after a long story with many details that I won't go into,  met someone special, fell in love and they decided to get married.  After years of thinking she would never marry and being perfectly content with that, God, in his amazing love, sent her someone.  Someone who would love and cherish her as she does him.  Someone to share this life with, to share her hopes and dreams with and to share her Christian walk with.  I think she deserves this awesome blessing and so did her Father God!

 

So Aunt Sammie asked me to make her cake.  She made me feel completely at ease saying that it didn't have to be fancy or super duper perfect.  She knew that I could do it and wanted to build my confidence.  I wanted to be able to bless her with a pretty wedding cake.  So it was settled.

I was pleased with the way the cake turned out  and so were the happy couple.  The cake was all white almond (which is my new favorite by the way) with buttercream filling.  I covered the cakes with beige fondant and we went with a little bit of a grape theme.  So without further ado, here are a few pictures.

 

 

mama's retirement cake

My mother retired this year after teaching for 35 years.  That's quite an accomplishment and I'm very proud of her.  We had a retirement party at church for her.  The theme was "elegant beach" and the decorations were beautiful thanks to the very talented MiMi.  She outdid herself as usual and I wish I had pictures, but I don't yet. 

I do however have pictures of the cake. 

 

The cake was covered in shades of brown marshmallow fondant.  The coral was made from royal icing.  The shells were made from candy melts and the "fish roses" were made from fondant.

super hero birthday

My oldest son turned five earlier this month.  He decided he wanted a superhero birthday party so I went with a cake that incorporated several of his favorites.  The board was of course Spiderman.  The bottom tier was Batman and the cake was chocolate cake with chocolate chips and fudge filling....more like death by chocolate but it's my favorite because I am definitely a chocolate lover.  The middle tier was Hulk and more chocolate cake with peanut butter filling.  This was a hit at the party and the first flavor to go.  The top tier was Superman and yellow cake with cream cheese filling.  All icing was buttercream and all decorations were fondant.

 

 

The party was fun and the birthday boy had a great time!

 

For a few more pictures, click here.

my little candy man

My youngest turned three a couple weeks ago and we had a candy themed birthday party for him complete with a candy buffet.  Every kid's dream....

  

It was so much fun and I think the kids had a blast including the birthday boy.

 

I made a gumball machine cake.  The gumball machine was strawberry cake with buttercream filling and covered with marshmallow fondant.  The bottom square was yellow cake, cream cheese filling and buttercream icing.

 

 

Check out more pictures from the party here.