Sweet Celebrations

summer time cupcakes

This was for a birthday party at the Lake.  I don't have a picture of the tower that was created with the cupcakes and the 6 inch cake, but I imagine it was perfect for a swimming party.  The cake and cupcakes were chocolate with buttercream icing.

 

monkeys and 100 days

My friend Kelly is doing her internship in a kindergarten classroom this semester.  They like to celebrate when they've completed 100 days of school.  I definitely agree that calls for celebration.  That's an accomplishment for a five year old.  I have a five year old.

 

The theme for their celebration was a tropical monkey type theme and Kelly asked for a cake.  It was a fun cake to do even if I am a month or two late with blogging it.  ;-)

The cake was yellow and the filling was cream cheese.  That's all Kelly will get.  She's wild and crazy like that!  The icing was buttercream and the decorations were all fondant.

 

princess

I think this is my first princess cake, if I remember correctly.  I know it was my first sugar crown.  The crown was made of marshmallow fondant as were all the other decorations.

The whole girly princess theme was fun for me especially since I live in the land of frogs, snails and puppy dog tails.

And guns.  Can't forget the toy guns.  :-)

 

This cake was for Princess Lainey, a beautiful little lady who happens to be our friend so we went to the party, had fun and ate cake.  One of the tiers was yellow cake with buttercream filling and the other tier was chocolate cake with cream cheese filling.  It was covered with marshmallow fondant.

Can you find one of my princes in this picture?  He snuck in after I repeatedly said, "Get out of the picture."  He's a sneaky little lover of frogs, snails and puppy dog tails!  And toy guns!

curious george

A Curious George cake for a curious (not to mention adorable) little boy who turned one.  For another friend.  Another first birthday.  I love it!

The cake was all chocolate with fudge filling and buttercream icing.  All the decorations were marshmallow fondant.  Don't you love those little bananas? 

Happy Birthday Noah!!

  

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.

technical difficulties and a baby shower

I have broken some kind of file path causing all of my pictures to disappear.  I would explain that further if I thought you were interested or if I even could explain it.  Probably couldn't!  So we'll just call it technical difficulties. The short of it is I'm having to go back in to every post and reload the pictures.  I've only done a few of the more recent ones so it will take me a while to get them all. 

I'm not happy about this, but such is life.......

While you wait here is a baby shower cake I did last week.  I love baby shower cakes.  It was fun except for the part where my electricity went out and I had to decorate the majority of it by using only one flash light.  But I think it turned out pretty cute anyway.

 

paintball

I've taken a little break this past week because we went  to Disney.  We saw the mouse and all of his friends, rode It's a Small World and had a really great time.  I know you're thinking, "What? You had a great time with two small kids?"  But we did and the kids did absolutely great.  I'll share some cute pictures from our trip soon.

But for now I'm back with a fun paintball cake.  The cake was yellow with chocolate buttercream icing.  The fence and the guy were made from marshmallow fondant.

 

Close up of the paintball guy.

 

And the back of the cake.

 

max and ruby

This was such a fun and challenging cake done for a cute little girl's birthday.  The top tier was chocolate cake with cream cheese filling and the bottom tier was yellow cake filled with chocolate butter cream icing.  Both were covered with marshmallow fondant and all of the decorations were fondant.

 

 

 

goin fishin

I loved doing this cake.  Probably because I have boys and they would love a cake like this.  (They actually did love it, but were willing to part with it.) 

The cake was chocolate with buttercream filling all covered with marshmallow fondant.  All of the decorations were made out of fondant as well, with the exception of the fishing line.  It was dental floss. 

 

a little more christmas

I'm a little bummed that the holidays are over and we're back to the "real" world.  Our Christmas was great and it's just a little sad that it's over.  So I thought I would share a couple more Christmas goodies just because I don't want to let go quite yet.  ;-)

This is a present cake with a reindeer sitting on the side done for, none other than, Ms. Kelly.  The decorations and the reindeer were all marshmallow fondant.

 

 

 

We decorated (the kids and I) some cookies like these for Santa and some other very special people over the holidays.

 

I also did a super cute non Christmas themed cake on Christmas Eve.  It was all boy for a little boy's birthday so check back later this week.