I'm not a Gator fan, but end up making the most Gator cakes. This is another for my friend Kelly who loves cream cheese icing. The cake was actually not for Kelly but a friend of hers. She wouldn't appreciate me saying that she wanted a Gator cake. :-)
So anyway the icing was blue cream cheese icing, the gator head was a frozen buttercream transfer and the cake was yellow with cream cheese filling.
Summer is here and we've been enjoying it spending time at the beach, vacation bible school for the boys, and hanging out at our very favorite pool! I love summer! I love the sun, water and just being with family and friends and enjoying each other. I guess I'm saying all of that to say that blogging has been the last thing on my to do list. So, I'm way behind.
I'll try and catch up the next couple of days, so today you get two cakes. The first one is yet another lingerie cake, but decorated a little differently. It's yellow cake, cream cheese filling, buttercream icing and fondant polka dots.
A little more "detail". :-o
The second cake is completely not related to the first. It was for the end of season baseball party of the little league baseball team our church sponsors. My very good friend, sassychick's husband coached the team and did an amazing job. He's currently coaching the All Star team and they're doing well from what I hear.
The cake was yellow with cream cheese filling and buttercream icing. The whole top is a frozen buttercream transfer.
I know I've posted one of these before, but this one is gator and it has a little bit of a funny story behind it. Funny now, but not so much last week.
I was working on this cake right up until the minute I needed to leave to deliver it. I was in a hurry to say the least. I didn't even have time to change. I went in my jogging pants and t-shirt covered in powdered sugar....just so you know how big of a hurry I was in. :-) Well, I put the cake in the box, closed the lid and didn't give it another thought.
I got to my delivery spot and opened the lid to show Ms. Julie S. her cake. What I saw was my first real "cake disaster". The top part of the gator head had stuck to the box lid. I was horrified and so upset. Julie was so sweet about it, saying after three kids nothing really bothered her. I offered to take it home and fix it, but in the end she just took the cake as it was saying it really was no big deal.
I felt bad about it all evening and then I get a text from Julie with a picture of the cake restored to it's former glory. I was amazed and very glad to say the least! After talking to her, I found out that Julie just cut the part of the box that had Mr. gator on it out, stuck it in the fridge for a while, and just flipped it back over onto the cake perfectly as if nothing had ever happened. That was brilliant of her because it was a frozen butter cream transfer after all. So all was well and Mr. T had his gator birthday party.
Note to self....never ever get in a hurry again and STOP PROCRASTINATING!
The Yellow Jackets. That was my high school mascott. It was fun making this guy for a former teacher.
Another buttercream transfer, yellow cake and cream cheese filling.
My oldest son's very good friend from church turned four and her birthday party was this past weekend. She was so cute about asking me to do her cake and telling me she wanted Aerial on it.
The cake was chocolate with fudge filling and white buttercream icing. Aerial is a frozen buttercream transfer. I love doing these. It makes me feal like I can draw when in reality I can not.
