A bear cake for Zoe!

A few weeks ago, a good friend of mine asked me to make a birthday cake for her daughter’s 1st birthday party. I was excited to be able to contribute to her special day!

Her mom decided on a pink and brown party with a teddy bear theme. Adorable!

To fit in with the theme, we decided on a three tier cake with a 3d bear on top and a small smash cake for Zoe to tear into. (Which was super fun to watch!)

Here is a picture of the final result:

And a pic of the smash cake:


The tiers covered in chocolate fondant were chocolate cake with banana cream filling. The tier covered in pink fondant was white cake with banana cream filling. The bear on top was also made of white cake. Polka dots and the 1 on top were also made of fondant.


Happy 1st Birthday Zoe! We had a great time at your party!

Halloween Cupcakes

Halloween is a holiday that I never celebrated growing up. My parents were very religious and didn't approve of the ideas behind it. Were my parents the only ones?

When I was asked to make Halloween cupcakes for a costume party, I initially hesitated due to my ingrained response to the day. I've never done anything Halloween themed so I thought it would be fun to try.

We settled on cupcakes since they are so much easier to distribute and eat. I found some really cute halloween themed cutters and wrappers at Hobby Lobby that I decided to use. Here is the end result:

These were marble cupcakes with orange colored buttercream frosting. They were topped with black fondant bats, cats, and witch hats.

Here's a pic of the spider web wrapper:

Cute huh? I was glad to hear that everyone at the party had such good things to say about them!

Did you have any plans for Halloween?

Banana Cream Pie cupcakes

Whenever I am getting together with friends, I am always asked to bring dessert. Last weekend, my husband, daughter, and I headed over to my cousin's house to visit with his family. I wanted to bring cupcakes but couldn't decide on what to make. I thought about my favorite desserts, and Banana Cream Pie was one that came to mind. I love it! Why not transform it into a cupcake?

I started out with a banana cupcake that I completely messed up. I usually take out all spices that I need from my cupboards to save some time before I get started. I did this, but forgot to put away the spices I used to make lunch that day. Unfortunately, I had to toss the batter because my garlic and cinnamon are stored in identical containers. Garlic banana cupcakes? No thank you.

After the mishap, I decided to switch gears completly and go with a chocolate cupcake. I had already made the filling and icing for the banana cream pie cupcakes, so they turned into chocolate banana cream cupcakes.

Here's a photo of the end result:

Chocolate cupakes filled with banana cream, iced with vanilla whipped cream icing and garnished with graham cracker crumbs and banana chips.

They were a pretty big hit! I embarrassed to share how many of them we all ate!

Because they were such a big hit, I decided to make them again this weekend for our girls day. My best friends and I make sure that we get together at least once a month and just hang out and talk. We have 4 kids between the 3 of us so we decided to have a potluck pool party this time!

One of my friends doesn't care for chocolate cake (What?!) so I altered these just a bit.

I made a cinnamon (no garlic) graham cracker cupcake with banana cream filling, vanilla whipped cream frosting, and graham cracker crumbs and banana chips for garnish. Here is a photo:

They were enjoyed by all!

What flavor cake/cupcake would you guys like to see next? Any ideas or suggestions?

A Hawaiian Sponge Bob party!

One of my long time friends (We met our first year of High School!) recently asked me to make cupcakes for her daughter’s upcoming fourth birthday party. Her daughter loves SpongeBob so they decided on having a SpongeBob Hawaiian Luau party!

I started off by finding these SpongeBob cupcake liners. Cute aren’t they?

My friend wanted the cupcakes to be bright and colorful and asked if I could make pink, yellow, and blue cupcakes with alternating pink, blue, and yellow frosting. She also wanted half of the cupcakes to have an umbrella and the other half to have a flower on top. I was excited to get started and so was my 3 year old daughter once she saw the mixing bowls and Kitchen aid being taken out. She loves being my frosting taste tester!

Here was the end result. Flowers:

Umbrella's:


All set up on the cupcake stand:


These cupcakes were vanilla cake with vanilla frosting. The flowers that you see on some of the cupcakes were edible. I think they came out pretty cute and were enjoyed by all!

Happy 4^th Birthday Kayla!

Mod Turtle

A friend of mine asked me to make a birthday cake for her son's 1st birthday party this weekend. She wanted to do a Mod Turtle birthday theme and asked for a 3d turtle as a topper.

Here is the final product:

This was a white cake filled with whipped cream frosting, iced with whipped cream and covered in fondant with fondant accents. The turtle on top was also made of white cake and covered in fondant. The letters on top were piped on with whipped cream frosting. It was all edible!

I also made the birthday the birthday boy a smash cake to enjoy. The smash cake was white cake with iced with whipped cream frosting with a fondant turtle on top and fondant polka dots around the sides. After I delivered the cake, I also added the the wording on top with blue whipped cream. Unfortunately, I didn't take a picture of the final product.

I really enjoyed making this cake and hope that everyone loved it as much as I did.

Happy 1st birthday Ryan! I hope you had a great party!

Sesame Street has the 1st birthday party market cornered!

My friend Jen thinks that Barney is taking over the world. She believes that Barney and all of his kiddie followers are some kind of cult. I am here to tell her that's she's got it all wrong. Elmo and friends are the real cult. I can't get away from this guy!

So, my hairdresser's son turned 1 this weekend. While she was doing an amazing job on my hair one day, we started talking about what we do in our free time (I have free time?!) and I mentioned to her that I do cakes on the side. She asked me if I do kids cakes. Do I do kids cakes?! Those are my favorites! She asked if I could do her son's cake and I agreed. Then she told me what the birthday theme was.... Elmo. AGAIN. Again, I can't get away from him!

I've said it multiple times and I will sayit again, I don't like making the same cake twice. Since this was my 3rd Elmo/Sesame Street cake, I thought it would be a challenge to find a new cake design to try out. Surprisingly, it was pretty simple! Take a look:

Elmo

Cookie Monster

The bottom cakes were yellow cake with one cake filled with banana cream and the other with strawberry filling. The presents also had fondant accents. Elmo and Cookie monster were 3d made of yellow cake, buttercream, and fondant accents.

I also made a little smash cake for the birthday boy. Don't mind Elmo's football head. Sometimes when you do things free hand, it doesn't come out quite right. Ha! I thought he was pretty cute anyway!


Happy 1st Birthday Elliott! I hope you have great time at your party!

Happy Father's Day

I spent the days leading up to father's day trying to decide how to decorate a father's day cake that would top last year's tie cake. The tie cake wasn't very difficult to make, but my family sure was impressed by it!

When discussing my dilemma with a co-worker and fellow cake decorator, she mentioned that her family was kind of caked out. Dare I say, we kind of were too. I went back to the drawing board and decided on one of my dad's favorite desserts.... cheesecake! I'm not a fan of cheesecake at all (I know, I know, I must be nuts right?) but everyone else loves it so I was confident that it would be a crowd pleaser.

I also decided to make a sauce from fresh strawberries and raspberries to pour on top. It turned out very yummy! I even had a slice!

So, here's a picture! It was enjoyed by all!

I also want to wish a HappyFather's Day to all the wonderful dad's out there! A special father's day wish to my dad who really was a wonderful example of what a father and husband should be and to my husband who is such a wonderful daddy to our 3 year old daughter!