Happy Valentine's Day!

When I think of Valentines Day, I think of Red Velvet. Apparently I'm not the only one since I was asked to make them by a few friends. 5 dozen cupcakes later, this was the end result... all packed up and ready to go!

These were red velvet cupcakes with a whipped cream cheese frosting and a gumpaste heart for decoration.

Happy valentine's day everyone!

Happy birthday Mom!

I know that lots of people say something similar, but my mom is the best there is! She has such a huge kind heart and really does whatever she can to make sure that those around her are happy and comfortable. We all are so lucky to have her!

She always makes sure that our birthday's are special to us kids so we decided that it was time for her to have a wonderful day! We decided to throw her a surprise birthday party this weekend. We didn't have an invite or specific party decor for me to model a cake off of so I spent quite some time thinking about what kind of cake to make for her. Ultimately, I decided on a purple, black, and grey present cake. Anyone who knows my mom knows that she is the present wrapping QUEEN! She has an obscene amount of wrapping paper and fancy bows. Oh, and her favorite color is purple.

I decided to do a multi loop bow this time I did it this partly because I wanted to try something new, but also because it's just something that my mom would love!

So here is the cake I made for her. It was a white almond cake with a strawberry filling. I covered it in fondant and then added the multi loop bow that was made from a fondant/ gumpaste mixture.

Here's a bit of a closer picture of the bow and details on the cake.

What do you guys think of this new bow?

Happy birthday Mom!

Neon rainbow cake

Recently, my best friend asked me to make a birthday cake for her daughter's surprise party. Of course I accepted. I've said it before, and I will say it again, I love making kids cakes!

She sent me a picture of the party set that she purchased and asked if I could match the cake to it. Here is what she sent me:

I was pretty excited to get started. We threw some design ideas around for quite some time before finally deciding on what it would look like and what flavors it would be. Her daughter isn't the biggest fan of cake (crazy huh?) so I decided it might be nice to make a rainbow cake. I thought it would be really cool and was anxious to try it out. She agreed. We ended up deciding on a white almond rainbow cake with strawberry mousse filling and fondant decorations.

Here was the final result:

A side view of the cake:

And the rainbow surprise inside! Those of you who know my personally can guess how excited I was about this!

A picture of the whole cake:

What do you guys think? I had a ton of fun making it!

Happy Birthday Jely!