Cupcakes

These cupcakes were made for a bridal shower. The brides colors were brown and pink, so that's what we did. I also made some red-velvet lollypops to go along with them as a little treat:)

Happy Birthday Sammie!

My instructions were very clear. She wanted a pink cake with a tie dye peace sign on it. I put an added surprise of tie-dying one of the inside layers too :)

Minnie Mouse

Today is a Minnie Mouse cake for Reagan. She is turning 3, and her favorite color is green.

I put small little details on the side of the cake, and gave it a pink border.

The mouse hat is made from chocolate cake, fondant, and gumpaste for the ears. Since the birthday girl loves green, I though I would make the hat sitting on a bed of "grass".

If you get a mouse hat from Disneyland (notice I said land and not Disneyworld...when you come from California, it's it's always land) you always get your name embroidered on the back. So I piped that on with icing.

And here is the final product.

Flip Flop ya dont stop!

Flip Flop cakes for Anya's 3rd birthday, complete with brown sugar-Graham cracker sand, and chocolate shells.

Ni Hao

This is a Ni Hao Kia Lan cake for a 2nd birthday party.

Nothing too crazy...but cute none the less.

Would you look at that...It's giant Legos!

I was told that Jake wanted a lego cake. So that's what Jake got!

Spiderman Spiderman...does whatever a spider can

One of the things I think works really well for kids birthday parties...especially the ones that are not at home, are to make a cake with matching cupcakes. That way, all the kids have something easy to eat, but you still have a cake to do the candles with and maybe take home for the family party later.

So this week it is Spiderman. I started out earlier in the week making the add-ons for the cupcakes. If you do all this before hand, then you can make the actual cake as close to the party as possible. Assembly only takes a minute!

I started by rolling out the fondant and getting all my icing, made before hand.

Cut out all the circles with a small cookie cutter.

I made eight little spider legs and the head with black icing. Then took a black M & M for the body. It gives it a little dimension which looks nice.

Once they are all made, you can set them aside until you are ready to put them on the cupcakes.

The cake was pretty easy to make. It is just chocolate cake with vanilla butter cream which is dyed blue. I made some fondant buildings to put around the side of the cake. I decided to put some spiders on the cake so I could carry the theme over from the cupcakes.

I made sure that when I made the icing for the cake, I made enough to pipe onto the cupcakes too. That way you can be sure that it is the same color (instead of trying to match it later which is always a pain) You put the spiders on that you made earlier, and you are all done!

Red Velvet Lollypops...umm yes please!

So I totally got this idea from the Bakerella blog. http://bakerella.blogspot.com/

They are Red Velvet Cake lolly pops. First let's just say that they are the cutest things in the whole world, ridiculously rich, and on a stick! What's not to love.

As you can see the inside is Red Velvet Cake. But it's more than that:) It's the cake mixed with cream cheese frosting. Then you put it on the stick, and dip it in chocolate...and sprinkles just make everything better!!

These are some that I am making for a friend to use at a bridal shower. The brides colors are champagne and silver. I thought they turned out very nicely

These are some left overs that I put colorful sprinkles to give to some friends in the neighborhood. (That's right ladies...goodies are on the way)



No matter what you put on them, they are cute...but be advised, it does take a certain amount of practice to make them. And if you look on the Bakerella site, you will see that I still have a LONG way to go:)

Pretty in Pink

Sometimes you just need something small and simple. This time it was for my good friend Ger-Bear:) A little cake to celebrate her birthday at the 4h of July party. So I started with a two layer 6 inch cake. 1/2 chocolate and 1/2 vanilla. I filled in between the layers with vanilla butter cream.

I iced the whole thing in chocolate icing, and ran a cake comb around the side to give it a nice finished look.

Then I piped on a hot pink border and the top by using a star tip and just going around in circles til I filled the whole thing. I threw some little pearlized candy pieces on top (because they're cute). And that was that.

Let Freedom Ring

Some quick 4th of July cupcakes that are super easy. I made your standard choc. and vanilla cupcakes. Then I mixed some red and blue icing and put it in a piping bag. After the cupcakes had cooled, I poked the tip of the piping bag into the cupcake on top and squeezed a little in. Then frosted the top white, threw on some sprinkles and decorative toothpicks! Viola patriotic cupcakes!

CARS PART 2

So I was asked to make another "Cars" cake for a little guy named Samuel. It is a lot like the other one...with some small differences. But I guess that's what's nice about cake...they are all a LITTLE different.

So there it is...I hope he had a great 3rd birthday:)

Holy Rusted Metal Batman!

This cake and cupcakes were made for our good friend Avery. He was having a batman themed birthday. We decided to make a small cake and cupcakes so there would be more than enough for everyone.

I originally thought I would just make small yellow cupcakes and put the black bats on them. But as I started making them, it just didn't seem very, well, fun. So I thought it might be better to make the old school comic book action words instead. It turned out bright and fun, which is just what I was going for.

I made the buildings around the side, and painted them with luster dust first, then with black food coloring to make them more comic book looking.

The top of the cake...still looking for a little bat mobile for the road on the cake. Couldn't find one...bummer.

Ants Marching

One of the cakes I made this week was for donation at a school fair. Because we didn't know who would end up with it, it was decided to make it unisex. So here is the picnic blanket with all the little marching ants.

The average view of my table while I am working on stuff.

It was actually a very easy cake to make. Just step by step putting it together.

I really liked the little ant hill...and that led to putting the ants around the side of the cake as if they are underground.

The eggs are made of fondant with icing on the top and a dash of luster dust to look like paprika. The watermelon is a piece of chocolate cake that I covered and painted. Overall I was very happy with the way it turned out.

Castle Cake

This week I made a Princess Castle cake for a little girl's 4th birthday party. I was given the instructions that the cake should be pink and purple, and girly. Here is the result.

I have never made anything like this before, so it was fun to try. I think on the whole it turned out well.

CARS

And for my next trick...I will turn this lump of cake and icing into a cute little "Cars" cake :)

First you make and stack the cake.

I started making some of the add-on's a couple days ago. That way, you can put the cake together pretty quickly after it's stacked and baked.

I made some of the signs that would go around the cake.

These are letters of his name done first in chocolate, then covered in non-perils and outlined in icing.

Then carve our the road, cover it in fondant, stack that bad boy up, and start assembling:)

I think the little touches like are the things I enjoy doing the most.

A view from the top.

I suppose this is the back, but it's decorated all the way around. I really liked the street light sign...thought it turned out super cute.

And here is a view from what I suppose is the front of the cake. Not bad for a days work.