A Dora the Explorer Birthday Cake -- December 15, 2011

These Dora the Explorer cakes were made for a sweet girl turning 3 years old! She wanted a Dora doll cake and also a regular Dora cake. Very cute and sweet! Both cakes were vanilla cake with buttercream icing. Dora's hair was done in dark chocolate icing to get the just the right color.

A Littlest Pet Shop Birthday Cake-- November 20, 2011

My daughter picked Littlest Pet Shop for her birthday theme this year and it made for a cute cake! We went big as we expected a lot of party guests and wanted to be able to feed them all. This is a three tier cake with a 12 inch bottom 2 layer cake, a 9 inch middle 2 layer cake and a 6 inch top 2 layer cake. Vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream icing. Stripes and dots were tinted buttercream icing. I also made Birthday Cake Pops with vanilla cake and vanilla icing, dipped into candy coating with sprinkles on top! Add in ice cream, fruit and cool whip and lots of colorful marshmallows and you have a very sweet birthday party! Happy 6th Birthday Rachel!!

A Princess Birthday Cake -- November 13, 2011

A Princess birthday cake for a sweet little princess who turned 2 today! Because this cake had to travel by car I didn't put all the decorations on - There are also 4 princesses that are supposed to go in front of the castle and on the second tier. So sweet! Cake is a 2 tier 8 in 2 layer and 6 in 2 layer vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream icing. Cake tattoos by Ace of Cakes added - they were the perfect colors to match the castle and princesses. :) Happy 2nd Birthday Abby!!! I hope you had a wonderful day!

Halloween Cupcakes -- October 30, 2011

I made up a batch of Halloween cupcakes just for fun for the kids -- They loved them! I made the witches fingers, skeleton fingers and werewolf claws from a Wilton mold and poured candy melts. The witches hats were fudge stripe cookies and cut down sugar ice cream cones coated in black candy melt. The small white skulls I made from white candy melts poured into an ice cube tray I found at the dollar store. The other candies were added on for decoration - so much fun!

Soccer Party Cupcakes -- October 29, 2011

I was asked to make the dessert for Noah's End of the Season Soccer cookout again this year. I whipped up some more soccer cupcakes and also, on request, made the chocolate peanut butter cupcakes. I made 4 dozen cupcakes and all but 2 were eaten! :)

Cake Pops!!!!!!!

I have always loved and admired this woman's work: Bakerella - Her cake pops and all of her other stuff as well is just, amazing! I had never tried to make any of these because honestly, they just seemed hard - but with patience, they were, quite literally, a piece of cake! My friend Laura came over to spend the day and that we did - rolling up cake balls (cake crumbled up with 3/4 can of icing for just the right consistency), freezing them, melting candy coatings, shaping some of them, dipping them, sticking on the decorations, making 'oops!' and making new characters out of them. It was fun. The kids absolutely loved them and I figured out that they weren't nearly as hard to make as I imagined them to be. We tried a little of this and a little of that - owls, sock monkeys, turkeys, mummys, reindeer, cats, chickens, ghosts, etc... My favorites were the owls. :)

Minnie Mouse Birthday Cake - September 11, 2011

We celebrated my neice Lydia's 4th birthday on Sunday with a Minnie Mouse party! I had the honor of making her cake again this year. :) 14 in round, double layer white cake with Minnie's head on top in chocolate along with a dozen chocolate cupcakes frosted in pink buttercream. LOVE her excitement!!! Such a sweet birthday girl!