I'm a Little Teapot!

Happy 3rd Birthday to my sweet girl!  I can't believe how fast she has grown up and how girly she is sometimes!  We had two parties, both tea parties, and thus the need for two cakes.  I think I have the teapot cake down now. 

First one was chocolate with vanilla bean buttercream and the second was strawberry cake with buttercream.  Both covered in marshmallow fondant and hand painted with color gels.

Lego Cake

Chocolate cake with vanilla/almond/butter flavoring frosting!  For an 8th Birthday party for Christoph, who LOVES Legos!

A Killer Whale of a Cake!

Ok, so I know I'm supposed to call it an orca. This spyhopping orca was made for Andy's 11th birthday and he loved it! We're studying sea creatures in science this year and he requested a sea creature cake. Thanks to http://www.cakecentral.com/ for the inspiration!

The cake was two layers -- a white cake with blue swirls (which turned out quite cool looking) on top of a chocolate cake (we called this part the abyss). Frosted with buttercream frosting and fondant sea creatures. Did you know that sea snakes have paddle-shaped tails? They're also supposed to have stripes. The orca was formed with Rice Krispie treats and covered with buttercream frosting.

Elmo Loves Cake!

I don't have overly wonderful photos of this cake, but it was really cute! It had some fondant yellow stars with fondant blue and red letters on toothpicks that spelled out the birthday boy's name, and those went into the red dots on the top of the cake. I didn't put them in for the delivery drive though so no good picture. Sorry!
The cake was white cake with a lovely strawberry and real whipped cream filling. Buttercream frosting and fondant accents. The bottom red border is all "2's" since this is a birthday cake for a 2 year old!

Happy Birthday Monique!

Cream cheese frosting is a little tricky. I wish my hands were freezing like Ni's are, then it wouldn't melt in the bag so fast! I was still happy with how it turned out and just put the flowers over the swirls that weren't all that cute.
The cake is layered inside alternately-vanilla, strawberry, vanilla with white cream cheese frosting between. I snacked on the tops of the cake that I cut off and it is YUMMY!


Gotta love the sippy cup on the table!

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

African Safari

This is for a party we are headed to to celebrate our friends recent trip to Africa!


It is covered in marshmallow fondant and fondant detailing. The sunset is painted on using frosting coloring and rum, which was a first for me and I loved how it turned out! It dries so nice and shiny! We'll see if you can taste the rum at all in just a few hours...I used citrus flavored rum just in case you can. It's an orange flavored cake, so I thought it would be a good compliment.

Brother/Sister Birthday Cakes

These cakes were made for a 9-year-old boy and his little sister. They (their family, the cakes and us) traveled 4 hours to the party.

One cake is cherry chip and the other is a plain white cake. Both have a light layer of buttercream frosting and are covered with buttercream fondant. They were impressed and I had fun!

Baby Einstein

Ahh, yes. Baby Einstein. My daughter is in love with the bee. Her first birthday party was easy to plan, but the cake was a little tricky. Once I started making those little creatures out of fondant, I couldn't stop. I seriously considered covering the whole cake, but stopped and just did the front. It was a strawberry cake with buttercream frosting and fondant animals.



Here's the Birthday Girl!



No after pics because she actually didn't get very messy. That's my girl.