Train Cake

I need to get a better backdrop and not be in a hurry to take cake photos! Usually I am finishing last minute touches before heading out the door with them. This one eventually got a colorful striped ribbon laced in the plate, but no photo of it. It also had a cute Thomas the Tank Engine figure put on the track, but again no photo! It was for a 3rd birthday party, triple chocolate fudge cake with buttercream filling and marshmallow fondant decor! The kids loved it (and so did the adults!)

It's (going to be) A BOY shower cake!

Congratulations to my friend J. who is going to be a Grandma! She ordered a baby shower cake for her daughter's shower last weekend. The only requests were that it be fondant covered and maybe have some airplanes on it. Here's what we came up with---
The cake was white cake with blue swirls and a bit of buttercream frosting underneath the marshmallow fondant.
This little boy is going to be welcomed into one great family and I'm happy I was able to make his first celebration cake!

Birthday Cake!

A friend of my husband's ordered a birthday cake for his wife (also my friend) and requested white cake with chocolate frosting. She supposedly thought that he was ordering it from Costco or making it himself, so I wanted to keep it simple, yet stylish and as far from commercial as I could. I found a similar cake on cake central, but not completely with chocolate frosting, so this is my take on that design...
Happy Birthday, Chrissy!

Happy 1st Birthday, Taylor!

In honor of his parents love of SEC football and favorite college, Taylor's birthday cake was fashioned after the tiger mascot of Auburn University.
Chocolate fudge cake with cream cheese frosting and fondant decor awaited the party goers of this little boy's milestone birthday!

"Imagine if..."

It's the theme of the Alaska State Fair this year. Basically, imagine anything you want coming true.
Now think of a Birthday cake idea.
Specifically for a gal who likes to travel.
Put them together and what have you got...bippity, boppity, umm...sorry, too much Cinderella around here lately.

A BLUE RIBBON WINNER!!!

The North Star Bakery in Wasilla sponsored the contest and though there weren't a lot of entrants, it was still a fun time.

I took the cake to my friend's Birthday party afterward and she loved it. In fact, it fed the whole restaurant, guests and workers included! Everybody loves a piece of Birthday cake.

Flying and Fairies

After a summer hiatus from cake decorating I managed to present two very different, though both BeNi-worthy, cakes from the blue kitchen.

Here is the first...
For a FedEx family picnic at the Anchorage Zoo. It was a lovely day and a great day for a picnic and cake!

Secondly, a Princess in town was having her 3rd birthday and was in need of a chocolate cake with vanilla pudding filling to help celebrate.

Needless to say, I'm resting today and trying not to eat too many pieces of scrap cake.

Lilac Birthday Cake

A friend ordered a 50th Birthday cake for her mom and requested lilacs...here's what we created.It's so fun to have my sister in town visiting for a few weeks. It was especially nice to have her help making all these little flower petals.

Chocolate cake with raspberry filling, marshmallow fondant and buttercream fondant, buttercream dots and chocolate branches!