Dual Birthday

I made a basketball cake for my nephews 10th birthday(Dec 20th). They are here from Utah, so it was really cool to be able to make him a cake.

It's just a 2 layer square chocolate cake with chocolate pieces in the center. The backboard and balls are fondant. It was fun to make.

We were also celebrating my sister-in-laws Birthday (which happens to be today). Her theme was chocolate. This was a chocolate cake with chocolate chips. On top was a white chocolate cream and the whole thing was wrapped in chocolate. They call it a chocolate collar. The white dots are white chocolate the light brown dots are milk chocolate and the rest is dark chocolate. It was the first time I'd tried something like this, so it's a little messy. And I didn't have the right paper to use, so the collar has a few wrinkles. I will definitely try this again.

The aftermath of making 2 cakes in one day is not pretty. My kitchen won't recover completely until tomorrow. But well worth it :)

Sugar-Free Chocolate Cake

For my mom's birthday I make her a sugar free cake. It's usually spice cake, because I have a great recipe that works with splenda quite well. But Chocolate is her favorite, so this year I decided to try chocolate again. It was pretty good.
Here's the link to the recipe
http://www.dianasdesserts.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/recipes.recipeListing/filter/dianas/recipeID/4398/Recipe.cfm

Chocolate Birthday Cake

Just a little cake for one of the ladies on the School PTC with me. She turned 30 yesterday and we're having lunch and cake to celebrate ;)


It's a 2 layer 8" round Devil's Food cake with chocolate buttercream frosting and Chocolate Creme Pirouette cookies around the sides and a ribbon to finish it off.






Those cookies look cool, but it turns out they don't have a great flavor. I was dissapointed!

I created a Monster...

No really!

He's a cute little monster. He's a 3 layer 6" round carrot cake. We are having a Trunk-or-Treat at school and the families who decorate their trunk will have the chance to win one of 3 cakes, this being one of them :)

Halloween Birthday Cake

Halloween Birthday cake

I made this cake for Teresa's friends birthday party. It was a super intense cake with a lot of stuff on it. But really fun! And I broke it up so I wasn't doing it all in one day. (plus a super fun costume party - Teresa was mother nature and I was a scarecrow - check the family blog after halloween for a pic)

It's a 3 tiered cake, with a 2 layer 10" Devil's food round, with chocolate frosting in the middle and buttercream on the outside. The middle layer is a 2 layer 8" round, and the Jack on top was made using a small pyrex bowl.

This is the back

Close-up of the spider and pumpkins. I had originally planned to do 7 spiders in different parts of the cake, but after making 1, I decided 2 would be enough. They were pretty tedious to make. But cute!

Close-up of the cat and a jack-o-lantern

Close-up of the witch with the moon behind her.

And the Jack-o-lantern with a spider on top. This is covered in fondant.

Wizards of Waverly Place

This cake was for a friends daughter who wanted a Wizards of Waverly Place party(it's a Disney show). Only trouble is, the show doesn't really have any 1 item that represents it. So the end result was Merlin's hat(used in one episode - that I watched, btw) and Alex's wand, with spells from the show piped on the side.


It's a 3 layer white cake, with a little surprise orange frosting in the middle. I wanted to marble the inside with some orange, but for one, I forgot :P and I wasn't sure what color it would be after I cooked it. I'll have to experiment on a different cake. The hat is a sugar cone wrapped in fondant and the wand is just fondant with a yellow fondant star and yellow sugar sprinkles to give it a magical look ;)

This ones for you

A 4 layer cake alternating chocolate fudge and marble chocolate chip, with chocolate buttercream in between the layers covered in white buttercream. YUMMY!


I made this just because, so we get to eat this one :)





(It was yummy - or "lummy" as Nathan put it)