Race Car Cake

This cake was so much fun to make. I saw a "2" like it online, and thought it would be perfect for a friends 4 year old. He wanted a race track with 2 cars. I used a lot more fondant that I usually like to. But it was needed to get a cute cake. This is one of my favorites.

Diego Safari Cake

This cake was for Nathan's 4th birthday. We had the party at a place with a jungle theme, so we through Diego in there as something familiar. This was pretty simple, 3 -6" layers of chocolate cake, frosting with chocolate and then fondant trees, leaves and animals(eyes too). The Diego is a candle I bought at Party City.

Cupcake Birthday Cake

This was for Teresa's 12th birthday. I didn't purchase the pan, I just stacked layer after layer. I learned some valuable lessons, lemon cake can't be carved or stacked, it just isn't sturdy enough(I was also told not to attempt it with strawberry). I should have bought the pan, or borrowed it. But it was fine. We got pictures before the party. (it ended up falling) And we were still able to serve it. It was modeled after the party invitations we made.

Pool Party Cake!

I was asked to make a cake for a 6th grade pool party today. It took me a long time to decide what to do. Originally, I thought it would be cool to make a swimming pool cake, but I couldn't think of anything that wasn't going to look cheesy. So this was the outcome. Nothing fancy, just simple and cute. I'll admit, it's not my favorite, it didn't come out how I had hoped. But it tastes so yummy. I think I'd call it a lemon cream, just because it's not a very strong lemon flavor. I took 2 white mixes and added one lemon pudding mix. Then I made 1 white cake mix and took the white and used it as a marble for the lemon. Then the buttercream has lemon extract in it, just enough to make it oh so yummy!

It's a 4 layer 10" cake (very tall)

It says "Splash in to Summer"

6th grade Grad cake

Today is Teresa's big 6th grade party. I offered to do a cake for it. Here it is, they are the Rosedale North Roadrunners. I really like the way it came out. I thought it would be really fun to put all the kids names on it.

So here are the 4 sides with all 84 names on it

It started out as a 16x16, 2-layer cake, but 2 of the sides fell because I didn't get it level enough. It's hard to level such a large cake. I spent most of yesterday baking, frosting, and fixing the cake - oh and making the cake board(it's 2 layers of cardboard ducktaped together, then wrapped in paper with clingwrap over that). I spent about 2 1/2 hours this morning putting all the decoration on it.

Animal Cakes

For the carnival cake walk, I had to do some cakes too :)



These are very simple, I used an 8" round for both, with the top of a cupcake as the snout. The giraffe was cut smaller and ears cut out. Then I used a star tip and some dark brown fondant to do eyes, noses and mouths.




Since it was just for a cake walk, I went super easy.

Rainbow Cupcakes

I saw this in a magazine while at the orthodontist with Teresa. We thought it would be really fun to try for the carnival cake walk.

It was easy to do, just time consuming. We chose to do 5 colors. I seperated the cake batter in 5 plastic cups(for easy clean-up). Then colored them. I used the liquid coloring and it was really easy to get the darker colors. Then you just layer it. It was interesting because the cupcakes baked in the metal pan looked tie-dyed on top. The ones baked in the silicon pan(in a glass pan) came out just red on top. The kids loved them, we thought they were very cool. We'll have to try different things now, I think camo cupcakes would be cool.

Here's the finished product

Our carnival theme was jungle, so we picked up some plastic animals to top the cupcakes