Olivia's Cake

Today we celebrated Olivia's birthday! She is our really good friend and she is turning 8 this weekend. Last week I had so much fun going over to her house and sitting down with her and her mom to design her perfect cake. Olivia designed the whole cake. She picked the shape of the purse, the polka dots and all of the colors. She knew exactly what she wanted and it was so much fun to make her dream cake come true.

We love you Olivia or Wiva as my daughter would say

Happy Birthday!

The shoe is made out of gumpaste. The cake is a chocolate fudge cake with chocolate buttercream icing, and covered in vanilla fondant. The "tissue paper" is gumpaste also.

Enjoy!

Sleeping Beauty and Friends

Sleeping Beauty is one of my very favorite Disney movies. Even as a young child I loved Sleeping Beauty and my favorite part was when she dances with the owl dressed up in the princes boots and cape. So when I was asked to do a Sleeping Beauty cake I instantly thought of the owl! I made this cake for a darling little 4 year old girl who looks just like Sleeping Beauty!

Happy Birthday Abby!

Sleeping Beauty is a doll and her dress is a delicious 4 layer yellow cake with pink buttercream icing.

All of the forest creatures and the tree stump are made of fondant.

Enjoy, and have a wonderful day!

Congratulations Katie!!!

I just love engagements! Everyone has great stories about getting engaged. No matter how embellished or delicately the question is asked, it's a story that is cherished forever by the married couple. It's the beginning of a whole new chapter, and one of the most memorable moments in life! So here is a cupcake that celebrates that most important question.

Will you marry me?

My inspiration for these cupcakes is my amazing friend and next door neighbor Kim and her newly engaged sister Katie. I found a picture of these lovely cupcakes at http://www.marthastewartweddings.com/ . The ring is plastic, but will eventually be edible and the wrapper is handmade.

Have a Delicious Day!

Cupcakes on the Brain

I have had cupcakes on my mind lately and have been thinking about how to spruce them up a bit. I must admit that cupcakes haven't really been my favorite form of cake, in fact I would have much rather spent the time decorating a large cake, then on lots of little cakes doing the same thing over and over again.

I see a cake as a large blank canvas with incredible potential. A cupcake is like taking that large canvas and cutting it into small pieces, your potential is minimized.

Although I have found that decorating cupcakes with fondant brings a completely different feel to the cupcake and opens it up to great potential. So I started with a simple design and found that cupcakes can be enjoyable after all. So I tip my hat to the cupcake, and to all you cupcake lovers out there.

I hope you have a fabulous, yummy day!

Pink, Pink and more Pink

Happy Birthday Angie!

Sunday night we celebrated my friend Angie's birthday, and had a great time. Even though just as I was serving the pulled pork sandwiches that had been cooking for about 10 hours and the homemade boneless buffalo wings, I realized I had completely forgotten the Corn on the cob. So we ate corn chips and called it good on the veggies.

For dessert she allowed me to experiment. I haven't ever put real ribbon on a cake, but I think they are so beautiful. So I tried it. The ribbon turned out pretty good, but the fondant was rebelling. It wouldn't listen to me at all. I tried being gentle and loving and then it turned nasty, but that fondant wouldn't budge. It wanted to bubble and there was nothing I could do about it. In the end, the fondant won because I knew Angie would still love me even if her cake was a little plump around the middle.

I hope you all have a Delicious Day!

Happy Birthday MOM!!!

I know it has been a long time since I posted something, but I have a good excuse. My mom and sister have been visiting me here in Florida. I grew up out west in Utah, and I only get to see her about twice a year. So when I do see her, she gets all of my time and attention. She is the coolest mom in the world. We have a great time just talking and laughing.

We did do some fun things, like visit Kennedy Space Center on the 4th of July and pet baby alligators after an exciting airboat ride through the Everglades. We saw 6 alligators while out on the boat, one of them, a huge alligator about 10 feet long swam right up to the boat where my mom was. It was a little frightening, but very fun.

Toward the end of the trip, we celebrated my mom's birthday. She and her mother (my grandma) are the ones who have taught me all about cake decorating. My mom has spent hundred, if not thousands of hours making cakes, with my Grandma, with me, with my sisters and for neighbors. So for her birthday, she wanted me to make her a cake and teach her all that I know about fondant, because with as many cake as my mom has made, she has never used fondant.

We had a wonderful time, talking and playing with fondant. It was the most fun I have had making a cake.

She designed her own cake. We decided to go with a Mary Engelbreit-ish style. We both love her work. My mom also loves cherries, so she came up with the idea of a bowl of cherries on top. I hope you enjoy seeing the cake as much as we had fun making it.

The cake was Red Velvet with Almond Buttercream icing. The cherries were made of fondant and we used stems from real cherries. Yummy!!!

Happy Birthday MOM!!!

A Girly Girl Cake

This cake was really fun to make! I made it for my friends daughters 8Th birthday. She had a Fashion Show party and wanted a purse cake. This is my first purse cake and my first pillow cake, it's also the first time I've done zebra print. It was so fun to make and it took me forever, but I learned a ton!


The purse cake was a White Chocolate Sour Cream Cake or WCSC cake as they are called by professionals, and the pillow cake was Vanilla Cake. Both cakes were covered with pink Buttercream icing, then covered in fondant and decorated.
Because I was also helping at the party, I was in charge of cutting the cake. I must admit, it is really hard to cut my own cakes. All that work, but it tasted so good!

Bakugan! Bakugan! Bakugan!

My son just turned 8 yesterday! I can't believe how time flies. We celebrated with a mishmosh of party themes. He couldn't decide on just one, so we combine them all and had a great time. His cake of choice was a Bakugan cake. I wanted to make it super cool for him, but also didn't want to spend his entire birthday making his cake. So I decided on kind of cool and more time with him. He loved it and said it was the best cake he had ever had.

Night at the Museum

This cake takes a little more explanation then most of my other cakes. I made this cake for my son's best friend. The Dino and the gray rocks are a toy, I didn't make them. I wish I could say I had. The boy sitting on top of the T-Rex is the birthday boy, the boy about to get eaten by the T-Rex is his oldest brother. The boy in the blue soccer uniform is his other brother, who lives for soccer and is a very good player. Since I was making a Night at the Museum cake with the Dino in it, which is what he asked for, I thought I would make it a little more personal. Have a Delicious Day!

A Bubbley Blue Cake

This cake was so fun to put together. I made it for 2 cute girls who are having a combined birthday party. They both love the color blue and wanted a blue cake. So this is what I came up with. I hope they have a wonderful birthday.