Sophie's Birthday

My favorite niece, Sophie, had her third birthday this weekend. My sister-in-law said that the only thing that mattered about the cake was that it was hot pink! So, hot pink it was! I did a round french vanilla cake covered in HOT PINK buttercream with white marshmallow fondant accents. Happy Birthday, Soapy (as my daughter calls her!!). I love you!

Canton Academy High School Reunion

The Canton Academy classes of 1992 and 1993 had a high school reunion this weekend and I was able to do a fun cake for them. We (the host of the party and I) decided to do a cake that looked like a yearbook, but put items on it that represented the school. This included their mascot, paw prints, etc. The cake was french vanilla covered in buttercream.

We represent... the lollipop guild!

That is the song that I was singing all night while I worked on this cake! A sweet one-year-old was having a lollipop themed party for her first birthday. The main cake was a two-tiered cake covered in lollipops and other fun accents. The bottom tier was chocolate fudge and the top tier was strawberry. The icing was buttercream. The lollipops, curly-cues and polka dots were all made of marshmallow fondant. These lollipops were so much fun to make. The colors of the fondant matched the colors that were on the invitation. Her smash cake was french vanilla covered in buttercream - made to look like a lollipop.

Fun Cakes!

A friend that I teach with asked me to do two cakes for him this past weekend... one for his son and one for his daughter. I asked what they wanted, because typically I do more complicated cakes, and he said chocolate cake with chocolate icing. Do you want it shaped like anything in particular? No. Do you want anything on it? Not sure. One day last week when his son and daughter were at school I got a chance to find out what they wanted. His little girl drew this cute picture of what she wanted her cake to look like.

His son said he just wanted it to say, "Happy Birthday, Logan" with purple and gold colors. He's an LSU fan, but don't blame him... it's his father's fault.

This is how the cakes turned out!

                             

I was certain that the kids were going to hate the cakes since they seemed so plain to me, but my friend's sweet daughter came to me at school and said that her smiley face cake was the BEST cake she had ever seen. She said that it was even better than the picture she had drawn :). I love kids... it is so easy to make them happy! Happy Birthday, Logan and Liza!

Firetruck Cake

This cake was done last weekend for Parker's third birthday party. I've been a little slow in posting all of my cakes since school has started!! The party was decorated so cute! There were these great fireman hats to wear and the party took a field trip to the local Fire Station! It was really great. The firetruck on this cake was french vanilla covered in fondant. The sheet cake was french vanilla and covered in buttercream. Yes, another black cake. There were little black mouths running all around this party! The accents on the sheet cake were fondant.

Book Cake

I did another retirement cake last weekend for one of the sweetest government teachers EVER!! I am really, really fond of Mrs. Renee and couldn't wait to do a cake for her in order to somewhat thank her for everything that she has done for our family!! The cake pales in comparison to her generosity, but it was a start to show my gratitude!!

This was another book cake since these seem to appeal to me when doing cakes for teachers. Probably because I like to read ... and this one was appropriate because Mrs. Renee and I share books! Since she was a government teacher, I decided that I should drape a flag over the book, in addition to the same classroom items that I put on the last retirement book cake. The cake was french vanilla (seems to be a favorite lately), the icing was buttercream, all of the accessories on the cake were marshmallow fondant.

I put all three pictures up because I wanted you to see all angles of this cake. Not like you care! But I would have been wondering what the other side looked like if it was me viewing these pictures for the first time!

Happy Retirement, Mrs. Renee! Enjoy yourself!
              

Four-Wheeler Cake

Last weekend I did a four-wheeler cake. This cake was so much fun! I really enjoyed it. I made a fondant four-wheeler and then decided to make it look like mud tracks through the middle of the cake. The rest I covered in grass and rocks. It was a real "boy" cake!!! The cake was french vanilla, icing was buttercream, four-wheeler and rocks were made of marshmallow fondant. Oh, and I threw in a little mud... only, kidding!

Minnie Mouse

I had a weekend full of birthdays! In addition to the 2 first birthdays that I posted about earlier, I also had a cake for sweet Sophie's second birthday! Just like all of the other 2 year olds in the world, she loves Minnie Mouse. So her mom and I worked together to come up with this cute design of Minnie.

Her ears were milk chocolate fudge and her face was french vanilla. Her bow and her nose was marshmallow fondant. You can't see this in the picture, but she had a marshmallow fondant edge all the way around her that matched the bow... pink with white polka dots. The rest of her face was covered in buttercream. Don't you just love Minnie Mouse? It was hard to keep myself from talking to her while I was making this cake :)

Slowing Down

During the summer, I got to where I was doing 3 or 4 (5,6...) cakes a week. I loved having the ability to do this while I was off. However, I go back to work again tomorrow, so I am going to slow down my cake making during the school year. Each cake takes time to make and bake, time to make the icing/fondant, and then usually 4+ hours to decorate. This takes a considerable amount of time away from my family, as you can imagine, so I am going to try to limit myself to one cake a week while I am teaching. I have a hard time saying "no," but I am going to try really hard to keep myself in check on this - for my sweet husband and precious daughter. Next May when school lets out I will go back to doing multiple cakes a week for the summer.

I am going to talk to my webmaster, Theresa (hehehe... she is going to loooove that!) about seeing if there is some type of calendar that I can put on the sidebar of my blog that will show what weeks I already have a cake booked. If you know how to do this leave a comment and let me know!! Thanks to all of you for all of the cake business this summer! It was so much fun making so many different types of cakes, and I continue to learn so much with each one! If you would like for me to do a cake for you during the school year, please make sure you talk to me about it in advance so that I can get you booked!