Birthday/ Baby Blessing cake

This past Sunday was my brother's birthday. It was also the day he blessed his new baby princess, Lily. So, in honor of the occasion I made a cake for both of them. I've been wanting to try this cake from one of my Wilton class books. They used color flow for the baby face and then added royal icing daisies, but I was looking for simple this time around. I think it turned out pretty good, even though the face is on the chubby side (that's ok because she has chubby cheeks!). I think he liked it and I got to eat some which is always a plus!

Airplane cake

I was able to dust off my cake decorating gear last weekend to make a birthday cake for my friend's little boy. She does the cutest stuff for birthdays, I should really look into having her do my kid's parties! This was a 3-D plane cake.... I think it turned out pretty good, though I must admit that I was wishing to change it. I wished I had a bigger freezer so that I could freeze the cake and make it easier to sculpt and frost. I always want to reshape the 3-D cakes after I've frosted them. Oh, well. Next time. But, I think it's a huge step up from the train!

Kaylee's cake... and Cade's

Wow, it's been a super long time since I've done any cakes! Actually.... I did make one in January as well. Kaylee just turned seven and wanted only a plain white cake with white frosting and flowers. Super easy! I tried to really fancy it up for her with pink roses and some beads around the bottom. She loved it. I wasn't able to get a picture before we stuck in the, um, "candles." Nothing can ruin a cake faster than not having the right candles. Dang!

This cake was for my cousin's daughter's boy friend. She was throwing him a suprise bowling party so I made a bowling cake. Pretty simple, but hopefully tasty.

Heather's Cake

In September I made a cake for little Heather who turned one. I copied a cake I had made a couple years ago for Ava. Heather really liked it!

Because I had extra batter, I made one extra cake and let Kaylee use the extra icing to decorate her own cake. She's getting pretty good!

Amber's Amazing cake!

I was so proud of my pal, Amber for making a super amazing cake for her two year old the day before she moved across the country! Isn't it super cute?!?!? I can't wait to try this one out sometime! To make the black road, she used black sugar crystals.... amazing!!!!

June Wedding cake

I was finally able to get pictures of Lindsey's wedding cake off my brother's camera. Her wedding was the end of June and I LOVED making her cake! It was so simple and stress-free.... for the most part. It's always a little nerve-wracking to travel to Idaho from Logan with a cake and then set it up, but it went pretty well. Next time I need to have more icing on hand to fill in the gaps between layers, but all in all it worked. We made three layers of Grandma's chocolate cake and the icing was a rum buttercream recipe I used on my sister's wedding cake. It was so simple because she just wanted it iced "messy." I can do messy! Then the florist put fresh flowers on. They were so gorgeous! It smelled so good! I can't remember if I stuck around long enough to eat some, but I heard it was good. :)

Lots of Cake!!!

After the July wedding cake, I was starting to think my cake days were ending when suddenly there were so many calls for birthday cakes! At first I was thrilled, then I realized that I had overbooked myself and completely forgotten that I was going back to school in the mix! Oops! I had to cut out about five cakes, and I felt horrible! But, my sanity is important, too, though I usually forget about this. Thanks to a husband and friend who keep me on track! Here are the ones I was able to do in between a San Diego wedding and school starting!

This cake was for Brooklyn's first birthday. We used the same cake I made for Simon's first birthday last year. This time around I made the trees ahead of time, so they stood up a little better. They chose white cake with raspberry filling. I got to eat some and it was pretty yum. :) I must say, this is one of my favorite cakes to make, I just love the animal patterns!

This was the cake I came up with for Steve's Hawaii 5-0 birthday party. Donna threw an amazing party, and I got to go and eat some cake! It was grandma's chocolate cake with buttercream filling and frosting. Pretty yummy if I do say so myself!

This cake was for a little boy in my neighborhood who loves Yo Gabba Gabba. I wasn't familiar with the show, but his mom sent me some pics and cake ideas and we combined two of them to create this cake. It's three layers of chocolate and vanilla with buttercream icing and fondant. I was very nervous as I made this trying to get the right intensity on the colors, but I loved the finished product.

This final cake was for my friend's little girl who turned one this year. She bought the Wilton daisy pan and matching mini daisy pan. It was a super fun cake to make and I thought it turned out pretty darn cute! I would LOVE to make this cake again.