Mickey's Christmas

My donation for the Festival of Trees. Obviously I chose a Mickey themed house. I made the pattern out of cardboard first. Baked the gingerbread (leave out the baking powder/soda so it keeps its shape). Made the windows out of isomalt sugar. Assembled the house and began to decorate. The black Mickey shapes are made of royal frosting. All of the white snow, piping, green tree are made with royal frosting. The tree base and chimney are made with rice krispies. All of the red and green decor on the house are M&M's of different sizes. No, I did not make the characters out front :) I purchased them as part of my donations from Toys'R'us.

Camera Cake

 Say cheese!

 Adjust your camera to the proper settings.

 Get your flash ready!

And, click! Picture perfect.

My sister-in-law is one talented photographer! So her hubs asked me to make a camera cake for her. She loves anything golden-yellow and anything vintage. AND she likes clean lines. 

Vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream, covered and decorated in fondant. The "lens" and "flash" are both painted with silver and pearl sheen for a glossy look.

Black & Gold

This is a December birthday cake. The top layer is lemon cake with vanilla frosting. The bottom layer is chocolate cake with hazelnut frosting. The whole cake is covered in fondant. The top layer has gold brush strokes (they really are gold, not yellow) with gold sanding sugar for texture. The bottom layer is wrapped in three different color/sized ribbons for depth and dimension. The dots are simply black frosting. Happy Birthday Shawna!

Princess Peach

I love when little girls go out of the "norm" and do something so fun! The little girls who got this cake wanted a Super Mario cake, but still wanted a princess party. Yay for Princess Peach!

This is a chocolate cake with chocolate filling, covered in fondant, airbrushed pink and decorated with fondant. I went online and found a coloring picture of P.P. and used that as my pattern for the top of the cake. 

Brown Paper Packages

I was able to help throw a party for the ladies at our church. We ended up having a "Favorite Things" party, which ended up being SO fun! Of course we had to have some 'brown paper packages tied up with string' at the party. So I went to the dollar store, naturally. I found a roll of brown paper, different sized snowflakes, multiple size bells, and some silk flower bouquets. I bought the white string and cinnamon scented pinecones at Micheals. I already had the tea light candles from a previous party (purchased at Hobby Lobby), the mason jars, and the epsom salt (snow in the jars) in my cupboards. This ended up being very inexpensive and classy decor.

For our theme we had each lady bring one of their favorite things to give away; socks, treats, candles,  dishes, gloves, scarves - anything under or around $5. When they arrived they wrote their name on a piece of paper and placed it in a bowl. After we finished our dinner we had one person start the game by sharing what they brought. When they finished they drew a name out of the bowl and that person received their gift. Everyone came with something and everyone left with something. Everyone had a wonderful time!

Bridal Shower Cupcakes

 Vanilla cupcakes with vanilla, ivory colored frosting, and mauve fondant hearts.

I was asked to make monogrammed cupcakes. I thought about making royal frosting hearts and piping the initials in it and having it look very "christmas cookie-ish". I even thought about making fondant hearts with royal frosting letters for a 3-D effect, but didn't have a lot of time that weekend for piping really good looking letters. So, I found some stamps that I had in my craft supplies. I cleaned them thoroughly!!! I cut out one heart then took a smaller heart and made the indented outline. Then I pressed the stamps (each letter individually) very carefully so they were even into the fondant and let harden. It really did not take very long and they turned out looking so clean and classy. Congrats Daniel & Jane!