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!

Halloween Spider Cupcakes

We had our annual neighborhood/church trunk-or-treating Halloween party tonight. Lots of games were set up for the kids to play including a cake walk. I love cake walks, but get tired of bringing home multiple plates of cupcakes/cakes/brownies/cookies! This year I was determined to make it easier to hand these bad boys out so the kids could get more than one and the parents not overwhelmed with confections.

I bought some clear plastic 8oz cups at the grocery store and some fold over sandwich baggies. I actually cut the folded side of the baggy to open the tops & make it easier to tie (I couldn't find any that weren't gift bags and I was trying to do it on the cheap). 

And, voila! cheap and easy cupcake carrier to please little kids and parents alike :)

The cupcakes were made with a BC devils food cake mix, with homemade vanilla buttercream. I decorated them AFTER I put them in the cups. Nobody wants my finger marks on their frosting!

Under the Sea/Mermaid Cake

                       

 This was a fun cake to decorate. The cake inside was blue and the frosting was purple (all vanilla).

The outside is decorated in marbled blue and white fondant, with fondant detail. 

Super T

 I had been asked by my SIL to make these Marvel Hero cakelets (no longer available from Williams-Sonoma) for her little "T"'s first-birthday-super-hero party. Of course I said yes. She also recently started a new website that my cakes/cupcake were featured on, as well as the rest of the decor and costumes for this cute party. Megan (my SIL) is also a very talented photographer, you can check out her site here.

The cakes and cupcakes are all vanilla with vanilla buttercream and/or royal icing decorations.

 Spiderman

Captain America

Iron Man 

Wolverine

 A few more super hero symbols.

And last, but not least, Super "T"

Vintage Wedding Cake

Sometimes the simplest wedding cakes are the most beautiful!

This bride wanted a vanilla cake with raspberry and cream cheese filling with vanilla buttercream. She didn't want the cake smooth or covered in fondant, but lightly textured. The flowers were the perfect touch to this cake. Thanks B & M for asking me to do your cake. Your wedding was beautiful!

Treehouse Cake

Coolest cake stand ever made! Isaac Merrill made this awesome stand for his brothers wedding. They used it for the main reception in another state as the groom's cake stand. Here for their open house it was the main attraction! The cake is chocolate with chocolate buttercream bark frosting. The leaves are vanilla buttercream. The trapped door is chocolate clay. The ladders, swing and stand are all made of wood. There was another attachment for the top of the tree house but they did not put it on until after they picked it up. I need a picture of it! It almost didin't fit in the car the way it was though :)

Toy Story, Woody cupcakes

I was trying to make my little boy an over-the-top Toy Story cake, he wasn't having it!

We saw some cowboy hat cupcakes online and he decided that's what he wanted, nothing else :)

These are vanilla cupcakes with vanilla buttercream. The hats are made of chocolate/butterscotch chip clay. They were delicicous, a little like a tootsie roll but softer.