Tangled

A co-worker of my husband's asked me to do their little girl's birthday cake again this year. Last year I made her a giraffe smash cake for her first birthday. This year, it was a Tangled cake. 

The cake was chocolate with a buttercream filling. It is finished entirely in buttercream icing. I used a technique called a buttercream transfer for Rapunzel.

Happy Birthday Brynnlee!

Sock Monkey Birthday

My husband's cousin's daughter (got that? LOL) asked me to make a sock monkey cake for her little boy's first birthday. Well, two cakes actually. One for him to smash and one for everyone else to eat. It was a fun project. 

The cake was marble on the bottom with Bavarian cream filling, and chocolate on top with the same filling. It was finished in fondant.

The smash cake was half chocolate and half marble cake, with buttercream filling. It was finished in buttercream icing with fondant decorations.

Happy Birthday Boston!

Raindow Wedding Cake

My cousin and his partner had their commitment ceremony this past weekend. I was asked to make the cake. It was definitely the most colorful cake I've done yet!

 The cake was marble cake with Bavarian cream filling, finished with buttercream icing and fondant.

Congrats Dru and Chad.

CTR cake

My son, Daniel, was baptized a member of our church yesterday. We had a luncheon after the baptism, so I made him a cake. It was a marble cake with buttercream finish and fondant decoration.

Congratulations buddy, so proud of you!

Fuschia & Teal Wedding Cake

My nephew, Spencer, was married a week ago. His cute bride asked me to do their cake. She wanted something a little different, and loved the idea of a non-white wedding cake. They loved their cake, and so did I.

The bottom tier was strawberry cake with strawberry filling and the top tier was lemon cake with lemon filling.  The middle two were false. It was finished with buttercream icing and fondant flowers.

Congratulations Spencer and Stephanie!

"Girly" Elmo cake

Our former renter who had me do her little girl's first birthday cake last year had me do her second birthday cake this year! Mommy wanted a "girly" cake, Kaia wanted an Elmo cake. SO, we compromised - a "girly" Elmo cake.

The cake is a marble cake with Bavarian cream filling. It is finished in fondant, including the Elmo figure, with royal icing flowers.

Happy Birthday Kaia!

Phineas & Ferb cake

My oldest turned eight a week ago. His favorite TV show is Phineas & Ferb, so I threw him a P&F party two weeks ago and made him a P&F cake for last weekend. He loved it!

Chocolate cake with buttercream filling. The topper is a toy.

Happy Birthday Dan!

Fazio Wedding Cake

Months and months ago my cousin Rachel asked me to make her wedding cake. She and her fiance wanted something different. So, we went with square tiers, each rotated on it's axis, with a whimsical piped design. I think it turned out well, and the happy couple loved it!

The bottom tier was red velvet cake with cream cheese filling. The second tier was false. The third tier was white cake with raspberry filling and the top was red velvet with Bavarian cream filling. It was finished in butter cream icing with edible beads and royal icing accents. The cake took 10 pounds of sugar, 25+ pounds of icing and almost an entire 16 oz. bottle of red food coloring. I kid you not.

Congratulations Rachel & Justin!

Poky Little Puppy Cake

I love doing cakes! I have been getting a lot of orders from word-of-mouth advertising. A big THANK YOU to all of you who recommend my services! 

This is the latest cake - another first birthday cake. The theme was The Poky Little Puppy book. I had the book growing up, and bought a new copy for reference that I will give to my boys now that the cake is done. It was a chocolate/white marble cake with Bavarian cream filling, finished with buttercream with fondant and royal icing accents.

Happy Birthday Larric!

Two 1st Birthday Cakes

Last week I had orders for three cakes. The first two were for a friend's daughter's first birthday. She last ordered the Angry Birds cake for her husband's birthday. For CC she wanted polka dotted cakes. Easy enough! I made her a 10" red cake with black polka dots (chocolate cake with buttercream filling) and a 6" "smash" cake that was white with red polka dots (white cake with buttercream filling). I also made fondant toppers of a "1" and "CC" for the tops of the cakes.

Next I made an Elmo cake for a neighbor's grand-daughter's first birthday. Her little brother was born the day before! Luckily they had the party before that. This cake was also chocolate with a buttercream filling.

Happy birthday CC and Paisley!

Gold Plates Baptism cake

In my church, children are baptized when they are eight years old. This week I made a cake for a little boy who is getting baptized today. It has the gold plates on it, the plate that we believe the Book of Mormon was translated from. I hope he loves his cake!

The base cake was a chocolate/white marble cake. The plates part was chocolate/white marble cake with Bavarian cream filling.

Congratulations Andrew!

Cat in the Hat cake

My baby turn one year old tomorrow. I swear he was just born! We are having a party for him today with our family, and I made him a Cat in the Hat cake for his party.

It is a chocolate cake with raspberry filling, finished with buttercream icing and a chocolate transfer.

Happy Birthday Jer-Jer!

Morrow wedding cake

I have a really hard time saying no to cake requests from family. So, even though I knew I'd be making a birthday cake the same week, I agreed to do a wedding cake for my biological mom's-cousins-son's wedding. Follow that?

Luckily, the cake was fairly simple in design. The only snag was that the groom has Celiac disease, so the top tier had to be gluten free.I was given the instructions that the bride liked white-on-white designs and the wedding colors were Navy and white. So, I went from there.

The top two tiers had a simple swag design with navy ribbon, and the middle tier had a more intricate piped design. Their florist added flowers later. The couple used their own topper.

And, here is the happy couple cutting the cake!

And, some more images of the cake at the wedding:

Relief Society cake, takes 2 &3

This year is the 170th anniversary (or birthday) of the Relief Society. My cake was such a hit last year that I was asked to make two this year. And, because I can't say no (and I thought that they would be due on different days, not both today) I agreed. 

The first was basically the same as last years' cake, except it was a carrot cake with cream cheese icing.

The second is a chocolate cake with a simplified RS logo.

Happy Birthday Relief Society!

Cub Scout Birthday

A friend of mine asked me to make a birthday cake for her son who is turning eight. That's a pretty big age for boys in our neck of the woods. They are baptized and become members of our church, and they get to be Cub Scouts. Her son was very excited about the Cub Scout part, so she requested a Cub Scout cake. He got his wish!

The cake is chocolate with a fondant finish. The badges are done with edible ink.

Happy Birthday Philip!

Mickey Mouse Birthday

My third little boy, Evan, turned four a couple of weeks ago. For the longest time all I could get out of him when I asked what kind of cake he wanted was "A circle cake." He finally agreed to a Mickey Mouse party when I suggested that. (At our house, they get their first "friends" party when they turn four.)

I usually make cookies for the to take to their school classes, but he isn't in school yet, so I made them for his church class.

We had his family party on the actual big day. I made him a simple mickey-shaped cake, and he was thrilled. Three circles is better than one, right?!

The next week we had his friends party and I made cupcakes with mickey silhouettes on them. I briefly thought about doing black frosting, but decided against it. Because it was a party for pre-schoolers, after all!

Happy Birthday Grizz! I love you!

Buzz & Woody cake

This week's order is for a Toy Story cake. The Mom specifically asked for a Buzz and Woody cake. I found this cake online, and knew it had to be! So, here is my version.

The lucky birthday boy is also getting a dozen Toy Story Alien cookies.
The cake is chocolate with chocolate filling and a fondant finish.

Happy Birthday Luke!

Delicate Arch cake

This past week was my Uncle Jim's birthday. We are celebrating tomorrow, and I got to make his cake again. He is a big fan of Southern Utah, so I made him a cake with the Delicate Arch on it. The design came from the Utah centenary stamp that was released a few years back.

Jim loves my carrot cake, so it is a carrot cake finished in cream cheese frosting.

Happy Birthday Uncle Jim!

Great Outdoors 80th Birthday cake

A friend in the neighborhood asked me to make a cake for her dad's 80th birthday tomorrow. Her only instruction was for it to be "outdoorsy." I thought on it long & hard, but most of the designs I came up with seemed too juvenile for a man celebrating his 80th birthday. Then, I had a brainstorm. I would paint the cake with outdoor scenes. The only other time I've painted with food coloring was the Westie cake and that was pretty simple. This time it was more of a watercolor type painting. I think it turned out good, though food coloring is a bit different to paint with than water colors!