A few recent cakes

I recently helped a MOPS friend with some of her cake decorating skills. She had some of the basic cake decorating tools and the Wilton decorating books but had asked me for some help on a few things such. I spent a few hours helping her to the best of my abilities and she finished with a really good looking Batman cake for her son's birthday. This pic was taken with my cell phone so it isn't the best. I'm looking forward to seeing what Shari does with her future cakes and hope she sends me some pics- she is moving to Australia soon!



I tell you I get some strange requests for cakes. I had one for a Medicare card for a man turning 65.

This flower one was for confirmation last Sunday. Their mom had their memory verses printed out and was going to stick them onto this one.

I can't remember if I posted this little one but it was a USA cake. They preschoolers at my house have been learning about the USA at school. This little one wanted USA on his.

April Fool's Day menu

On the Menu: Chicken drumsticks, peas & carrots, mashed potatoes, and a cupcake for dessert!

One of my daycare mommas brought this trick in for us today. I was so amazed all day and how fun these were!

Celebrating Spring!

All traces of snow are nearly gone and we celebrated the arrival of spring this weekend with a Robin's nest picture. The kids used watercolor paints for the eggs and then glued pieces of twine into a general nest shape that I drew for an outline for them. The preschoolers wrote Happy Spring on the top! I love how one little girl put her eggs on top of the nest like you are looking into it from the top.

In other news.... I made this beach themed cake for the weekend for a Hawaiian themed beach party

Rainbow cake day

A while back I fell in love with this cake that MckMama posted about. I had the perfect reason to try the recipe out today when we celebrate two of the daycare kids 3rd birthday. Since they are a girl and a boy, I needed something easy to decorate that worked for both. We chose an ABC theme since we are always working on our letters.

MckMama's friend Amanda is the wonderful creator of this recipe. She also told her friends the day she brought it to their gathering that she was bringing "a little something" and that it was "really easy to make."

Well... easy, yes.

Time consuming, yes.

Well worth it, YES!

I loved the results and we had so many leftovers (daycare is just 5 little mouths and myself after all!) that I had to take a plate of this beautiful cake to several friends so their children could enjoy it! (Okay, just thought I maybe shouldn't post this part because what if someone reads this who I didn't take some too?? Sorry!)

I was so happy and excited about how this cake turned out! It tasted absolutly delicious but even more was SO super cool looking!

Today Lolli at Better in Bulk wanted us to post "Eat, Drink, and be Scary". Stop on over if you want to see what everyone has got goin' on in the kitchen.

Last night I made a pumpkin cake for the daycare Halloween party today. It was orange colored cake with chocolate cake mixed in. I got a little worried at the last minute that we would not have enough cake for everyone (we were planning on 17 kids and 5 adults) so I pulled a few cupcakes out of the freezer and threw on some spider picks. Of course, there was plenty left over. I sent the cupcakes home with one mom, 4 pieces with another, and had enough for 2 pieces for home.

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Weekend Cakes

Happy Memorial Day!

Somewhere out there Kathy is 50

I had an order for 2 cakes tomorrow. The lady who ordered them lives clear across the state. She is ordering them for her sister who is turning 50 as a surprise to her work. I guess she also called the secretary and asked her if she would hang up some black over the hill type decor in their lounge as well.

Here is what I came up with:

Easter hat, card, and cakes

The egg hunt we go to has a Easter hat contest, so we decorated this simple paper plate hat. Instructions can be found here.

While making the hat we also made a few quick cards for our grandmas and some friends. They had a sponge painted bunny and dot marker grass on the outside. Inside it said "Some Bunny Loves You!" and B wrote his name in them.

Would you like a piece of carrot cake after dinner?

White cake cupcakes for the kiddos. These were made really fast and I didn't put any base frosting on them.

Happy Birthday

Who doesn't love birthdays? I do so very much. I am a self proclaimed birthday princess but today is not my birthday.... it is Nikki 's from WhiMSy Love. Hop on over to her blog and give her some birthday lovin'.

I made some cupcakes for us since I know how much she loves 'em. And I also got a nice card out for her. How sweet am I?

Happy Birthday Nikki!

I also made a cake for a baby shower tomorrow and 30 cupcakes.

Welcome Spring!

Make yourself a yummy treat to celebrate the first day of Spring!

Cake Lovin'

I had an order for a 40th birthday cake for a friend. Her husband is restoring a 1969 Chevelle and we *tried* to do our best to get a pattern I could use to put this on the cake. I don't know how much it resembles the Chevelle, but I still think it turned out cute. He likes Nascar so this is why we used the checkered flag border. I was a little rushed making the cupcakes so they did not turn out how I had envisioned, but they still looked okay.

Yummy Yummy

Cake Lovin'

One of the hobbies I have that I do in my "spare" time, ha ha, is that I do cake decorating. This weekend I did a Mickey Mouse for a home party for one of our daycare tots who was turning 2. Today I made a yellow duck for us to celebrate his day here at the Tot Spot tomorrow. Two weeks ago we had another Tot who turned 2 and I made a princess crown cake for her day. BTW- this photo shows the cake before the doggie got on the table and helped herself to a serving of cake during naptime. We also made pipe cleaner princess tiaras from the tutorial that Nikki has at WhiMSy Love. These were so easy to make and the girls were just adorable in them. I also made a cute little buggy shower cake that someone ordered.

Cake Decorating Hobby

Several months ago my friend Ashley asked me to take a cake decorating class with her at Michaels Arts and Crafts store. I wasn't really thinking this was my thing, but it was cheap (only $15) and would give me something to do once a week for a month. After the first class, I was very interested and thought the things we learned after one night were really cool. There were many simple things that our cake instructor taught us that we could easily do to make our cakes look better. She also introduced us to some very cool decorating tools. This is where the part about the class being cheap does not really apply anymore. Of course, you could just have the basic supplies, but then what fun would that be?

Ashley and I have now made it through course 3 and have both sold many of our cakes. Tonight I have made a Thomas the Train cake for the grandson of a woman in town. This is my 3rd order from her. I decorated it using piping get transfer, which we learned in course one. This happens to be one of my favorite techniques however. This cake was a chocolate 11 x 15 with white homemade frosting. (Also, since being in class, I will NEVER again buy frosting in a can!)

I will post a picture of this cake, as well as some of my other favorites.