Ramona's book cake

This cake was made for my MIL, Ramona, for her 60th birthday!

My FIL decide to throw her a huge surprise party (or have us throw her, rather) and we took on the task of making her this giant cake! She has her master's in library sciences and works for the Hurst Public Library so the book theme seemed natural. I had been wanting to make her a book cake for a while and this was the perfect opportunity!

The books separately.


The Better Homes & Garden/Bible/open book are real (chocolate and lemon), the reference and Cake Doctor books are dummies. (open book is vanilla)









From the back:



Stacked:





This cake turned out exactly how I wanted it to! It was LABOR intensive - we worked on it every day for a week, staying up until 4 am or later some nights but it was definitely worth it!!

Beautiful Bridal

This cake was made to match the invitation that was sent out for a bridal shower.

It's a lemon cake with vanilla buttercream and mmf.

I know what you are thinking...

No, I did not make the flowers. I wish I could take credit for them b/c they really are beautiful but I ordered them from WholesaleSugarFlowers.com.

I love making confectionary pieces and I love making sugar flowers but honestly, I'm a little too busy these days to do that and take care of Rylee (swim lessons! ballet and tap! gym class! playdates!) and juggle the custom cookie cutter shop AND make other cakes. There's just not enough time!

Anyway, I'm happy I ordered these because they are wonderful!

I lovelovelove the way this cake turned out. It's one of my favorites for sure!

Check out the height on that cake!



Close up of the flowers (check back later this week for a post about the flowers)