Ana

This cake was made for my sister in-law, Ana.

It's a 3 layered white cake with strawberries and vanilla buttercream in the middle. The cake is also entirely iced and decorated in vanilla buttercream.

Ana loves cherry blossoms (maybe more than I do) so I chose to make her a cake with a cherry blossom theme. I picked different shades of green because I thought it would suit her perfectly!

Happy Birthday Ana!

Suzy's Cake

This was made for our friend Suzy's, 30th birthday. She asked that the cake be blue with white borders and a chocolate "30."

This is a plain vanilla cake with vanilla bc and chocolate drizzle on the sides.

I'm particularly pleased with the shade of blue I got on this cake, I absolutely love it!

This also just so happened to be the first cake made in the new house. Actually, this would be the 3rd and 4th cakes. The first two were VERY, VERY messed up. I only had to mess up on two (cakes) in order to figure out the workings of my new oven though and I'd say that's pretty good! (btw, new oven = awesome)

Happy Birthday Suzy!

Cupcakes for AJ

These cupcakes were made for our former swim buddy, AJ. AJ turned 1 recently and his mom requested these football themed cupcakes!

The cupcakes decorated like footballs are chocolate with chocolate buttercream and the field cupcakes are vanilla with vanilla buttercream!

Loved making these, they were a blast! I hope AJ enjoyed them as much as I enjoyed making them!

Kelsey's Cupcakes

These were made for Kelsey, for the day of her birthday. They are chocolate cupcakes with chocolate icing, dressed up with a few silver dragees for the 3 year old princess!

Kelsey's cake

This cake was made for my friend Tricia's daughter, Kelsey. She is turing 3 and requested a Disney Princess theme. She went back and forth a few times on the princess she wanted so Tricia told me to just pick one. I decided to make Belle because the doll torso/heads that you can buy at your local cake shop/craft store are pretty generic and this one looked closest to her.

The 1/4 sheet is french vanilla cake with raspberry filling and the "dress" of the cake is french vanilla with no filling. All covered with vanilla buttercream.

This was a fun cake to make even though it turned out a little more YELLOW than I'd wanted it to. I'm happy with the results.

Plus, Rodney said it looks like Belle, which is all the approval I need.

P.S - please excuse the toaster/other kitchen items in the picture, we're in the process of moving!

Mom Mod, #2

This is the second "Mod Mom" cake I've made for a baby shower recently! What a popular theme!

It's a strawberry cake with vanilla buttercream and mmf decorations.

I'm pretty happy with the outcome of this cake, I like the color and I dig the way the fondant message came out as well.

I can't wait until this Texas summer is over and I don't have to keep my cakes in the fridge!

Chocolatey Peanut-butter cake

This cake was made for our good friend (and Rodney's co-worker) Amy, for her 28th birthday up at Tango.

I asked her what kind of cake she wanted and she mentioned something with chocolate and peanut butter. I did a little research and then came up with a creation of my own!

This is a triple chocolate cake with a cup of melted down, smooth peanut butter mixed in the batter. I also mixed in 2 cups of Reeses peanut butter chips and 1/4 of a cup of milk to keep the batter from being too stiff.

They smelled SOOOOO good while they were cooking!

I wanted something a little more rich than my usual chocolate frosting for this cake, so while I was at the supply shop this week, I picked up a pound of chocolate fudge base. Think chocolate shortening.

Such a good idea! The chocolate had a very rich and sweeter taste, which is exactly what I was going for.

I wasn't too happy with the look of this cake. I could have done so much more for Amy had she chosen a cake with a vanilla buttercream but chocolate is much harder. I decided to try and make the cake look like as decadent as possible - hence the chocolate drizzle on the sides of the cake and on the top. I also added a few extra Reese's chips.

Not the most beautiful cake in the world but certainly one of the best tasting! YUM!