Reese's Pieces Cake:
Barnyard Animal Cake to go along with a petting zoo birthday!
Close up of some super cute critters!
Pig Smash Cake (went along with the barnyard cake):
Super Mario Brothers 5th Birthday:
close-ups:
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Reese's Pieces, Barnyard Animal, Pig Smash, and Super Mario Brothers Cakes!
Not a lot of time to elaborate (I'm surprised I'm even getting this post in!) but here are the cakes from last week!
Reese's Pieces Cake:
Barnyard Animal Cake to go along with a petting zoo birthday!
Close up of some super cute critters!
Pig Smash Cake (went along with the barnyard cake):
Super Mario Brothers 5th Birthday:
close-ups:
Reese's Pieces Cake:
Barnyard Animal Cake to go along with a petting zoo birthday!
Close up of some super cute critters!
Pig Smash Cake (went along with the barnyard cake):
Super Mario Brothers 5th Birthday:
close-ups:
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Herend Scallop cake, Western themed, Moose and Zee, Teacher cookie bouquet, Superhero Cupcakes, Belle cake and Finley's 1st!
Lots of stuff to update with!
This first cake is one that took me literally 7 hours to paint. I loved the way it came out and I really enjoyed hand painting this cake. It's a chocolate cake with black raspberry filling. The client asked for a replica of this particular Herend figure. I think we did it justice!
This is a picture of the piece - it's actually gold on the bottom where it looks black.
Here's our take on it!
Western themed first birthday cake
Love this cake! the bottom tier is chocolate with oreo cream filling, middle is banana with chocolate fudge and the top tier is key lime with cream cheese. Love these different flavors! All covered in fondant. I made the one with fondant, painted it red and added edible glitter to it for some extra sparkle!
Moose & Zee smash cake:
This cake was made to go along with the western themed cake above. The little boy turning 1 loves Moose and Zee, this just seemed like the appropriate choice! Both Moose and Zee are made from a 50/50 gum paste/fondant mixture. The cake is carrot with vanilla buttercream.
Teacher cookie bouquet:
This cookie bouquet was made for a teacher that was leaving the school she worked at. It's an 8 piece bouquet with cookies that look like an apple, notebook paper, a chalkboard, red and green crayons, a ruler and a pencil! Love this bouquet!
Superhero cupcakes:
These were made for a little boy who wanted Spiderman, Batman and Superman cupcakes for his birthday! These are chocolate and vanilla cupcakes. The emblems were made with white chocolate!
Belle Cake:
This cake was made for one of Rylee's good friends, Adrianna, for her 5th birthday. Adrianna loves princesses and picked Belle for cake. It's a chocolate-chocolate chip cake with vanilla buttercream and fondant. Used lots of gold dust and glitter on this one, love the way it turned out!
FInley's 1st Birthday cake:
This smash cake was made for some friends of ours. Baby Finely recently turned 1 and her momma went with a "Cirque Du Bebe" theme for her party! Simple design for this cake based on the invitation design. I hand painted the plaque and piped the swirls around the cake. Used lots of glitter on this one, too!
This first cake is one that took me literally 7 hours to paint. I loved the way it came out and I really enjoyed hand painting this cake. It's a chocolate cake with black raspberry filling. The client asked for a replica of this particular Herend figure. I think we did it justice!
This is a picture of the piece - it's actually gold on the bottom where it looks black.
Here's our take on it!
Western themed first birthday cake
Love this cake! the bottom tier is chocolate with oreo cream filling, middle is banana with chocolate fudge and the top tier is key lime with cream cheese. Love these different flavors! All covered in fondant. I made the one with fondant, painted it red and added edible glitter to it for some extra sparkle!
Moose & Zee smash cake:
This cake was made to go along with the western themed cake above. The little boy turning 1 loves Moose and Zee, this just seemed like the appropriate choice! Both Moose and Zee are made from a 50/50 gum paste/fondant mixture. The cake is carrot with vanilla buttercream.
Teacher cookie bouquet:
This cookie bouquet was made for a teacher that was leaving the school she worked at. It's an 8 piece bouquet with cookies that look like an apple, notebook paper, a chalkboard, red and green crayons, a ruler and a pencil! Love this bouquet!
Superhero cupcakes:
These were made for a little boy who wanted Spiderman, Batman and Superman cupcakes for his birthday! These are chocolate and vanilla cupcakes. The emblems were made with white chocolate!
Belle Cake:
This cake was made for one of Rylee's good friends, Adrianna, for her 5th birthday. Adrianna loves princesses and picked Belle for cake. It's a chocolate-chocolate chip cake with vanilla buttercream and fondant. Used lots of gold dust and glitter on this one, love the way it turned out!
FInley's 1st Birthday cake:
This smash cake was made for some friends of ours. Baby Finely recently turned 1 and her momma went with a "Cirque Du Bebe" theme for her party! Simple design for this cake based on the invitation design. I hand painted the plaque and piped the swirls around the cake. Used lots of glitter on this one, too!
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Valentines Cupcake, Cowgirl Cookie basket, French Press Cake, Peace Cake, 30th Birthday
Quick update from a few things we've done recently. We've got a super busy week ahead of us with some new and interesting things we haven't done in the past!!
Giant Valentines Cupcakes made for MDO teachers:
Cowgirl Cookie mix and goody baskets made for teacher appreciation day (cowgirl cookies ala bakerella):
French Press Cake:
This was made for a groom - we'd never made a cake like this and I'd never seen one either. I'm pleased with the way it turned out! Chocolate mocha flavored cake with dark chocolate buttercream and fondant!
Peace Cake:
This cake was made for special 12 year old. She requested a cake with a world and purple peace signs. This is what I came up with! It's a milk chocolate cake with strawberry buttercream and fondant accents. I'm pretty pleased with the way the continents turned out on the world portion of the cake - I free handed them!
30th birthday cake:
This cake was made for a 30th birthday! The only direction we got for the cake was to make it girly and to use purple - this is what we came up with!
Stay tuned for some fun and interesting cakes next week!!
Giant Valentines Cupcakes made for MDO teachers:
Cowgirl Cookie mix and goody baskets made for teacher appreciation day (cowgirl cookies ala bakerella):
French Press Cake:
This was made for a groom - we'd never made a cake like this and I'd never seen one either. I'm pleased with the way it turned out! Chocolate mocha flavored cake with dark chocolate buttercream and fondant!
Peace Cake:
This cake was made for special 12 year old. She requested a cake with a world and purple peace signs. This is what I came up with! It's a milk chocolate cake with strawberry buttercream and fondant accents. I'm pretty pleased with the way the continents turned out on the world portion of the cake - I free handed them!
30th birthday cake:
This cake was made for a 30th birthday! The only direction we got for the cake was to make it girly and to use purple - this is what we came up with!
Stay tuned for some fun and interesting cakes next week!!
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Over the Hill, Spiderman, Batman/Robin, Monogrammed cupcakes, Toy Story
These cakes were made over the last two weeks!
Over the Hill cake:
This cake was made for a friend, for his surprise 40th birthday party! We love making this cake, I love how the trees turned out!
Spiderman Head cake:
This cake was made for a special birthday party! Chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream, covered in fondant. All fondant details!
Batman & Robin cake:
Keeping with the superhero theme last week, this cake was also made for a special birthday! The little boy requested a Batman and Robin cake and this is what we came up with!
Monogrammed Cupcakes:
These were made for a bridal shower this past weekend. They are strawberry cupcakes with vanilla buttercream. I made the disc out of fondant, piped the "A" with royal icing and painted it with silver luster dust! Super cute and sparkly!
Toy Story Cake:
This cake was made for the birthday party of a little boy turning 3!! I absolutely love the way this cake turned out! The bottom tier is chocolate cake with oreo mousse filling, middle and top tiers are french vanilla with vanilla buttercream. All of the cakes are covered in fondant, with fondant accents. The toys are all real :)
Over the Hill cake:
This cake was made for a friend, for his surprise 40th birthday party! We love making this cake, I love how the trees turned out!
Spiderman Head cake:
This cake was made for a special birthday party! Chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream, covered in fondant. All fondant details!
Batman & Robin cake:
Keeping with the superhero theme last week, this cake was also made for a special birthday! The little boy requested a Batman and Robin cake and this is what we came up with!
Monogrammed Cupcakes:
These were made for a bridal shower this past weekend. They are strawberry cupcakes with vanilla buttercream. I made the disc out of fondant, piped the "A" with royal icing and painted it with silver luster dust! Super cute and sparkly!
Toy Story Cake:
This cake was made for the birthday party of a little boy turning 3!! I absolutely love the way this cake turned out! The bottom tier is chocolate cake with oreo mousse filling, middle and top tiers are french vanilla with vanilla buttercream. All of the cakes are covered in fondant, with fondant accents. The toys are all real :)
Friday, January 22, 2010
Cakes from December/January
Here are the lost cakes from December!!
For our good friend and golf lover William's 30th birthday:
Cupcakes for school:
Two tiered blue cake:
Batman/superman cake:
Yo Gabba Gabba cupcakes/cake:
TCU graduation cake:
January Cakes so far:
Hello Kitty cake made for Rylee's good friend Sofia, for her 5th birthday (this cake was done the first week we were home with the twins!)
Mario/Luigi cake made for an old friend's son's 6th birthday! (this was made last week!)
We have one cake this week and 2 next (maybe three). So far we've been able to handle 1 cake, we'll see how we do with more!
For our good friend and golf lover William's 30th birthday:
Cupcakes for school:
Two tiered blue cake:
Batman/superman cake:
Yo Gabba Gabba cupcakes/cake:
TCU graduation cake:
January Cakes so far:
Hello Kitty cake made for Rylee's good friend Sofia, for her 5th birthday (this cake was done the first week we were home with the twins!)
Mario/Luigi cake made for an old friend's son's 6th birthday! (this was made last week!)
We have one cake this week and 2 next (maybe three). So far we've been able to handle 1 cake, we'll see how we do with more!
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Where we have been...
Well! It's been such a long time since I have updated!
We certainly had orders since 12/3 but with all of the holiday craziness, I never found the time to get everything posted. I promise to get those pictures up very soon!
I know this is our cake blog but many of the people that follow us also know that we were expecting twins this month. Part of the reason for my lack of posts is that they came a little bit early!
Our holiday was great - we stayed in town for Christmas this year (first time I haven't been to Austin in I don't know how long) and started focusing on getting things ready for the babies.
I had an appointment the Monday after Christmas (the 28th) for a weekly check up. I hadn't progressed ONE BIT! Nothing was happening, my body was not preparing itself to have these babies in any way! We left the appointment that day a little discouraged (my c-section was scheduled two weeks later) but decided to start walking as much as possible. We walked for 2 hours that night. The next day, Rodney made me an appointment with my hair stylist. After the appointment, we walked the mall for 3 hours! Wednesday we went with Rodney up to CUT so he could take care of something a client needed. Afterwards we headed to Northpark Mall and walked for a whopping FOUR HOURS. I thought my feet were going to fall straight off. We came home, I took a bath and felt like maybe we'd over done it a bit. The next morning I woke up feeling very lethargic and just ... not right. We took my blood pressure, it was 156/110 so we put in a call to the doctors office. They wanted us to come in immediately.
Thinking we were just going to go in for a quick check, we jumped in the car. I was in my pajamas, no make up on and nothing with us. I cried the whole way there because I felt just awful! When we got to the hospital/doctors office, I vomited in the parking lot. We were taken into a room right away. My doctor came in pretty concerned and did a cervical check. He said I hadn't progressed that much more but that he thought things were starting to take a turn for the worse. My blood pressure was elevated and I was in a lot of pain. He told the nurse to call up and book the OR. He told us to go on upstairs.
We were a little panicked. We had Rylee with us and NONE of our things! We started making phone calls to let everyone know we were headed upstairs. Once we got into triage and they hooked me up to all of the monitors, they told Rodney he had a short amount of time to get Rylee somewhere and pick up a few things. I sat in triage by myself, which was not all that fun. The nurse was monitoring me and apparently the pain I was feeling were very strong contractions. Very strong, very LONG contractions. I had no idea what that even felt like! I never had one with Rylee so this was a new experience for me.
Rodney made it back with TEN minutes to spare. Literally ten minutes after he got there, we were going into the OR. I hate that part. The part where you have to be in there by yourself. Fifteen minutes later they brought Rodney in and were ready to begin.
Logan Elliot was born on 12/31 (yes, new years eve!) at 1:33 pm and weighed a whopping SEVEN pounds!
Hadley Reed was born on 12/31 at 1:35 pm and weighed in at 6.2 lbs!!
(Hadley on the left, Logan on the right)
It all happened so fast! We went into the doctors office at 11:15 and by 1:33, we had baby number 1!
We were totally unprepared - if you know me at all, you know that I really like to have things together and in order. So not the case! Our Christmas tree was still up, we hadn't installed the carseat bases into the car, we needed to clean the car out, the bathrooms were not cleaned, house not vacuumed, nothing sterilized and no bags packed!! The nursery has been ready for a while and amidst all of our walking, we did manage to completely overhaul Rylee's room and re-do her closet. When I say redo, I mean - we got the novel idea of making over her closet at 8:10 on a Tuesday night. We jumped in the car and raced to Frisco in order to get to Ikea. We got there at 8:50 (it closes at 9), got the stuff we needed, drove home, put Rylee to bed in the nursery and then spent the next several hours tearing out and repairing her closet. Last minute project but I am glad we go that in!
We had a great stay in the hospital - I loved all of my nurses. They were all warm and caring and even the hospitality staff took great care of us. The babies didn't have to go to the NICU and were allowed to stay in the room with us! They are considered pre-term because they were 36 weeks when they were born but amazingly, they had no problems at all!
The proud big sister with Daddy:
Rodney with the babies, the afternoon we were leaving:
In the carseats for the first time!
So far everything has been great! We can't believe the babies were born on NEW YEARS EVE! We call them the "party babies." We watched the ball drop in our hospital room, with the babies by our side and a nurse taking my vitals. Couldn't have been better!
We left 3 days later, Sunday evening. The first day or two was a little rough but by now, we seem to be getting into a bit of a groove. Rodney was off all last week and is off this week as well. I seriously tear up at the thought of him going back to work next Monday. I don't know how I will survive without him! He has been amazing throughout this entire thing.
The recovery from your second c-section is SOOOO much worse than the first! Why didn't anyone tell me that?? I have already had problems with my incision opening in certain places and I feel like I might have busted something on the inside. People keep telling me to slow down, maybe I should listen!
Anyway, the babies will be 2 weeks old tomorrow and so far, they are pretty amazing. They hardly cry at all (far different from Rylee) and they seem to be pretty easy going. (Logan does have a bit of a temper though). We even managed to make a cake and 3 dozen cupcakes last week and they were less than a week old!
I should have more cake pictures up very soon!
We certainly had orders since 12/3 but with all of the holiday craziness, I never found the time to get everything posted. I promise to get those pictures up very soon!
I know this is our cake blog but many of the people that follow us also know that we were expecting twins this month. Part of the reason for my lack of posts is that they came a little bit early!
Our holiday was great - we stayed in town for Christmas this year (first time I haven't been to Austin in I don't know how long) and started focusing on getting things ready for the babies.
I had an appointment the Monday after Christmas (the 28th) for a weekly check up. I hadn't progressed ONE BIT! Nothing was happening, my body was not preparing itself to have these babies in any way! We left the appointment that day a little discouraged (my c-section was scheduled two weeks later) but decided to start walking as much as possible. We walked for 2 hours that night. The next day, Rodney made me an appointment with my hair stylist. After the appointment, we walked the mall for 3 hours! Wednesday we went with Rodney up to CUT so he could take care of something a client needed. Afterwards we headed to Northpark Mall and walked for a whopping FOUR HOURS. I thought my feet were going to fall straight off. We came home, I took a bath and felt like maybe we'd over done it a bit. The next morning I woke up feeling very lethargic and just ... not right. We took my blood pressure, it was 156/110 so we put in a call to the doctors office. They wanted us to come in immediately.
Thinking we were just going to go in for a quick check, we jumped in the car. I was in my pajamas, no make up on and nothing with us. I cried the whole way there because I felt just awful! When we got to the hospital/doctors office, I vomited in the parking lot. We were taken into a room right away. My doctor came in pretty concerned and did a cervical check. He said I hadn't progressed that much more but that he thought things were starting to take a turn for the worse. My blood pressure was elevated and I was in a lot of pain. He told the nurse to call up and book the OR. He told us to go on upstairs.
We were a little panicked. We had Rylee with us and NONE of our things! We started making phone calls to let everyone know we were headed upstairs. Once we got into triage and they hooked me up to all of the monitors, they told Rodney he had a short amount of time to get Rylee somewhere and pick up a few things. I sat in triage by myself, which was not all that fun. The nurse was monitoring me and apparently the pain I was feeling were very strong contractions. Very strong, very LONG contractions. I had no idea what that even felt like! I never had one with Rylee so this was a new experience for me.
Rodney made it back with TEN minutes to spare. Literally ten minutes after he got there, we were going into the OR. I hate that part. The part where you have to be in there by yourself. Fifteen minutes later they brought Rodney in and were ready to begin.
Logan Elliot was born on 12/31 (yes, new years eve!) at 1:33 pm and weighed a whopping SEVEN pounds!
Hadley Reed was born on 12/31 at 1:35 pm and weighed in at 6.2 lbs!!
(Hadley on the left, Logan on the right)
It all happened so fast! We went into the doctors office at 11:15 and by 1:33, we had baby number 1!
We were totally unprepared - if you know me at all, you know that I really like to have things together and in order. So not the case! Our Christmas tree was still up, we hadn't installed the carseat bases into the car, we needed to clean the car out, the bathrooms were not cleaned, house not vacuumed, nothing sterilized and no bags packed!! The nursery has been ready for a while and amidst all of our walking, we did manage to completely overhaul Rylee's room and re-do her closet. When I say redo, I mean - we got the novel idea of making over her closet at 8:10 on a Tuesday night. We jumped in the car and raced to Frisco in order to get to Ikea. We got there at 8:50 (it closes at 9), got the stuff we needed, drove home, put Rylee to bed in the nursery and then spent the next several hours tearing out and repairing her closet. Last minute project but I am glad we go that in!
We had a great stay in the hospital - I loved all of my nurses. They were all warm and caring and even the hospitality staff took great care of us. The babies didn't have to go to the NICU and were allowed to stay in the room with us! They are considered pre-term because they were 36 weeks when they were born but amazingly, they had no problems at all!
The proud big sister with Daddy:
Rodney with the babies, the afternoon we were leaving:
In the carseats for the first time!
So far everything has been great! We can't believe the babies were born on NEW YEARS EVE! We call them the "party babies." We watched the ball drop in our hospital room, with the babies by our side and a nurse taking my vitals. Couldn't have been better!
We left 3 days later, Sunday evening. The first day or two was a little rough but by now, we seem to be getting into a bit of a groove. Rodney was off all last week and is off this week as well. I seriously tear up at the thought of him going back to work next Monday. I don't know how I will survive without him! He has been amazing throughout this entire thing.
The recovery from your second c-section is SOOOO much worse than the first! Why didn't anyone tell me that?? I have already had problems with my incision opening in certain places and I feel like I might have busted something on the inside. People keep telling me to slow down, maybe I should listen!
Anyway, the babies will be 2 weeks old tomorrow and so far, they are pretty amazing. They hardly cry at all (far different from Rylee) and they seem to be pretty easy going. (Logan does have a bit of a temper though). We even managed to make a cake and 3 dozen cupcakes last week and they were less than a week old!
I should have more cake pictures up very soon!
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Dallas Cowboys Field Cake/Polka dot baby shower
Made this cake for a special birthday. It came out perfectly!
Vanilla cake with strawberry buttercream and marshmallow fodnant.
This baby shower cake was made to match the invitation - additional ducks and figures were added at the party, to go along with the them. Vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream!
Vanilla cake with strawberry buttercream and marshmallow fodnant.
This baby shower cake was made to match the invitation - additional ducks and figures were added at the party, to go along with the them. Vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream!
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