Thomas The Train 1st Birthday Cake

It is really amazing how fast time flies. My friends son just turned 1 and they needed the perfect cake to celebrate the occassion.

I always tell my friends and family when picking out a cake design it's usually easier when you have a theme. The theme for this big boys birthday was Thomas the Train.

After looking at a few different photos and a few critiquing remarks this was the design that was chosen.
The top layer of this two tiered cake was chocolate with vanilla filling and the bottom was vanilla with vanilla filling.

All the fondant decorations are hand made, Thomas took sometime for me to get right lol.... a lot of L.O.V.E went into this cake.
 I hope Carter has a wonderful party!! xo

 

Top view

                                                                     Thomas up close

Fun and Bright 1st Birthday Cake

This cake was made for a friends daughter who just turned 1! This cake took so many hours to make but it was fun and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.

The cake is a 4" top tier made from rice krispies, 6" middle tier and an 8" bottom tier. The middle and bottom are both vanilla cake with strawberry filling. All tiers are covered in homemade fondant and all decorations are gumpaste.

The cupcake was more little Miss McKenna to smash :)

The only thing that I'm not happy about is the fondant on the middle tier started to wave a bit...very frustrating to spend so much time of something and not have it come out perfect in your eyes.

Easter Bunny Cookies

These cute little bunnies were made for our Easter Dinner on Sunday night. I'll post pictures of the presentation later on, it's gonna be super cute!

These little guys are made from my tasty sugar cookie recipe and are decorated using my homemade royal icing recipe.

Wishing you all a safe and happy Easter :)

Angry Birds Birthday Cake

This 8" cake was made for a friends son's 6th birthday. The cake is vanilla and filled with cookies and cream filling. Cake is covered in homemade fondant and the decorations are fondant as well. The birds - if that's what you call them?? - are all made made.

Considering I had no idea what an angry bird was I think I did a fairly good job....and no I don't live under a rock. I'm not in the cell phone world and had no idea it was a game until my 6 year old informed me lol

Birch Bark Shower Cake

Here is another recent shower cake I've made recently.

The mom to be has art deco's in the baby's room of birch trees and yellow birds so I was asked to make the cake to match the nursery. 

The cake is two tiers, a 8" bottom and 6" top. The top cake is vanilla with vanilla buttercream filling, the bottom is vanilla cake with cookies and cream filling.

This was my first attempt at 'birch trees' I'm fairly happy with how they turned out. They took FOREVER to make. All the trees are hand cut and hand painted, the branches are piped on. The nest was created with fondant rolled into individual sticks and then built into a nest. Next time I'll make them thinner..lesson learned but again another first.

I've been asked a few times to shower how I stack my cakes so I took a few pictures...I honest mend to take them as I did each step but I totally forgot....Maybe the next time I make a stacked cake I'll remember!

Two Peas in a Pod Shower Cake

My sister-in-law had twins!! A boy and girl, the million dollar family! I am so unbelievably happy for them, they actually just got to leave the hospital today and start their life as a family of four at home!!

I'm a little behind posting but this is my SIL shower cake and goodies!
The theme for the shower was 'Two Peas in a Pod'. My mother-in-law and I found a similar picture online and thought it would be PERFECT for Allison's shower.
The cake is two tiers, an 8" bottom and a 6" top.  Both cakes are vanilla and strawberry with vanilla and strawberry buttercream filling.

All decorations are made from homemade fondant and are 100% edible and handmade. So much work went into this cake.

I also make some cookies and cake balls. The cookies are decorated in royal icing and chocolate. The 'G'  is for Grace and the 'J' is for John...my new niece and nephew :)

Birdie Baby Shower Cake

So many babies have been born the last little while! So I've been busy making baby shower cakes!!
This shower cake was created for a family member. The theme was bases on napkins and plates bought by my mother-in-law.

The cake was an 8" vanilla filled with strawberry and passion fruit filling . The cake is covered in fondant and all decorations are fondant and handmade.

I also made a bunch of  decorated sugar cookies and various cake balls.The cookies are decorated in royal icing and chocolate.