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| I made this cake for a co-workers little girl for her birthday! She has an amazing mama who I count as a great friend, teacher and caring lady! |
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| This little miss is quite the little hello kitty fan . . . I am glad that it turned out as well as it did . . . I love making cakes for amazing people! (when I have the time) |
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| Cupcakes for one cute girls' class! |
I have been crazy busy with work . . . so here is a cake I made last week for a darling little girls first birthday!!! I have to say . . . if you have never made your own marshmallow fondant it is crazy easy to make and work with . . . plus it is super cheap and tastes WAY better than the box mixes!
My hat is off to all of the pastry chefs and bakers who are constantly swirled in flour and powdered sugar and who must have piles of dishes to contend with at the end of the day! I make cakes for family members and dear friends . . . and it is a work out . . . but one I LOVE doing! Thanks for asking me Sandy!!!
It has been a busy night filled with powder sugar dusting my kitchen (and probably whole house) the enticing smell of cakes baking. . . incredible caramel frosting topping chocolate chip cookie dough flavored cupcakes, . . . little owl faces peering at me from all over my counter tops and finally an owl birthday cake finally finished and ready to celebrate a DARLING little boys first birthday!!!
Happy Birthday Cade!!! You have an amazing family who loves you to pieces buddy!
My sweet little niece turned a whopping 3 years old on Monday and celebrated with a Mulan themed birthday party. She asked me to make her "happy cake" with pink flowers on it . . . so we went with a cherry blossom themed cake to tie into the Mulan party. 
This birthday cake was made for a very special girl who had a pink princess party!!! Hope you had a wonderful birthday! ALSO thank you WONDERFUL friends and family for making my own birthday so wonderful!!! Love you all!!!
Enter my latest GIVEAWAY here!!!
I loved making this "Fancy Nancy" cake for my cousins DARLING little girl's birthday! It just got my girly glams going to add a little sparkle and make a feather fan and find little jazzy jewels for this super cute girls cake!!!
Also flying out of my kitchen is this airplane cake for my cousins son. He is such a sweetie and I hope he likes it!!! I love the puffy marshmallow clouds!!!
This beach birthday cake was made for a LOVELY young lady who celebrated her 9th birthday this week! It was a fun distraction from Thanksgiving cooking and shopping prep for black Friday! I hope you had a wonderful birthday Chloe! (and enjoyed your cake)
Thanksgiving has come and GONE . . . again . . . our family had a great time AND this years black Friday shopping was a LOT less crazy than in years past! We also hit a few new places to eat and have been filled to the gills for the past few days . . . all in all it was a great Thanksgiving and I hope you all had a wonderful holiday too!
My kickin' nephew B-man asked me to make his birthday cake again this year . . . (You may remember his Pirate Cake from last year . . .) I swear these kids must think I am like Miss Artist/Sculpture/Baker extraordinaire with there cake requests! I wanted to be an artist when I was a kid and still enjoy painting watercolors but I cannot sculpt worth beans kiddles . . . so your cake figures may look cartoonish at best . . . 
. . . but you devour them in a flash . . . and seem pretty tickled in your macho manly high five giving ways . . . so I'm a happy Aunt! (And love you to pieces!) I made a ricotta vanilla cake this year and the Birthday boy requested a laser tag cake with "two guys shooting each other" (with lasers). Next up is a beach themed cake for a birthday girl . . .
My nephew turned 7 years old this week and requested for me to make an L.A. Lakers birthday cake for him . . . so we went off of his favorite player . . . "The Black Mamba" . . . Kobe Bryant. 
Yes I realize that Odom's # is 7 . . . by "Big T" turned 7 so we had to put that on his jersey . . . but made a black mamba snake as a reference to Bryant.
I won't lie . . . I am NOT an L.A. Laker fan . . . Oh the things an aunt is willing to do for her nieces and nephews . . .
I love making cakes for my nieces and nephews and family members! . . . May and June are very busy birthday months in our family . . . so here are two of the latest to make their appearances at parties this month . . . Princess Tiana was a delicious white cake with a white chocolate buttercream frosting and was requested by the little princess below who just turned 3! Look at those brown eyes! She is going to be a serious heartbreaker one day! (Thank you handsome husband of mine for whipping out the fantastic cupcakes for the party too!)
Below is the bike cake that I made for my nephew who turned 6. It was a from the heart cake all the way with his fam cheering him on as he crossed the finish line in a birthday bike race! Love you B & K! Thanks for being such a great sports kiddles and letting your aunt make your cakes!
Yeah for more cake!!! Once again I am busy writing papers and prepping for finals . . . so I am sharing a cake that came out of my kitchen recently that I LOVED. . . 
I made this cake for my darling cousins wedding back in March and have been eager to post the pictures that my amazing sister in law Brandi took! The heart design on the side was based on my cousins ring so it added a bit more of a personal touch to it. (I love that idea . . . it really made it their own since they designed it!!!)
The cake itself was a death by chocolate cake made up of decadent chocolate sour cream cake studded with mini chocolate chips and filled and frosted with my favorite chocolate fudge frosting and then covered with white and lemongrass colored marshmallow fondant! All four tiers were made of cake so their was plenty to indulge in! This was a lot of work but it turned out awesome and I was so excited to make it for them!!! Congrats again you happy newly weds!!! We are glad to have you in the family! Special thanks to my always willing and amazing pit crew who helped me with the finishing touches!!! Love you!!! 
I am making my beautiful cousin Emma's wedding cake in a few months . . . I was also going to make a cake for a baby shower this weekend . . . but the baby is coming earlier than thought . . . so I ended up making a "practice" cake just for fun . . . it is a tidge like the cake for the wedding . . . no worries Emma . . . it is a TIDGE like the final product will be . . . only completely different . . if that makes sense . . .
It has been a long week and I have been working on a power point presentation for a class tomorrow of people from the American Revolution . . . Nathan Hale and Francis Marion are personal favorite revolutionary heroes of mine . . . (along with Jefferson, Washington, Revere, Adams, etc . . .) I remember watching the Walt Disney movie about the "Swamp Fox" as a kid, played by a very young Leslie Nelson. It rocked! . . . still does.
Tomorrow night is girls night out for yours truly and the Southern Posse . . . away from the kids and the men folk . . . you'd think we never do this with how absolutely pumped my girls are to go out! (Given it has been a while . . .) I wish you all a fabulous weekend! Go Colts!
(Great find . . . I buy these scrapbook pages that are plastic and use them as cake liners . . . a cheap and fun addition to cake decor!)
Cake . . . cake . . . and more cake! I was tickled pink to get to make a birthday cake for our Young Women's night activity! We had a huge birthday party to celebrate the birthdays for all of the girls in our Young Womens! It was so much fun and such a great way to get to know the girls!!! (Also proved that you are NEVER too old to play pin the tail on the donkey!)
I am glad that the girls liked the cake!!! I had a fiasco trying to get a pink color that I liked and finally created a swirly tie-died look by mixing white fondant and a deep pink fondant together. I though that it was pretty cool . . . especially with the white fondant covered cake! If I had time I would have loved to have made some lily's as toppers because it had a tropical look to it but . . . another time.
The pictures aren't the best because I forgot my camera and had to use my phone to take them . . . live and learn. Anywho . . . happy birthday gals! Love you and I am so excited for my calling!
I also love the theme this year . . .
I hope that everyone had a fabulous New Years!!! I can't believe that 2010 is here already! That means that my High School 10 year reunion is coming up! Augh! I feel like I graduated last week! Oh well . . . what can you do . . . eat cake? Well in my case make cake! Which is what I will be doing when I get home from school today as well! Oh yes . . . school starts again today! I am actually pretty pumped because if all goes well I will graduate in May! I am sure family and friends are thinking "um yeah, we'll believe it when we see it . . ." but that is the plan kiddles!
Anywho I made this cake for our besties little boy who moved to Alaska and left us behind! We did get to see them this weekend . . . which only reinforced how much we miss them!!! (Luisy you did a great job with Logan's party!) On our way up north driving through one dandy of a snow storm my husband kept saying "this is why we are moving to Arizona" of course AZ gets some snow . . . but compared to what 95% of Utah gets I can see the AZ appeal to him . . . we'll see where we land one day. Until then I hope you all have a wonderful week and you fellow college students good luck with another semester of blissful learning!
