USMC Cake

Looking around my house, I am not only surrounded by boys, but I am also surrounded by camouflage! It is every where! On shoes, on clothes, on jackets, on backpacks...you name it, it is camo. So today I made a camo cake. Simper Fi Marines, Simper Fi!

Superhero cake

This is a cake I made last weekend. The only thing the little boy carried about was that is was superhero. Superman and Batman were two of his favorites, so that is what I went with! The cake was chocolate and the filling was strawberry! Hope he was happy!

Buzz Lightyear Cake

With a new baby due any day, we planned a very simple Birthday party and cake for Pack this year. Lately he has been in LOVE with Buzz. So I searched around for some simple and easy ideas and found this perfect cake for him. The planet was vanilla cake, the cupcakes were chocolate. He loved it. P.S. Don't mind the cheesy smile!

The cake took me less then an hour to make (perfect for a 9 month along pregnant lady!)

There were more craters, but buzz's legs were blocking them...should have taken a better picture at a different angle.

Pirate's Be Comin'

Here are two little cakes I made for a Birthday Party order. It was for a 4 year old boy who wanted a pirate cake. I thought up some ideas, and this is the option they picked. It was so fun to do and I hope the Birthday Boy loved them!

A cake from long ago...

I recently got an email from someone who came across the blog. He asked if I had ever made a white shirt and tie cake. I thought it was weird that he asked that because I had made one and I thought it was on my blog. I looked at my blog history and realized that I hadn't ever posted pictures of it (I forgot my camera that weekend, and so my Sister had taken pictures and I forgot all about it since I didn't have the pictures on my computer). I made this cake a few months ago for my nephew. He turned 12 and in our Church that is when he gets to be ordained a deacon. I made this cake for his ordination day. It is also a fun cake idea for a Doctor (you do a blue shirt and a white jacket with a stethoscope,) for a missionary (you add a name tag) or for Father's Day!

Volcano Cake

My nephew celebrated his ninth birthday this weekend. The only request for the cake was "something boyish." I thought on it, and decided I would make him this erupting volcano cake. The cake was super easy and fast to make, and the eruption was pretty awesome (if I do say so myself.) I wish I would have taken a picture before the eruption, but this is the picture during the eruption. The cake started off just a brown volcano shaped mountain. I built it around a drinking glass, so we could use the glass for the eruption part of the cake. just before singing happy birthday, Red marshmallow cream lava, along with some smoke, spued out of the top of the cake (with the help of some dry ice.) The "explosion" was a great hit with the nine year old boys! My sister got the eruption on video. I will have to get that from her and post it here, so you could see the actual action!

Ian's Birthday Cake

I had one weeks notice and all the info I had was he liked Rhinos. So I thought on it, and I just played around and came up with this cake. It was suppose to have the number 14 on top (that is how old he was turning) between the rhino and the stars, but the 4 didn't dry firm enough, so it went without. The rhino was my first attempt to molding something with fondant...so don't look at it too close :) I wish the colors would have been bolder, but those were the colors I had. I really like the inconsistent strips on the bottom layer...and it was super fast to do!

Cake Pictures are Here!

So the place we take our Son for his pictures (Pretty Pictures in Lehi, Utah) does these "one year old" shots with the cake. I made the cake for the pictures, and this is the best picture we have of it! (of course they are professionally taken :)) I uploaded the pictures backwards, so you have to look at the last picture to really see what the cake looked like. The party hat cakes are so cute, we think it will be a tradition in our home to have your own party hat cake for every Birthday!

Dragon Party

This Dragon is probably my favorite cake I have done thus far. He was so cute, easy, and really low on cost. His head, tail and legs are rice crispy treat, and his body is one whole cake mix. His spikes are orange candy melts formed into "spikes". Loved this cake!

It was for a one year old, so here was his cake to eat
I had left over cake batter, so I made a few parties hats.

Up close of Spike the Dragon

The whole cake presentation.

Happy One Year Birthday Dude!!

My son turned one and we had an Elephant cake. I had seen this cake done before and wanted so bad to do it. The cake took a lot longer then most cakes, and I don't feel it was any cuter, but at least I have done it now right? Below is my son's personal cake to eat.

Singing Happy Birthday

The Elephant Cake. The elephant is white cake. The base it is on is white cake with chocolate mousse filling.

Duck Cake

This duck cake was a trial run for my son's Birthday. I had bought the pan and was nervous about the way it worked, so I decided to bake a cake before hand to double check the pans abilities. Well the pan worked great, so I decided to make up a little frosting and "play". As you can tell I ran our of frosting and didn't feel like making more since this was just a trial run. Even though I ran out of frosting I hope you can see how cute this little guy would be finished!

Quarter Century Old

When my husband turned 25 he wanted a quarter cake to celebrate his quarter of a century age. This was not my best cake, but I have to say I learned a LOT. The cake was funfetti and the filling was the funfetti frosting.