Polka Dots

For my class on Saturday I had to demo how to level, fill, and frost a cake. When I came home I decided to add a little decoration to it before we cut into. I went with the simple polka dot theme.

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!

Grandpa's 90th Birthday Cake/Party

This past weekend was busy with a lot of celebrations! Grandpa Gale is turning 90 this coming week and, so for him, we had a family reunion that involved a huge Birthday party. Friday night was a family reunion BBQ with about 120 of his posterity. There were a lot of his posterity missing, but there was also a lot of them there! Keith and I counted and there were all of his 4 children and spouses there, and all but 4 of his blood Grandchildren there. The main part of his posterity that was missing was Great-Grandchildren, Great-Great-Grandchildren and spouses to the Grandchildren. The reason I am posting this on my cake blog is because I made Grandpa Gale's Birthday cake. He had a party were everyone and anyone he ever knew (who are still alive) was invited. I think we got about 250 slices out of the cake, and we only came home with about 5 pieces left (it was a BIG party!)
Here are pictures of the cake and some from the party (they uploaded backwards, so you see the pictures of the detail and back of the cake before you see the front...sorry!)

My Parents and all but one of their kids (We missed you Emily!) We are in no order what so ever, I think my Mom was just happy to have everyone standing in one spot for a picture!

Can you tell what type of shoes our family prefers?

Me and Grandpa with his cake.

Up close detail of the flowers and the frames. The flowers were Gum Paste and the frames were chocolate painted with pearl dust.

The back of the cake (sorry again that you are looking at the pictures in a funny order!)

The cake front. The bottom layer was Chocolate with Raspberry filling. The top two layers were white cake with Strawberry filling. For those of us who don't like fondant, there was butter cream icing under the fondant. All the pictures were from Grandpa's childhood.

My Sister took some more pictures with her nicer camera, when I get those I will post another picture if you can see the cake detail better.

Topsy Turvy Strawberry Shortcake

I made this cake today for my Niece. She wanted a Strawberry Shortcake Cake and I have been wanting to make a topsy turvy cake, so I made a Topsy Turvy Strawberry Shortcake. The carving of the cake was actually pretty easy, the hard part was getting the fondant to stick on the different funky angles. Over all it looked pretty good and didn't fall over, so I think it was a success! (sorry for the blurry parts on the pictures, our camera is dieing...something we should probably fix/get done, before the new baby comes!)