Berry Wedding Cake

For my sister-in-law's wedding reception:

She doesn't like cake, so it was actually hat boxes that I trimmed, slathered in chocolate buttercream, and decorated.  The top is a rice crispy treat cone covered in fruit, with chocolate-dipped strawberries on top to substitute the first bites of cake.

Baby Cake

Another team effort with Danielle:

Ducks in a tub cake

Co-creation with Danielle:

Coconut cake with raspberry frosting filling.  Vanilla wafers on the edges. Design found on cakecentral.com.  Ducks, bubbles and soap bar are made of gum paste.  Serves 12.

A little different

This cake is not actually by me, but by my friend Danielle. I just thought I'd post it because we had a lot of fun. I just made the fondant and showed her how to knead, color and lay it on the cakes. I think she did a great job, especially for a first try.

It's kind of the blind leading the blind, since I'm just figuring it out from websites myself, but if you live near me and you want some help trying a cake out for your child's birthday, give me a call!

Joy School Graduation Cake

I made this cake for my son's Joy School (Co-op home preschool) graduation. The figures were made to look like the 4 children in the group.  Strawberry MM fondant over chocolate cake with chocolate filling. The figures are made of MM fondant.

Little Einsteins Cake

Here's the top before I brought down the base:

Rocket is made out of Fruity Pebble treats, covered in MM fondant. The cake is chocolate with caramel filling.
The base is 2 butter pecan layers with caramel between, and third coconut layer with hot fudge filling.  The picture in the middle is of my son, and the figures are printed out, which I normally wouldn't do, but I opted to spend the extra time with my son on his birthday :).

Race car cake

Butter flavor with dark chocolate icing and covered in Bubble Gum flavored MM fondant.  Serves 12.

Halloween cake

Looooong chocolate cake rectangle. Fondant face, buttercream hair, laughy taffy and tootsie roll face (candy corn pupils).

Twin baby shower

This is a sugar cookie I cut out and frosted , then just laid on top of a normal cake.

My first attempt

For nostalgia's sake: This was the first fancy cake I attempted. I don't remember what flavors I used, sorry :)

Dots cake

3 layers: Neapolitan.  

Top: Chocolate 

Middle: Vanilla 

Bottom: Strawberry

Chocolate cream filling. Serves 40.

Pirate Ship cake

Front half vanilla, back half chocolate. No filling. Covered in Marshmallow fondant, serves 30.

Liahona cake

Liahona baptism cake.  Funfetti cake with chocolate cream center. Covered in marshmallow fondant. Serves 12-15.

My Little Pony cake

Top layer: one lemon, one orange. Lemon cream filling.

Bottom layer: Devil's food with pistachio cream filling.

marshmall fondant covered.  Serves 45.

Captain Moroni

Captain Moroni baptism cake. Chocolate with chocolate cream filling. Buttercream frosting. Serves 36.

Baby shower flowers

Lemon cake with lemon cream filling. 40 servings.

Pink Princess

Chocolate cake skirt. Chocolate cupcakes.

Sweetie Babe is born

What's in a name?

Well, "Sweetie Babe" is one of my most frequent nicknames for my kids and it seemed appropriate for a blog dedicated to the kids cakes I make.  

A cute little 3-year-old girl recently told me that her baby sister is a "cupcake."    How true.

When I make a cake for a child's birthday or special event, I want it to measure up and bring a sweet smile to the face of the little cupcake it's pictured with!