Gumpaste Lilies

This is not a cake, but it could go on a cake. I have been learning how to make sugar flowers and I just made my first set of Lilies. I think they turned out pretty good!

Heather's Baby Shower

A few months ago I did both cupcakes and cookies for the baby shower of a friend of mine. She wanted everything pink and girly. That is my kind of baby shower. I made vanilla cupcakes with pink vanilla swiss meringue butte rcream. I also designed and  printed the little cupcake toppers that went on the cupcakes.

While my first love is cake, I also absolutely love cookies. I make some crazy good ones too. for this baby shower I made chocolate fudge sandwich cookies with a cream cheese icing filling and rolled them in pink sprinkles. These are such a cute and seriously tasty cookie.

I forgot to take pictures of these creations, but luckily two of the guests are also photographers and my friends (How sweet is that?!) so I was able to get copies of the pictures they took. I think they turned out well. You can see more of their work here...
http://kjophotography.blogspot.com/
http://www.laurelmarshphotography.blogspot.com/

 

Here is a picture of my little cutie at Heather's baby shower. She fit right in with the pink theme.

Thank you Kayli and Laurel!

Adelle's Purple Baby Shower Cake

This baby shower cake was made for a fun quirky person that I know. She was having a little girl, but unlike me, did not want her baby to have anything pink. She wanted purple and lime green for her little one, and I made it happen. I covered the hat shaped cake with purple fondant and then cut out flowers and baby carriages and pressed them onto one of my floral texture mats. Then they were brushed with a pearlized shimmer dust. It is a unique cake, but I like it! Also, the actual cake was a vanilla cake that I dyed purple with food coloring and it had lime green butter cream as well.

Cream Peony Cake

I made this cake for the son and now daughter in law of one of my coworkers. She is the best 6th grade teacher I have ever met and I was more than happy to make this cake for her, even though I was not quite feeling up to it. They wanted a tall cake with cream peonies around one layer. When the bride gave me the design idea for the cake it seemed just a little quirky, but pretty so I was excited. I had never made gumpaste  peonies before so this was all trial and error, but I think they turned out pretty well. Let me know what you think.

I'm a Slacker

I am a slacker and I know it. The last cake I posted was made the week I found out I was pregnant. Very soon after that intense "morning sickness" set in and I spent the majority of my pregnancy on the couch. Also,  I had some major food aversions and anything sweet, especially frosting made me toss my cookies. Needless to say, I took break from cake decorating for a little over 9 months. I started making cakes again when my precious baby girl was about 2 months old. She is now 8 months old and I have 6 months of cakes to catch up on. I think I will just post the highlights. Here is are some pictures of my precious little girl that has kept me from my cakes and this blog. 

A cake for Mammaw!

Our friends the Langton's asked me to make this cake as a surprise for their mothers birthday. With the guidelines of purple and green I came up with this...