Smurfette

My girl turned 4 this year and she wanted a smurfette party so...I did my best to make a smurfette cake.  She turned out a little chubby, but oh well my daughter LOVED it anyway!!!

WE SMURFIN LOVE YOU MADY!!!!!

Nate's First Birthday

My baby boy turned one a couple of weeks ago and we had a carnival birthday party.  I decided to go with a popcorn smash cake.  This was probably the EASIEST first birthday cake that I have ever made;)  My little guy loved it once he dug in.  He does not like having dirty hands though!!!!

My first Quilted Cake

My friend's friend (the one we made the corset cake for) just got married yesterday and here are some pictures of the cake.  This cake was only to look at...then for their first bite...then the top was getting saved to eat a year later.  The cupcakes (we didn't provide those) were there for the guests to enjoy;)

I quilted the top tier...and put the fondant on myself;)  

It turned out really pretty and was a very cute, simple, and elegant looking cake;)

Bridal Shower Cake

I had not done a corset cake before...it was actually pretty fun to make.  My friend Taunya was asked to make this cake for HER friends bridal shower and she asked me to help out.  It turned out really cute I think!

Kayla's 12th Birthday

My friend Tricia has a daughter that is now OFFICIALLY old enough to babysit...WOO HOO!!!  But that is beside the point right now.  Kayla Loves Lime green and purple and so of course Tricia wanted her to have a fun cake like this.  Tricia has a sister that is really good at decorating cakes and I just helped her out a little bit.  It was a fun cake to work on.  I did cut the peace sign out and frost the top tier.

KAYLA LOVED THE CAKE!!!! and in the end, that is ALL that MATTERS   :)

WOW

There are no other words to describe this cake.  My friend Shelley was asked to do ANOTHER wedding cake and she asked if I could help decorate it and get it to the wedding.
Shelley ended up baking them all, then she frosted the bottom two tiers alone.  I came in the night before and helped put it all together and we set it up to make sure it was going to hold up ok.  Well no matter how it looked at her house, it was not ready to hold up on a slanted table at the reception.  *sigh*
I only have a picture of what it all looked like at Shelley's house put together, we then had to take it apart, transport it up the mountain to big bear and set it up on a SLANTED hill.  No bueno!   We tried our best to get it to stay straight up, but no luck...
Did I mention there were glass bowls in between each tier that were heavy and the cake was Devil's food cakes...(which do not stack well)  Anyways, after the cake started to slide off the table(we caught it)  we decided the top tier was going to have to go in front of the other two tiers since we were told the table had to sit at that location.
So if you ask me there are lots of little factors that caused this cake to end up the way it did...

LESSON LEARNED for Shelley and for Me I hope!!!  No more crazy wedding cakes and definitely no more delivering wedding cakes for them...not worth it!

NIGHTMARE

There are no other words to describe this cake except Nightmare...it was horrible.  I was extremely grateful that my sis in law and her three very talented teenagers were here to help make this cake.  I don't know why I get these ideas in my head that I can do these things...After a couple of thrown away cakes and starting over from scratch we decided to make the cake work...so after Nicole chizzeled away at it for a bit we were able to salvage it and start decorating.  I was really not too happy with the way it turned out, but I was told by several people that it looked good and then the girl we made it for said it looked just like she had pictured it.  So I guess it wasn't that bad!