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!

Dirt Bikes and Flowers???

If you had told me that you wanted two dirt bikes as your wedding toppers and you wanted flowers all over your cake I would have probably thought you were crazy...well I think that we made it turn out pretty cool considering I don't think the two belong on a cake together;)  Here are some pictures of the process...kind of like the last wedding cake because she wanted it simple and happened to be at the last wedding and say, kind of like hers, but with different flowers and dirt bikes on top!

We did buttercream frosting with a cream cheese/strawberry filling that turned out really YUMMY!!!

Here is my friend Shelley who was asked to make the first wedding cake that I helped her with...then we were asked to do this one!  I like the way this one turned out better...no dance floor!

Here it is all set up at the reception center :)

Hannah Montana Cake

My friend Shelley came over and helped me get the two tiers frosted!  This cake was actually pretty simple to do once we got past frosting both tiers.  She just wanted the bottom rainbow cake to be decorated in pink frosting and the top chocolate cake decorated with purple frosting and polka dots on it...Simple enough!

Happy 5th Birthday Ashlyn

Rainbow cupcakes

My little girl is having a Hannah Montana birthday party and she wanted some rainbow cupcakes to take to her dance class.  I wasn't so sure about this...but it really was super easy;)
I took pictures of the process.  She wanted the neon food coloring.  So we went with green, pink, and purple.  Then purple frosting to top it off!

Wedding Cake

So my friend Shelley and I have done several cakes together...but never a wedding cake.  The thought of doing a cake that matters so much for such a special occasion is kind of scary, but we took on the challenge.  We learned a lot in the process of this cake and now we know how to do things easier next time...but here are some pictures of the wedding cake process.
This was pound cake with strawberry slices and strawberry glaze in the middle of each layer.  Then buttercream frosting that is so YUMMY!  This was a really small wedding for a friend of Shelley's.  There were approx. 50 guests.