Owl Cookie Favors

These pink & green owl cookie favors were for a baby shower. This was a big order, there were 80 of these little guys! What a cute theme for a baby shower! Best wishes to the parents to be!

Baby Giraffe Cake

This baby giraffe cake was for a baby shower. The cake was french vanilla with white buttercream. I added sliced strawberries to the fill and covered in fondant. I used fondant embellishments and rice krispies for the legs. Next time I would love to do a baby lamb!

Pirate Party Cakes & Tutorial

We had a pirate party for my son's first birthday! We had two cakes...a pirate hat & a pirate. Below you'll find a picture tutorial for making a pirate hat! Super easy!! Enjoy & happy baking!

1. Bake two round cakes, level - I made two 8 inchers

 2. Fill with buttercream

3. Cut top portion off as shown below

4. Then cut that in half

5. Assemble as shown below

 6. Frost (no picture) and place in refrigerator for 30mins

7. Cover with black fondant, trim

8. Roll out some white fondant and cut out a skull & crossbones. I used a cookie cutter.

9. Cut out eyes, nose & mouth

10. Roll out a white rope - keep it uniform

11. Dip a paint brush in water - this will be used as the "glue" to stick on embellishments

12. Brush out the outline for the rope as shown below

13. Apply rope to the hat

14. Add on the skull cutout

15. Add chocolate gold coins, ring pops, candy necklaces and other decorations!

Add a pirate to the party too!





Bridal Shower

For this shower I took a different approach than the traditional round/square cakes. I decided to do a wedding dress cake with a barbie insert. This cake was 3 tiers, mixture of yellow and chocolate cake. I had a lot of fun with this cake and also learned a new technique of making fondant drapes/swags. The secret weapon is a simple drinking straw. For such a simple technique it sure adds a lot to the cake. I also used some sanding sugar to sparkle up the dress a little! This cake was well received by all the guests and the bride/groom to be! Congrats Melanie & Jimmy!

Elmo & Cookie Monster favors

I received an order for Elmo & Cookie Monster cookie favors for a birthday party. I was so excited to make these because I love elmo and cookie! These were really fun and a little challenging. I used a modified football cookie cutter for these and cut out circle eyes, nose & little cookies (to add a second layer effect). Finished off in little bags with coordinating ribbon....there you have it....cookie favors! Thank you so much Sandra! Hope the birthday girl had a great birthday!

Farmville Cake!

Farmville has become quite the craze! How could I resist an opportunity to make a Farmville cake??!! I love this one...it was a big hit! The birthday girl was blown away! Don't forget to harvest your crops :)

Baby Shower - Cowgirl Theme

Its been awhile since my last post...a couple months back I did a really fun theme for a baby shower - COWGIRL! YEE HAW! Cookie favors were requested. I ended up with a cowgirl hat, boots and bandana cookies. These were so much fun to watch them come to life. I was also so excited to see them as part of the party deco as this host throws one heck of a party!! Thank you Maritza!

Bridal Showers...

Made these for a bridal shower. Host wanted me to incorporate teal into the design. Here is what I came up with...

And...

A 3 tiered cake for another bridal shower. Layers of white and chocolate cake with vanilla frosting.

3D Spiderman cake and web cupcakes

I made this cake for my sons 2nd birthday party! It turned out great and he LOVED it! The downside to this cake is...it took forever! The webing is fondant strips and that took so long to do. I thought it would look better with fondant vs buttercream. I didn't want to chance smearing it with my not-so-steady hand!

This cake was layers of chocolate and white with carrot cake cupcakes!

Barrel of Strawberries...Cake!

This cake was delicious!! It was a french vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream…surrounded with kitkat bars and topped with fresh strawberries!! Yum!

Super Mario Bros.

Super Mario Bros. cookies for a 4th Birthday party. The birthday boy requested Super Mario themed party so this is what I came up with. I didn't even attempt Mario, but I was happy with what I did and how it turned out. My favorite is probably the Goomba guys.

Baby Shower Cake

It's a girl! I made this cake for a baby shower of a friend of mine. Two double layer cakes (one chocolate, one red velvet) covered in fondant. I was really happy how it turned out.

Super Bowl XLV

Cake and Cookies for a Super Bowl party! Go Packers!!!

Spider Cake

This cake is 100% edible. The spider is made of chocolate cake and the base is red velvet. This was a last minute cake, but I think it turned out pretty good.