Happy Birthday

Last week was my birthday.  I got a great pair of earrings and a nook cover with a notepad inside from my guys.  They also made me a cake. Yum!

I was sung to five or six times, received many birthday wishes on Facebook, was texted by friends, and opened loads of birthday cards from friends and family.

Thanks everyone.  It was a great day.

Another Birthday Cake

Early August a friend asked if I could make her daughter's birthday cake for a September 12 party. I was thrilled!  I had just found a recipe online to make my own marshmallow fondant and wanted to try it out. I asked if this would be okay for her and since i could make it the desired color, it was a go!

The order: chocolate cake with butter cream frosting under purple marshmallow fondant with three "The Littlest Pet Shop" characters on top.  


Let the fun begin!

Did I mention the karate tournament we had on September 11? That is a post for another time, but it does factor in to the cake.  I didn't bake the cake until after the tournament because I wanted it to still be fresh.  We got home from the tournament around 7:00pm. 

You cannot decorate a warm cake so by the time the cake baked and cooled, I was just beginning to frost the cake at 10:30pm.

Once the crumb coat of frosting was on, it was time for the fondant.  It works a lot like pie crust except change the flour to powdered sugar.  I rolled out the fondant large enough to cover the half sheet cake with some to spare and realized I was going to need a few extra hands to move the purple sheet of sweetness onto the cake.  So at 11:00pm my groggy, wonderful honey comes in to help with the transfer from the counter to the cake.  I am really sorry I do not have any pictures of this, but we both had our hands full!


Once the fondant was smoothed into place, the detailed decorating began!  The requested characters were a bunny, a puppy, and a turtle.  The birthday girl had graciously let me borrow her small figures to act as models.

The final result (with models):

Here is a closer look.  Glad you had a fun birthday Olivia!

My Birthday

My birthday was last week.

After decorating cakes for my boys:


This is my oldest son's cake from June.


My youngest son's cake from August.

They enjoyed their cakes so much they wanted to make a cake for me. As a surprise. My fabulous honey approved. And the planning began, weeks in advance.

The day arrived to decorate my cake. After equipment was gathered, the spreading began. The guys really got in to it. They had planned their work and now they were working their plan. My ever patient husband oversaw the process and helped with the writing (and did the clean-up). The boys were not done this was not enough. They needed flair!





Ta-Da!! Do my boys know how to decorate a cake or what! I couldn't have done it any better myself. Can you see how well they covered it in love?

Birthday Cake

"We're having a princess party." one mom said standing outside of preschool. I slowly spoke up wondering if I should even voice my thoughts.

"I could make the cake if you like. You know the kind with the gown as the cake and the doll sticking out of the top."

"That would be great," said the other mom. And she paid me on the spot to make her daughter a pink and white princess cake for the following Monday.

Well today is Monday. Here's the cake:





You all know that the only way I got to make this cake is because it is for another family :) It was a nice change from cars and ball fields.