Birthday cakes and a Father's Day Fruit Bouquet

In the past week we have had my husband's birthday, father's day, and Bowe's girlfriend's birthday! So here are my creations from those events! :)

First is Jason's Birthday! He did not want anything fancy, just a simple vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream frosting and a vanilla whipped mm filling. It was pretty yummy! I decorated it with candy instead of "fancy icing decorations"! Mmmm Hershey's kisses and Whoppers!

For Father's Day, the kids and I made Jason a fruit basket! It was yummy and I think it turned out looking really pretty! he loved it and ate most of it that day! ....with a little help from the kids and me of course!

The third item is a birthday cake for Bowe's girlfriend and her 2 brothers...triplets! They are all sports fanatics and love basketball so that is what I made for them! The boys like plain old vanilla cake - no fillings...so I made the vanilla cake in 2 colors, yellow and orange and stacked them every other color in 4 layers - with buttercream in between the layers and covered with buttercream. The basketball on top is chocolate cake, since Shay likes chocolate! And Shay also really wanted a raspberry filling, so I injected in a whipped raspberry filling before frosting the ball with buttercream. I finished with a dark chocolate net for the basketball hoop and dark chocolate for the finishes of the basketball...and their names in fondant with edible silver shimmer. Hope they liked it!!

Lordy Lordy, look who's 40!!

My brother in law turned 40 yesterday! We had a party for him this weekend. I decided to add a little humor and here is what I came up with.

The cake is carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. Yummy! The dirt is crumbled cookies and the rocks are jelly beans!

Weekend of Family making cupcakes and a Hamburger Birthday Cake!

This weekend we had a family party at my house with some egg coloring/decorating and cupcake decorating! My family is all so creative! I think they all turned out so good! Here are a few samples!

I loved this one I made, it was my favorite!!

I also had a birthday cake to do this weekend and they decided on my doing a hamburger and fries! Not too shabby! Looks good enough to eat!

P P P Poker Face!

This cake was made for my step-kids, grandpa, who is very sick wtih cancer. At such a sad depressing time in the lives of all who know and love him, his family wanted to have a party to celebrate with him and not be focused on the sickness. He is an avid fan of the poker playing! So I was given the suggestion of maybe making a sheet cake into a poker card...well I cannot just do a poker card! :) I had to challenge myself and for Rich, I needed to make something that was cool! I decided to make a hexagon shaped poker table with cards, chips and dice! The kids helped in making the poker chips so they could be a part of it too! I think it turned out pretty good and the look on all of their faces was worth it! My step-daughter picked out the cake flavor and wanted to do the funfetti - so we did that and added a filling of coconut cream...tasty!

Calla Lilly Cake

French Vanilla cake with a very creamy, whipped chocolate buttercream frosting atopped with a few fondant calla lillies! :)

Halloween Cupcakes

So I wanted to try my hand at making different items out of fondant and thought that my daughter's dance Halloween party was the perfect excuse! The pumpkins took the longest due to the little stem, vines and leaves on them. I also had bought some 4x4x4 whote glossy boxes on the internet and they were perfect for holding the cuppies! I decorated them with a little message from my daughter. I think they turned out adorable...what do you think??

Marshmellow Cream filled Cupcakes!!

We had a birthday at work this week - along with Boss's Day...so we decided to do a pot-luck. So I volunteered to do the cupcakes. I had bought some marshmellow cream and whipped cream for the baby shower but preperations got so hectic, I did not get the chance to fill those cupcakes so I wanted to try it with these! I just mixed about 1/2 a jar of marshmellow cream and about a cup of whipped cream together. I went through and poked a hole in the top of all my german chocolate cupcakes with a straw to give me an opening. I then used a large round decorating tip to insert into the cupcakes, filled the bag with the marshmellow whipped cream and insert into the cuppies! I was afraid that they did not fill up enough so I had my lovely assistant (my husband) try them out!

Yeah! It looks good! So I went on to decorate them. I used a cinnamon buttercream that turned out so yummy and decided on some bow's and stars. Yeah they really don't go together, but I wanted to make some small bows and I wanted to use my star cutouts! They turned out cute and yummy none-the-less!

Let's try something new!

I wanted to try something new just for the heck of it! I made 2 bundt cakes, one yellow and one german chocolate. Flipped them one on top of the other...covered them in a vanilla buttercream along with a red colored fondant. My attempts were to make an apple to celebrate the kids going back to school. The fondant really did end up getting to the point of being red, but my pics look more like it is orange...and in turn makes it look like a pumpkin! I will have to do this again around Halloween time!!