Dad's Birthday

My dad is ever the partier, so I decided to attempt a glass of beer for his birthday cake! I made 4, 6 inch hexagon shaped vanilla cakes, stacked them with a layer of OREO cream filling and frosted with vanilla buttercream. it turned out pretty good, but the handle I made out of fondant was a little heavy so I had to make a support to help it stay in the cake...next time I will use a better strategy for that! :)

After the cakes were done, I made some cupcakes with the leftover batter and made some fondant pretzels to go on top of them, as well as made the fondant pretzels to spell "dad".

I like how it turned out - and my dad inhaled his piece of cake in about a minute, so it must have been really good! :) After my brothers seen how much my dad loved the cake, they decided to help feed him a little more! :)

With the left over cake tops and OREO filling, I made a trifle. It had more of a whipped cream base so it was nice and light! Yummy!

Baseball Birthday

My son's 15th birthday was this past weekend! He wanted baseball themed cake. We had about 30 people coming over, so I wanted to do cupcakes, but Bowe really wanted cake...vanilla cake...with vanilla cream filling...I know, boring! So I decided to do some vanilla with vanilla cream filling, some chocolate with Oreo cream filling and the last was just vanilla with no filling. Something for everyone! I like the idea of cupcakes if there is a lot of people, it is just so much easier to dish out! Anyway, I went with a baseball bat shaped cake, a baseball mitt cake, and baseball cupcakes. Here is how they turned out! Everyone loved them and there was something for every taste! :) And most of all...Bowe loved it!

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!!

Baby Blessing

My niece Alexis was blessed this past Sunday! She did so good and was such a doll! Here is the cake I made for the lunch afterwards. It was a yellow cake with a chocolate mousse filling and vanilla buttercream frosting! Yummy!

S'mores Cupcakes and a Tinkerbell Cake

This past weekend was my brother's birthday and a friend's niece's birthday!

For my brother, I decided since we were having a cook out - I would incorporate that theme and do S'mores cupcakes! They turned out delicious! Chocolate cake, a whipped marshmellow cream frosting, graham cracker cumbs and a piece of Hershey's candy bar on top! Yummy!!

My friend's little niece was turning 5 and she wanted a Tinkerbell cake. She also wanted some sparkles on the cake...so I chose to make a flower for the top and a bow for the bottom and completely cover them with pink sugar! They turned out adorable! I am definitely going to use this technique again in the future (my daughter Kylee already informed me that she wants it done for her birthday cake!)

The birthday girl wanted a chocolate cake with banana cream filling. So I did that for the top tier and I did a chocolate cake with a marshmellow cream filling for the bottom tier. I have to say, I was skeptical on the banana cream with chocolate cake...but I tasted it with some of the leftover cake tops and it was fabulous! I am really wanting to make another cake just so I can fill it with the banana cream I made! What a fun weekend!!

My new cake plates!

Through my continual search for inspiration and my addiction to blog hopping, I have seen many different lovely home made cake plates from different blogs. I have loved them and have wanted to make my own for a while. I finally took a trip down to the good old Utah DI and picked up a few things. I get a little excited for the projects I am doing and always forget to take a before picture of everything...so instead you get a before they were painted, while the glue was still drying pic!! :)

Here is the first one, upside down (glue is drying) I loved this plate! It was so springy I could not resist and the bottom is a ceramic candle holder.Although I actually liked the candle holder or what ever it was with the hand painted flowers and bees, it just does not fit anything that I would use it for, but it was perfect for a taller cake stand!And here is my springy cake stand next to my tulips from the backyard!And the taller one, I spray painted black for a cohesive look.And the two together! I love them!!

Basketball Birthday

My nephew is an avid basketball fanatic! So we had to make him a basketball themed cake this weekend for his 5th birthday! The cake is a double chocolate cake with a vanilla whipped frosting (not the easiest frosting for perfection...so look past those!! ) and the cupcakes are the same double chocolate cake, but with a whipped cream cheese filling and a vanilla whipped frosting. All of the basketballs and the hoop are made out of fondant!

Here is the cake without the decorations on yet. Since the frosting was a whipped cream based frosting, it is has more moisture, so it tends to make the fondant start to melt! :)

And here is the cake with all of the decorations on. I attempted to write the Jazz on the top since that is Brody's favorite!!

And up closeBrody even loved the fondant! He tore up the basketball hoop...almost ate the whole thing!Same with the cake! It must have been good because Broday usually never eats cake! :)

Happy Birthday, Buddy!