Flowers and Dots Birthday Cake

This cake was made for our "Secret Angels" reveal night.  The cake was probably the best tasting cake I have ever had.  It was a dark chocolate cake with a mocha buttercream filling - YUM!!  I got this idea from pinkcakebox.com - what an awesome website!!  This was a very quick job, but it turned out relatively well.  Happy Birthday Patti Saunders!!

"Elf" Christmas cupcakes

When I got the request to make these cupcakes, I thought that this would be an easy task.  How could cupcakes be any harder than a cake, right?  After making the cupcakes, and the mini cupcakes, I knew that this was going to take forever.  Once I got all of the cupcakes iced, it was time to put the heads on.  Boy was this a testing of my patience!  After putting all of the cupcakes together all of the cupcakes and being proud of the work I'd done, I went to bed at a very late hour.  In the morning I came down stairs to see that half of the Elf heads had fallen off!  By the time I finished repairing most of them, I transported them to their location only to have more of their heads fall off.  Will I ever do these again?  Uh... :(
In spite of the many failures with these cupcakes, they turned out pretty good.

Merry Early Christmas to Me!

Since I discovered the Cake Cricut, I've always wanted one.  However, $450 was never in our budget.  I always figured it would have to be some sort of "Christmas Miracle" that I get one of these.  Just two days ago, my instructor, Barbara Reed (my bearer of "good tidings of great joy") emailed me and I'm sure several others to inform them of the great deal on Cake Cricuts.  They were on sale for only $50.  I literally wanted to scream.  I was so excited!  To make a very long story short, I ordered one and I am now eagerly waiting on it to show up on my doorstep!  Hopefully very soon, I will be posting a cake that I have had the opportunity to use the cake cricut for!

Purple and Black 18th Birthday Cake

This was my first attempt at making a "number" cake.  I used a 9" square pan for the "1" and a 8" round for the "8".  The girl I did the cake for isn't too fond of fondant, so once again, I made black icing.  (I do not like black icing!!)  Being my first attempt a cake like this, I was pleased with how it turned out.  Happy 18th Alicia!!

Purple Zebra Cake

A year later, and yet another cake made for Kaitlyn.  Working 60 hrs. a week and squeezing in time to make a cake proved to be difficult, however, the Lord allowed me to get finished with it even sooner than I thought. Kaitlyn's cake once again was zebra (which seems to be a popular theme this year).  The purple fondant I used was Duff Fondant.  It is very pliable and the taste is definitely better than Wilton.   Overall, the cake turned out well.  Happy 16th Birthday, Kaitlyn!

Jordan and Keelin's Teal and Silver Wedding Cake

Well, I finally accomplished my biggest goal...a wedding cake!  What a chore and what fun at the same time!  Craig and I both baked the cakes on Monday (our day off of school) :( and it took all day.  That was the not so fun part.  We then transported the cakes to Tennessee the day before the wedding.  I worked on crumb coating and covering with fondant on Friday and finished up the designs on Saturday morning right before I went to get my hair styled (I was also a bridesmaid)  All in all, the cake turned out well, just a few little "oops" spots which I covered up the best I could.  Congratulations Jordan and Keelin!  Keelin, welcome to the family!

Pink and Purple Zebra

This cake was made for a girl in my school, Christina Kondos.  She requested pink and purple with pink zebra stripes - what in the world?  The only problem I came face to face with was making a dark purple icing.  I learned not to use just the lavendar color, but also to add blue and red to the mix - turned out perfect!  Although this was an odd combination, it turned out great!  Happy 16th Christina!