16th Birthday

I love the opportunities that our church has brought to us.  Among the many opportunities and blessings we have received was the chance to do this cake.  It was a last minute thing but I was happy to be able to do this cake for a sweet girl in our church's youth group.  Happy Birthday, Tria, I hope you had a great day!

Happy (early) Birthday Vicky!!!

I'm still on my cookie kick...I love it!! I am especially enjoying it now that I have an icing that works so well on cookies.  I'll always love the taste of sugar cookies and buttercream icing, but this new icing looks much prettier.

My niece Maya turned 2 today.  That's so hard to believe!  When she was born I was only about 10 weeks pregnant with Oliver and felt so sick on my way to see her.  Time has flown by!  I made cookies for her (the weather was iffy so we decided it was best they order a cake from a local bakery in case I couldnt make it down there...they live about 3 hrs away.) but...can you believe this...I forgot to take a picture!!!!! I'm so mad!!! But I'm pretty sure Joy took one, I just emailed Chris to find out.  As soon as I get one, I'll post it.

But I got to see my cousin Vicky at the party.  I made her a fun set of cookies as an early birthday gift...The icing on her was too thick, so they didnt turn out as well as I had hoped, but she loved them :)

high heels...so fun :)

purses... :)

gift tag with my new favorite thing...DISCO DUST!!! sooo pretty!

some of my favorites

All wrapped up.  I even found pink ribbon with black high heels that I used for the gift tag cookie.

All packaged up! I made to many to fit in the little tin that I found, but I loved the tin so much I used it anyway! The rest were just wrapped up in tissue paper.

Happy Birthday Vic!!! Love you!!

Sweet 16

Happy Birthday Lauren! This was made for my best friend's younger sister for her 16th birthday. 10" bottom tier white cake covered in fondant and decorated as zebra. Top tier was 6" chocolate cake covered in fondant. Gumpaste/fondant decorations and buttercream "fringe" border. So fun!

Happy Birthday!

I really enjoyed making this birthday cake for one of my closest friends, Kirsten. Her birthday was at the beginning of November and I wanted to make it special. It was my first time making marshmellow fondant (MMF) and I had a lot of fun with it. I enjoy using the store-bought fondant more, I think, but its nice to be able to make my own also. The cake was a cherry chip box mix (her favorite). I love working with fondant! It takes the cake to a whole new level. I look forward to making many cakes this upcoming holiday season.