Happy Valentine's Day!!

My FIL asked me to make a chocolate cake for him and he always lets me do whatever as far as decorating them.  I love it because it gives me a chance to try new things and he always appreciates it.  I love having the chance to add to my "portfolio."

I've never attempted a lace type of design before.  First of all, I should get something to help mark garland if I'm gonna keep doing it!  I just eyeballed the spacing so they arent all even.  But it was a lot of fun.

Catch-up

Wow, my third post for the day!  I'm attempting to make this blog a little more personable...I don't have a lot of time to bake/decorate so I won't be able to post often, but when I do get the time to decorate, I want to post more. :)

This cake was made for new years eve for Jay's gran's birthday. (His dad, my father-in-law, ordered it for his mom, hence it saying "Happy Birthday Mom".) It was an 8" round chocolate cake with IndyDebi's buttercream.  I wrote a Bible verse on the side from the book of Proverbs: "Her children will rise up and call her blessed."  I love that verse.  Actually, I love all of Proverbs.  Oliver (my almost 18-month-old) and I read a chapter from Proverbs in the morning during our breakfast.

Gran loved the cake and that made me so happy :)))

Leftovers...

Jay loves my white cake, so I decided to make him one and use leftover icing I had in the fridge. I really had no vision for this cake other than the big swirl on the top.  About halfway through Oliver decided he needed to help so it was quickly finished on the side.  Oh well, it was fun and Jay loved it!

Cookies!

This was my first attempt at decorating sugar cookies using this icing recipe.  It was so much fun!  Thanks so much to Pam at Cookie Crazie for her inspiration.  These cookies look sad compared to hers, but for the first time doing it I was pretty happy with them!  I'd love to start doing more cookie decorating.  I plan on making some cookie boquets in the future for some special occasions, hopefully it'll get my cookies "out there" for people to see and want.  I loved doing the little ones, I thought the X and O cookies turned out super cute.  Those were inspired by The Decorated Cookie. 

Happy Birthday Liam!

My nephew Liam will be 4 this Thursday! Its so hard to believe how big he is getting. He and Oliver look like they could be brothers. Everyone was commenting at the party how Oliver looks just like how Liam did at this age. Liam loves Thomas the Train so I made him a Thomas cake. I can't take credit for the creativity though, I got the idea from a cake on cakecentral.com. It was so fun to do! Its the first time I've done a cake for them so it was very special to me. :)

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!

The Wedding Cake

This cake was so, so fun to make!! It was very stressful, though. I was amazed at how much cake it took to make such a big cake. Blessings to the newlyweds, Jenni and Justin. We love you guys!