Hey Where's Perry?

It's that time of year again.  My twins are TEN!  I can hardly believe it!  And while I got off easy with my oldest wanting an ice cream cake for her 11th birthday back in September these girls are not so impressed with store cakes.

My little sweetface likes simple cakes (thank God) so this year she wanted a sprinkle cake with pink and orange nonpareils.  Pretty simple right?  Haha.  They make is look so easy in the pictures, but for an amateur such as myself, I think it turned out pretty nice.

My little cuteface on the other hand, loves to challenge me almost as much as she loves Perry the Platypus.  She wanted a Perry cake - but not just any Perry cake - and NOT agent P.  This one took some creativity.  I hate fondant so I never use it.  We're a buttercream family and I try to make everything on the cake edible.  

Perry's little feet, bill, and tail are made from those vanilla cream wafers covered in buttercream.  Of coarse I had to prop that bill up.  The eyes are just buttercream (a special treat for my mam).  Everything else is cake - blue velvet cake so he's the same color inside and out...kinda weird, but tasty.

(once I finished him, I looked at a picture and realized I forgot his little tuft of hair, so I added it)

You can't see, but she's totally smiling in there.

Ma Cake

My ma LOVES buttercream roses, but I'm no pro so when she asked me to make her a pistaschio birthday cake, I mimmicked a cake I previously made for one of my daughters, but used three shades of green for the frosting.  She was so happy, and that's all I can hope for.

I took these pictures on the picnic table outside trying to capture some natural light, but it wasn't working out too well for me.

Dirty Zebras!

It's time for my twins to celebrate another birthday and while this pink fancy cake may look simple and delicious, it's far more.

The girls are getting into animal prints and one of them loves zebra stripes and the color combo of pink & black.  I give you my zebra cake!

The other girl just wanted a simple, delicious dirt cake, complete with gummy worms.

Now They Think I Can Do Anything

Happy 7th birthday to my beautiful twins!  My three girls really think I can do anything.  Luckily one of these two is a bit kinder than the other.  Still fancy as always, she wanted a fancy purple cake.  

That was it - no further instructions.  This I can do!

My other twin wanted a pizza party complete with a pizza cake.  I have no idea where she got the idea from, but seriously?  A pizza cake?!  What did people ever do without the Internet for inspiration?

I got an 11-inch cake pan and used buttercream frosting tinted tan.  I made a jelly concoction

for the pizza sauce and candy melts to make the cheese, sausage, pepperoni, and green peppers.

FUN!

Frogs and Weddings

Typically these two things do not mix, but my twins are now six and they now have completely different tastes.  One of then just loves frogs and wanted a frog cake.  Of coarse there's no frog cake pan, so I have to completely free hand it (and by free hand, I mean trace the shape and then fill in all the lines myself)  I think I'm getting better at it.

Now the other one is pretty fancy.  The loves fancy things right now and told me she wanted a wedding cake.  A wedding cake!  Now I'm nowhere near wedding cake talent, but I did my best and I think it turned out pretty nice.  I used fondant for the flowers for the first (and last) time.  Fondant tastes like crap, and therefore will never find itself in my kitchen again!