You Are My Sunshine

Apparently my Easter cake was such a hit last year, they wanted a repeat performance.  On top of the pressure of being creative and Eastery, my sister demanded chocolate buttercream - her new love.

Sunflowers are springy...more summery, but Peeps are definitely Eastery and this cake makes me smile!

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.

Fall Cake

As a cancer survivor, I walk in the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Light the Night Walk every year.  Unfortunately as the years go on, it gets more and more difficult to raise money for my cause.  I decided to get creative and had a raffle - anyone who donated at least $5 would be entered into a drawing for a free cake.  The more I raised, the more cakes I would give away.  I raised just over $250.00 so I picked two winners.  One of which wanted a cake for Thanksgiving and gave me free reign on design.  I went with something simple yet elegant and got rave reviews.  Not bad for my first "public" cake.

I Love You Man

My oldest is now 9 and is getting into all kinds of different things.  One of which is tie dye.  In fact, she has a few tie dye shirts that she wears quite often.  I find it a bit comical since I was into tie dye in high school way back in none of your business.

Anyway, once again they think I'm a cake champion and can do anything so here it is, they Tie Dye cake.  I'm actually pretty proud of this cake.  It gave me a chance to dabble with decorating a cake from the inside...

I love how this turned out!!

Look What The Bunny Brought!

Word is slowly spreading about my cake fetish.  My aunt asked me to bring a cake to Easter brunch.  Oh boy, I get to do something I want to do.  Do I go easy or do I go creative?  One night at work, it was slow so I just started looking at cakes online and found a great idea.  A basket cake!  And let me just say that I used chocolate buttercream and that mixed with the kit kats are heaven!!!

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!

Yo Ho Ho!

God bless my oldest - she has the same taste as her mama!  When I asked her what kind of cake she wanted for her 8th birthday she told she wanted a Johnny Depp cake.  This was way, WAY out of my league, but Captain Jack Sparrow?  This I can do!

I searched frantically online and even offered to buy her a cake and take in a photo of Johnny that they could put on it, but she didn't want a store cake.  She wanted MY cake.  How can I let her down?

I honestly spent weeks researching and then I finally found a Captain Jack sugar sheet.

This would prove to be my most nerve-wracking cake ever - I only get one shot at laying down the sugar sheet and while I did I demanded complete silence and crossed all of my fingers AND toes!  As you can see, it worked out pretty well.  The only down side is that all the ladies were fighting over who got to eat Johnny's face.  I will tell you that us adults had quite a nice time licking frosting off our Captain Jack paper plates.