Firefighter Helmet Cake

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25th Wedding Anniversary Cake

I had the joy a making this elegant cake for a friend whose parents celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary.  My friend Julie was throwing a small bash for family and had been loving some white fondant and metallic silver combinations.  We came up with this cake.

The cake was covered in a homemade fondant.  The metallic silver bow was a gum paste/ fondant mixture rolled out, shaped, and airbrushed with a metallic food coloring.  The 25 on top and silver ribbon around the base are thick cuts of rolled fondant, sprayed silver. 

The date was painted by hand onto a rectangular piece of fondant and attached to the cake with clear piping gel.

I am so pleased with how the fondant turned out on this cake.  I was able to try some new techniques and am so happy with the final result.

Sweet Baby Boy Shower Cake

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Teapot and Flowers Birthday Cake

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Sugar Cookies

After years of testing and experimenting, I have found my own favorite (and in my opinion, perfectly delicious) sugar cookie & icing recipe combo. 

My cookies are thick and soft, not too sweet.  They hold their shape well when baked.  My icing is thin yet dries to a glossy hard finish.  It is very sweet and you can flavor it with the extract of your choice. 

For the past couple years, I have been using this recipe to make party favors for my girls birthdays.  My friend Lori asked me to make a special batch of my sugar cookies for her husband Steve, who has really had a tremendously awesome past 6 months and deserved a special treat for all his hard work. 

I knew Steve loves fly fishing, so when I was searching through my cookie cutter collection,  I found this never-before used cutter and knew it was the perfect one!

I had some fun with this arrangement.  I delivered them today and he was really grateful!

 

 

For my local friends, I can make large sugar cookies for you too! $1 each for order of 1 dozen or more (1 color). If you would like them individually bagged they are $1.25 each.

Cars Racetrack Cake

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I mustache you to eat a cupcake.

For my MOPS group end of the year gathering, we decided to give our night a mustache theme since the husbands were invited.  I made these platters of fun cupcakes to go along with the theme!

The big centerpiece mustache is a 6" round cake cut into 2 halves -ying yang shaped- and then arranged to look like a 'stache.  I frosted it in vanilla and then covered in chocolate jimmies.  

It is surrounded by chocolate pound cake cupcakes with vanilla buttercream swirls.

The top tray is a new creation of mine, a twinkie-flavored vanilla pound cake with a whipped vanilla topping.    I used decorated with chocolate fondant mustache cutouts.