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.

3D Teddy Bear Birthday Cakes

I was asked by my ultra-creative & crafty friend Shannon to make 3D teddy bear cakes for her daughter Merjen's birthday party. 

Shannon had the 3D cake pan for me to use.  It bakes the batter in the shape of this large teddy bear, then you pop it off like a shell and you have this adorable cake.  I actually have the smaller version and I used it for Kaycie's first birthday cake, too.

Since the teddy bears were large cakes and were relatively upright, I used a dense pound cake recipe so they would hold together well.  Shannon also asked for purple over sized bows, and we put one on each bear to match the theme. They were made out of fondant with a little bit of gum paste mixed in.

This cute little pair of bears was a hit with the birthday girls and her guests!