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Star Wars 2nd time around

2012-02-12T19:25:00.000-08:00

The same friend that request the Star Wars themed cake for her husband asked about another one for her son's birthday. I was really excited to try painting on fondant and wanted to give it a try for this cake.

I attempted a 3d painting of R2D2 and I really like the way it turned out. The only part of the cake that I was not pleased with was the icing covering the cake. I intended to have the cake covered completely in white fondant to have a smooth background, but I injured my elbow and couldn't even begin to roll out the fondant. The icing was last minute and was really quite

frustrating.

Star Wars -eeeek

2011-12-21T17:02:00.000-08:00

I love all things Star Wars and when a friend asked me to make her hubby a Star Wars themed cake, I was sooooo excited. After looking around online for ideas, it was obvious that there were lots out of my league. So I decided to stick with simple.

Which meant a fondant covered blue cake with cut out white stars and the logo in white. Then figures of the characters out of fondant sitting around the tiers of the cake.

I didn't take a picture of the actual cake - sorta forgetful that way :-) - but I did get some awesome shots of the figures.

Update ** friend of mine sent me a pic of the finished cake :-)

Homemade with Love

2011-11-11T18:47:00.000-08:00

Made these for friends of mine as a result of a Facebook challenge where we need to exchange a gift this year that is homemade. Took me almost 8 months to come up with the following, but I like the end results.

Winter Field

Spring Field

All things halloween

2011-10-31T20:21:00.000-07:00

ahhhh - Halloween - I love this time of year! Goblins, gremlins, mummies.... oh my!

Fish!

2011-10-07T19:22:00.000-07:00

At our workplace recently we had a week of activities for the employees that celebrated the Fish philosophy as part of our EAP week. We also had a potluck and our department brought the dessert. A awesome fish cake was made, along with fish cupcakes. Also present were squirrel and bird cupcakes (funny story there :-)) I made fish cake pops as my part of dessert.

Forgot to take a picture of the bunch I made, and these 2 little guys were all were left for my kids.

I had a heck of a time with the orange - for some reason the first batch refused to melt. So strange. The second batch had what must of been a drop of water or steam from the stove and it solidified immediately. Third batch finally worked.

Retirement Desk

2011-09-08T16:40:00.000-07:00

A good friend of mine recently retired and I knew immediately that I wanted to make her a cake that represented her desk. The desktop itself didn't work out exactly like I wanted - some of the gelatin didn't take, but overall I'm really happy with it. She still has yet to tell me how it tasted though!

Happy Somewhere over the Rainbow

2011-08-07T10:13:00.000-07:00

A friend of mine turned 40 this weekend and is in love with all things Wizard of Oz. She asked for a theme cake for her birthday and this is the result - It actually tasted pretty good :-)

Firefighter

2011-07-30T14:07:00.001-07:00

A friend of mine has a son that's a firefighter and asked if I would make him a firefighter themed cake. Originally she wanted a cake in the shape of a firetruck, but when I googled them, they were either incredibly detailed or very childish looking. We found on with the fire hydrant and hose and I added the boots and his helmet. Need the logo for the front of the helmet but otherwise all done! I noticed in the photo the cracking in the icing under the weight of the hydrant - quickly added more grass growing down the side of the cake. Fingers crossed it makes it until morning for the delivery!!

Pretty in Pink

2011-07-26T17:30:00.001-07:00

Princess cake for a friend of mine - her little girl is turning 6 and my youngest (also 6) was thoroughly disgusted with this cake - all pink and stuff.

little orange

2011-07-16T09:36:00.000-07:00

Made a cake for a co-worker for a Christening. I found a swirl cake that I was wanting to do and when she saw the pic she loved it. She wanted a little bit of orange incorporated into the cake.

It's creamcheese and chocolate cake marble. Little on the heavy side but the fluffy creamcheese icing should offset that.

blank spot

2011-05-23T16:18:00.000-07:00

There's a blank spot at work where a picture needs to be. I've been trying to think of something to go there and while going through the internet I was inspired by a picture of birch trees.

I almost ran out of white paint, but I kind of like the rough effect of the paintings not being perfect.

creative craving satisfied

2011-05-14T19:42:00.001-07:00

Had one of those days today when I desperately needed a creative outlet. It was either reupholster a piece of furniture, find a wall to paint, rearrange furniture, or paint an empty canvas picked up yesterday. The rearranging and canvas won :-)

still obsessed with Wall-e

2011-05-07T15:41:00.000-07:00

My youngest claims to be Wall-e's number one fan and has the utmost respect for him (his actual words) so when his 6th birthday was arriving, he knew exactly what he wanted for a cake. Considering that I've forgotten his birthday before and he only wanted cupcakes last year, I agreed a Wall-e cake would be done.

I did feel a little rushed with this guy and the fondant was really soft - but since he's my first fully detailed cake - I'm pleased with the end result. He didn't turn out too bad :-)

EEEEK

2011-03-19T14:03:00.000-07:00

I forgot to post one very important pic - my Valentine's Day gift :-)

I love my husband!!!

I'm Irish - NOT

2011-03-19T13:56:00.000-07:00

St. Patty's day came to work with a fundraiser again. This time with a green theme. I wanted to make cake pops for this fundraiser as well, but unfortunately I ran out of time, so at the last minute I whipped up some green cupcakes with icing and fondant decorations on them.

The icing turned out really glossy looking, but wasn't that soft.

Valentine's Day

2011-02-12T17:41:00.000-08:00

I made these Teddy Bear Cake pops for a fundraiser at work. Got the idea from Bakerella. I couldn't find all of the items that she had, so I tweaked it a bit. I like them, they really turned out well :-) I hope the Valentines that get them enjoy them too.

Cougar in Training

2011-02-12T17:36:00.000-08:00

A friend of mine asked me to make cake pops for a friend's "over the hill" birthday with a cougar in mind. I googled Cougar and cake images and after I filtered all the X-rated content, there really was nothing out there! I tried a couple ideas and after nothing was working and one of the cake pops was eaten out of frustration and anger, I decided to go with more of a cartoon image and joke idea.

Pizza.... or is it?

2010-12-20T17:22:00.000-08:00

My oldest celebrates his 8th birthday this week and we had a bowling party for him and his friends. As in previous years, I let him pick the cake idea. This year he picked pizza. I was excited because I didn't think it would be difficult to do. I WAS RIGHT! It was an easy theme to accomplish.....ta dah!!!

I used raspberry jam in the icing and white cake mix. I colored some white melting wafers with orange and when hardened grated them and white chocolate for the cheese. Colored fondant completed the look as sausage and pepperoni.

Dinosaurs - sort of

2010-12-09T14:53:00.001-08:00

A friend from work wanted some Dinosaur Cake Pops for her little guy's 4th birthday party. They were harder than I thought - waaayyyy harder. It was a real trial and error for a little while. What was the hardest was coming up for an idea for their face - to have a mouth? teeth? I tried several things out on a "sample" that didn't work. In the end - they don't have mouths. I think they look better that way. My husband came up with the idea for bow ties for the boys. I had bows on the girls. I think they turned out pretty cute!

forgot about halloween

2010-12-09T14:41:00.000-08:00

SCARY! I missed posting some scary ghosts. Made these for my 7 & 5 yr old's classes at school for halloween. I wanted a healthy snack so made some strawberry ghosts.

Snowmen on sticks

2010-11-28T17:41:00.001-08:00

Winter is here, Christmas is coming and it's the annual work fundraising Winter bake sale so I made these little adorable guys. totally love them :-)

what's red & black and webby all over?

2010-11-04T13:29:00.000-07:00

My friend asked me to make a cake for a little guy's first birthday in a spiderman theme. My little guys are very into spiderman so I was excited to have the chance to make one. I found some ideas on-line - I love Google Image searches and came up with this.

All green

2010-10-01T13:19:00.001-07:00

I had the chance to do a tractor cake for my cousin's little guy who is turning 2. I was soooo excited to start. I had a really detailed cake that I found online to go by, but I knew that I wasn't a professional so I didn't put too much pressure on myself.

With a couple friends over for coffee, I made the cake. And, I'm pretty proud of it! I think a 2 year old will be too ;-)

My cousin was also having a birthday on the same day, so I made him a cake to go with the Tractor cake :-)

Needed some color

2010-09-25T20:44:00.000-07:00

I saw a painting on line with some red trees in it and I've been dying to do a similar painting ever since, but wasn't sure about the red. Then I recovered my lamps with red - totally a gusty thing for me to do. Now I had an excuse to paint some red. I bought a canvas and I've been waiting a month to have time to paint.

Today I finally had some time to paint and here's the end result. Now I don't know if I want it in my livingroom LOL

real painting?

2010-06-25T06:29:00.000-07:00

My husband saw a canvas for sale at a liquidation store he was at and now that I had started dabbling in painting again he brought it home for me.

I saw and stared at that thing for days. See, I'm one of those artists that is never inspired by a blank canvas. Sure to play with paint or experiment with colors I'm fine, but to paint something "real", nope. I have to have something in front of me to paint - a photo, a landscape, anything.

I decided to just wing it.

canvas experiment

2010-06-25T06:27:00.000-07:00

I bought another couple cheap canvases and inspired by my kids I thought I'd play with some acrylic craft paint I had.

canvas fun

2010-06-25T06:24:00.000-07:00

I used to do a lot of painting and hadn't for years. When I saw a sale on some cheap canvas I bought it and it sat around my house for months. Finally feeling a little inspired, I took them out and invited the kids to have some fun.

I picked the colors but they made the art.

birthday cake

2010-06-24T19:46:00.000-07:00

A family sister asked me to make a cake for her daughter's 21st birthday. Together we took a bunch of ideas from cakes her daughter liked and combined them into one. She also gave me a youtube recipe for Marshmallow fondant.

It was easy to make, but sorta not quite the fondant I would use again. It's spongy. I don't think I like spongy fondant. I think it tasted good - but she's my family sister. She's going to be nice and lie to me too!

sesame street

2010-06-24T19:43:00.001-07:00

A bake sale was coming to work and it gave me an opportunity (and an excuse) to make something creative. I went through Bakerella.com for ideas and came across Sesame Street characters. I got the kids involved - their pops were eaten the second the chocolate dried. These are the ones that made it to the bake sale.

on a whim

2010-06-24T19:38:00.001-07:00

Now that I've been paid...... I felt all professional and thought I'd try something challenging.

A purse cake is challenging. But I had no one to do a purse cake for........ then, a friend was having a birthday - YES

Presenting a purse cake.....

I can't vouch for it's taste (this same friend had made the actual cake for the Betty Boop AND the Hello Kitty cake, I just decorated them). She says it tasted good, not sure - she's a really good friend and would like to make me feel good :-)

got paid!

2010-06-24T19:27:00.001-07:00

Someone at the Hello Kitty party thought I done good, and asked through my friend if I'd make a Betty Boop theme cake - for money!!!! Novel idea that was.

So... I tried my hand at Betty Boop.

Not bad!!! Actually was quite fun AND I got paid for it.

Then

The Hello Kitties were a hit at the party and someone asked me to make them some for their family - last name Cat. 20 more kitties later and I had more money in my pocket. whoo hoo

now that I know how

2010-06-24T19:21:00.001-07:00

Taking my new confidence and ideas in stride, I then attempted my very first "gig". A friend of mine that saw and ate a cake pop chickie asked me to make a theme cake and cake pops for her neice's 4th birthday. The theme was Hello Kitty.

I must say, I like how they turned out.

forgot to take a picture

2010-06-24T19:14:00.000-07:00

Bakerella.com has such great ideas for cake pops and I decided to try them. I made chickies, bunnies, planets (for the kids) and easter eggs.

Then I forgot to take pictures.

They were cute and tasted good.

one more time!

2010-06-24T19:00:00.000-07:00

This time I made sure well in advance of the youngest's birthday that he had a chance to pick a cake and that I would NOT forget his birthday. Running with the food theme of his brother his ideas for a cake - in order - were:

1. a fish patty cake (individual cakes that looked like fish patties), I said no.

2. a cake that looked like a fish (no not a cute fish, a real dead fish), I said no.

3. a bunch of little cakes that looked like a tuna fish sandwich, I said no.

4. cupcakes

We settled on cupcakes. Now what kind of cupcakes I asked and the conversation then went

pirates - no

robots - no

dinosaurs - no

space - no

astronauts - no, mom, that's the same as space

hmmmmm, Ben 10?? YES!!!!

I found a bunch of really neat ideas, and settle on Ben 10's watch. These are the final product:

on my way

2010-06-24T18:54:00.001-07:00

The next birthday, of course, we were determined not to miss. Once again, my oldest decided a food theme was in order. This time we searched for just the word food on the internet for ideas, and what is now one of my favorite internet sites popped up - www.bakerella.com. LOVE THIS SITE!!!!

My son fell in love with the burger and fries cakes that she had, and I'm willing to try anything once... plus the size was just right. Here is the result...

The burgers are cupcakes, brownies and icing, the fries are sugar cookies (ketchup is colored chocolate)

oops

2010-06-24T18:50:00.001-07:00

The following year for my youngest's birthday.....

we forgot to have a party, and a cake, and missed it completely....

oooops

so we had ballooooons, gifts and an quickie family celebration, sans cake, a couple days later

spagetti cake

2010-06-24T18:45:00.000-07:00

When my oldest had his first real birthday party (with friends not just family) I asked him what he wanted for a cake. He wanted a trick cake. We scoured the internet for ideas and came across a Spagetti Cake.

This is the result.

The kids faces were the best part of the day when they thought they had just eaten a meal, and were getting another one for desert!

The hardest part of the cake was all the piping for the spagetti. The cake was also HUGE! I'll never make that mistake again.

first attempt cake

2010-06-24T18:31:00.000-07:00

This was my first attempt at decorating a cake for my kids. I had big dreams but it didn't quite work out the way I wanted. I poured melted chocolate into all kinds of molds I found that I thought would make interesting shapes for a monster truck. Non of them worked out very well. It wasn't until I took the picture off of the camera that I realized we had put the candle in the wrong spot - that would be why there is no motor under this trucks hood! I left a spot for the candle and forgot!