G's 1st Birthday

Here is another cake that I am quite proud of.  It's so pretty with all of its flowers and with its cute little picket fence!  I have a great friend that I have known since childhood, and when her daughter's 1st birthday was approaching, she called and asked me to make a cake to celebrate the occasion.  I immediately had this idea in my mind, and I was able to actually execute what I had planned!!  For any of you who know me well, you'll know that this doesn't happen often!  haha   Anyway, I hope you enjoy the simple beauty of this cake. It is going down as one of my all-time favorites.

Giuliana's 1st Birthday Cake

What I learned:  vibration from a car trip through potholes and downtown Seattle can cause a cake to sink a little.  Luckily, I didn't have too much of a problem.

and

ALWAYS make extra items to throw on the cake. I wish I had just one more butterfly to replace the one I broke in half!  It doctored up just fine, but I would have preferred to not have to do that!

Beefy... yet so sweet...

This one is an odd one.  A coworker of mine asked me to make a small cake for the top of her son's birthday cake.  His request was interesting.   He wanted a T-bone steak. And not just any t-bone: a Medium Rare T-bone.  So...after laughing about what a silly request it was, I put this one together.  I hope you enjoy it, even though I have to admit that my taste buds are a bit conflicted!

T-bone Cake

What I learned:  It's important to color the cake pink BEFORE you bake it.

I had to re-make the cake because I forgot the food coloring.

and

Cooling racks work GREAT when needing grill lines in your cakes. :)  

MMF with BC icing.

Lego Lego!

Here are a couple of Lego cakes that I have made for some kiddos we know.  Enjoy!

Lego Cake for Blake
White Cake, BC Frosting, MMF decor
I liked this idea because each kiddo received his own lego to eat, so there was no cutting of the birthday cake.  I think the kids really enjoyed that.
If I use this design again, I will definitely make the pieces smaller.  These were HUGE Lego pieces for the kids, and I think it was a bit much for them to have to try to eat.  

What I learned:  When having teenage girls over for a "cake decorating lesson," do NOT (and I repeat DO NOT) let them use fondant while standing on carpet.  It was a BEAST to get out later.  Next time there will be a TARP down!

Last Minute Lego Cake for Evan

Loved this cake because it was so fast and easy.  BC icing and decor.  

Kids loved it and it only took me about 15 minutes to put together.

What I learned:  Piping the majority of the icing on before spreading it makes life much easier!
and
I should probably center things before I start writing.  Wish Lego would have been more in the middle.

Angry Birds Make Me So Happy!

Here it is.  The cake I've been looking forward to for over a month now!  It has been SUCH a fun project and I'm pleased and SO excited to share it with all of you!  Feel free to leave comments and let me know what you think!

Isaac's 6th Birthday Cake
What I Learned:  Angry Birds are my new favorite decoration!

Chocolate cake, raspberry jam filling (mmmm), MM fondant decorations

Special thanks to my husband for helping construct the slingshot in the back.  

I think it really made the cake a whole lot better!

No Picture Intended

Hey there.

Just so you know, not all of my cakes turn out exactly the way I plan.  Take today, for instance:

I have been asked to do a birthday cake for a coworker (this is happening a LOT), who happens to be a BIG OSU Beaver Fan.  That's Oregon, my friends.  Not Oklahoma (cowboys), Not Ohio (Whatever the heck they are).  Oregon.  So I decided to make a 3D football helmet.  Oh yeah.  Awesome.  Well, I gave myself the WHOLE DAY to get it done, and I started baking around 11 am.  While the cake was baking, I made a face mask out of Wire and fondant, and three logos:  Two "OS" to go on the sides of the helmet, and the Beaver head to go on the back.  I thought the hardest part of the cake would be the details, but apparently not.

Because the cakes had been out of the oven for quite some time, I figured I was safe to start putting it together.   Boy was I wrong!  The cakes were moderately warm, which means they melted the frosting, slid ALL OVER each other, and kept falling down.  I had no choice but to scrap the cake and start all over.  So, here I sit, while my second round of cake is baking, knowing that I don't have the time to make it 3D again.  I'm down to 30 minutes left before delivery time... Do I think I'll make it?  Probably not.

Commence Fun In Baking. :)

And no, you don't get pictures, because I'm COMPLETELY frustrated with myself!  This cake should have been done an hour and a half ago... and would have been, had I cooled the cakes properly.  Noted.

Farm Memories

Last Fall, my husband's grandfather passed away.  He was an incredible man, with an amazing past, and an unheard of work-ethic.  Both of his parents were deaf, and since he was the only boy in the family, he assumed work and responsibility of the family at a very young age.  He helped build the home that his parents lived in, which would eventually become his own until the day he died.  Among a million other things, he built roads, worked in a lumber mill, and rode trains down to California for work.  After getting married, he raised three wonderful children, who went on to give him grandchidren, and eventually great-grandchildren!  When he passed last Fall, his family and friends gathered at the family farm for a luncheon. By special request, his daughter (my mother-in-law) asked me to make a cake of the farm with hay bales and tractors.  The picture I have here only has one of the two tractors on the cake, but everyone was pleased with it.  I'm glad that I was able to contribute something to a day dedicated to such a remarkable man!  He is truly missed every day.   I hope you enjoy the cake!

Grandpa's Farm Cake

Chocolate cake, buttercream icing, toasted coconut rows

What I Learned:  Frosted Mini-Wheats make GREAT Hay Bales!

Auctioned Away

Andrew's school did a fundraiser auction last November and I thought that, since I don't have anything else of value to give away, maybe I could donate a few cakes.  So, I made a couple of gift certificates for One Free Wedding Cake, and up to $200 worth of cake (retail).  Although the wedding cake didn't get purchased, the other did, and I met with a mother early this year to plan a couple of cakes for her kids.  

The first cake I did was for a 16th Birthday party for her son.  He was having an Airsoft themed party, and she wanted something that would be appropriate for that... whether camouflage or gun related.  I found a great design idea online and copied it...almost element for element.  I hope they don't mind!  

I was greeted with a WONDERFUL surprise when my best friend showed up, after driving 3 hours with her 3 kids in tow, to help me execute it (since I had 2 more cakes to do that same weekend!).  With her amazing talent with detail work, we were able to get this cake put together.  I hope you like it!

 Airsoft Cake

Chocolate cake, chocolate frosting, raspberry filling

What I learned:  Airbrusing is REALLY fun!  (And fast!)
I don't love detail work, but my best friend is the best friend a girl could ask for!  Thanks, Cassie!

Since that cake didn't quite fulfill the whole dollar amount of the certificate, my client asked me to make her daughter's graduation cake.  I was very excited, and the client had brought a few ideas of cakes she really liked.  We decided on one and I was left to figure out how to make it happen.  With only a few minor bumps in the road with delivery times and rush-order shipping for the butterflies, this was the result:

Butterfly Graduation Cake

Chocolate cake, chocolate frosting, raspberry filling

What I Learned:  Double check the delivery date.  Even though I had sent the e-mail with the date I thought it was supposed to be delivered, I clearly was wrong, and we had to freeze the cake for a week.

I Also Learned:  Planning ahead on a holiday weekend is important.  

Shipping is expensive when under time constraints!

Row, Row, Row, Your Boat

Here is a cake I made about a year and a half ago.  Could it have been that long?  At any rate, it was for my cook at work who is Vietnamese.  My boss is always saying that she's going to send him away and make him row himself all the way home.  We really do love him, Honest!  This was fun.  It had a coconut and almond flavor in the frosting, a raspberry filling, and the cake itself was yellow.

Row boat Cake

What I learned:  blue frosting can make a BIG mess!

I added the sharks for fun, and my manager wanted me to make sure an oar was floating away by itself!

Relief Society Birthday Celebration

This cake is long overdue, as well.  This was my first REALLY big cake without any help from my best friend.  I volunteered to do a cake to celebrate the birthday of the Relief Society of The Church of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints.  The emblem alone took me about two hours, and the rest of the cake came together pretty quickly.  It actually stayed together all the way to the church to drop it off, and everyone seemed very pleased with it.  I don't think anyone knows how anxious I was about this cake.  I was SO glad it turned out well.  I hope you like what I did!

Relief Society Birthday Cake

What I Learned:  Detail work is REALLY hard!  And I really need to learn how to cut out letters of fondant without making everything into a mess.

Also learned to turn OFF the ceiling fan when working with fondant.  The air just dries it out too quickly!

Americana Quilt

Well, I realized today that I haven't posted in way too long, which means I have a full TWENTY-ONE cakes that I haven't posted yet!  I will get started today and try to have them done by the end of the week.

First up is my Mother-In-Law's 60th Birthday cake.  She wanted to have a Western Theme for her birthday and requested chocolate cake with Raspberry filling.  I slaved all day to make this (hahaha), and the raspberry filling was a DEFINITE hit when paired with the deluxe devil's food cake I made.  So yummy!  Happy 60th birthday, Mom!  And sorry it took me so long to get this one on here!

Deluxe Devil's Food Quilt Cake

What I learned:  When a filling recipe asks to strain the filling with a fine mesh sieve, it would actually be a good idea to do so.  We had a TON of seeds in the filling, but it was delicious anyway

Also Learned:  In the heat and humidity in Seattle, cakes sweat. And when given air to dry them off, air bubbles form under the fondant.  

Super Cakes

Last August was my son's 5th birthday.  I think he's in to just about EVERYTHING that has to do with being a boy. :)  This particular week he was extremely fascinated with Captain America and Spiderman, so we decided to make his whole birthday party revolve around Super Heroes.  Here are the cakes that I made to go with his party theme.

Spider Man Cake  

What I learned:  Make sure the cake case is TALL enough for the cake before you put the lid on.  I was bummed when I squashed the piping for the web.

Captain America Cake

What I learned:  Buttercream CAN be fun!  It's been a while since I made a buttercream icing ONLY cake, but it was fun to pipe it all on and see the smiles on the kids' faces

RAD(iation)

A good friend of mine was working in the Radiology department at the hospital and asked me to make this cake for her (okay, technically TWO of these, but I digress).

I have to admit this is one of the fastest and easiest cakes I've ever made... and one I love the most!  It was SO awesome and I was really pleased with how well it turned out. :)  I'm glad she liked it as much as I did!

Enjoy!

What I learned:  Black fondant is more easily achieved when it is chocolate, because it's already brown.

Cindy

Halloween Hoopla

We trudged through grass, tree roots, and mud for two days and finally found our way back to our resurfaced parking lot from the street parking we had to endure. We are okay.  We made it!

So, back to business here.  I'm going to throw a couple of Halloween-related cakes on here today.  One of them was actually a birthday cake for a friend of mine last February, but it is more closely related to Halloween, and I didn't dare put it in the "Beautiful Birthdays" post last week.  Seriously.  I don't think you'd count it as beautiful!!

Enjoy!

 Topsy Turvy cake for a church Halloween party.

This was my first attempt at a Topsy Turvy cake. 

All decorations were piped on.

What I learned:  Sometimes when working on a cake, you just get lucky!  

There had to have been Divine Intervention for it to turn out this well!!

 Halloween Party Haunted Castle

I used the Wilton Castle Kit for this cake, though I was rather unimpressed with it.

What I learned:  Royal icing breaks when it drops.  Royal icing is gross.

Zombie Birthday Cake 

See?  Not exactly something you add as a "Beautiful" cake.

The eyeball on the side had a 23 written in 'blood' (which was just decorator gel)

What I learned:  carving the cake to the right shape makes the fondant layering much easier.

and:  it's hard to achieve the right skin tone.  Coloring this fondant took me a LONG time

Thanks for looking again!

Cindy

A Short Break

Hi there!

    I regret to inform you that I will have to take a short break from blogging.  Our apartment Management has decided now is a good time to re-pave the parking lot, which means we can't drive our cars anywhere near our building.  In light of this, and the fact that we haven't gone camping at all this Summer, we have decided to leave and pitch a tent for a few days of outside fun!

    We won't be headed very far... my husband and I both can't get time off of work on such short notice, so we'll be making camp in my in-law's back yard for a few days.  While I will have internet access, I will not have immediate access to my cake photos.  Thanks for being so awesome and checking back now and then to see what my blog has to say.  I will be back in a couple of days.  My bet is that I'll have another post up on Saturday night. :)

    Meanwhile, here's a cake to look at:

My sister's High School Graduation Cake

What I learned: Junior Mints make a GREAT cake filling!  YUM!

Cindy

Wedding Bliss

Well, here I am for a Third day in a row.  This is the most committed to something I have been in a while, and I'm hoping that it doesn't wear off.  I'm not the type that typically finishes a big project, though I've been working on that for quite some time.  I typically get started on a project in full gusto, and then, around 3/4 of the way finished, I get burned out.  Then said project sits on a shelf and waits for me to decide I want to finish, which sometimes can take months or even years.  For instance, my sister and I started my son's 1st-year scrapbook 2 years ago, and nearly finished it.  All I really have to do is go back and glue the pictures into their spots.  Have I done that?  Nope.  Will I?  Probably. :)

Today is Wedding Cake Day.  We'll start with the first and move to the most recent.

Here is my first wedding cake: my brother's wedding cake I made around Thanksgiving of 2009.  He and his then-fiance decided they wanted to have a beach-themed wedding and I immediately started looking for pictures of beach wedding cakes.  I came across a few that I really liked and sent them photos and they asked me to copy one that they liked.

It was SO fun to do!  I had never done a completely blue cake before!  Because the bride needed a recipe that is low protein, we only made the top of the cake actual cake.  The other two layers are Styrofoam, frosted and covered with fondant. All of the seashells on the top layer of the cake were edible (thanks to my little sis for painting them in our time crunch), and the rest of the shells were ones we picked up at a local craft store.

What I learned:  Wedding cakes are FUN!  Sure, there's all that pressure, but it's worth it!
(and)  it's easy to create a fancy base for a cake.  Just turn a few glasses upside down, set the cake on top, and put flowers underneath.  Instant pretty!

Wedding Cake #2 - The first wedding cake I have been paid for.  (My last was the gift to the bride and groom.)  This was done for a girl in my church who had been referred to me via Word Of Mouth (I LOVE WOM!!!).  She, just like every bride, was sticking to a pretty strict budget and wanted something really nice. She brought me a picture of the exact cake she wanted, and during our consultation, she mentioned that her colors were black, red and yellow with a bit of orange.  I immediately asked her if she'd be interested in a black cake.  She was VERY interested, called her fiance, and we decided to go ahead with it.

The original cake was white with red-ish ribbons and cherry blossoms, so we doctored it a bit and made it black with her roses.  Beautiful roses, by the way, with the red, orange and yellow all infused to one rose.  I don't remember what she called them, but WOW.  Striking against the black fondant.  I purchased an air-brush machine so I could color the fondant easier (black fondant is REALLY hard to make... it takes a TON of color), and the cake came together in about a day.

What I learned:  black fondant will turn your teeth black.  Luckily, the bride didn't have that problem during her photo ops at the wedding!

Cake #3 - Beach Themed and Whimsical!  A friend of mine called me a couple of days before her son's reception and asked if I had time to make a cake.  (Of COURSE I have time!  I ALWAYS have time for another cake!)  She explained to me that her son and daughter-in-law had already had their wedding in Hawaii, but they were doing a reception here in the area and they needed a cake for a centerpiece!  Okay!  We talked about a few different ideas and she told me that they already had the really nice, elegant wedding cake at the actual wedding, and they'd like to have something more whimsical.  I can DO whimsical!

This cake was pretty easy.  Took a little extra time with all the elements I added to the cake.  All figurines, aside from the Bride and Groom, are fondant.  The sand is made from finely chopped graham crackers.

What I learned:  Palm Trees are harder to make than they look, and can break easily!  I really need to learn to use Gumpaste...

     I hope you enjoyed these cakes!  They have been sooo fun for me!  I really appreciate those of you who have asked me to make cakes so I can get more and more practice.  I love having a creative outlet!

Cindy

All Things Boys

Every time I look at these photos, I remember how much sugar I had spread all over the house.  Of COURSE the kids helped with some of these!  Especially since these are boy cakes.  My boys LOVE cake.  They tend to run up to me during cake time and say "Mommy can I please have some of your fondant?"   And, as you would expect, they get some.  On occasion, I have caught the kids pushing chairs up to the counter to grab fondant out of the plastic wrap, and once in a while I won't catch them, which results in dried out fondant, which has to be re-made.  Oh the joys of parenting and decorating at home!

In light of the fact that I have already done a tribute to girls' cakes, I suppose it's only fair to include the boy-themed deliciousness!  I get to do a lot more of this with my 3 boys at home, so there are a few more here to look through.  I hope you enjoy my small collection.

 A friend of ours LOVES the Seattle Seahawks, so I felt it was completely appropriate to honor that.  

I should have turned the helmet a full 90 degrees, but I was happy with the outcome anyhow. :)  

Happy Birthday, Heath!

 Credit to my bestie Cassie:  Fabulous job on the detail work and face mask, Cass!!  

What I learned:  It's great to work in a team when you have 4 hours to do a cake start to finish

(and) ALWAYS check the pass reports before deciding that it'd be EASY to get over the pass with a cake in the front seat.  Closed roadways, rain, children, and cake don't mix...

 Mr Potato Head cake for my son turning 3.  SO fun!

Five 6" cake layers stacked on top of each other and carved.

What I learned:  Fondant arms won't stay if they haven't dried out properly!

 My husband's white water rafting cake.  Fun, easy, and delicious!

What I learned:  Powdered sugar sprinkled on a cake doesn't make it look like white peaks of water.  

It makes it look like snow.  

 Backhoe cake when Mason turned 2.  

What I learned:  Candy makes everything more delicious!

 Leaf Blower cake for my father-in-law

What I learned: RKT needs to be REALLY sturdy before adding to a cake

(and)  Men are weird.  They like cakes shaped like their tools...

 Mario Cake for my brother

What I learned:  I have a real problem with sculpting people.   

(Something I need to work on)

 Props to my best friend, Cassie, on an AMAZING job with Bowser!

 Cake balls and a wrench (for my hubby)

Fun and easy cake - German Chocolate with coconut/pecan frosting

What I learned:  Cake Balls are perfect for kids!

 Sports/Construction Cake

See "Train Wrecks."

One of my favorites to date:  

Happy Birthday to former Betty Ford Falcons member Ralph Eronemo.

What I learned:  skewers make for really great tools when needing a straight line

(or a microphone stand!)

Cindy

Photos! Ye devious photos!

Well Hello Again!

Today looks to be a pretty good day.  I started out at 7:00 this morning sorting through the 2,600 photos that I have sitting on my computer in a folder.  That's right.  2,600.   It might as well be a million because don't see these photos EVER ending!

I tend to be one of those people that bug you.  You know the type: organized down to every single little detail that it annoys you, but if you were to walk into their home, you would see a bunch of clutter because their organization is linked to one centralized type of material.  Yep.  That's me.

I take each photo and look at it.  I identify all the people in it, and then I sort it to various photo albums or folders.  For instance, if I have a photo of my husband, my two kids, and my dog, I put a copy of the photo in the dog's photo album, a copy into my husband's album, and a copy in each child's album under the correct month of the year.  I know.  It sounds a little extreme, but it works well for me!  This way, if I say "Man, I need a good picture of my husband" I can open up his folder and find EVERY photo he is in.  Also, if I say to myself "I need a picture of the boys from when we were on vacation last July" I can look up the "July 2010" folder, and I'll find pictures of both of my kids together, whether I open the one under "Mason" or "Andrew." Crazy, right?

So, when I put a "new pics" folder on my computer 6 months ago, and just kept adding photos, but never sorted any photos, the 2,600 photos became a task of epic proportions!  It literally took me 2 1/2 hours this morning to sort through half of them.  But hey, halfway is better than "still accruing...", right??

In celebration of sorting through that many stinking photos, here is one of my favorites over the last few months.  I hope you don't mind seeing my kiddos and family in this one, but I just had to share because they are just too stinkin' cute!  Enjoy!

Cindy

 Our Fam at St Edwards State Park, Kenmore

Piggy Backs at St Edwards State Park

Muscle Men!

Up Close and Tangled

I don't feel nearly as witty today as I have in the past, so please disregard my sorry attempt at humor today.

Here is the Tangled theme cake.  It was a LOT of work, but ended up being one of my favorites to date.  I think, start to finish, it took me about 15 hours.  That, of course, includes bake time, cool time, fondant time, decorating time, adjusting time, and picture time.  Yes.  Cakes take FOREVER, especially when you have little ones at home who like to "help" or need you to stop what you're doing to feed them.  I am thankful for the ultimate babysitter on these types of days:  Disney Movies, PBSKids.com, and Nintendo Wii.  I don't think my kids mind getting a full day of being "plugged in" when I do these cakes, but I try not to do them too terribly often.  I much prefer the zoo.

So here it is, in all its glory.  Feel free to ask any questions, but I'll do my best to answer them all as I post these pictures.

 Cake from the front.

It took me about 10 minutes to braid that darn thing.  Seriously, I thought it would be a breeze, but it turned out that fondant breaks if you work with it too much when it's drying out!

 Top view.  There's Tinkerbell, in all her glory.  :)  I can only imagine that she's waiting for Rapunzel to come out to play.  Apparently, though, she didn't see the movie, because Rapunzel wasn't allowed outside. Tinkerbell is going to be waiting an awfully long time!

 The bridge and cobblestones are my favorite elements of this cake.  

I formed the bridge around a can of green beans and let it dry overnight.  Worked like a charm!  

 Each of the cobblestones were hand-shaped.  Not that they were hard, it just took a long time to make them and then put them on the cake.  Good thing kids like sugar so much!

The tower was a bit tricky.  It didn't turn out quite as well as I had hoped.

Made from RKT and covered in fondant.  The RKT made it bumpy, so it looked pretty realistic, but I would like to have found a way to attach the hair so it didn't look funny at the point of entry.  Oh well.  Next time I'll work on that detail.

Back corner of the cake.  LOVED this part because of the cobblestones.  

Cobblestones... is that the right word?  Maybe just "forest rocks."  

Oh well, the vines and flowers were all piped on and took WAY less time than the rest of the elements of the cake.  It was SO fun, though, and I think it really turned out well.

Cindy

Beautiful Birthdays

Today I decided to add a post about birthdays.  Not just any birthdays, but GIRL birthdays!

If you know me, you'll know that I LOVE birthdays!  I love to make a big deal out of them, let EVERYONE know that it's a birthday day and plan big parties that often include way too much food and WAY too much cake!

I don't have any stigma against getting older.  I always wanted to be the one in charge, so I like being the adult.  Turning 30 doesn't scare me one bit!  Of course, I still have a couple of years to go, and maybe my mind will change as I get closer and realize that I'm almost thirty and have done very little with my life or accomplished very little in my 30 fabulous years, but I'm sure I won't feel that way at all.  After all, my life pretty much rocks. :)

I suppose my love of birthdays spawns from my parents a bit.  My mom always made such a big deal out of birthdays for myself and my seven brothers and sisters.  We never had a lot of money to spend on big parties, but mom and dad let us do things like choose the dinner Mom would make, choose who said the blessing (something Dad was normally in charge of), stay up 30 whole minutes later than the rest of the kids, and SOMETIMES even take a day off of school.  That was a rarity, but it was awesome when it would happen!  We always got to choose our flavor and frosting of cake, and mom usually topped them off with a WHOLE PACKAGE of M&Ms!  I LOVED my birthdays growing up!  I hope that I can force that kind of fun onto my kids, too, so they'll grow up loving them as much as me!  

Anyway, I hope you enjoy these photos.  I've had such fun making cakes for girls... especially since I don't have any at home to spoil rotten!  Thank goodness for friends and nieces!

 Tea Party Cake for my niece.  

This cake was a LOT of fun, and I was able to work with my Mother-in-Law on the design and execution.  She's so smart!

This cake was done almost as an afterthought and only took a couple of hours, including bake time.

What I learned from this cake:  sometimes my sewing tools (which I NEVER use) can be used for cake!  Awesome.

 My 28th Birthday cake.  30 minutes after bake/cool time.

What I learned:   Simple can be best!

I love a good cake, even if it only takes 5 minutes to decorate!

 Cinderella Cake:  Egg and Nut Free.

What I learned:  Sometimes the cake pan's instructions are VASTLY different than the actual process of making a cake;  

Each different recipe can change the way a cake turns out;

A cake this shape has to cook a LOT longer to make sure the center is done!

After only ONE failed attempt, I learned how to fix it, but it took a lot of reading and phone calls to my bestie!

Flowers and Fun

Cake for my niece's 1st birthday

What I Learned:  I don't have nearly enough different types of flower cookie cutters!

Happy Birthday, Lilah-Bird!

Tinkerbell Tangled

This was for a little girl turning 5 years old!  She's just the cutest thing you'll ever see, and she wanted a Tangled cake, after the new Disney movie.  SO awesome and SO fun!

What I learned:  Cobblestones take a LONG TIME to add to a cake;

when a 5-year-old wants a Tinkerbell candle on her Rapunzel cake, she gets what she wants, and it doesn't matter if the cake is designed for that!  

LOVED this cake!

My next post will show more pictures of this cake, up close and personal.  

Cindy

VRRROOOOOMMM!!!

Showcased awesomeness for today?  Motorcycles!

Now, I realize that I shouldn't have made motorcycle plural, as I only have ONE motorcycle cake, but it makes me feel better if I pretend I've done more.  Don't ask.  It's an ego-booster.  I like to think that I've done more so I can feel like I'm practiced and well-versed in the world of motorized vehicles.  I DID, after all, make the car cake (see Train Wrecks), so I'm not completely out of line.   Right?  huh.  Oh well.  Here then.

Showcased awesomeness for today?  Motorcycle!!!

This is a cake I made for a 5-year-old's birthday party (hence the number five).

What I learned from this cake:  My husband knows WAY more than me about motorcycles.

 I couldn't have done it without calling him over every 5 minutes to ask about proportion.  

*He'll probably tell you I called him over every 2 or 3 minutes, but he wouldn't be accurate, as he was watching a game on TV that day and there's a time continuum during those types of activities.  

Honest.  It's been scientifically proven.

Cindy