Chicago Bears Cake

Minnie Mouse cake

Sparkley Butterfly Cupcakes

Jungle Animals Baby Shower cake/cupcakes

Made this small cake plus 8 dozen cupcakes for a friend's daughter's baby shower that her sorority was throwing for her.  Great theme for a baby shower!  The lion cake says "King of the Jungle" on it.

French Macarons

These are french macarons...NOT macaroons (which are those coconut gooey cookies sometimes dipped in chocolate).  Macarons are an almond meringue sandwich cookie usually flavored and filled with buttercream, ganache, or jam.  I've been seeing them a lot lately and they are starting to be a very trendy pastry to serve at parties.  What attracted me to them was the infinite combinations of flavors, fillings and colors you can make.  Also, because I had read it's a very complicated and challenging recipe to master (I'm always up for a challenge).  This batch is my 3rd attempt at making them (the other 2 just didn't turn out right).  I have to say that I think I'm pretty close with this one.  I'm trying to master the recipe before a baby shower I have coming up in a month.  These are strawberry macarons with strawberry buttercream filling and plain almond (tinted green) with chocolate ganache filling.  Stay tuned for more versions of this yummy "gourmet" dessert!

Blue dots wedding cake

Made for a friend's small family wedding
White cake with lemon filling
Blue to match groom's blue tie

Destiny's Baby Shower

So, my best friend (Destiny) had her baby shower this past weekend, and I got to make a ton of cool stuff for her and baby Josie!  I had SO much fun! 

Cupcake tower - made with ribbon and paper
to match nursery bedding.



Close-up of cake - designed to match nursery bedding (below)

Nursery bedding fabric - LOVE IT!!

My first attempt at painting with acrylic - 14x18 in canvas

Hairbows made for baby Josie

Beaded socks made for baby Josie



Katie's Doll Cake

Helped my cousin, Katie, make this doll cake for her friend's birthday.  I think she did a GREAT job!

Owl Cake

For my grandmother's 85th birthday!  She collects owls.

LEGO cake

For my nephew's 8th birthday

Cookies & Cream Cupcakes

My new favorite cupcake!

Baptism "Dots" Cake

40th Birthday Cake



For my sweet friend's 40th birthday - Amaretto cake with buttercream and fondant icing.  Yum!

Soccer Ball Cake

Emma's 1st Birthday Cake

Tombstone Cake

Curious George Cake

Birthday cake for Jack who LOVES Curious George.

Mom sent me his favorite picture from his favorite book to copy.

Ava's 5th Birthday Cake

Baptism cake

another horse cake...

another Hello Kitty cake...

Valentine cupcakes

Butterfly garden birthday cake

For my niece's 1st birthday.  Cake made to match fabric in deocrations.  So sweet!

Isn't she so precious?  She LOVED the smash cake too.  Ate the whole thing!

Sheep cupcakes

Couple had a birthday party in the hospital on the day their baby was born.
They wanted to celebrate her "0th" birthday.  That's a first!



Pineapple Upside Down Cake

Thank you Paula Deen for this heavenly tasting but horribly fattening recipe!  Had to take a dessert to our church lifegroup potluck and saw Paula make this on her show and just couldn't resist.  Your typical pineapple upside down cake - except the double layer version (stacked on top of each other) and then just for added sweetness some pineapple buttercream icing around the sides!  Ahhh!  I won't tell you how many sticks of butter are in this whole recipe.  It was delicious, but definitely a diet killer!

40 is the new 20

40th Birthday cake for "Francis" and "Kimmy"
12x18 chocolate cake with buttercream icing.
Zebra stripes around sides in black fondant. 

Pink Champagne Cupcakes

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Raspberry Champagne Cake with Raspberry Champagne Buttercream Icing. Very yummy!

Sesame Street Cake

A more "girly" version of an earlier sesame street cake I did. This time with Abby Cadabby...

3D Roller Skate Cake

My first 3D cake...A roller skate for my daughter's 12th birthday (party was at the roller skating rink). White cake "tie-dyed" on the inside covered in tie-dyed fondant and fondant accents. Wheels made of rice krispy treats covered in fondant. Cake is sitting on styrofoam structure support glued to cake board.

Minnie Mouse 1st birthday cake

12x18 white cake - covered in fondant with fondant accents
smash cake - buttercream with fondant accents