Oct 30th Cakes...

Fall floral cake

Here is a picture of the cake before it was finished.

Here is the completed cake. It was for a couple's first anniversary who also had just signed the papers on their new home:)

3rd birthday cake for twin boys.

Candy and knitting...

Here are pictures of two of the cakes I made this past weekend. One was a birthday cake for a knitting lover and the other a Candyland themed cake for a little girl's first birthday.

I was excited to get to try out my new gumpaste extruder when I made the balls of "yarn" for this cake. So much easier than trying to roll out snakes of gumpaste myself:)

Back in the saddle again...

I know it has been a long time since I've posted anything on my cake blog. I've come up with a lot of excuses such as lack of time, not feeling like I have anything interesting to say, and that uploading to Facebook was just quicker and easier. However, I love reading blogs and I finally decided that if I'm going to have a blog dedicated to my cakes, it was time to stop neglecting it. So here goes. I'm getting back into the saddle and I'm going to make a strong effort to stop pushing my blog to the side. Just to catch up, here are a few of the cakes that I have done over the past few months...

This was a western themed wedding cake. My husband and I are friends with the bride and groom, so we were lucky enough to also get to attend this wedding (which I must say was a blast!). The bride had showed me a picture of a cake that she really liked and I replicated the top tier of it for their cupcake tower. Her neighbor had decorated the cupcake stand for her as a gift and it really turned out great once it was all set up.

A box cake. I was lucky enough to go on a Cake Cruise last month where I learned this technique from Carrie Biggers. It's an awesome way to decorate a cake for a wedding or a birthday. This cake was a chocolate cake with chocolate fudge frosting and then I filled the top of the box with chocolate covered strawberries. I'm looking forward to making this cake again in December using white fondant and stamping snowflakes into the sides and filling it with sugared cranberries. Can't get more festive than that:)

A 20th birthday cake.

This gift box cake was for a baby shower. It was to be a topper cake for a cupcake stand.

I made this wedding cake at the end of July. The bride wanted me to duplicate the design on their wedding invitations. Their wedding colors were black and hot pink. It was also the first time I had made gumpaste roses and I loved how they turned out.

A closeup of the roses.

I made several of these cookie bouquets for the 4th of July. They were a big hit and looked so cute in the buckets.

These fireworks cupcakes turned out so cute.

This was for a baby shower. The mother-to-be had chosen a pirate monkey theme for the baby's nursery.

This was a first birthday cake with a Candyland theme.

I've got lots of cakes coming up that I'll post pictures of soon, so stay tuned!