Baby Boy Boat Cake

This was a simple cake with grahm cracker crumbs for sand, goldfish, and an aqua blue buttercream made to look like waves. Topped off with a paper sail boat.

Lego Cake

My son LOVES Legos and wanted them for his Birthday cake. I found a tutorial at the Betty Crocker website that had the knobs made out of large marshmallows. I baked the cakes in a bread pan instead of cutting a 13x9 up like the site said too. I had to rush the frosting because I got a last minute notice that someone was coming to see our home that was for sale in an hour. I had to rush a bit!

Rosette Wedding Cake

I made a single layer of this cake before and thought it would be great as a wedding cake. I think I was right. This is a rice crispy cake covered in butter cream rosettes. It was gorgeous!

Valentines Red Velvet Cupcake

This needs a better picture, but this is a Red Velvet cupcake with White Chocolate Cream Cheese frosting! Yum!

Groundhogs Day Birthday

Happy Groundhogs day! This is a chocolate cake with and Oreo cream filling. It's covered in chocolate frosting, and some butter cream frosting. The dirt around his head is made from Oreo crumbs. The nose is a chocolate covered marshmallow Valentines heart and the ears are hostess chocolate donuts! It was really tasty!

Harry Potter Cupcakes

The Hedwig cake was for our family party. But I also had a friend party a few days later. I wanted simple cupcakes for that.I just swirled butter cream on top of fun-fetti cupcakes. I sprinkled them with yellow cake sparkles. Then with yellow candy melts and melted those and drew out lightning bolts. Then while they were still wet, I sprinkled gold Wilton shimmer dust on to get them to sparkle. Once they were dried I put them on the cupcakes. Very simple and easy!

A Harry Potter Hedwig Birthday Cake

My oldest son wanted a Harry Potter cake. We decided to do Hedwig, Harry's pet owl. After a lot of internet searches we came up with this:

I used three different cake pans. The base of the cake is an 8 inch round cake. Then the body was baked in my Pampered Chef batter bowl - which is comparable to the Wilton Wonder Mold pan (the one to make barbie cakes). Then the head was baked in an oval pan I got from the 2 Wilton class, in my class kit. I just used a knife to make it kind of bean shaped. I stacked the cakes together, with frosting in the middle and put a dowel down the center. Then I crumb coated it with butter cream. I then used almonds for the face and belly. Cashews for the beak and claws. Peach o's where the eyes with recees pieces in the middle. The ears were white chocolate fudge oreos, cut in half. For the rest of the feathers, I used the Wilton leaf tip (which I do not use to actually make leafs) and piped long feathers layered around the body. End result: a very happy 6 year old!

Cars Cake and Smash Cake

I got a chance to do another Cars cake last month. I wanted it a little different than the one I already did, but keep it similar since they loved the original. I also got to make a smash cake as it was for a 1 year old. As usual it was chocolate with butter cream.

Black Forest Cupcakes

Chocolate cupcakes with cream cheese and cherry filling with cream topping and sliced almonds!

German Chocolate Cake

Triple layer German Chocolate Cake. Yum!

Little Mermaid Birthday Cake

This cake was so much fun to make. I want to do another one! Chocolate must be the summer flavor of choice. It's all in butter cream, except the shells and sand. The shells are molded chocolates I made, and the sand is actually brown sugar! Yum. Lots of sugar!

Pixar Cars Cake

My son changed his mind all month on what type of birthday cake he wanted. About a week before we settled on a Cars cake from the Pixar movie. This was a fun cake to make. It's all chocolate with butter cream frosting, candy, and real cars from the toy section at Target.

Rose Cake

Once again, I have a new favorite cake. This is the Rose cake from I am Baker blog. I would love to do it as a wedding cake - I think it would be so pretty.

This is a white cake with a lemon custard filling covered in butter cream!

Chocolate Mousse Cake

This is a Chocolate Mousse Crunch Cake. It was amazing. The cakes was devils food cake, with chocolate mouse filling and a ganache topping covered in toffee bits.

Mickey Mouse Birthday Cake

This is a chocolate fudge cake with strawberry cream filling. It is covered in MM fondant with gum paste stripes and mickey mouses. Also the whimsical gum ball boarder made it the hit of the night with all the kids!

Cream Soda Cupcakes

These are cream soda cupcakes with brown butter frosting and toffee bits. I should have got into the cupcake groove much earlier. These things are so tasty and fun to make!