Star Wars Light Saber Cake

I am a mom to 4 boys - so eventually I knew I would be making Star Wars Cakes. #3 wanted a Light Saber for his latest birthday. I make a box Strawberry cake mix in a 13x9 pan and then cut it into thirds the long way. I then lined up the pieces on my board and then froze the cake. A day later I took it out of my deep freezer and carved it into a roundish shape. I used candies for the buttons and the rest is butter cream frosting. Super easy and yummy.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Cup Cake Cake

I made this up for my friends baby shower that I threw her. It was Library/Book themed. So everything on the menu was inspired by children's books. I used two shades of green for the frosting. The head was molded out of rice crispy treats and covered in fondant. It was very cute and everyone loved it.

Yule Log Cake

When I went home for Christmas my mom asked me to make a Yule Log cake. The Recipe came from an 80's version of The Lion House Christmas Cookbook. Honestly, I was a bit skeptical,  but it ended up tasting amazing. It was like a giant Hostess Ho Ho without all the preservatives. The first picture I took captured the cherries mid escape. The leaves were molded out of a green Airhead taffy.

Toucan Cake

My oldest son wanted a Toucan cake for his birthday this winter. I couldn't even find anything on Pinterest to copy. This is 100% original. I baked a chocolate cake in a 13x9 pan. I then cut out the pieces and somehow this is what I got. Oldest son was thrilled and it was a lot of fun to create! I bought the pre-tinited Wilton Black frosting. The rest is a new butter cream recipe I tried out that was delicious.

Chocolate Raspberry Cake

I made this cake for my sister when she came and visited me last summer. I used this recipe from Bird on a Cake. It tasted incredible. It was a rasberry cake, with dark chocolate ganache.  I topped it with Chocolate covered Raspberries, which were the perfect touch. So yummy! I crave this cake all the time.

Monsters Inc Birthday Cake

My son wanted a Monsters University cake for his bday last summer. I decided to make a Sully Cake using the Wilton grass tip. The eyes are plastic craft googly eyes. The nose is molded out of a starburst candy. The horns are ice cream cones. I tried to heat them up and mold and bend them a little, but that didn't work out too well. My son loved it and still talks about!

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!