This was for a somewhat large baby shower being thrown at the mom’s work. The cake is a 3 layer 12 inch strawberry cake with cream cheese filling and buttercream icing. The blue letters, booties, rattle, blocks, bears and carriages are all made out of chocolate. This was a tall cake! The cupcakes are yellow,Read More
Category: Decorated Goodies
Carolina Gamecock Cupcakes and Cakes
GOOO GAMECOCKS!! Sorry, I’m a fan. These yellow cupcakes are topped in tinted buttercream icing to match the school’s colors, garnet and black. They’re topped off with helmets and footballs that are made out of chocolate. To get the garnet color with the chocolate, I mixed red chocolate with a little bit of dark chocolate. Read More
Sports Baby Shower Cake
This cake is for a friend who’s having a baby boy. Her husband is very into sports, so she wanted this as the theme. I used the combination of light blue, dark blue, light green and dark green. The bottom tier is a 3 layer 10 inch strawberry cake with cream cheese filling, the top tierRead More
Toy Story Birthday
This was for a 3 year old boy’s birthday party, who absolutely loves Toy Story. The cake is chocolate with chocolate chips, the cupcakes are vanilla with white chocolate chips. All of the icing is buttercream, I used the Buzz Lightyear cake pan and followed the directions for outlining and coloring. This cake was veryRead More
Luau Birthday Cake
This cake was for a 1 year old’s birthday party…a big luau. The water is made out of blue tinted piping gel, the middle tier is surrounded by pirouettes, the sand is graham cracker crumbs, the seashells, letters and flowers are made out of chocolate. The bottom tier is cinnamon cake with cream cheese filling,Read More
Waterpark Cake
It’s really, really hot here this summer, and I thought it would be great to make a waterpark cake. As you can see, the teddy grahams are having a great time in the sun and water, going down the slide into the pool, while onlookers are catching rays on the pool deck, and others areRead More
July 4th Cake
There’s nothing like celebrating the 4th of July like going to the beach. It’s even better when you have a free place to stay and an eager Grammy to help out with her precious granddaughter…so we like to take regular trips to visit. Even though traffic is completely insane that time of year, it’s theRead More
Monkey Baby Shower Cake
The cake for this baby shower was a 3 layer 14 inch round cinnamon cake. I used cream cheese icing and piped it all over as stars using tip number 22, and made the rattles, baby bottles, safety pins and letters out of chocolate. The monkey is also made out of solid chocolate, and itRead More
Garden Girl Birthday Cake
This cake went along with the theme “Garden Girl Party” for a 3 year old. I wanted to make sure that it matched the invitation, and since the party was big, it allowed me to make a 12×18 inch yellow cake with homemade buttercream icing. All of the letters, number 3, flower and butterfly areRead More
Ladybug Cake
A friend turned 30 this year, and she absolutely loves ladybugs. I wanted to do more than just a ladybug, so decided to do another cake underneath, making this a 2-tiered cake. The ladybug is chocolate cake, the brown is made out of store bought chocolate decorator icing, and homemade decorator icing tinted red. TheRead More