In a Galexy Far Far away................

Presenting R2D2!! My first Star Wars cake. Paul (my husband) requested this for his work Party for today, so last night i was up late late making, baking and decorating my cutest cake to date, or at least i think so but then i am a BIG Star Wars fan. He is Chocolate Fudge cake with orange butter cream frosting. I cant wait to hear what Paul's co-workers have to say about this, it sure does blow the cookie cutter cakes they make in the grocery stores out of the water wouldn't you say. I sign off by saying to you Happy Making, Baking and Decorating!!

Shame Shame know my name!!

Here is a very yummy cake i made for Dena, requested by her Husband for her Birthday/Mothers Day. But Shame on me I didn't check very very carefully and just notice yesterday that i spelled Birthday with out the H on the tag :( Well you live and learn right. I made a deep chocolate cake with premium quality chocolate and made chocolate Mousse which took 1 hour to make, 45 of those minutes were spent constantly stirring the egg yolks and milk on low heat until they boiled, but it was worth it, the finished product was AMAZING so light and very rich with out much sweetness.
I had great fun making it.

Stampin' it up with the Ladies.

Last Thursday night i went to a friends house to partake of her Card making class. I also wanted to do a practice run for a cake that a man had ordered from me for his wife's Birthday. I found a beautiful picture of the cake i wanted to do on cakecentral.com so i printed it out. I made this particular cake rich red velvet with vanilla buttercream filling and frosted with chocolate butter cream. Then i used Pirouette cookies to cover the out side of the cake, almost looking like flower stems, then put on some very colorful large silk flowers on top, and a cute green ribbon around the cookies to finish the look of a bouquet of flowers. The kids at my friends house stayed up past their bed time because they wanted cake and my friend was too scared to cut the darn thing, hahaha. Come on it does look awesome if i say so myself ;-) I am just loving this new adventure my life has taken on.

Founding Father

My son Jacob who is in Kindergarden (Prep for my Aussie peeps out there) had a class presentation on American Hero's last Thursday. Each parent was asked to bring along a food item for the "After Party", oh yeah these are party hard kids, hehehehe! Well i said i would bring not hard to guess.....a cake :-) I wanted to make a cake along with the theme of the event, so i used a cake i was already starting to decorate in my Wilton class and stripped it of its girly flowers, finished doing the not so great job on my first time swags around the cake, then used Clipart and found a silhouette of George Washington and cut it out of MM fondant. It was a chocolate fudge cake with chocolate butter cream filling and frosting, i didn't get to imaginative there this time.
I did have fun decorating it and was even more delighted to see the looks on the parents faces when they saw it. Hope you like it.

My first Paid cake :)

A lady from my fitness center asked me to make a cake with Sonic the Hedgehog on it for her son's 15th Birthday. This is how it turned out, NOT TOO SHABBY!!!! (Insert ear to ear smile). Its 2 8 inch yellow butter cakes with vanilla frosting and filling, with yellow candy melts on the sides. I hand molded Sonic from MM Fondant and Gum paste, i semi copied a cake some one had made with the exact same Sonic from cakecentral.com
I deliver it tomorrow morning, I'm looking forward to seeing what she thinks when she sees it, i hope very happy :)

Hubby bought me 50 cake boxes and made me an excel page with all the ingredients for all the recipes i have to calculate the costs of each cake i make. He is sooooo awesome and supportive, makes this sweet journey all the more sweeter.

The Happy "Bird'day" Cake

My friend is giving her 5 year old daughter a Bird themed Birthday party this Saturday, and i asked if i could make the cake. I looked all over the internet to see cakes with Birds on them but couldn't find any that i liked, so i was and still most likely am going to make an Enchanted Tree Cake, as it has 2 blue birds in a nest at the top of the tree. It's from Debbie Brown's book "Enchanted Cakes for Children" i bought it and it get's here Thursday, si i will see how hard it is and decide wether to do it or not.

I did how ever make this extra cute, cute, cute did i say how cute it is Love Birds Cake. I have a Sugar Motifes Bible for cake decorating book, and it had a picture of 2 tiny blue love birds, so i took the idea and ran with it, it turned out agan SUPER CUTE :-)

Not bad for my 3rd Fondant cake i think.

I will sign off for now, i am baked and decorated out for today.

My Fondant class Cake

What fun! We covered a cake with Fondant in Class last night, i made a very dense and moist Carrot/pineapple cake with whipped orange butter cream filling and under-coating. In class I covered the cake in Pink Fondant and made the lavender drape, i did make a handkerchief but didnt like it so took it off when i got home. You can see where i took it off but because of the flowers and hearts all over it your eyes doesn't really draw to it.

When i got home and went to bed all i could dream about was finishing the cake, so at 2:30am i dragged my butt out of bed and went and made the flowers and leaves, then went back to bed at 4:30am then got out of bed again at 8am and finished it. I had some clear sparkle cake gel so i painted all the decorations with it. It made it look awesome if i say so my self. My Oh SO Flattering friend calls me the Cake decorating Diva or Queen, yeah i can live with that title i think :-) and i better keep her around so she can keep the compliments coming, i like an inflated ego, its an independent proud Spanish women thing.