Basball Cake CO Rockies!

Happy 25th birthday Jacob!

We had our family together for our son's birthday. Jacob hasn't celebrated his birthday at home in 7 years!

Sweet Cassie made this trip home a fun surprise for him. We had an amazing week!

I will add photos from the week soon....

Here are a few ....

**Notes may be boring for non-cake bakers**

This cake was created in four parts:
First, THE GLOVE: two quarter sheet cakes (chocolate)stacked, the top layer was cut in half length wise and only one half placed on top of the bottom layer. The hole for the glove was scooped out cake. Then all was crumb iced and refrigerated. Then I covered the entire cake with fondant that I colored (glove orange?)
I then took my wonderful air gun and sprayed it with darker shades and laid the web of the glove over the top. I placed pieces of fondant to look like the glove was laced.
Second, THE BALL: this was a styrofoam ball that I covered with fondant and painted stitches with deep red food color, paste the ball was then CRAMMED in the spot where the cake was scooped away.
Third, THE CAP: this is a chocolate cake that I baked in a small bowl about the size of a cap and then it was covered with white fondant and sprayed Rockies purple. The CR was made out of gum paste and "glued" to the cap once it was on top of the glove. The brim of the cap was a piece of cardboard covered with black fondant.
Forth, THE PENNANT: made with gum paste and set to dry with tissue underneath parts to look as if it were waving. I hand painted the stripes and words on it.

I set the entire cake on a board and piped grass (buttercream icing) as my border.

This was for my son who is 25 and a CRAZY ROCKIES BASEBALL FAN!

He loved it and didn't want to cut into it!

Topsy Turvey Cake, Sweet16!

This was one of the funnest cakes I have done in quite some time!
I have always wanted a reason to do one of this 'topsy turvy cakes'
but never had one.

I learned alot with this one!.

Three tiers, each three layers of chocolate cake with choc/rasp mousse covered with buttercream and then with fondant! Thanks guys for letting me be part of Sams special day in this way! It means alot to me! Oh, and I must say that Sam is the first one that I have had cry when I delivered her cake! The photo sent to me with Sam behind her cake is a better showing of the actual shades of pink that I used!

You girls are growning up WAY TOO FAST!!!
Happy 16th Birthday Sam!

Hawiian Sheet Cake

Patrick & Katie Penland....What a WONDERFUL couple!

They had a day time backyard BBQ after all the wedding and reception out of town was over!

It was a beautiful day! Anne and Greg you did a GREAT JOB!

This was a sheet cake, one half chocolate and the other strawberry! Iced with butter cream.

I used a slencil and air brushed the flowers then hand painted the stamin in each flower.

Thanks so much for letting me share in your day!

Gerbra Daisy Wedding Cake

Memorial day weekend May24, 2008

for Bekah & Beau

Sweet comment from the bride:

“……I also wanted to thank you for my AMAZING INCREDIBLE DELICIOUS cake!
WOW, I loved it. It was absolutely perfect. Thank you so much for being so willing to do it. You are very very talented. My only regret is that we had said it was ok to cut our top layer, and after we wished we had saved it because it was so yummy! oh well! I got lots of compliments on how cute it was, so thank you! I will definitely refer you to all my single girl friends, take care, Bekah"

Bekah was a cute bride, not really into choosing a cake, just wanting to make

it "nice". Then we got to talking, and before long she was thrilled to have

a beautiful wedding cake!

Cake details: square tiers, sizes:6, 8, 10, 14

6"~chocolate w/choc raspberry filling

8"~ white cake w/ whipped raspberry filling

10"~ chocolate cake w/ whipped raspberry filling

14" was a fake Styrofoam square

she also had a 1/4 sheet cake

white w/whipped raspberry filling

The entire cake was iced with Whipped cream icing...on a very warm day no less!!

Transportation was difficult, we only had a few blunders that were fixed well with flower placement!!

The cakes were stacked to look as though it were spiraling.

Decorated with Vibrant fresh Gerbera Daisies and ribbons.

I hope to get a photo of the bride & groom cutting the cake.

Side note** this reception was in the same lodge that I delivered the Lime green and black wedding cake!

Square Stacked Wedding Cake

For Kimberlee and Paul

*even though they aren't into tradition, they wanted a 4 tier wedding cake*

CHOCOLATE.....

CHOCOLATE.....

& MORE CHOCOLATE!!!!!

All four tiers were chocolate cake with chocolate raspberry filling!

Iced with Butter cream & sprayed on design.

Decorated with red ribbon and pearls.

This cake was a 6", 8", 10", and 14"

180 servings

Thanks guys for giving me this honor!

Bridal Shower for Kimberlee

This was a fun event!!

I used a plant stand as you can see.... two 8" cakes and a 6"cake. The fourth section of the stand held the little 6" plates. I think I will be using this stand a lot.
Three different flavors for lots of variety for the ladies to taste!Chocolate w/ buttercream, Strawberry cake w/whipped cream and white cake w/strawberry filling and whipped cream icing!

Silk flowers and ribbons were used to give a sweet spring decoration!

Kimberlee will be married May 24th! That will be one of my next cakes!!

Borders Book Store

These cakes were done for my son, Jason, who is in management at Borders Book Store.
This was for the Colorado Educators weekend.

The Sheet cake is a white cake with my yummy standard whipped cream icing. The Borders Logo, and the "scribble" were done with colored piping gel.

The Books are chocolate and white cakes covered with fondant and the writing was done with Royal icing.

This was a lot of fun to do! I am so glad Jason came to get them and drove them up to his Littleton store where they were displayed and eaten!

THANKS JASON & BORDERS!!

CONGRATULATIONS LIYAH!!

Chocolate cake!!! With yummy whipped cream icing!

Liyah is a young girl that is graduating from Mann Middle School in The Springs (black knight)

and soon to be at Wasson High School ( thunderbirds).

Liyah is also a ROCK COLLECTOR this is why there is rock candy all over the cake!

Lucy is our office manager during the week.....

.....and a Harley Rider on the weekends!

(ok, so she doesn't ride anymore, but she still loves a pretty bike)

Another fun new decorating design for me!
Cake: Red Velvet
Icing: Whipped Cream and "Chocolate Strings"
The pieces were made with Color Flow
and set on top of sugar cubes to show dimension

COWGIRL AMY

~BIRTHDAY CAKE~

This one, once again, was created for a sweet friend at the office!

she is a Beautiful girl who is a country girl deep down!

Her cake was made as a white cake, with raspberry filling, and again whipped cream icing!

The Whipped cream icing is beginning to be what EVERYONE wants!

The flowers were made with butter cream icing and aloud to harden for a few days. the rope and the hats are gum paste.

I must say that I am going to miss Amy, she is leaving our office, and moving to Denver!

Kamee's Birthday Cake

This girl quotes lines from movies ALL THE TIME!

So.....

What better than a movie cake! The girl, the bubble and the film strips are made of gum paste and sprayed or painted with color. the cake is white cake and whipped cream icing.

Thanks to all the girls at work that let me learn new techniques on them!

The girl was made in layers, similar to paper dolls. That was a lot of fun to try! I will definitely do this type of thing again!

This is a three tier Wedding cake. Thanks Larissa for sending the photo to add to here!
Very simple look, but pretty difficult for me!
This is rolled butter cream. Softer and shinier than fondant, also tases a whole lot better!
The pearls around the cake are plastic. I had lights under the clear cake plate and she used lavendar rose petels and small white daisies, so sweet! (Literally!! HeHe!)
I also made sheet cakes, iced with whipped cream, with each piece having a lavendar rosebud yummy, for them to cut and set out throughout the evening and prior to
"The Cutting of The Cake"
Thank you McHardy Family for giving me the honor of making your daughter's wedding cake!

ROYAL ICING SNOWFLAKES

These cakes were fun to do! It is always funnest for me when I am baking for dear friends and family! This young lady got married back east, but had an open house in Colorado Springs. It was December so I decided I would, once again, try something I hadn't ever done.

I made these snowflakes about a week before sprinkled them with edible glitter and let them harden! The cakes were done with Whipped cream icing sprayed blue.

Love you guys Rhenda! Thanks for trusting me with your daughter's day!

(TO SEE CAKES SCROLL DOWN)

SHE HAS ARRIVED!!!!

Our Precious Brooklyn Laine Walters
born November 19, 2008 7lbs & 10 oz 19" & PERFECT!
Jacob & Cassie we love you so much!

Who cares about CAKES

when you can look at a photo like this!!!

Mommy and Brooklyn are doing so well! Daddy too!!
They are such a beautiful family!

My daughter's wedding.....

Well, big lesson learned, don't learn on your own daughter's wedding cake! I am so so so grateful they loved it even though I made some big errors! this was my first 5 tier cake. Needless to say that I didn't know I needed larger (stronger) dowels for the lower tiers that are holding up the rest of the cake!

Thank you Bec and Shawn for being so wonderful as I continue to learn! I love you both!

The cake was yummy. Two tiers were white cake with raspberry whipped cream filling, and the other three were chocolate cake with double chocolate mousse filling! The icing is the best tasting fondant I have ever worked with! Vanilla, white fondant.

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