Baptism Day Cake

Well, this cake is a 2-tier, strawberry/white cake.

It is iced with buttercream, the filling was buttercream and crushed mothers animal cookies.

Then covered with white fondant.

pink borders and white decorations are buttercream. flowers and leaves are fondant.

NOW for the stupid part of this cake!

I made it and had it ready for the very special baptism of a very sweet little girl, for 10AM this morning Feb. 20th.

Got ready to go to the baptism and found that the baptism IS NEXT WEEK! Wow, what to do!!

My dear friend said I should title it

"the cake that had no party" Well, i took it to their home to enjoy for a week long celebration, instead of NO party, it was for a week long party!!

So, to all of you decorators....write the actual date and time on your calendar!!I have never done this before and WILL NEVER DO IT AGAIN!!

For those of you wondering: The CTR emblem on the cake stands for Choose The Right, this is a shield the children use in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints, Primary (Sunday School) helping them to learn to do the right thing always! I love it!!

Little Leilah

Oh my, I have to share our families wonderful news right here!!!

Rebecca & Shawn have a beautiful baby girl!

She is little leilah

6lbs 4ozs and 20.5 inches long

So tiny and so so sweet!

mommy and Baby are doing so incredibly well!

One of the best things in the world is to see your daughter become a mother! A good one at that!!

I love to watch their sweet family! Congratulations kids! i love you!

The 20,000th hits came

Sunday, January 24th, 2010 @ 9:48pm

From Fort Lauderdale Florida!

This is, unfortunately all the info I have on this hit!! :(

SO, thank you so much for this very important view of my CRAZY BLOG!!

Who ever you are!

Shelley, the cake lady

HOW CRAZY!! 20,000 hits

Thanks everyone & PLEASE keep em comin'

Sitemeter update

Hello to all who follow my blog! As you know I have had some issues lately with my sitemeter.....

my dear daughter-in-law, Cassie(www.cassandralaine.blogspot.com) got it up and going for me! thank you Cassie!

I did lose some hits for about three days but am still very excited to get to my 20,000 hits! Right now I am at 19,739!

If you have come across my blog looking for a cake idea, I hope you will stop and make a comment and follow my blog so that we can learn from each other in the future!

*the lime green cake here is described in an older post...to see it keep on scrollin'

Thanks for dropping by! come again :)

This is our Cake of the Month!

We are happy to share some ideas with you.

The main idea I, as the decorator, have to share with other decorators,

is to create a cake that is unique and personal to your client.

Learn about them. This cake was for a modern girl with a love for the traditional too. Get those creative juices flowing and do something new!

If you are feeling stress over a part of it, walk away and breathe, then come back when you have a clear head and all falls into place everytime!!

4 wheelin' anyone?

CRAZY CAKE HOBBY FOR SURE!!

Wow! I get a little nervous/crazy when I do a cake that I know nothing about. This is one of those cakes! Good thing I don't ever charge for the research time I take,

no one could afford that! I am a very slow learner!

Once I got an idea of what a dune buggy is, and does, I was set to go!

The actual dune buggy is edible. The floor of the vehicle, and the box, in the back are rice krispie treats. The tires are plastic and some of the support pieces are wood dowels, but most of the rest was created out of fondant & gumpaste.

The buggy is sitting on the cake! The hills and the path are all sculpted out of cake and buttercream. the mud on the tires is made from royal icing that also helped to keep the buggy on the cake right where I wanted it to sit!

Happy 12th birthday Travis!

(You are growing up way to fast)

Yes, It's a GIRL!

It's MY GRAND DAUGHTER!

Rebecca and Shawn are due to have their first baby on February 9th!

Oh my goodness what excitement we are all feeling!

Saturday we had a baby shower for Becca! What fun it was.

Great friends and family all joined in visiting and games and food!

The theme was mommy and baby birds,

similar to her invitation created by Cassie(go to http://www.cassandralaine.blogspot.com/)

to find the invitation ideas she designed!

The top tier of the cake is a gumpaste bird house put together with royal icing. It is hollow, sitting on a small plate.

the dowel going through the two lower tiers is PVC and is fondant painted to look like a tree trunk.

the next tier is an 8" cake covered with fondant and hand painted stripes to give it that modern feel that Becca wanted. The birdies and lettering was done with gumpaste.

The bottom tier is also fondant, with painted branches and gumpaste flowers,

This was a very different design for a baby shower, but it was a whimsical way to enjoy a party!
We Love You Becca!

3 tier because it needed to be.....

A friend asked me to make her a 3 tier cake for about 20 people... Like that is really possible! I tend to do nothing small!!
So it is a 12" an 8" and a 6". The 6" is a Styrofoam square covered to add a better look. This way I could play and learn to make a fun bow from fondant to put on top!

The sad story is that I delivered this cake to her car and it never made it to the party fully intact. So sad, i never got to actually go help her when it was "broken" but I understand that she had two tiers at the party:( This is a first for me and it was quite sad. I work so hard for so long and in a minute this can happen! Oh well.... I just started on the ideas for the next one right away!

What else can one do?

LaQuinta Inn & Suites Cake

My husband works for La Quinta Inn & Suites.

We decided that for him to take a treat to the

work Holiday/Christmas Potluck would be fun.

so I came up with this...

Holly & berries were created out of fondant and hand painted to give them a traditional holiday feel.

The La Quinta logo was cut with a tiny little knife to get as sharp as possible. Whipped cream icing and borders with sprinkled red & green flakes. Simple but hopefully pleasing!

Alex....Is a beautiful young lady !!

Many have asked me if this cake was made for a boy, so I want you to know that she just loves BLUE!!

They asked for a giant cupcake! Well I have the 'cupcake pan', but really think that is considered a 'big cupcake' so I needed to figure out how i would create a GIANT cupcake...

So for all of you"CAKIES" that care, I made the lower section with a 10" and 2 9" layers.

The upper section is a 9", 8", & 4". The Lower cake is covered in fondant, and the upper is swirled with buttercream. The flowers, and name tag are all gumpaste.

OH HOW I LOVE CREATING CAKES SO SO MUCH!

Okay so I don't ever, never have, watched FAMILY GUY!

"Hey Shelley, I need a cake with

Peter on it from FAMILY GUY!"

I told her I would do that and home I went to research what this guy looks like. When I saw him I realized I have seen him before:)This cake is white w/ raspberry filling! YUMMMMY!! Whipped cream icing and all decorations are done with fondant/gumpaste.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY STACIE!!

turkey day cake!

If you celebrate your BIRTHDAY on THANKSGIVING DAY, why not eat turkey!!!

I must say right at the beginning I found this cake (one very similar) on Flicker

Much of this was my own, in that I used the disney princess pan to bake my cake! I also made my feathers from gumpaste and the one that I found and got most ideas from used paper leaves! She did such a great job and I would love to give her the credit she deserves for this one!

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I enjoyed, once again playing with my airgun and spraying to get the shades of color!

It is a blessing to be able to create cakes that make people smile! I love to smile, & to laugh! SO good for the soul!

This cake gives me a chance to say how thankful I am for all my blessings! Family, husband, children and grandchildren! Friends, employment, and one big blessing in my life is that I get to spend time creating cakes!!!
(One day I hope to have a bakery of my own!)

With this 'turkey' I sent a 1/4 sheet cake to make sure they had enough servings!

This cake is iced with whipped cream icing. I laid my leaf cutters on it and sprayed it with fall colors, then lifted the cutters off!

Boy's Camo Birthday Cake

Boy Oh Boy!!!

Sam has now asked for camo cakes for two years in a row!

I love it! Thanks Kate once again!

This camo cake is a 10" chocolate cake with a Three Musketeer bar filling!

Fondant covered cake.

Camo is so much fun, I get to use my airgun and just go crazy!

The cap is made of gumpaste. Look closely to find the stitching around the cap.

When Sam lifts the cap off the top he finds the surprise of a cap filled with his favorite candy!

The border: fondant made to look like rocks with grass peeking through!

My Dad Turns 75!

This was an interesting attempt!
See if you can follow this crazy story!
I am in Colorado, my dad lives in TEXAS!

I had this thought that it would be fun to try to
MAIL A CAKE! (Stop laughing all you cake decorators!!)
So I created a 6" cake, covered it with fondant. All decorations were made with fondant. I found the perfect size tin and slid the VERY COLD cake in the tin and put the tin in a box filled with packing peanuts.

The interesting part of this story is, (if you are still reading) that my dad's wife, Penny, called and asked me to come to Texas, and surprise him....

I went and getting off the plane we went to the post office to pick up the cake I mailed!! How crazy is that??

IT MADE IT! We had one small part of the cake where the fondant stuck to the tin :(

...but it was fun! We ate it and we had a great time together which was the best part of the entire story! I have never been to his home in Texas and man is it hot and dry!

THANKS DAD & PENNY FOR A GREAT VISIT!

HAPPY 75th DAD, LOVE YA

He's Trapped In The 80's

So what better than to make a cake that represents that,
by creating Roy's very favorite pair of shoes!

and of course I needed to create the Vans shoe box,

so that they had enough cake! Lots of cutting and hand painting on this one.

Thanks again Kristi!

Two Birthdays...One Cake

ONE CAKE BUILT FOR TWO

Side one is for a little girl that loves Hannah Montana,( if you follow her cord it goes around the cake to...)

Side two is for her Grandpa, he is an electrician, so he has the plug to H.M's microphone! He needs his ladder to get to the top of the cake to plug it in to the outlet!!
Chocolate cake and buttercream, with fondant. Most all the parts & pieces are made with gumpaste or fondant. The lights on top are floral wire and LED lights that are stuck into fondant "light fixtures"

Who Loves Camping

Camping is one of Kristi's favorite things to do as a family!
So what better to do for her.... A CAMP OUT!
So this cake is created out of MANY things!

Teddy Grahams peeking into the campsite from all sides... Big Evergreens are fat pretzel sticks upside down ice cream cones covered in buttercream, tiny pretzel sticks and candles make up the fire pit, the rocks are all Raisinets candy. Turn out the lights and light the fire pit! FUN!

I made a gumpaste tent and fondant members of her family (which I understand Jaron ate all of!) in their sleeping bags!

You must know that Kristi's last name is Wood!

So how could I not title this cake... "The Woods"??

Chocolate cake with Snickers filling

Princess Aurora Cake

PRINCESS AURORA

This cake was for the sweetest little girl, who just like her mommy, loves Sleeping Beauty!

I created this topper as I did Tinkerbell and others. Made of gumpaste, and sprayed with food color, all they wanted was lots of pink and purple, and of course Aurora on top!

This was just for a few people so it is a 4" top cake and an 8" second tier.

Lots of gumpaste hearts and fondant roses. Buttercream and fondant covered. The small pink "stars" on the top cake are painted on with a tiny brush and food color.

Also if you look close you see the little pink toole to frilly it up a bit! Not that it needed that :)

Friends are AWESOME!

My friends are so AWESOME! They call up and say..."I want a cake these colors, and this flavor.....create something"!! Then I get to "create"

I love the art of cake decorating! The problem is I can't create unless my home is in order! I must not have a thousand things on my mind! This is difficult!

Once I sit down the ideas start pouring out and I am grateful they give me free reign so very often!

This cake is for a friend at church who was surprising her daughter!

This is my first attempt at Tiger Lillies, so don't you dare look to close!

Thanks Deb!

6" & 8" ~~ Carrot cake w/ Fondant

2 orders same day!

These 2 orders were for a friend that had 2 birthdays in her office!

She was so kind to make the cakes so personal to each lady!

Hope they enjoyed them!

1st

a 10" and a tiny 4 inch topper!

Buttercream iced chocolate cake.

2nd

Wedding Cupcakes

Happy Wedding!!

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Darla's Wedding Cupcakes!

Pink and Green so so sweet!

150 cupcakes & a 6" topper,

Literally, so so sweet!!

It's A Girl!!! Cookie Platter

You know it seems that the office I work in can always find an excuse to eat!

One of the doctor's wives had a baby girl....so.....

I thought this might be a fun change! Sugar cookies with Buttercream icing and some decorated with sprinkles

This recipe is thanks to a lady I don't even know, her name is Ruth Buck.

I have this tiny recipe card that is in my moms handwriting, for some reason I have never transferred it to any other card, whenever I make these cookies I have to get out that card and use it! "TRADITION!"

This lady was a friend of my mom back when I was a baby!

Not telling you how long ago that would be!!
We have used it ever since!

THANKS RUTH WHERE EVER YOU ARE!

**Side note**

My daughter and her husband have just found out that they are also having a girl!!

2 little granddaughters!

I am so blessed!