Cute Owl Graduation Cake

A cute owl cake for a graduation celebration!  I always love having something new to do.  Yes, I just did a couple little owls, but I've never done the chevron pattern, and it was really fun to do something different.  The little books and tassels are my favorites!

 Oh, and I LOVED the color choice!  Dark plum and light green!  So striking together!!!

Look at that cute little owl face!  Don't you just want to eat her up!?  Literally!  Ha!  Congrats, Kelsey!

Aspen Tree Wedding Cake

What a FUN FUN wedding cake to make!  And the couple was just so adorable and sweet!  This cake was just a joy to make.  But, boy was it heavy!!!  It's a good thing I've been lifting weights!  

 How cute to put the initials on the cake!  LOVE IT!  (The bride's idea! All her decorations were so beautiful and perfect for an outdoor, cabin wedding!)

 Some of the knobs on the cake

 The leaves and twigs were one of my favorite parts.  Hand formed and painted with food coloring!

It's sometimes hard to be so busy with such big cakes, but when the bride is as sweet as this bride, and the idea is so fun, it's hard for me to not enjoy every second of the process!!!  Congrats, Callie!  You're beautiful, inside and out!!

Cute Little Owl Cake Toppers

The big one is a Cocoa Pebbles treat, and the small one is just modeling chocolate.  Pair them up with fondant flowers and you're ready to make an adorable cake!!!

And here's the final product with my customer's awesome skills of her own!  Great job, Andrea!!!

Hot pink, black and white Barbie birthday cake

A classy Barbie cake for a very lucky little girl!  Her party was the kind of party I want for ME,...right now!  At my age!  Well, we can always dream, right?!  I love this color combo and the way it all came together.  Girly cakes always make me enjoy it just a little bit more.

 Doesn't Barbie look happy, sitting on top of a giant cake?!

Cute little bow and tiny roses.  SOOOO fun, and girly!   My daughter just kept asking for pink fondant.  Silly girl!!

Teacher Appreciation Flower Cupcakes

Just some flower cupcakes for Teacher Appreciation week.  My kids have some fabulous teachers!!!!

Cars Mater and Lightning McQueen Cool Cake

The "Cars" cake revisited!  Since I'm me, and I just wanted to do something different, I came up with this idea for a "Cars" cake.  I think it helped that we went to Disneyland recently and I LOVED CarsLand.  I wanted to do a little more detail but just ran out of time.  

 Stacked tires, Mater, Lightning, Casa Della Tires.  What more does a little boy need?!

 The little scrolls on the canopy.  I wanted to do more with this and the window, but alas, my kids needed dinner!

 I love Mater!  He's totally edible, as is the whole cake!

This cake was for two little brothers who have birthdays within weeks of each other.  The tiny cake was the 1 year old's smash cake.  I hope he made a very good mess of himself!  Happy birthday, Elijah and Jeremiah!  Two ADORABLE little boys!

Disneyland Castle Cake

Okay, this cake was an UNDERTAKING!!!!  I even started out with 'blueprints'.  I should have taken a picture of that!  I had to know how many pieces I needed to make and where they were going to go once they were made.  I was a little obsessive on this cake.  I wanted it to be as close to the real thing as possible!

 See all the pieces?!  And yes, I used chap stick, a pen, a vanilla bottle and various sizes of paper towel cardboard tubes to make the towers.  Use what you can.  (NO TOILET PAPER ROLLS WERE USED!!!)

 Rice Krispie treats for some of the pieces, and fudge striped cookies for in-between the tower pieces.

 Hand made rocks and decorating gel make the water and finish the look!

 Aerial view!  (It was hard to find an aerial picture of the real Disneyland castle to figure this part out!)

 The back

 Close up of some of the detail.

I was asked if it was worth it when I was done making this cake.  Yes it was!  I love Disneyland and creating this was a little piece of Disneyland in my home.  It was hard work, and heavy and SOOO time consuming, but how fabulous I felt when the birthday girl saw it!  She wouldn't let it out of her sight, and had to help me carry it to the table.  As I've said before, it's the reactions like that that make it ALL WORTH it for me!!!
Happy Birthday, Ryleigh!!!