Minecraft Box Birthday Cake

This was a rush cake, but it's one of my favorite cakes.  A simple Minecraft box cake for a super cute little boy!  Decorated with modeling chocolate.  A chocolate fudge cake with dark chocolate frosting.

Happy birthday Carson!!  Your cake made my boys jealous!

'97 Chevy Truck Cake

Every time I do a shaped cake I tell myself I never want to do another one!  This cake actually wasn't as hard as the last truck cake I made.  Probably because I used a sturdier cake to start with.  This cake was made to look like the birthday 'boy's' first truck.  His sweet wife knew how much it meant to him and wanted to recreate it in cake form.  I always love when wives want to give their husband something so special and individualized.  

 Covered in a mixture of modeling chocolate and fondant.

 Tires were made of fruity pebble treats and covered in modeling chocolate.

 This is the first time I made an extra stand on the cake board to hold up the truck.  That way you could see all the way under the truck!  With a little extra work it gave it just the look it needed!

Add a little 'dirt' and 'mud'!!  The license plate read DRTY30.  It's the little details.  

Happy birthday, Bryce!

Poppy Seed Cake with Fresh Berries

This was my son's request: poppy seed cake, whipped cream, strawberries, blueberries, kiwis, black berries.....  He is always so specific when it comes to his cakes!  So, we did an almond poppy seed fruit 'pizza' cake.  It was so delicious!  The whipped topping was a mix of freshly made whipped cream, and lemon cream cheese frosting.  Add the fresh fruit and it's done.

Close up of all that yumminess!  It was one of our all time favorite flavors of cake!  Happy birthday Ronny boy!  We love you tons!!!

Little Girl Beach Party Birthday Cake

Super cute little cake for a beach party birthday!  Just modeling chocolate and frosting to decorate this one.  The sand is just regular sugar with some ivory food coloring mixed into it.  The 'wet' sand is brown sugar; thanks to my 5 year old for that idea!  Vanilla cake with strawberry frosting, YUM!

 Little girl made to look like the birthday girl

 Beach sign with Addie's name

 The birthday girl was turning 5.  'Sand' castle, cup, towel and bucked all done with modeling chocolate

The 'waves' were piped on butter cream frosting then swept out with a wet paint brush.  Happy birthday, Addie!

LDS Reno, Nevada Missionary Homecoming Cake

It's been a while since I've updated this blog!  I have to apologize.  Life is just busy with kids and a household to keep up!  But, back to cakes....

This cake was so specialized for a very deserving LDS missonary.  Elder Twitchell served in Reno, Nevada and had some fun stories to tell.  Thus, the little details on the cake.

 I like doing the state flag as the main cake decoration then I add to it.

 This Elder accidentally fell asleep on a drive and his companion ended up getting them lost.  So, no....the scriptures did NOT put him to sleep!

 Set of scriptures with his name.

 Another element of the Nevada state flag, specialized to say the name of his mission.

 He liked to wear pink ties!

And he lived on a street named, "Hells Bells."  Haha!  Too  much fun!  Welcome home Elder Twitchell!!!  I know your family is so happy to have you back!

"Alice in Wonderland" Teacup Birthday Cake

There is something special and fun about PINK cakes!  And topsy turvy cakes are super fun!  The teacups were a little tricky, but much needed!

 The White Rabbit's clock.  "I'm late, I'm late, for a very important date!!"  Clock and #1 made of gum paste.

 I strayed a little from the original picture of this cake by making the blue pattern out of the playing card suit symbols!  Gotta get those little details in!

 I really love making gum paste flowers!  And those gold leaves are adorable!

 Do I need help with cakes?!  YES I DO!  I was so busy with cakes this week that my daughter was awesome and made that gold chain by herself!!  She painted it in gold for me too!  THANK YOU RACHEL!!!

 Here's the little smash cake to go with the big cake!  I really adore the rose swirls, and the teacup was painted by my daughter as well.

Okay, so sometimes something goes wrong with a cake.  Something went really wrong with this cake!  I delivered the cake, everything was all good, then I got a very sad message from the mom of the birthday girl.  The teacups had fallen off the cake and broken!  I felt awful cause I was out of town and wasn't able to fix it.  It was truly one of those heart dropping moments when I felt horrible! Live and learn with each cake!!  Please forgive me, Blaire!!!

Such a seriously cute cake and I enjoyed every second of making it!  Happy 1st birthday Morley!!! 

 I hope your party was super fun!!!

"Blaze and the Monster Machines" Girl Version

The original idea for this cake was simple!  Take my other "Blaze" cake and make it in girl colors with the two little people characters instead of the painted trucks.  But as you can see, plans had to be changed!  This happens a lot to me!

 See this cute girl?  Ya, well Gabby was supposed to be a tiny little girl that would sit next to a big monster truck.  She ended up MUCH larger than I meant to do!

 So I ended up making a BIG monster truck coming out of a gift box instead!  I gotta work on proportions apparently.  But it was fun doing something different and I loved making the bow and ribbon for the gift box.  Plus, this is much more girly!

 Folds of the wrapping paper.  Cake was completely covered in modeling chocolate.

 Blaze's cool giant tires busting out of the cake.  Made of fruity pebble treats and covered in modeling chocolate.

 Gabby's cute little self.  Made of gum paste

 AJ rocking the thumbs up!  Made of gum paste with a wooden skewer as his skeleton. 

I REALLY loved making the front messy with the torn 'paper' and cake crumbs!  And I really really love making new designs and not repeating cake ideas.  So it all worked out in the end!  Oh, and it was yummy gluten free vanilla pound cake with creamy vanilla butter cream frosting!

Happy Birthday, Whitney!!!