MawMaw's Cake carrier

Here is a picture of me holding MawMaw's cake carrier. This once belonged to her mother, my great-grandmother MeMa. I asked Mom to take my picture holding it at my house so I could show it off to my sisters! I don't remember what it was, but MawMaw sent me home with this one night with something yummy in it. MawMaw doesn't think she does, but we all know she cooks and bakes so well, and when we see this cake carrier that's been around longer than we have... our mouth just waters. Countless times I've been at her home that I see this out and I always go over to it and take a peek!

High School Musical cakes

For Maddie's 7th birthday in October 2008, Mom and I made a few cakes with High School Musical pictures on them. They were fairly easy but still required plenty of frosting and piping around the edges of cake and pictures. I'm pretty sure this was the cake where Mom and I were up late (of course) and she was trying to get me to leave and I was wanting to stay and help finish up so we were kind of fighting over the bowl of frosting and ended up dropping it on a cake... a cake that was almost finished! Kayla was sitting there and was just mortified that we did that. Mom and I just laughed and then started the frosting repair!

Lindsey, Maddie, Mallory, and Rachel in front of the FOUR High School Musical cakes.

Basketball Court cake

For Trevor's 9th birthday in 2008, Mom made this basketball court. Turned out great Mom!

Easter egg

Mom made this Easter egg cake, I believe last year in 2009. Great job Mom!

Nemo and Tinkerbell cakes Part #2

Here are a couple of those buttercream frosting roses close-up. Mom and I worked hard on those. This was our first time making them! People who really know how to make them make it look so easy, but let me tell you, it takes practice! I thought they turned out pretty.

Megan's Tinkerbell cake complete with Tinkerbell flying overhead.

Gavin's Nemo cake turned out great! I thought all the different colors made it look so good. The "rocks" at the bottom of the cake are actually Milk Duds!

Both cakes turned out great and all the kids at the party enjoyed them!

Nemo and Tinkerbell Part #1

For Megan and Gavin's 5th birthday (Sept 2009), they wanted Tinkerbell and Nemo cakes. Mom and I had fun making these :)

It gets pretty high-tech when you have to use your lap top while decorating a cake!

And when it gets late, I get silly. Here I was cracking up because I thought it was really funny using the laptop while cake decorating. Things are funny really late that just aren't that funny during the day. Actually I was watching a very helpful U-Tube video on how to make roses out of frosting.

I was a happy camper this night because I had said that those decorating turntables were so neat. Then, I sent Randy to the grocery (of course) and he brought me one home! I love it! You just turn that puppy around while frosting the cake. It's very nice!

Here is Mom frosting the Nemo cake. It's starting to come together!

Wizard Hat Cake

For Maddie's 8th birthday (10/24/2009), she had a costume party, so Mom and I made this wizard hat cake. I tease Mom because she thinks you can make any shape with cake, but this hat was difficult! It required alot of cake, many hours, and a bunch of "cake chunks" - the great portion of which I ate! Once the cake was "built", we put on a layer of white buttercream frosting and then this spray paint for frosting stuff Mom found. The spray paint looked great and gave the cake a neat shine, but it was everywhere! This is disgusting, but later that night, I blew my nose and blew out BLUE! Ugh! When I say it was everywhere, I mean everywhere! Oh, and notice that this cake in progress is sitting on Mom's ironing board. She thinks that it's for extra counter space!

We made the stars on the cake out of fondant. Not the tastiest stuff in the world, but it's like play-dough, you can shape it into just about anything and use cutters with it.

Maddie's cakes turned out great and her costume party was fun!

Grand Slam cake

For Seth's 9th birthday (8/17/2008), Mom made him a Grand Slam cake. It had a baseball diamond complete with the little baseball players. Obviously, I'm not going in chronological order on these. Not going to happen. :)

Uniqua Cupcakes

For Ethan's 4th birthday 2009, he requested one of his favorite characters, Uniqua. So Mom and I had help from Charla making these Uniqua cupcakes and here is a picture of Ethan trying one out :)

Golf Bag Cake

My brother-in-law Scott's birthday cake (7/4/2009). He enjoys golfing, so Mom drew a golf bag and a flag on his birthday cake!

Bridge Cake

For the Girl Scouts bridging ceremony this past spring (5/09), I made two cakes and frosted them with green-colored homemade buttercream frosting and then placed this "bridge" between the two! Thanks to my creative hubby for finding the bridge, which was actually in the Wally World craft section and was really supposed to be a picket fence for a dollhouse. The Girl Scouts that were bridging loved their cake!

Book Cake

For my grandfather's 80th birthday (3/31/2009), we made a cake that looks like a book. It's kind of hard to tell it in the pictures but the cake is taller than it appears and on the sides, we raked the homemade buttercream icing to make it look like pages of a book. We did a book because he *loves* to read.

Heart-shaped cake

For Lindsey's 7th birthday (2/13/2009), she requested a heart-shaped cake, since she is an almost-Valentine baby! With a heart-shaped pan this was fairly simple and we added a large round layer underneath for added cake! We frosted it with our homemade buttercream frosting. As you can see from this post and the earlier one of Mallory's cake, the girls started a tradition this year that I love... they cut and serve their own birthday cakes! They enjoyed this so much and with the slices that they cut, there wasn't alot of leftover cake!

Ballet Slippers Cake

For Mallory's 9th birthday (4/29/2009) we made a ballet slippers cake. It was two layers with the ballet slippers being the top layer. We piped homemade buttercream frosting over the entire cake. This was actually the second time she requested this cake, being the ballerina that she is, and it was easier the second time!

Why "Late Night Cakes"?

Why did we call our blog "Late Night Cakes"? Well, my family certainly knows why! Mom and I take our sweet time with our sweet creations and normally when we bake, we go late into the night. That's okay though. We have so much fun when we bake! We've created this blog to show off our cakes and to share with our family and friends the fun we have baking. Bon Appetit!