ALOHA!

The girls have so many of the same friends that they celebrated birthdays together this year and invited their Girl Scout friends over to our home for a luau!

Mom and I had fun with this cake! Our usual yummy buttercream frosting tinted blue for the water with some Goldfish crackers floating around and then crumbled graham crackers for the sand with some cute beach umbrellas!

The girls loved this party theme. They played the limbo outside, Mom made delicious fruit smoothies that they drank out of coconut cups and of course they had flowers in their hair and a lei around their neck :)

Mallory's other 10th Birthday cake

When we had family over for dinner and cake for Mallory's 10th birthday, she requested cake in the shape of her new age! One was white cake and the other was devil's food - both with blue tinted buttercream frosting - Mal's favorite color. The dots were made of marshmallow fondant which was very yummy! Normally fondant is just gross, but this recipe was wonderful and we'll be using it again!!

Mallory's 10th Birthday Cake

I haven't been on this blog in a while (oops!) - time to catch up... because we HAVE been baking! :)

For Mallory's 10th birthday, she requested white cake with homemade chocolate buttercream frosting - which is just as good as it sounds!!

Will's Wiggly First Birthday Cake

Mom and I made Will's first birthday cake. It was huge. Not only was it the Wiggles, it was wiggly - LOL. The frosting was buttercream except for the dots, which Mom made marshmallow fondant for. Mom did most of the work on this one. I helped to bake and got the cakes stacked and frosted with her. She did the writing and the cupcakes - I had to leave because her house got too cold! She kicked the air up so the buttercream frosting would stay firm - the cake board was too big for her frig! We had fun as usual. It was a late night as usual. And the cake turned out really well! :)

Easter 2010

Mom made this cake on Easter 2010. We enjoyed it at MawMaw and PawPaw's house after lunch. Great job Mom, very spring-y! :)

Yummy Ducky Cake

I just couldn't resist putting this on my blog. Here's Austin enjoying his first birthday cake. YUM! I think he likes it!! :)

Rubber ducky, you're the one!

For Austin's 1st birthday cake, he had a rubber ducky theme, which was fun to make and I think they turned out cute! Mom was sick so I made these cakes pretty much by myself. Mallory helped with some of the mixing :)

The cake was all white, large layer on the bottom with 2, 8" layers on top. Frosting was homemade buttercream (of course) tinted blue. I made the "bubbles" out of buttercream frosting too using a wide round tip. The bar of soap was a rice krispy treat that I frosted to match the cake.

Austin's Mommy provided all the cute little duckies that topped off the cakes. The small cake was the cake that Austin literally DUG into! I think he enjoyed his first taste of cake! Happy First Birthday Austin! We love you :)