Sandy's Birthday

On Sunday 8/22, we went to the Kitchens' Home for lunch and some time for the kids to play and us to visit and talk. We celebrated Sandy's birthday with some cake and ice cream. Devil's food cake with white buttercream frosting and strawberries on the side. Happy Birthday my friend, we love you :)

Transformer Cake

Okay I know nothing about Transformers, but Mom - being the great MeMe that she is... made this Transformer cake for Ethan's birthday! Great job Mom! She even made the cake BLUE! Very cool :)

Chase's graduation cakes

My little brother Chase graduated high school! We are so proud of him, congratulations Chase!
Here are his cakes...

They turned out pretty good :) The "book cakes" are 13 x 9 chocolate cakes, slightly offset to make them look like school books. Then a round cake tops them off for the bottom of the graduation cap. The square top of the cap is just cakeboard covered with frosting. I got the tassle from the craft store. The frosting was all homemade buttercream, chocolate, white, and blue tinted. On the white edges of the books, I took a butter knife and scored the icing to make it look like pages. Congratulations Chase!

Chocolate TIMES THREE!

The other Girl Scout moms and I split up the baking jobs for this year's Court of Awards Ceremony. I made the cake for the girls going into Cadettes. They requested chocolate cake, chocolate frosting, and chocolate chips! WOW! So, it's a devil's food cake, homemade chocolate buttercream frosting with Hershey milk chocolate chips generously sprinkled on top. I also put a small wooden bridge (Randy's idea) on the cake to signify the girls bridging from Junior Girl Scouts to Cadettes!

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!!