Maddie's Zebra Print Birthday cake

For Maddie's 9th birthday cake, she wanted a Zebra print with hot pink trim. Mom was the brains behind this work of art. I helped some until I just couldn't stay awake any longer! And I think we're trying to hit a record on how many trips to the store we can make for one cake (heehee). Black frosting is *very* tricky we learned. You first start out with homemake chocolate butter cream frosting, which is brown of course. Then you can add black tint (paste, not liquid) - lots of it, which then only turns it dark purplish-gray, but we learned that if you take that and let it sit for about an hour or so, it will darken to black. Strange huh? We don't understand it but it works, so we're not questioning it, right Mom?!

Mom made the cupcakes on her own and they were super yummy with pink and white butter cream frosting.

And here I am ready to sample one! mmmmm

Megan and Gavin's 6th birthday cakes

Gavin's cake was white cake, buttercream frosting, decorated in a frog theme. The lily pads turned out nicely, it's a yellow-green tinted buttercream frosting. Mom has a new grass tip that she used to make the grass around the edge of the top layer. Some chocolate candy was used to accent the tall grass on the cake and Gavin provided the plastic frogs to top the cakes. Happy Birthday Gavin!

Megan's cake was a chocolate cake (actually devil's food cake), buttercream frosting, decorated Hello Kitty theme. Mom was the brains behind cutting the Hello Kitty head. It was a 9 x 13 that we cut in the shape of her head. Needless to say, we had some chocolate cake chunks to eat :) There are pink dots around the sides of the bottom layer. Used black jelly beans for the eyes, a sour patch candy for the nose and black licorice for the whiskers. The bow and face of the kitty, used the star tip on all that. Happy Birthday Megan!

Seth's 11th Birthday Cake - UK

Mom, Kayla, and I made this cake for Seth's 11th Birthday party. It was pretty easy to make once we got it planned out where we were putting the letters. It's two 9 x 13 cakes, one white and one devil's food, side by side with buttercream frosting, blue and white of course. Happy Birthday Seth! We love you!

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!