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!