Tristan’s Book Cake July 13, 2009

While I have been out of town for over a week visiting friends and family all over the place, I have not been without a cake project!  Last Tuesday my friend Emily gave birth to adorable baby Tristan!  I knew I’d be passing by her way, so after making sure she’d be up to company, I made her a cake!  (Besides just liking Emily and Rob and babies, I had picked up some fun new cake supplies in Shreveport at a little shop called Cake Creations, so I was looking for an opportunity to use them!)  Emily loves to read, so a book cake seemed like the perfect fit.  The top cake is chocolate and the bottom is yellow.  Both have buttercream under chocolate fondant covers.  It survived 11 hours in a car in July surprisingly well, and only required a little repair.

Cupcakes for Mom! July 2, 2009

Today I leave to visit my parents!  Hooray!  I promised my mom I would bring her cupcakes, and here they are!  They are lemon cake with lemon buttercream and little fondant flowers.

Cake Withdrawal May 29, 2009

After all the cake commotion I’ve had for the past month or so, this week has felt incredibly calm.  A little too calm.  Without any cake orders I had the week free to do whatever I wanted!  So what did I do?  I made cakes, of course!

I made this cake to suprise our friends Dave and Amie who are going to celebrate their 9th anniversary this week!  Congratulations you guys!

It is a “Strawberry Lemonade Cake.”  The inside is layers of strawberry and lemon cake with lemon buttercream, a little strawberry filling, and strawberry fondant.  For those of you who aren’t sure if peonies are food safe, I wasn’t sure either.  I washed it really well and put plastic wrap behind it so no part of the flower actually touched the cake.  And I know it wasn’t grown with pesticides because it came from my garden!

With the leftover supplies, I had enough to make a little cake for me!

This is what the inside looks like.  I think in the future I might try marbling the two instead of layering for a different effect.

Lemon Cake April 14, 2009

I tried a new lemon cake and lemon buttercream recipe to take to dinner with friends.  Yum!  It’s always fun when I actually get to eat the cakes I make.  (I was in a hurry, so I decorated the cake before it had completely cooled, which is why the border is starting to slide just a bit.  Not something I usually do!)

Happy Day Cake April 14, 2009

This is a cake I made for St. Patrick’s Day/my boss’s birthday/just for the fun of making a cake.  I wanted to try a rainbow cake I saw on hostesswiththemostess.com, and try painting on fondant.  This is the result!