Carter's 4th Birthday Cake

My sweet boy turned 4! How is that even possible?

A few months before his birthday, I asked him what kind of birthday he wanted. He answered, "Batman!". I should note that at this point the only thing he hew about Batman was that he was on his toothbrush. To prepare him for the party, we watched a few old school Batman videos that we found online. The party had costumes, bad guys, and a scavengerhunt for a stolen cake. I think it is safe to say that he had a great time.

He picked chocolate cake with cookies and cream frosting. He has good taste.

The cake that went missing.

We also had cupcakes with fondant Batman fighting phrases toppers. Ya know, Biff! Bam! Pow!

John Deere 2nd Birthday

I made this cake for a friend of my SIL.

She sent me this cake for inspiration.

It was a marbled cake with vanilla buttercream.

Happy (super late) Birthday, Bryson!

Jungle Themed Baby Shower Cake

WANRING: I am (of course) very late in posting this.

One of the Peeps, Monica, is having a baby! She's such a cute pregnant woman! We were having a baby shower for her, and I got to make the cake!

Ellen blogged about the shindig here.




This is the party supplies that were used for the shower.




I used the animals from there as my insipration for the cake.



The cake was white cake with cookies and cream. Yummy!

(Please excuse the super soft/melting buttercream. It was an especially hot and humid day in Arkansas.)

I can't wait to meet Baby Jinx after he or she is born!

(Update: She's here and she's adorable! And she's my burthday buddy!)

Grady 1st Birthday

My nephew just turned 1! I can't believe it! The party was a monkey theme, so this is what we came up with.

The cake is chocolate with banana buttercream.

The poor boy was having an allergy attack, so his eyes are all swollen, but he seemed to have a good time digging into his smash cake.

Happy Birthday buddy!

Claira's 3rd Birthday!

My sweet niece was having a tea party birthday party, so her mama asked me to make a tea pot cake. We talked about colors and, as it turns out, the party colors just happen to match Mrs Potts.

So, I present to you, the Mrs Potts teapot cake.

The cake is strawberry with vanilla frosting and a strawberry filling. Yum!!

I thought cupcakes would be good for the tea party too, so I made a few cupcakes to go with it.

Happy Birthday sweet girl!!

Winter Cake

I have an absolutely fabulous group of girlfriends from our college days. Some of us have moved away, but there are still a group of us in the area and we try to get together frequently. Every year, we have an ornament exchange around Christmas. There is always a good time to be had, complete with food, laughter, story telling, more laughter and just an all together good time.

My contribution to the food this (last) year was a cake! (I know, you're very suprised!) I decided to go with a very simple winter theme. I think it turned out cute, but I wish I lived nearer to a store that sold luster dust or pearl dust or some kind of shimmery dust so that I could have put some on the snow to make it a little sparkly.

Merry (very late) Christmas!

Happy Birthday, Zion!

I made this cake to celebrate our indoor climbing gym's 5th birthday and a climbing competition we were holding. (Back in December. Still catching up.) The competition was called the "Blacklight Boulderama", so I tried to go for the blacklight effect on the cake.



In case you don't know a thing about climbing (or you just can't tell what they are), the cake is decorated with little climbing holds, the logo for the logo for the competition and the mountain from the logo of the gym.

Cake for my Mommy

I made this cake for my mommy (Yes, I still call her "mommy". Don't judge!) for Mother's Day. We have made a lot of cakes together, but I had never made one just for her. This was the same weekend as my cousin's wedding and Carter's birthday party, so I had to keep it simple.

Love you, Mom!!

Carter's 3rd Birthday Cake

Once upon a time, way back in May, it was my sweet boy's third birthday. The past year he has been obsessed with music and guitars. I decided to make his cake based on his guitar.

I think it turned out pretty awesome! One of my favorite details was attaching the strap from his guitar to the cake.

Happy (late) birthday to my big boy! I love you!

And Now for Something Completely Different....

Just so you know, this post is going to have absolutely nothing to do with cake.

Ben and I were getting ready to do Christmas cards and I came across this awesome offer from Shutterfly for bloggers. I blog about them, and they give me 50 free cards! Woot!

They have so may cute designs, it was difficult to pick one. Here are a few of my favorites.

I thought this one would be too cute with the boys. With the picture we are wanting to use, it makes it look like it is saying Jackson is naughty and Carter is nice.

I also really love this one. I love the candy stripe at the bottom and the not quite primary-ness of the red and green.

I would totally love this one if I had girls. The snowflakes are so pretty. But I don't, I have boys. Therefore, this will not be our christmas card.


There are so many really good options that you could spend forever on the site, looking at cards. Shutterfly is also super easy to use. I ordered a photo book for Ben for Father’s Day last year. It was fabulous. I picked the pictures that I wanted to include, and Shutterfly did all of the layout for me! Yay!
So, if you’ve never checked them out, go do it. Oh, and don’t worry, I haven’t spilled the beans on which design we’ve chosen for our card this year. Now, to get them in the mail! Merry Christmas!!!

Duh, da da, duh! My first Wedding Cake!

My cousin asked me to make the cake for her wedding this past May. I was VERY nervous about the whole thing. Fortunately, my mom was in town for the wedding so she helped me out. She kept me calm and focused and organized and kept my dishes clean. Thanks mom!!

Stacking the cake verrrry carefully. And trying to not get my belly in the buttercream!

I think it turned out well and tasted yummy! The cake was triple chocolate with 2 tiers with dark chocolate buttercream and one with mocha buttercream.

Easter Cake

My mom and I decided to make a cake for Easter, (Yes, I realize that it's December. I've been busy. Work with me here!) Afterall, what could be better after hunting Easter Eggs and all of that candy than a cake! Especially when it is chocolate, with chocolate filling, covered in chocolate ganache, with chocolate panels on the side, buttercream frosting grass and malt ball eggs!!

Happy Easter... in December!

Green Eggs and Ham

I made this cake for my niece, Claria's, Green Eggs and Ham themed second birthday. It was special to be able to make a cake for such a sweetheart!

My favorite things about this cake are the "pencil marks" and that the inside was green velvet.

Word of warning. If you make a funny shaped cake, you will be required to cut the cake. Even if you have a big fat preggo belly!


P.S. No, I'm not pregnant again, this cake was done in April. I told you, I've got a lot of catching up to do!

Lots of Catching Up to Do!

So, I really have made some cakes since last post. No, really! I have. And I really intend to put them on here. Afterall, I did promise Ellen that I would. :) And because I wrote this post, I really have to get the others up. See how that works? If I tell you about it, I have to do it! Right? In the mean time, how about a picture or two of my cutie pies?

Tyler's 19th Birthday Cake

This is a cake my aunt asked me to make for my cousin. I only had like 2 days to plan and I didn't feel very good while I was making it, but he still enjoyed it a felt special. I obviously need to work on my piping. :) But hey, my handwriting stinks so why should my icing writing be any better?

Cake Lollipops

All I can say is leftover cake & icing + melted chocolate = yumminess!

Are You Ready For Some Football???

Ben and I had some friends over to grill out and watch the first NFL game of the season. What better reason to make a cake? I decided to try my hand at carving a 3D cake.



Aside from the fact that it looks slightly pregnant.. I'm pretty proud of it!



Since there was good bit of cake cut away to make the shape, I am in the middle of making cake lollipops! Waste not, want not! I'll post pics next time! :)

Fondant on Cupcakes

I've seen a million super cute cupcake pictures lately so I decided to see what I could do. Yes, these are made with the same pink, yellow and white fondant. Yay! It's finally gone!




They turned out ok I guess. Learned a lot. One of those things being don't ask your husband take the picture... it won't turn out very good. That's what practice is for right! But they tasted yummy!

Necessity .... The Mother of Invention...

So I got in the baking mood. I decided to make a chocolate cake with mocha buttercream icing. I also wanted to use up the rest of my leftover fondant. As it turns out, I didn't really have enough of any color to cover the cake , so I rolled the pink a bit on the thin side. Fondant nearing the end of it's usefulness + rolling too thin + trying to decorate in less than an hour = by far the worst job covering a cake I have ever done. Sooo... what can I do to cover it up?? Large yellow ribbon and bow and strategically placed white dots. :) I think it still turned out pretty cute.

And the mocha buttercream was yummy!

My cute little helper!

When the Hubby is Away...

I will practice making things out of fondant.

This is my first atempt at making a person. Now I realize that she is albino, has no face and is slightly out of proportion... but I was pretty happy with it.

This is my first fondant rose. Not too shabby.


























This is a mini slice of cake. I saw this on http://www.thefrostedcakencookie.blogspot.com/ It is supposed to be a cupcake topper. I didn't bother separating the fondant back out after this one... I just ate it. :)







Thanks for looking!