A Little Break

You may have noticed I haven't done many cakes lately. That's because a miracle happened in our lives! We adopted a beautiful baby boy at the end of November, and I am just enjoying my time with him right now. I appreciate the phone calls and interest I've had lately. I'm so sorry I have had to turn you away for now. Check back in a month or two, but for now, I am not taking cake orders. Thank you!

10th Anniversary Cake

My husband and I celebrated our 10th anniversary last week!

I wanted to bake him his favorite raspberry flavored cake. It needed to look romantic and simple, and anniversary-ish. :) I was happy with how it turned out, and the raspberry cake with raspberry buttercream is really soooo delicious.

Wouldn't this be such a pretty Valentine's Day gift?

Mom's 50th Birthday

My mom had a big birthday recently! She loves german chocolate cake, and so we decided to do a top layer of german chocolate cake and decorate a bottom layer with fondant to represent different parts of her personality. This may be one of my very favorite cakes I've done before, and it was so fun to do it for someone I love so much!

Some of the details up close:

My mom is amazing with plants and loves to garden,

She loves her family. And she loves to shop!

She is a woman of faith.She is an amazing librarian and an excellent teacher. I used the books to list all of her personal "titles."She loves hiking and completed a huge backpacking trip this past summer!

She is gorgeous, and is always put together.

Happy Birthday, Mom. You are so amazing!! I love you!

Piano Wedding Cake

The couple that ordered this wedding cake had the cutest story ever! The bride is a piano teacher, and the two met when the groom signed up to take piano lessons - now they are married! What a sweet story. They wanted a wedding cake to represent their history together, and so we decided on a piano keyboard for the bottom layer. They requested that the middle layer have the music to Theme From Love Story - wasn't that a romantic idea? The top layer we experimented with, but in the end, I think the piano keyboard repeated tied the cake together best. This bride and groom have excellent taste, as they chose my very favorite cake flavors - pumpkin cake with cinnamon cream cheese frosting and raspberry cake with raspberry buttercream frosting. The whole cake was also covered and decorated with marshmallow fondant. I cut and served the cake at the reception, and it was fun to hear all the comments about how delicious the cake tasted, and see many people come back for seconds. Not a piece was left at the end of the night! Catherine and Aaron - I wish you the very best of luck. Congrats on a beautiful wedding!

Monogrammed Sugar Cookies

I was asked to make these sugar cookies for a wedding reception. The mother-of-the-groom ordered them. Her idea was to individually wrap them and hang them in a tree for guests to take as they left - how cute is that idea??
I'm disappointed in how my camera failed to capture the colors of these cookies. They were the cutest summery orange and pink, to match the reception colors.

I sampled one of the extra cookies, and was reminded again why I love this recipe. It is such a yummy, soft, buttery cookie - absolutely delicious!

I hope the wedding reception was wonderful and that the guests loved their monogrammed sugar cookies!

Winnie the Pooh Cake

A sweet little boy was celebrating his first birthday, and his mom wanted a Winnie the Pooh cake for the special occasion! She chose a square cake on the bottom with an adorable color and pattern combination, topped with a round cake. I made the round cake into Winnie the Pooh's honeypot, and added a number 1 and flowers on the top.

Winnie the Pooh sat on top for the birthday baby.

The whole finished product.

The cake was a yellow cake, with raspberry jam filling between layers, and buttercream frosting. Marshmallow fondant covered the cake. I hope that the party was a huge hit!

Rainbows & Butterflies Baptism Cake

This cake was made for a beautiful little girl on her baptism day. I felt so lucky to be a small part of her special day!

I'm disappointed with the poor lighting/shadows in my photos. Just know the cake turned out even cuter and brighter than the pictures give credit for. :)

The top layer was milk chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream filling and raspberry buttercream frosting, covered in marshmallow fondant.

The bottom layer was a triple berry cake with buttercream raspberry filling and frosting, covered in marshmallow fondant.

Pirate Cake

This may be one of my very favorite cakes I've done in a long time! I just love this pirate theme! One sweet mom ordered this cake for the three boys in her life:

Buccaneer Russell...

Pirate Andrew...

and Captain Taylor!

So fun!

The cake was chocolate fudge with raspberry buttercream frosting, covered with marshmallow fondant.

Arrrrrr, mateys! Hope thar be lots o' fun and loot at your birthday celebration!

Drama Cake

I was asked to make this cake for a Drama Club Award Ceremony. I was given the logo from a T-shirt to mimic, which included the PHS and rabbit picture. (Apparently Harvey is a rabbit from a play, and the awards are called the Harvey Awards!)

My favorite part? These fondant drama masks that my talented husband sculpted for me. :) We placed them on very front of the cake.

The cake was a butter pecan flavor with a almond buttercream frosting. I hope the students loved it!

Triple Berry Cupcakes

I've added a new flavor recently to my repertoire - triple berry!

I know I always say this, but this may truly be my favorite flavor. ;) I use real fruit in the batter and it bakes into this gorgeous purply color. My camera doesn't do the color justice.

I made a batch of triple berry cupcakes for a church event last night. I frosted them with a raspberry buttercream icing and added a fresh berry on top. I got TONS of compliments, including one woman who repeatedly told me they were, "The best cupcakes I've ever eaten in my LIFE!" It made my night! ;) Thank you!

I think this flavor is great anytime, but especially yummy for those summertime events coming up!

Pink Swag Cake

This cake was ordered for a Young Women activity for my church. They wanted something that resembled a 'mini' wedding cake. I decided to experiment with the fondant swag, and really like how it turned out.

The top layer was lemon with buttercream frosting. The bottom layer was a chocolate fudge cake with buttercream frosting.

Hope you had a great night, girls!

Spring Cupcake Collage

I made this cupcake collage for my spring piano recital. It was a huge hit! There were five different flavors: golden orange, raspberry, chocolate, lemon, and cherry chip. I used a buttercream frosting for all of them. Everyone LOVED them!

Easter Egg Cookies

I really love making sugar cookies. So I'm always excited to get a cookie order! This past week got an order to make some Easter egg sugar cookies. I had a lot of fun making the colorful patterns on each cookie.

Didn't they turn out pretty?

And, seriously, I love this recipe. These cookies are really, really yummy.

Sugar cookies are $12/dozen. Order some for your special occasion! They can even be personalized with names or messages.

Adoption Cake

Our family is very passionate about adoption. In fact, we are working on adopting a baby ourselves! (Take a minute to click on our adoption button on the right!!)

So, when I was asked to make a cake for the FSA (Families Supporting Adoption) Area Conference, I was really excited to do it. The theme for the conference was Hearts Knit Together. I used the theme and this flier to design the cake:

Pictures of the cake:

An up-close pic of the 'knitted' details.

The top layer of this cake was raspberry flavored, with a raspberry buttercream filling and icing. The middle layer was a white cake filled with the raspberry buttercream and frosted with a vanilla buttercream. The bottom layer was a chocolate fudge cake with a chocolate ganuache filling and a vanilla buttercream icing. All the levels were covered with my homemade marshmallow fondant, and all the decorations were also made from fondant.

Girly Girl Cupcakes

A sweet aunt ordered a dozen cupcakes for her young niece - just because. :)

The niece loves chocolate and pink and purple.

These are chocolate fudge cupcakes with a chocolate ganuache filling. The pink frosting is a strawberry buttercream. The purple frosting is a vanilla butter frosting.

I decided to put bows, flowers, and hearts on the cupcakes to make them extra cute. These decorations are made from marshmallow fondant. The little pearls are also edible.

Hope you LOVE the cupcakes, Alyssa!

Owl Birthday Cake

I had a friend who asked me to make a last-minute chocolate Texas sheet cake for her mother's 85th birthday. She wanted something simple that included owls. This is what I came up with:

I like the little owls, and the 85 on the tree. :)

I hope she had a fantastic birthday!