Ombre Petal Cake

This ombre cake was make for a very special birthday cake, using her favorite color.  I love how it turned out!  A white cake, colored for the ombre affect, with vanilla butter cream frosting.

Peanut Butter Cake

In all seriousness, this peanut butter cake with peanut butter frosting may be the most delicious cake I have ever made!  If you have a peanut butter fan in your home, this cake for their next special occasion will make them eternally grateful.

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!

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!

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.

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!

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!

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.

Little Heart Valentine's Cupcakes

Aren't these little heart cupcakes adorable?

I made these for Valentine's Day gifts. The cupcakes are strawberry flavored, with buttercream frosting. The little hearts are made from marshmallow fondant.

Architecture Student Cake

This cake was made for my husband, who is a grad student studying architecture. This was for a review presentation he had where he needed to provide some food. For the books, I imitated real books he was using this semester.

This was a really fun cake to make! The bottom cake was a yellow butter cake covered in vanilla buttercream frosting. The top cake was a chocolate cake covered in creamy chocolate frosting. Everything was covered with marshmallow fondant and the details were made out of fondant. Everything on this cake is 100% edible.

Tyler & Taylor's Wedding Cake

Tyler and Taylor chose a very elegant design for their wedding cake. It was perfect to match their gorgeous and elegant outdoor reception!

The top three layers of this cake were chocolate fudge, with a creamy chocolate filling. It was covered in an orange-flavored buttercream frosting and marshmallow fondant. The black swirls are completely edible and hand-painted on the fondant. We saved the top layer for the bride and groom and served the other two chocolate layers at the wedding. The bottom layer is actually styrofoam, to make the cake look larger while saving money and not having excess cake. :)

Thanks for letting me be part of your special day, Tyler & Taylor!

Wedding Reception Cupcakes

I didn't get a great picture of these, but Tyler and Taylor (see wedding cake above) served 300 cupcakes at their wedding reception. There were three flavors: vanilla cupcakes with a cherry baked into the middle, frosted with almond buttercream frosting / chocolate fudge cupcakes with a creamy chocolate filling and frosted with creamy chocolate frosting / spice cupcakes with an orange buttercream filling and a frosted with orange buttercream. Each cupcake was frosted with a rosette on top:

The pretty display at the wedding reception:

Yummy!

Star Cake!

This sweet wife ordered a small fondant-covered cake for her husband who just got a promotion at work. She wanted a random smattering of baby blue stars spread across the cake. The cake was a yellow butter cake covered in buttercream frosting and marshmallow fondant.