Police Man Cake

This cake I made for two adorable little brothers, Blake & Luke, who have birthdays that are very close together. Their mama Lindsey did an amazing job with all of the decor, including a cardboard box jail, and a donut and coffee (chocolate milk) station. Too cute!

The cake is covered with fondant and all accents were made out of fondant.

Braysen's Pirate Party

Because I have SO MANY pictures from Braysen's 1st birthday party, I decided to put the goodies on my cake blog. More pictures from the party can be found here, and there are many more on facebook.

A ton of stuff, right? I know! I have a serious problem when it comes to ideas for goodies. I get so many ideas and want to all of them. I really have a hard time eliminating things, so I just went with it!

All of the decorations on these cupcakes were edible. I used raw sugar for the "sand" on the cupcakes.

The treasure chests were made out of fondant. The treasure is sprinkles and hand-made coins.

Fondant X-marks the spot

The coins I used fondant to create. I punched them out with a circle cutter and searched everywhere around my house for something that I could stamp with in order to make them look like coins. I ended up using the top of a tequila bottle. :) I then brushed the coins with gold and silver lusterdust.

Fondant sword, also brushed with silver lusterdust.

 Braysen's smash cake. This cake was the first time I used what is called a buttercream transfer. I'm not completely happy with how some of the edges turned out. I don't think I piped the icing thick enough. I'll know better for next time!

Marshmallow pops.
In many of these pictures you will see these little tags that were originally supposed to be cupcake toppers. They were designed by Rhiannon at Doodlebug & Dimples. I used them on some of the sticks for the goodies, on table centerpieces, and sprinkled on the tables.

Cannonballs (red velvet cake balls)

In the background ar more marshmallow pops and skull-shaped vanilla cake pops.

One thing I don't have a closeup of the chocolate pretzel rods, but you can kind of see them in the bottom of this picture.

 I called these cupcake sandwiches simply because I couldn't think of a clever way to word whoopie pies, but they are really just whoopie pies!



Hugs and Kisses Twin Birthday

Zoe & Mia's first birthday was a Hugs & Kisses theme.

Red Velvet topsy turvey with buttercream icing.

Sugar-free & egg-free smash cake with buttercream icing.

Heather's Birthday Cake

Zebra Present Cake

White cake with buttercream filling. Iced with homemade rolled fondant.

MORE Woodland Fairy & Friends

More pictures from Sawyer's First Birthday Party. These were taken by Nicole from Touch the Heart Photography.

Woodland Fairy & Friends (Sawyer's 1st Birthday)

Sawyer's 1st birthday was a Woodland Fairy & Friends themed party. I set the cupcakes up like this just to get a shot before I packed them up for the party. They way Valerie had everything displayed at the party was much cuter, but I'm lame and forgot to get a picture. I also forgot to get a picture of the chocolated pretzels. Maybe when she posts her pictures I will be able to steal a few. :)

 Sawyer's smash cake was a sugar-free & egg-free apple spice cake with sugar-free cream cheese icing. I will be completely honest with you, this icing was very difficult to work with. Because it doesn't contain any sugar at all, it basically defies all cake decorating rules. :) Knowing how difficult it would be to work with, I'm pretty pleased with the outcome, because I didn't think I would be able to get it even remotely smooth or get it to pipe to create any decorations at all.

Red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese icing and mushroom mini cake pops.

Red velvet mini cupcakes with cream cheese icing. These were mushroom and moss cupcakes. I had quite a few questions about what the "moss" was made out of. :) Don't worry...it is completely edible.

Pink Cake Pops

Strawberry Cake Pops

Pull Apart Cake

This "cake" is made up of a dozen Snickerdoodle cupcakes with homemade buttercream icing.

Bow Cupcakes

Red velvet cupcakes. Iced with rolled homemade fondant and homemade fondant bow.

When I posted about Tony's birthday party, I talked about how I would never send out a cake that I wasn't proud of and how I would do whatever it took to make it right. These cupcakes are a perfect example of that. I finished all the original bows for these cupcakes at about 10 on Friday night. From then on, it would be cake, because the bows were the hardest part. After I started thinking about it, I thought the bows would look a lot cuter with big polka dots (the first ones I did were smaller). I made another bow and tested out my big polka dot theory. I was right. They looked so much better with the big ones. So I stayed up until 3:30 and remade all the bows. I was really tired the next day, but so much happier with how they turned out!

Flowers and Butterfly Cake

Lightly Lemon cake with homemade buttercream filling. Cake is iced with marbled rolled homemade fondant and decorated with homemade fondant.

Purple and Green Birthday

Yellow cake filled with raspberry. Iced and decorated with homemade fondant.

Zebra Cake

Mocha cake with homemade buttercream filling. Cake is covered and decorated with coconut-flavored fondant.

Skateboard Cake

Brady's 10th birthday cake was designed to match his birthday invitations and party decorations.

The cake is a chocolate cake, filled and iced with homemade buttercream. The decorations on this cake are made of homemade buttercream and homemade fondant.

Tony's 30th Birthday Cupcakes

For Tony's birthday I did cupcakes instead of a cake. For a full (and lengthy) explanation of why this happened, you can click here to see it on my other blog. Tony's loooves snickerdoodles, so I made...

Snickerdoodle cupcakes with homemade cinnamon buttercream icing.

Decorations made out of tinted white chocolate

Smooth-iced. Some with and without sprinkles.

Swirl-iced. Some with and without sprinkles.