Pink Ladybug Cake

The first birthday - what a mega milestone!  It's always a very important and special birthday.  It marks that first year and many moms think with love, wow, I made it...  Then you think, this is great!  I was honored to make this birthday cake for a sweet little lovebug girl.  I handmade the ladybug to match the theme (seen below).

Can I just say that kid's birthday cakes are still my absolute favorite thing to make!  I don't see that ever changing!  :-)  Happy birthday little lovebug!

Theme for birthday.

Final cake - LOVE!

Flower garden baby shower cake.

This latest design was inspired by a web picture sent to me by the client.  It was a bit challenging to get the design from a fondant cake on a buttercream cake but it came out great!  I love the flowers!

The downside was that I was left with leftover buttercream, dulce de leche and ganache, OH MY!!!
Of course, I had started a diet last week...  In case you're wondering, no, my willpower was not strong enough and I had a good helping of ganache for breakfast this morning!  SO YUMMY!!  Don't judge!  :-)

Final cake.

(This is the topper for the cake to be placed on top at the delivery address.)

Winnie the Pooh Cake - Reveal the Gender Cake!

I was contacted by an incredibly sweet mom to be for a Winnie the Pooh cake for her upcoming baby shower. She wanted the frosting to taste like honey. I got to work and developed a new buttercream recipe with honey just for her. It is delicious! I'll be using it again.

She didn't know what the baby was and wanted neutral colors. No problem. A few days later, I got a call back from her and she now knew the gender but wanted to reveal it at the party because none of their friends or family knew. The catch was that she did not want blue or pink cake which is the most common way of revealing the gender of the baby through cake. I started thinking of different ways to do this revealing in a new and exciting way without having to make the cake blue or pink. It came to me one night while I was sitting there thinking - I could make a kite that Winnie was flying and hide blue ribbon inside the kite that she could pull out with another string. I immediately took out fondant and my tools and started to make several test kites that I would try out the next day. I got my beautiful helper (daughter) to test out the kites the next night. IT WORKED! I called the mom to be with the idea and she loved it. I hope she sends me pictures of the moment she pulled the string so I can see the excitement. Until then, here is my sweet girl doing the honors.

This is my daughter holding one of my model kites.  

The nervous giggling starts when I tell her to start pulling the string out.

Keep going.

Here is a tiny glimpse of the gender ribbon peeking through.

A little more.

TADAAAAAAAAA!  It's a boy!

Here's the final version of the cake and kite. The kite was placed inside the cake

once the cake was at the baby shower location. Congrats to the sweet mom and

dad (and big sis) awaiting their new baby boy arrival and thank you from the bottom

of my baking heart for letting me make this reveal cake for your family.  

80 Birthday Cake

I was contacted to do a number birthday cake.  It would be my first so I was super excited and even happier when I found out it was for someone's mom who was turning 80!  WOW!  That is one happy milestone!  Off I went to create a birthday cake that would match her theme (pictured below).

I love the final look and how happy and colorful it is.  Very fitting for an 80th birthday bash.  Happy birthday to her!  :-)

(Napkin showing the theme for the birthday.)

Final cake - LOVE!