Cakes, Cakes, Cakes!

The beginning of last summer (2007), my MIL Gayle (the best MIL ever!) and I took a series of cake decorating classes. It was a whole bunch of fun. By the end of the summer we were pretty tired of cake and frosting :). Yes it's true. Me the frosting addict was sick of it! It didn't last long...


Here are most of the cakes we made for class... (I forgot to take pictures of a couple of the very first cakes! No big loss trust me ;).






First layer cake made. The Jesse is on there
as a joke. Jesse HATES clowns! Writing was
harder than it looked.









Course one final cake.






Course 2 final cake.








Lloyd's Grandma Shorty had a
a birthday a couple days after
the end of course two. So we
used a mixture of both Gayle and
my royal icing flowers to make her
cake. She loved to garden and her
flowers at one time.










In course 3 we worked with fondant.

Course 3 final cake. Had to

be a tiered cake. This was the

last class we have taken so far.

There is one more in the Wilton

series. Gum Paste and Fondant.

Maybe eventually, but I still use

it and play with it ;) Even found

some fondant that taste half way

decent. Easier to work with too.

My FAVORITE Nephew (JK, JK, sorry-

family joke) Dillon had his 16th birthday

the month we finished classes. This was

my first official none class cake. It

turned out really cute. Dill wants to be

a farmer and live off the land. The cake

was a blackberry cake with blackberry

frosting. YUM YUM! Dill loved it and

he doesn't really like cake.

Time flew by, and I'd make a cake now and

then. I forget to take pictures frequently. Ugh...

This last year I have found a couple awesome web

sites that have really given me ideas and instruction

of do's and don'ts etc. You can find them on

my links list. Cake Wrecks is hilarious! Sometimes

disturbing, but always makes me smile. Cake Central

is just awesome. It feeds my cake and candy making

addictions. ;) When Britni moved in and we started

doing a lot of wedding stuff, I really started doing a lot

of things in the kitchen again. It has become my latest

thing...again :).

I decided in the beginning that I wanted to make different

flavor cakes and frosting's. So, they are all homemade or

semi starting with a regular cake mix. Some have been hits...

some not so :)...

Here is a few other cakes I've made this year.

Ashley turned 16 this year. I made this

cake for her SURPRISE birthday party.

It was strawberry with strawberry frosting.

This was her sweet sixteen cake for

our family round-up weekend that

fell on her birthday this year. The

Sponge Bob cake was an inside joke

between Ash and I. She would make

jokes about wanting a Sponge Bob cake

for her 16th B-day. This one was also

strawberry.

Tiggy turned two. She is totally into horses and My Little

Ponies! They have to go everywhere with her. This is

the cake I made for her.

My very cute niece (they are all gorgeous!) turned 18 and

graduated the same week. She was having a "Hippie Party"

and wanted me to make a cake with that theme in mind.

She also wanted an unusual flavor to go along with it. The

first cake was a trial cake. It was grape flavor. Britni loved

it. Everyone else, not so much... The second cake is the cake

that went to the party. It was a watermelon cake with straw-

berry/watermelon icing. She absolutely loved it.

This is the cake I made for Britni's

bridal shower. The flowers were fun.

The bride/doll cake was doing great,

until I tried to put polka-a-dots on the

skirt like her real dress. The top layer

and doll were watermelon flavor, the

bottom layer was banana pound cake.

Watermelon has turned into most of

the kids favorite flavor.

The same day I had Britni's shower, I also

had told my neighbor I'd make a princess

theme cake for her great-granddaughters

first b-day. This is what I ended up doing

after the shower on Saturday for Amaya's

party on Sunday. It was strawberry/banana

flavor.

In an earlier post I showed this one. It was for

my dad's 73rd birthday. It was a lot of fun. It

was a dark chocolate fudge cake with a Boston

Cream filling. The frosting is vanilla flavored.

It was a your life theme cake. Totally FUN to do!

The front desk girl where Lloyd works (Heidi) is pregnant.

I had been wanting to do something for her. She has been

looking forward to starting their family. It was kind of funny,

cause I did the think pink theme as a joke. The day Lloyd

took it to work she had her first ultra-sound. It's looking

like the think pink mantra is working! It was Chocolate

fudge cake with Boston Creme filling also.

Anyway, so far these are the cakes I or Lloyd,remembered

to take pics of. I totally enjoy doing them. If you need a cake,

I need practice! Let me know. I'll do them for free, you pay

for speciality materials (like things for the top, or special fillings

or ingredients).