Garden Cake

DH's grandpa turned 80 last week. Grandma asked me and my sister-in-law to make a garden cake that had chickens and rabbits. This is what we came up with: All the decorations are handmade from fondant. This really was a fun cake to do. But I'm done doing cakes for a while.

Seth's Birthday Cake

My cousin called me last week and asked me to make a cake for her son's first birthday.
We decided on a dump truck. It was a little hard for me to switch to "baby boy" mode because I'm so used to all things "baby girl."
With DH's creative help, I was able to get the entire thing done in about 6 hours.
We decided to make it a whimsical since it is for a baby.
It still needs some finishing touches. I have to transport it 30 miles and I'm really nervous. I'll wait and add the last minute details when I get the cake safely my cousins house.

Wedding Cake

My sister-in-law and I love to make cakes. After months of watching shows like Ace of Cakes and Food Network Challenge, we decided that we wanted to give it a try.

After a couple months of making cakes and having quite a few successes, we were asked to make a wedding cake for our Aunt's wedding. It was a "country picnic" themed wedding that took place at the Botanical Gardens. The lunch was all dutch oven so we wanted to included that element in our cakes. So we served them in dutch ovens and even had the foil hanging out like you would have with any dutch oven dish.


I loved making this cake because we came up with so many elements during the process. We had originally planned to pipe little dots but we had the idea of using tiny sugar balls or dragées. Then we thought it would be cute to randomly place tiny flowers under some of the dragées. It brought the cake up to a whole new level and we were really pleased with the outcome, as were the bride and groom and we really can't ask for anything better than that.