M-I-N-N-I-E MOUSE...MINNIE MOUSE...

Oh Minnie...you're so sweet and pretty and fun to decorate!  You can't really see it in the photos but I "bedazzled" the ears and bows with glitter glitter glitter.  I mean, what's a girly cupcake without a little bling?  Loved making Minnie...wish I had had more time to make more.  Anyways...simple and sweet!

Circus Circus!!

So I was hired to do a three tier cake for a little girls 7th birthday party.  There was going to be about 80 people at the event so needless to say the pressure was on to create something beautiful.  So the client and I settled on a design that was really great and I set about trying to figure out how to do a topsy turvy cake.  I did my research, I carefully planned everything through and I thought that I had it in the bag!  I made the topsy turvy cake and thought that everything was fine.  As I was putting on the final touches the night before it was due I noticed the top tier pulling away from the middle tier.  And as I watched - to my horror - the cake slowly slid more and more until the middle cake gave out.  At this point I was completely devastated.  I had had little things go wrong with cakes before that took and hour or two to fix but this was something else completely.  It was 11pm at night and I was out of alot of my basic ingredients to rebake this cake.  My husband being the amazing man he is went out and found an open store and got me a few of the items that I needed.  Amidst plenty of tears I set out to start over again.  But the cake was due in 9 hours.  I was able to salvage the bottom tier of the cake as well as my popcorn and animals.  I felt absolutely horrible as now I had to inform the client that there may be a  problem with her daughters cake.  I had serious doubts about what I could accomplish given the time restraint.  But...I still managed to pull it off.  And I actually like it better the second time around.  It's not as topsy turvy but it's still the vision that the client and I had for the cake.  9 hours of working later and really down to the minute I finished cake #2.  And here it is...

 

Mmmm...Popcorn!

The customer wanted 7 cupcakes to round the cake for candles

 

So this simple and pretty cake is for my Mother-in-law's Birthday dinner tonight.  I saw this design online and loved the simplicity and delicacy of it.  I'll have to do it a few more times to get better but still liked how it turned out.  It's a lemon cake with a lemon/lemoncello simple syrup and a lemon/lemomcello buttercream.  Yumm!

XBOX Cake!!

So I got to do an XBOX cake for a client the other day.  This cake was actually a ton of fun to make.  I had never even seen an xbox so I relied alot on pictures from the xbox website.  It was a dark chocolate cake with a fudge filling and chocolate buttercream frosting.  Oh - and the shine would have gone down after the pictures were taken.  I had just done it and was zipping it off to the clients but I normally leave the cake for a few hours before photographing it if I'm adding shine.

Brand New Baby Boy

A dear old family friend called me up to ask for a cake for a wonderful neighbor of theirs that had recently had a baby boy.  This was a family of girls (3 big sisters!) and so I was asked to make this cake something that they would love just as much as it would celebrate a little brother.  I was given complete creative freedom on this one as well - which I love!  But it can also been a bit intimidating if your plan isn't quite what they had had in mind.  I did get this idea from another cake blogger and changed it enough to reflect my vision of the cake.  The nest was fun to make - it was made out of fondant and filled with toasted coconut.  The cake was a dark chocolate cake with a (REALLY YUMMY) raspberry filling and Chocolate Buttercream Frosting.

St. Patrick's Day Fun

I was hired to make 175 mini cupcakes for my sisters company, Critical Mass, for their St. Patrick's Day celebration.  I was given pretty much free reign on what I wanted to do for flavors and decorations.  Following the St. Patty's day tradition of lots and lots of drinking I started with Irish Car Bomb Cupcakes.  There were a Guiness infused dark chocolate cake with an Irish Whiskey Genache Filling and a Baileys Buttercream frosting.  CAN YOU SAY MMMMMM???  I got the recipe here if anyone wants to re-create them!  Sooo good!  The second cupcake that I made was a Grand Marnier infused Vanilla Bean Cupcake with a Grand Marnier Vanilla Simple Syrup and a Grand Marnier Vanilla Bean Buttercream.  These were so light and fresh tasting...mmmm again!

Another Cars Party!!

I made these cupcakes for a little mans birthday party.  I have got to say, I can't believe I get paid to have so much fun!

Double Party!

So this cake was for a great friend whose husband was turning 38 the same time that they were welcoming a beautiful little girl into their family.  It was a quick HEY WE NEED A CAKE, Cake!  Lol...how fun to combine motorcycles and 8 year old artsy fartsiness!  (Ya, it's a word, check the Hayley dictionary!)