Leanna's Sweet Sixteen

Soccer friends asked if I would do a cake for their older daughter's Sweet Sixteen party. She picked a very sophisticated cake - this wedding cake (the middle one) she saw on the TLC show Cake Boss.

I am not much of a piper, but I think it turned out good and I really like the large flowers. Thank goodness for YouTube instructional videos that showed how to make them. The bottom layer is chocolate with chocolate buttercream filling and the top layer is the family's red velvet cake recipe.

King of the Jungle Baby Shower Cake

A client was throwing a baby shower and asked me to make a marble cake that would match the King of the Jungle decorations she had gotten on partypail.com. This is what I came up with.

I was working on my son's Diego cake and was able to make similar decorations all at the same time. It worked out great.

Go, Diego. Go! Cake

My son, Seth, had a Diego Birthday Party. I made him this cake. It is a lemon cake with buttercream frosting and marshmallow fondant decorations. The Diego figure is a candle I bought at Michael's. He loved the cake and had a fun party.

Stork Baby Shower Cake

I made this cake for a baby shower I was co-hosting this last weekend. My friend, April, is having her first girl after having 2 boys. I love the stork idea - when my kids were born I wrapped them up, put them in a basket, and took pictures of them on my doorstep. The cake is lemon with buttercream frosting and decorated with marshmallow fondant.

Curious George Cake

I made this cake for a 1 year old's birthday. I was worried about getting the George just right, but he turned out pretty good. Some kids were over playing the day I was working on this and when they left I noticed the tiny candle off George's cake was missing. Apparently, one of the kids had to have a taste - at least it was something I could remake in about 30 seconds! The cake was marble, frosted in buttercream, and decorated with marshmallow fondant.

BYU Cake / U of U Cake

Our Bishop's birthday was last week and I thought he deserved a cake, so I asked his kids what he was into. Pretty much BYU football was all they came up with. So I planned out a cake, then my husband said I should make it a U of U cake instead (BYU & U of U are apparently rivals). We compromised and I made one side of the cake U of U - which was to be shown first, then when the cake was turned around the Bishop would see the BYU side. His son later told me that the U of U logo was destroyed by stabbing it with a fork. I'm sure it still tasted good!

Lego Cake

This cake was made for a "Build It" themed party. The kids built their own pizzas, marshmallow shooters, and things like that. The birthday boy is also getting a trip to LegoLand, so this cake was perfect. I had some trouble making the divots - I tried to make them out of cake, but they kept falling apart. I finally gave up and matched fondant to the icing and made the divots from fondant. The colors were so bright, which was perfect. I dropped the cake off and headed out to my car. The mom came running out - the birthday boy's little sister had stuck her fingers in the cake. I ran back in to do some emergency surgery.