The Cake Lady

Tyler's Dragon Cake

2010-09-06T08:41:00.000-07:00

Head and tail are made from Rice Krispy Treats, the balance is all cake and is covered in fondant.

Skateboard Cake

2010-09-06T08:39:00.000-07:00

This cake was designed to look just like the birthday boys skateboard he was getting!

Birthday Cake for Cancer Survivors

2010-08-15T18:18:00.002-07:00

This is a very special cake because it was made to honor those who have survived cancer! It was served at a Fashion Show held in Tulare, CA to raise money for the American Cancer Society!

Mickey Mouse

2010-08-15T18:18:00.001-07:00

Ballet Shoes

2010-08-15T18:17:00.000-07:00

Ballet Shoes on a Pillow fit for a Princess named Ashlie :)

Ice Cream Cupcakes

2010-08-15T18:15:00.000-07:00

Plain ole Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough/Chocolate Ice Cream Cupcakes with Buttercream frosting that tasted HeAvEnLy!!!

Bowling Cupcakes

2010-08-15T18:13:00.000-07:00

Cupcakes for a bowling party!

New Treats

2010-07-09T15:06:00.000-07:00

These are pictures of some new items available from The Cake Lady.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Pops, Sugar Cookie Dough Pops, and Cake Pops

Happy Birthday Katy!

2010-07-09T15:05:00.000-07:00

Happy Birthday Melissa G.

2010-07-09T15:04:00.000-07:00

A purse cake for a birthday :)

Thank You Bouquet

2010-07-09T15:02:00.000-07:00

A treat for a being kind! I bet the recipient was happy :)

Graduation Bouquet

2010-07-09T15:01:00.000-07:00

Stunt Bike Cake

2010-07-09T14:57:00.000-07:00

This cake was done for a boy who loves to do stunts on his bike -
and the more blood the better :)

Poker Birthday Party

2010-07-09T14:55:00.000-07:00

Going Away To BYU Party

2010-07-09T14:51:00.000-07:00

All BYU themed treats for a young man headed off to college!!!

Sugar cookies with royal icing and fondant.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Pops

Mini Cupcakes with Fondant Footballs on top

Farmersville Farmers Market

2010-06-15T18:46:00.000-07:00

As you can tell from all of the posts I just made that my lack of posting isn't from lack of baking!!! I've been running my tail end off and having a blast doing it! My daughter has become my best helper and we have soooo much fun working together! We have both learned a lot from each other!

I have been able to secure a booth at a local Farmer's Market every Friday evening! So if you are in the area I'd love to have you stop by my booth!

Farmersville Farmers Market
Every Friday Evening
5-8pm
Through October
Corner of Pepper St. and Farmersville Blvd

Send me a message if you have any questions or need directions!

I usually have specials going so make sure and check my facebook page to see what they are each week! If you aren't on Facebook you can send me a message here!

Brown and Blue Cookies

2010-06-15T18:44:00.000-07:00

These yummy cookies were made for a funeral :(

Brent Graduates!!!

2010-06-15T18:43:00.000-07:00

I made this cake for a wonderful person graduating from high school! He plans on being a music teacher!

Happy Birthday Zina!

2010-06-15T18:42:00.000-07:00

This was a fun cake to do for a Luau themed birthday party!

LadyBug Cupcakes

2010-06-15T18:41:00.001-07:00

These sweet little things were for a baby shower! I took them to one of my events for the pick up arrangements and everyone wanted to buy one! I guess I should have made extras :)

iPhone Cake

2010-06-15T18:39:00.000-07:00

I made this cake for my husbands birthday this year! It was tons of fun but a little hard to keep myself in control! I could have made hundreds of apps it was so stinkin fun! But I tried to keep it to just the basics! He loved it!

Gran Gran Turns 80

2010-06-15T18:37:00.000-07:00

I made this cake for my Great Grandpa (Gran Gran) who turned 80! It just so happened that it fell the same weekend as the previous 8 year olds western themed cake so the two cakes used the same ideas!

Janelle Graduates

2010-06-15T18:35:00.000-07:00

This cake was kept very simple on the decorations because the flavor is what we were really working towards! It is a vanilla cake with raspberry filling and yummy cream cheese frosting! What a wonderful combination!

Happy Birthday Partner!

2010-06-15T18:33:00.000-07:00

This cake was done for a sweet little boy turning 8! My favorite part of this cake
was the rope on the top!

Graduation Time

2010-06-15T18:31:00.000-07:00

This is an order of cupcakes and a cake that I did for two high school graduates that had their party together! Tons of fun creating special occasion cakes - I almost feel like I get to be apart of their celebration!

Cupcakes for my Doctor

2010-06-15T18:28:00.000-07:00

I made a cupcake bouquet for my doctor who did the surgery on my foot on the day that I was finally released! I've been seeing him for about 9 months! Kind of weird thinking I don't have anymore appointments to see him! His office staff LoVeD it!!! And he did too!

Cookie Time with My SIL's

2010-06-15T18:24:00.000-07:00

We had the opportunity to visit with some family in Arizona and while we were there all of us girls decided to make cookies! We had sooo much fun, laughing and taste testing while we worked! Here are a few pictures of us having fun together! Except I'm the one behind the camera with none in front of the camera!!!

It's Baseball time

2010-06-15T18:19:00.000-07:00

Baseball cupcakes for a birthday party at the Ball Park!

Eagle Scout Court of Honor

2010-06-03T15:53:00.000-07:00

What a fun way to celebrate an Eagle Scout Court of Honor! I found this idea on the internet and thought it was a great idea!

Baseball Cupcakes

2010-06-03T15:51:00.001-07:00

Baseball cupcakes for a birthday party at the ballpark!!!

Kaity's 7th Birthday

2010-05-24T11:39:00.000-07:00

My daughter helped me make this cake for our cousin Kaity's 7th birthday! She had a luau theme. I had a ton of fun teaching my daughter many different techniques used in this cake! I thought she did a great job!

A Cupcake Bouquet for Kevin

2010-05-24T11:37:00.000-07:00

This is a cupcake bouquet I made for my physical therapist on graduation day :) I had surgery a few months back on my foot and it has been a long and slow recovery! I wanted to say thanks to my pt for all of his help!

Wedding Cake

2010-05-24T11:35:00.000-07:00

this is a wedding cake I did for a family in Porterville. The venue was GoRgEoUs!!! It is called Hummingbird Hollow and is just south of Porterville off the 65!

Pineapple Upside Down (Cup)Cake

2010-05-24T11:33:00.000-07:00

This is one of the newest and most popular flavors. It is a true Pineapple Upside Down Cake, including the yummy stuff at the bottom, the cupcake is topped with a pineapple whipped cream frosting and a little bit of pineapple at the top!

Open House

2010-05-10T15:49:00.000-07:00

For those in the area I will be hosting an Open House featuring goodies by The Cake Lady (me) - Got Vinyl? by Jen Renzi - Gold Canyon Candles by Becky Grant - and Massages by Dessa Lim ($10 for a 15 min massage)

Saturday May 15, 2010
12-4pm

Call for directions or more information 679-2553!

Purse Cake for a Purseanalitea

2010-05-10T15:48:00.000-07:00

This is a purse cake I did for Visalia First Assembly "Purseanalitea" event!

Mini Cupcake Bouquets

2010-05-10T15:46:00.000-07:00

In honor of Mother's Day I made "mini" cupcake bouquets! They were so cute! Many people thought they were actually bouquets of flowers on the table until I explained that they were actually cupcakes!

It's Official!!!

2010-05-10T15:40:00.000-07:00

Well, I am very excited to spread the word that I am officially a licensed caterer!!! I have been working for over a year trying to secure a kitchen that I could bake out of and become licensed so that I can participate in many different venues and I have finally found one! I went last week and paid the fee and am not licensed! My first real gig since I got my license was this last Saturday at an Open House featuring local women business owners. I had a great time and lots of opportunities to look forward to! Here is a picture of some of the items I had available for sampling as well as purchasing!

I had a couple of my most popular flavors such as Peanut Butter Cookie, Oreo Cookie and Lemonade (middle of the picture and bottom) and then I also debuted some new flavors including Jr Mint (right side of picture), Pineapple Upside Down Cake (Top of picture), and Pop Rocks (left of picture)! By far I think the most popular was the Pineapple Upside Down Cake!

This is a close up of the Jr Mint Cupcake which also received many compliments!

Oreo Cake

2010-05-05T16:11:00.001-07:00

I made this cake for a Scout Dinner as a donation to help raise money for the Boy Scout program. I was lucky enough to get to sit at the table who won this cake - it was YuMmY!!!

Madison's Birthday

2010-05-05T16:10:00.001-07:00

2 tier round cake with buttercream frosting and fondant flowers

LDS Baptism Cake

2010-05-05T16:02:00.000-07:00

This is a 2 tier square cake covered in marshmallow fondant with shapes also cut out of fondant. The top was shaped to look like a baptismal font with "water" and fondant figures.

Christian Cake

2010-04-18T15:45:00.000-07:00

This cake is made with whipped cream frosting and lemon cake - so yummy and refreshing!

Elmo Cupcakes

2010-04-18T15:37:00.000-07:00

These cupcakes were for a little boy turning 3! Gotta love Elmo! I thought they turned out soooo cute! And best of all, he knew exactly who it was :)

Easter Egg Stravagance Cake Class

2010-04-18T15:28:00.000-07:00

The week before Easter I had a fun little get together with my aunt, my grandma and my daughter! We made Easter Cakes!!! We had sooo much fun, laughing and chatting with each other! We all made a few mistakes in the execution of our cakes, but the end result was some pretty tasty takes that didn't look too bad either!!! Well, I do have to admit, I helped my daughter with the baking of her cakes and cookies and accidentally burned one of her cakes, some of it fell off in the oven and was burning on the bottom lol! So, the end result was that some of the cookies tasted a little like burned cake lol! My family all thought that was pretty funny :)

This is my grandma decorating her cake!

My grandma's finished cake - she took a new approach to the cookies and put one on each side of the sucker stick - she covered the edge with buttercream frosting - the end result was an eXtReMeLy heavy cookie on a stick - but we did learn that candy melts can hold quite a bit of weight :)

This is my aunt Peggy decorating her cake.

My Aunt Peggy and her decorated cake :)

Ashlie frosting her cake!

Ashlie's final cake! Not too bad for only being 9!

Popcorn Cake

2010-03-27T10:57:00.000-07:00

It's time for Popcorn at the Circus

This is a cake and cupcakes done for a birthday party for twins (boy & girl) turning 2! They had a circus theme, so I made the cake to look like a giant bag of popcorn. Definitely a big cake! 6 layers tall!!!

Then we made 1 dozen cupcakes to look like individual servings of popcorn.

Baptism Dress

2010-03-27T10:52:00.000-07:00

This is a dress cake made for a good friend's daughter who was getting baptised. The cake is covered in fondant and I attempted to do the trip work all out of royal icing. However, when I started moving the royal icing pieces to the cake they just crumbled into pieces :( Major frustration! I knew they would be delicate, but there was no way. So, I accepted that that idea would work and instead did all of the detail work out of piped buttercream. I used the same design and I used for the royal icing.

Here is a picture of the royal icing lace I made that crumbled :( (Before it crumbled)

3 Tier Cupcake Holder

2010-03-27T10:50:00.000-07:00

Love Love Love
Loving my new
Cupcake Holder
Thank you Mike & MaryAnn!!!

Divorce Cake

2010-03-23T20:03:00.001-07:00

There is truly a cake for everything :) This is a divorce cake I did for a friend who was celebrating her divorce! Covered with fondant and the dirt is brown sugar.

1st Cupcakes In The Park

2010-03-22T11:49:00.000-07:00

We had a blast at Cupcakes In The Park! Not as many people showed up as I was expecting so I was kind of sad about that but we still had a great time with lots of yummy cupcakes! I liked the fact that people came regardless of whether they had home made or store bought cupcakes! They just came to have fun! I'll let you know when we are having another one! It will definitely be a do again!

Cupcakes In The Park

2010-03-09T15:06:00.000-08:00

Join The Cake Lady
for

Cupcakes In The Park

Saturday, March 13th
at Blain Park in Visalia
(on Court St between Walnut & Caldwell)
From 3-5pm

Bring cupcakes to share or if you run out of time, come without the cupcakes! The idea is to gather as a group of people who enjoy cupcakes! Enjoy good food, good company, and learn new ideas! And have a chance to win one of the fabulous give-a-ways!

If you have questions leave a post here and we'll get back to you soon!

Make sure you bring a chair or blanket to sit on and come hungry! The more the merrier so bring cupcakes and friends and you are sure to have a great time!

Chester

2010-03-08T11:11:00.001-08:00

My daughter loves horse back riding so for her family party I thought it would be really fun to make a cake that looked like her favorite horse Chester. It actually turned out pretty accurate, Chester has kind of a short face with bright blue eyes and black specks. We don't normally use a maroon bridle but that's okay. Lots of fun to make however she said that eating Chester was the worst part of the day. She said it just felt wrong lol! At least it was vanilla cake and not red velvet right???

Twilight Ice Cream Cupcakes

2010-03-08T11:03:00.001-08:00

For my daughters 13th birthday we went with a twilight theme. I thought it would be fun to make ice cream cupcakes for her with a Twilight theme fondant topper. She had chocolate cupcakes with cookies 'n cream ice cream, a layer of buttercream frosting and then the fondant topper! Yummy!!!

Retro Mini Cupcakes

2010-03-08T10:59:00.000-08:00

These cute little cupcakes were for a Children's Art Gallery function! So cute with the little retro circles! And the mini cupcakes were just the right size!

Pop Rocks Cupcake

2010-02-18T16:17:00.001-08:00

Who would have thought that Pop Rocks candy could taste so good on a cupcake??? The popping in your mouth brings back all of your favorite childhood memories of eating Pop Rocks! Just like the package says, "Taste the Explosion!"

Perfect flavor for your next birthday party! It will bring out the child in all of us :)

A Boingo's Party

2010-02-16T10:31:00.000-08:00

This is a cake I did for a sweet little girl's 6th birthday party held at a local restaurant called Boingo's. We made the cake to match the invitations. So fun and sooo cute! Vanilla cake with buttercream frosting and marshmallow fondant!

Smurf Baby Shower Cake

2010-02-06T18:33:00.000-08:00

This was a very funny baby shower cake. It was a smurf theme so I used Smurfette's house as a pattern. I made a little baby smurf to go in the basket by the doorstep. I think the baby smurf was the cutest part of the whole cake.

Purse Cake Class

2010-01-24T14:38:00.001-08:00

I announced on The Cake Lady that I would be having a class to make purse cakes. We had sooo much fun! Here are some pictures from our class :)

This is my purse cake. Turquoise zebra stripes with a yellow flower :)

Tiffany's purse cake. Purple zebra stripes.

Emily's cake with turquoise zebra stripes.

Debbie's purse cake with red polka dots.

Marshall Wedding

2010-01-24T14:36:00.001-08:00

This is a wedding cake for a good friend of the family. 3-tier squares stacked with roses in each layer. The topper wasn't there when I set up the cake :( All vanilla cake with buttercream icing.

Baby Shower for a Prince

2010-01-24T14:33:00.000-08:00

This cake was for a baby shower for a baby boy. The theme was "Prince". It is a vanilla cake, lemon filling, and lemon buttercream frosting. The actual crown is made from marshmallow fondant but all of the piping was done with lemon buttercream.

The Cake Lady

2010-01-24T14:26:00.001-08:00

So, in a moment of insanity (Wait, who am I kidding??? My life is constantly insane!) Okay, so one of my moments of complete craziness, I decided to start a Face Book page all about my cakes and cupcakes! My thinking was so that I could bombard that page with all of my yummies and keep my regular Face Book page about everything else. Is there anything in my life besides baking you ask??? Well, sometimes lol!

So, I'm having lots of fun as "The Cake Lady". I decided if I actually ever open a bakery that will be the name. I've toyed with lots of different names, "Let's Bake Some Cake", "Got Cake?" etc. Then I finally realized that whenever people talk about me to others who don't know me, they always refer to me as The Cake Lady. So I thought it was perfect! So, go find me on Face Book. After I created my page I realized there were also a few other Cake Lady's pages, mine is the one with a 2 tier Halloween Cake for the profile picture! Simply because I love Halloween :)

I had a little contest right after I started my page. All of my fans had to tell me what their favorite frosting was. I decided to pick the first person who said that one of MY frostings was their favorite, and they would get 1 dozen cupcakes with their favorite frosting for free! It just so happened it was one of my best friends who won :) So here is a picture of Tiffany's cupcakes, vanilla cake with peanut butter frosting :)

Wedding Cake 1/16/10

2010-01-18T08:11:00.001-08:00

These are a couple of images I have of the finished wedding cake from this past weekend. This was a much different wedding cake than I've done in the past. Lots of fun and the colors were just beautiful together! Cake is covered in fondant with fondant butterflies and flowers. The designs on the butterflies were made out of royal icing.

It looks like the cake is extremely crooked in this picture, but I can assure you it was just the angle I took the picture :) I seriously need some photography skills lol!

Happy Birthday Ezra!

2010-01-18T08:08:00.001-08:00

Little cookies I made for my nephews birthday at preschool!

Happy Birthday Cookies

2010-01-14T19:51:00.000-08:00

These are sugar cookies we made for my nephew's 4th birthday.

Happy Birthday Jesus!

2010-01-04T16:04:00.000-08:00

I saw this sweet cake on a website and absolutely had to do my own creation for our Christmas dessert. Little tricky cutting the fondant freehand but not too bad for someone who has NO artistic talents!

A Cousins Birthday

2009-12-15T14:20:00.000-08:00

These are 2 cakes that I did for cousins who had their birthday parties together! They wanted the cakes similar but not identical. So this is what we came up with :)

And then we did cupcakes to match :)

MMA Cake

2009-12-15T14:03:00.003-08:00

This is a cake for an LDS missionary who was going home after completing his mission in our area. Before serving his mission he was a multi-black belt MMA fighter! The cake was a 1/2 sheet frosted in buttercream frosting. All of the figures and the and the ring are made out of fondant. I used wooden dowels and skewers to keep the form.

In the center of the ring I made a replica of the Fresno California Mission symbol.

The lady who ordered the cake wanted the fighters to be the missionary before he went on his mission and then him going home from his mission!

Winter Cupcake Flavors

2009-12-15T13:53:00.001-08:00

I thought it was time to come up with some fun new flavors for the Christmas Season. Of course we had to have a chance to sample so hopefully you were able to make it to my ornament party or the Holiday Open House a couple of weeks ago to sample these new favorites!

I saw these adorable little cuppies in an article and had to try them out for myself. It is just a cupcake (any flavor) with buttercream frosting mounded on the top and then smoothed out. Then, while the frosting is still fresh, sprinkle it with sugar crystals. It looks like a giant snowball. Then I made sugar cookies using miniature cutters, decorated them with royal icing and stuck one on top of each "snowball"! Such a festive little cuppie is sure to bring joy to all of your holiday gatherings!

The cute little cuppies in the front are Hot Chocolate Flavored! It's just like home made hot chocolate (you know the kind that Grandma used to make) but in a cupcake!

These yummy little things are Peppermint Flavored! I couldn't decide which flavor cupcake so I tried it out 3 ways :) We had chocolate cupcake with Peppermint buttercream, Vanilla cupcake with Peppermint Buttercream, and a Peppermint Cupcake with Peppermint Buttercream. The most popular seemed to be the chocolate cupcake with peppermint buttercream!

Chocolate Brownie Cheesecake Torte

2009-12-15T13:45:00.001-08:00

This is another recipe I found on my daily BHG email. This was my first attempt ever at a cheesecake made from scratch! It was oh so rich but so yummy! So rich in fact that I couldn't handle more than a couple of bites at a time :)

For the full recipe you can try their website. The layers are brownie, chocolate cheesecake, brownie, white chocolate cheesecake, and chocolate ganache piped on the top! So good!!!

Having Fun With Truffles

2009-12-15T13:32:00.001-08:00

I found this really cool website, its called "Better Homes & Gardens" :) I subscribed to their email list and so I get daily emails with either recipes, decorating ideas, gift ideas, and a ton of other ideas. There were some yummy recipes for truffles and other chocolates so I had to give it a try! They were certainly a hit at our Thanksgiving Dinner :) I've included the recipes so you can try some of them yourself!

Peanut Butter Truffles
1 cup softened butter
1 cup peanut butter
2 cups rice krispies
2 cups powdered sugar

Mix all of the ingredients together in a bowl and form into round balls. Refrigerate for about 30 minutes. While they are chilling, melt a bag of milk chocolate chips in a double boiler. Dip the chilled balls in the chocolate and then place on wax paper. Return to the refrigerator to chill for about 30 more minutes after you have dipped all of the balls. Now they are ready to eat :)

Oreo Truffles
1 package any flavor Oreo cookies
1 package Cream Cheese softened
White chocolate chips

Chop the oreo cookies until extremely fine. Combine with the softened cream cheese. Form into balls and dip in the chips melted in a double boiler! So yummy!!!

Peanut Clusters
Mix equal amounts of any flavor nut (I used peanuts) and melted milk chocolate. Scoop little spoonfuls onto wax paper and let chill. So easy and so yummy!

This is a stand I got the idea from the BHG website. The picture isn't very good but I think you get the idea. You need a serving platter, a dinner plate, a saucer, and 3 parfait glasses all of the same design. I chose clear glass for mine. Then just stack them as you see here. An idea I also read to make the stand more festive was to put decorations inside of the parfait glasses. That would kind of dress up the serving platter and you could change the theme quite easily to go with the holidays.

Happy Turkey Day

2009-12-15T13:24:00.000-08:00

I saw a picture online of a cake made to look like a turkey and I had to try it out! I made a 1/4 sheetcake and stacked it 4 tall. I tried to carve the shape of the turkey with a knife. I used fondant to mold the legs and wings and then frosted it all with buttercream tinted light brown. I then sprayed the entire cake with orange and yellow to give it the toasted look. I used some of the cake I had carved off and cut it into little chunks and put at the "open" end of the turkey to look like stuffing. It was definitely a hit at Thanksgiving. Most people thought it was another turkey :)

Big Bird Cake

2009-12-15T13:20:00.000-08:00

This is a cake I did for a little boys 4th birthday. He wanted Big Bird - I wasn't thrilled with the face but I'm not an artist so this is the best I could do freehand!

Babyshower for Alyssa

2009-11-12T10:06:00.000-08:00

This is a cake I made for a friends baby shower. Lots of fun and oh so cute!

My Birthday Cake

2009-11-12T10:01:00.001-08:00

So it took me quite some time to decide how I wanted to do MY birthday cake! And even as I was decorating it I still made some changes to my original thoughts! I knew I was only going to eat one piece so I wanted it to be a good one!

I made it three layers, two chocolate one vanilla and I put a caramel buttercream filling inbetween each layer with halloween sprinkles :)

And of course I had to incorporate my much coveted little silver balls! So they became the bats eyes! I had a ton of fun making the cake, it tasted yummy too but it was mostly just fun to make!

Oreo Cobwebs

2009-10-28T12:54:00.001-07:00

This is a recipe for home made oreo cookies I got from a friend. Very easy and oh so yummy! I used buttercream frosting tinted orange to make my cobwebs on top.

For My Uncle Kenny

2009-10-20T14:45:00.000-07:00

My uncle Kenny died this past weekend and this week is the funeral. I wanted to make something special in his honor and finally decided on doing a cupcake bouquet. I put vinyl lettering on the sides. My grandma will get to keep a pot and his wife Allison will get the other pot. I really like the custom pots that the family can keep and put a plant in and remember their loved one.

National Emergency Nurse's Week

2009-10-16T12:28:00.001-07:00

This is National Emergency Nurse's Week so I made some scrub top sugar cookies to share with all of the nurses in the Emergency Room.

Birthday Cupcakes

2009-10-14T20:09:00.001-07:00

Just a few yummy cupcakes I whipped up for a friends birthday :)

Black and White Cookies

2009-10-14T20:04:00.000-07:00

I recently saw a You Tube clip of the Seinfeld show that made the Black & White cookie famous! My cousin also saw the post and wanted her own batch of homemade Black & Whites for her birthday. So here is my attempt!

Shortbread cookie with a cream cheese filling topped with half vanilla and chocolate fondant.

Sorry the pictures are blurry! I seriously need a new cameraman :)

October Wedding

2009-10-10T18:19:00.001-07:00

This is for a wedding of a friend. The flower lady put the fresh flowers on after I left so the cake doesn't really look all that good right now :( I will get picture of the finished cake and post. Fresh flowers will be put on along with leaves made from fondant that you can see beside the cake. The branches are made from fondant.

Along with the 3 tier cake the bride wanted sheetcakes to finish feeding the guests. This is carrot cake with cream cheese frosting and candied carrots for garnish.

Chocolate cake with peanut butter frosting and mini pb cups for garnish.

Lemon cake with a lemon frosting and candied lemon zest for garnish.

And for all of the non-frosting lovers (is there really such a thing?) chocolate cake with raspberry topping and a dollop of cream.

We're Ready For Some Football

2009-10-10T18:16:00.000-07:00

I made these cute little cuppies for my little boys flag football game. Each week a parent is in charge of the snackies and today was our day. Chocolate cupcakes with buttercream grass and fondant footballs. I put the laces on with royal icing.

PS3 Controller

2009-10-09T14:32:00.001-07:00

I had a request for a PS3 Controller for a birthday. How fun is that???

Ice cream cupcakes

2009-10-03T11:40:00.001-07:00

So a good friend of mine loves to make homemade ice cream! We thought it would be really fun to try out ice cream cupcakes together - my pumpkin spice cupcakes, her cinnamon ice cream, my cinnamon cream cheese frosting! They turned out soooo yummy and definitely a learning experience!

School Carnival Fun!

2009-10-01T21:11:00.000-07:00

Time for some fun at the school carnival. I thought it would be fun to go with the school colors. Hope the kids like them!

Cupcake Bouquet #2

2009-10-01T21:07:00.000-07:00

This is the second cupcake bouquet I've done. Funny, she didn't want me to change the color scheme. She said it was already beautiful, no need to change it! So we didn't! However, she wanted lemon cupcakes and so I created a brand new flavor of frosting. We went with a lemonade buttercream, sweet yet tart! Tasty stuff!

It's Autumn Time!!!

2009-09-26T03:41:00.000-07:00

I love the fall season! I love everything about it! The cooler weather, the changing colors of the leaves, the smells of the fall, and especially pumpkins!!! So here is my first autumn creation of the season!!!

Pumpkin Spice Cupcake with Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting!

And More Teeth & Toothbrushes :)

2009-09-22T09:22:00.001-07:00

These are more of the same style as last weeks. Just for more offices :)

I did have fun trying out swirled frosting though :) Way fun to do and great for using up little tidbits of frosting :)

Time to Celebrate!!!

2009-09-16T13:32:00.000-07:00

Woohoo!!! Such a fun and exciting day! Yesterday, as I'm sure all of you are well aware, I took 4 entries to the County Fair for judging. I went by today and found out that my Halloween Theme cake took 1st place in its class! After reveling in the fact that I actually won something, I went over to the cupcake tasting area and discovered that my peanut butter cupcakes took 1st place and the carrot cake cupcake took 2nd place in their class :) Only the mint oreo didn't place which was soooo funny cause I totally thought that was the one that might win! Oh well! So, I definitely was on cloud 9!

Then I get home and checked my email only to discover that the gentleman who had contacted me a couple of weeks ago about my cupcake boxes actually used them in his online article!!! Woohoo!!! I'm so excited! I copied and pasted his message to me with a link to the article if anyone is interested in checking it out!

Your photo has been featured on WeddingStand.com!

Dear Melissa,
Congratulations! Your photo is featured on my recent cupcake tower post for Weddingstand.com! You'll be able to see it by clicking on the link below:

www.weddingstand.com/articles/35_reasons_to_do_cupcake_tower.htm

Your cupcake tower is one of the best I came across in my painstaking search for the best cupcake towers online. I had a lot of fun in searching and hope you like the post. The photos are in alphabetical order based on Flickr usernames, so you'll be able to see yours by searching the post based on account name.

We've created a badge indicating your photos inclusion on WeddingStand’s Cupcake Tower favorites.

The badge that I received is actually a code that I can use to put on my site. So if you look at the top right of corner of my blog I posted it there :)

Such a fun day! I might have to do some baking I'm so excited :)

Happy Baking Everyone!!!

It's Fair Time

2009-09-15T07:39:00.000-07:00

Our county fair allows residents to enter items to be judged either on taste or decoration for cakes and cookies and other edibles. I've wanted to do it the last couple of years but finally got around to doing it this year. I made three different flavors of cupcakes to be judged on taste and I decorated a Halloween cake to be judged on decorations. I'm not thrilled with the Halloween cake simply because I had such grander plans. But, life is what it is and so I did what I could with the time that I had. The base of the cake can be false but every decoration has to be edible. I had fun using lots of different mediums that I don't use very often. We'll see how I do :)

Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting

Peanut Butter Cookie Cupcake

Mint Oreo Cupcake

Tooth & Toothbrush

2009-09-15T07:36:00.000-07:00

These are for a local oral surgeon's office. They deliver them to the dentist offices who refer patients to them. Each cupcake has a tooth and toothbrush.

Pink & Brown Polka Dot Baby Shower

2009-09-12T15:26:00.000-07:00

I did this cake for a baby shower. The request was for a pink and brown polka dot cake with a rattle on the top!

Thomas the Tank Engine

2009-09-12T15:24:00.000-07:00

This cake was for a little boys birthday. It was my first attempt at a 3D cake. Lots of fun!!

Cupcake Bouqet

2009-09-12T15:17:00.000-07:00

This was for a bridal shower. They requested a cupcake bouquet with some cake pops and then pretty much left it up to me to decide how to do it all. It was my first attempt at a cupcake bouquet and I was quite pleased with the end result. As always, it was definitely a learning experiment but I will definitely make another one very soon :)

Flickr Blog

2009-09-03T12:33:00.000-07:00

So excited, just thought I would share the news with my 4 wonderful followers :) I just checked my flickr account where I also post many of my cake and cupcake creations. I had a message on there from a photography blogger asking for permission to use some pictures of my cupcake boxes that my dad and I made! I am so way excited! He will be sending me a link to the blog once he posts it! So exciting! Just thought you would be excited to :) Happy Baking!

70th Birthday

2009-08-29T21:21:00.000-07:00

I made these cupcakes for my Grandma's 70th Birthday! The theme was colorful flowers! It was perfect and so fun to make all of the flowers for the toppers.

I used the cupcake boxes to display all of the cupcakes so for the top tier I made a white cake and then did a basket weave design. I used crushed oreos for the dirt in the basket and then attached some of the cupcakes with the same colorful flowers with skewers.

Here are some views of it all put together!

There were about 9 different flavors to choose from so everyone should have been able to find something they likes :)

The flowers were all made out of fondant with royal icing centers and sprinkles.

Wedding Cupcakes

2009-08-29T21:20:00.000-07:00

These are some cupcakes I did for a wedding open house. Very simple and oh so yummy!

Low Sugar/Low Carb Cake

2009-08-29T21:08:00.000-07:00

I got my first order for a cake that a diabetic could eat. Actually, my dad who is also diabetic has suggested that I make a low carb cake but I have just not gotten around to it, until now! I definitely learned a lot! The end result turned out nice I think and they were quite happy with their cake! That is what matters, right!

I substituted whole wheat flour for regular white flour, egg beaters for whole eggs, and of course Splenda for the sugar. It definitely changes the consistency and the density of the cake! The recipe I came up with was a Butter Almond cake. It was quite yummy.

For the frosting I used my regular buttercream recipe and substituted the powdered sugar for splenda. The consistency of the frosting was much runnier but still managed to coat the cake and stay in place. I also found out that Splenda does not hold the color like powdered sugar. I used massive amounts of red and I still ended up with pink. Another thing I learned is to not breathe in directly over the open bag of splenda while scooping it because it gets inhaled quite easily!

I was thankful for the learning experience! I also tried out a low carb peanut butter frosting on the same cake and let my dad sample that! My dad was the brave soul who did all of the sampling on the trial runs! Thanks Dad!

Horse Birthday

2009-08-29T21:05:00.000-07:00

I made these cupcakes for a little girl who loves horses and butterflies. She was having a hard time deciding whether to get little horses or little butterflies, so we decided to do horses with butterflies on the rump :) I used lots of bright colors for the horses and thought they turned out so cute. The actual horse is made out of fondant and then the detail is all out of royal icing. Happy 9th Birthday Jessica!

Batman Birthday

2009-08-29T20:57:00.000-07:00

This is a batman cake I did for my son's 4th birthday. Both his 2nd and 3rd birthdays were of Thomas the Train so I was a bit unprepared when he announced he wanted Batman! I looked around and found a few ideas. I put them together and came up with my own Batman cake. He said it was perfect except it was supposed to be blue and black not yellow and black. Go figure!

It is chocolate cake with yellow buttercream icing. All of the black is fondant. I did the batman symbol and the circle freehand. The buildings I used various cookie cutters.

I used royal icing to pipe the symbol on the fondant for the cupcakes. There was no way I was going to hand cut 24 of those things! I learned lots and realized after I had them all done an easier way to do it that would have made them look better and take less time. Oh well, you live and learn!

On some of the cupcake toppers instead of putting the batman symbol I put the letters of my son's name and the number 4 since he was turning 4. He thought that was cool!

Retirement Cake

2009-08-26T20:25:00.000-07:00

This is a cake I did for a police sergeant retiring from the force. I enjoyed doing this cake because I got to do a few different techniques that I haven't done much before. I learned a lot along the way but was still pleased with the end result. The most important thing was that the customers liked it! That's always a good thing :)

It is a marble cake with buttercream frosting and then covered in marshmallow fondant. I used gold shimmer dust across the entire cake. The letters and designs are out of fondant also.

This was my first attempt at braiding fondant. I must say it is much easier to braid hair :) However, it was enjoyable being able to braid and not have someone yelling that I am hurting them!

Bridal Shower Paisley

2009-08-24T20:47:00.001-07:00

This is the final picture of the cupcakes with the paisleys. I thought they turned out very cute and oh so yummy!