Madison's Birthday

2 tier round cake with buttercream frosting and fondant flowers

Retro Mini Cupcakes

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!

A Cousins Birthday

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 :)

We're Ready For Some Football

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.

Tooth & Toothbrush

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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

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!

Cupcake Bouqet

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 :)

Low Sugar/Low Carb Cake

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!

Batman Birthday

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!

Another Lost Photo

I ran across a folder on my computer today with a couple of photos of a cake I did back in December. This was for a wedding. We did white buttercream with detail work on the sides with black ribbon. The accent was red cranberries on the top layer. It turned out very nice.

McWilliams Wedding Cake

This is the first wedding cake I've done in a while that was not accompanied with cupcakes! Everyone lately has wanted cupcakes. I enjoy doing them but it was a nice change to do all cakes. For this particular wedding we did a three tier cake and then three additional sheet cakes. The three tiers were all decorated the same with ribbon around the base of the cake with little dots on both the top and the bottom of the ribbon. I put some artificial flowers in bunches around the cake and there you have it. Pretty easy :) I think it turned out nice.

9 Year Old Birthday Boy

These were for a little boy turning 9 years old! I hesitated on using that particular number 9 because it was exactly the same as the 6 in the set. I had several people ask if it was a 6 or a 9, but in the end I decided to use it because I liked the font and thought it went well with the circles. Chocolate cupcakes with buttercream frosting! Very simple and oh so yummy!!!

Flip Flops

I've spent the last week working on this particular project. It was a lot of fun but you can only imagine my relief that it is done :) It is fun making all of the little parts, but such a sense of accomplishment when you can finally put all of the pieces together and have it all turn out just how you wanted.

This set of cupcakes/cake was for a wedding reception. It was an outdoor reception in the middle of July in Central CA! Crazy!!! But it was what it was! At least the Bride & Groom went easy on the guests and said it's casual, "Shorts & Flip Flops required"! What a life saver! That was also my cue for the theme of the cake/cupcakes.

I had never actually made flip flops before but I wanted to learn! So I researched the internet extensively and found a few sites that were quite explanatory on how they had achieved their adorable flip flops. I had several mess-ups which my son gladly helped me dispose of, and then finally I got the technique down. I was able to master the technique because I had to make 200 pairs (that's 400 individual) flip flops for the cupcakes, plus a few extras for spares. It would certainly be a lot easier if I could find a cutter in that exact shape, but for now I am content with my technique and thought they turned out quite well. I also made 2 pairs of large flip flops for the cake which sat on top of the cupcake boxes. One for groom and one for the bride!


Some flip flops :)


More flip flops!


And yet more flip flops!


After I got all of the soles cut out I had to put on the straps. I used fondant icing to do the stripes and attached a little fondant dot as an embellishment. I tried to do enough colors and alternate them so there were not too many duplicates. I was quite pleased with my 2 days work involved :)


Lots of flip flops :)

By that point it was time to make the cake and cupcakes. We did chocolate, vanilla, and marble cupcakes all with buttercream frosting. I piped the frosting on to look like green grass and then put the flip flops on with a little royal icing flower. Overall, I was extremely pleased with the end result. Rarely do I get the opportunity to attend the event I am baking for, but I was invited to this reception so I was able to see all of the reactions. It was very fun to hear how much everyone liked the cupcakes. It was even better to see them bite into the cupcake and realize that it tasted good too! That is a hard combination to come by!!!


Some cupcakes!


More cupcakes!


Bride & Groom Cake




Bottom layer of the cupcake boxes.


Middle layer of the cupcake boxes.


Top layer of cupcake boxes.