Lady bugs and bowling alley!

I love it when life comes full circle. One of the first cakes tiered cakes I ever created was for a baby shower. I learned so much doing that cake and though in my head it wasn’t perfect the mommy-to-be loved it. That mommy-to-be is now a mommy of a 1 yr old precious girl and asked me to make the first birthday cake for her munchkin! We chatted and decided that the cake would do a 3 tier cake with a ladybug theme. The top tier would be the smash cake and would be in buttercream. The bottom 2 tiers would be light green and red fondant. As we were putting the cake together we decided to add a few personal touches. The first being the gelatin butterflies. Her baby shower cake was garden themed with butterflies so as a surprise I added a few gelatin butterflies to remind her of her awesome baby shower. I also added the bow on the lady bugs head. In looking at the photos of Amberly on facebook, almost every photo the cutie has a bow in her hair.

I delivered the cake to Grandmas house and it matched the decorations perfectly!





I was also given the honor of making a cake for my bestfriends son. He was given a scholarship to Webber International for bowling and was getting ready to head off to college. It also happens to be his 18th birthday. The design we came up with was a bowling alley. The cake and pins are cake covered in fondant. The board started out as just plain brown fondant over a MDF board. Lines and the coloring was hand colored to turn a piece of board into an alley. I am very proud of this cake and also very proud of Colin! Good Luck Colin in wherever your dreams take you!

Original Nintendo cake

I was invited by my friend Maria to a party at her house to celebrate finding her original Nintendo in her moms garage. We discussed making a cake and below is what I came up with. It was chocolate with peanut butter filling and the remotes were rice krispie treats.