A Rosy Wedding Day

My babysitter of a few years back got married on Saturday, and I made the cake for them. She just wanted a small cake, so this is a 6" square on top of a 10" square. White cake with raspberry filling, buttercream frosting and real roses for the decoration.

It wasn't too hard to do - I assembled it on site at the reception. I put covered cardboard under the small cake, and placed it on plastic support pillars in the large cake, then piped a shell border over the edge. One of my neighbors generously donated her light pink unsprayed roses!

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My family thought the best part was that I had a good sized piece of cake left over from the base that they got to eat!

For the Graduate

This crazy conglomeration is my latest cake creation - a graduation cake for our friends' son. She looked through my cake picture album, and we decided on a "game of Life" cake, similar to the layout of one I've done before. This one describes the graduate's moves to different states, childhood, sports, loves (his Facebook is on the itty-bitty laptop!), and future at college.

I made two half-sheet cakes, one chocolate and one butter cake, and frosted them together on a fullsheet board. Four cake mixes, four pounds of powdered sugar, and two pounds of butter.

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Now I have an order for a wedding cake next month! Our former babysitter is getting married and I'm doing her cake. Hear that? creak, creak I'm feeling old...

IF - "Superhero" and Birthday Mania

Here is my Illustration Friday entry - and the media is... FROSTING!

We are in the midst of birthday season around here: sons' birthdays, nephews' birthdays, husband's birthdays, mom's birthday, friends' birthdays, dog's birthday...

Last night we had my nephew's 5th birthday celebration dinner here at my house. He (like his daddy) is into Superman, so I made him a Superman cake. Inside, it was gluten-free, dairy-free banana cake which was a new recipe and got raves, so I'll put it in my "keeper" file!

Have a SUPER day!

Thanks to my son, J, for recognizing that this fit the IF topic of the week!

Graduation Cake

Here it is! The fruits of my last 48 hours labor... 29 lbs. of butter and sugar, baby! You can see the original idea sketch below from last month. The Starbucks cup will be better secured - I just stuck a chopstick in the cake to hold it on for the photo. I took it back off for the delivery, and then I'll put it on with a dowel rod and buttercream "glue." I'm pretty pleased with the result. The yearbook is a little uneven, but I really like the graduation tassel and the candy keys. I hope everyone likes it!

Other Cakes

I just saw this week's IF topic is "cake" so I wanted to post some of my favorite cakes I've made while I think of what to DRAW! (Check out the entry by thickblackoutline!) "Yoda" was made this year for my younger son's birthday. I used a tip from his build-your-own-lightsaber to cover a chemlight for the glowing effect. The "Quilt" cake was made for a friend's twin baby shower - and everyone thought it was a real basket!


The "gameboard" cake was for a friend's 40th, and detailed major events of his life. The "soccer" cake was for my son's end-of-season party. Nothing like creating a STINGRAY on a cake!