Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Wedding Cake
Carolyn was asked by friends to make their wedding cake and this was the finished product. Black ribbon, black feathers and fresh green orchids added to this beautiful cake!
Wedding Cake
Saturday, April 24, 2010
BlackBerry cake
Lex was asked to make a cake in the shape of a BlackBerry for someone at work who was celebrating 4 years with the company. This is a comparison shot to the real deal.
Calliou
Carolyn made this Calliou cake and apparently the boy who got this one was SO thrilled about the cake that he even poked his eyes out.
Monday, April 19, 2010
Diva Mode!
We were asked to make a “girly” themed birthday cake with a handbag & shoes. These cakes are always so much fun because we get to tap into our “diva” mode!
This was a 2 tiered marble cake, accented with lipstick, nailpolish, a black handbag & gumpaste shoes.
Wedding Cake
Carolyn made this beautiful wedding cake for a relative. They wanted a 2 tiered cake frosted with buttercream, topped with roses.
Beautiful!
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Rock Climbing!
Alexis was asked to make a large cupcake-cake for a special little girls’ 7th birthday. The party was held at a local indoor rock climbing facility called Ground Zero so of course the theme of the cake had to match!
The cake was a marble fudge cake with buttercream frosting.
Baby Shower
Carolyn was asked to make a cake for a baby shower for one of her friends. The baby has already arrived so the message on the cake was one to welcome him to the world.
It was a white cake frosted with real buttercream (so delicious!!).
Sunday, April 4, 2010
P-p-p-poker cake
Poker is a favorite past time of our brother in law so we decided to make a poker cake for his 19th birthday.
He had no idea that we were doing a custom cake for him. In fact, he just wanted “a cake with chocolate chips.” We couldn’t just leave it at that of course, so we definitely whipped something more fun together. He was so surprised and the words, “that is a sexy cake,” may have been said.
Homemade ice cream cake!!
For Carolyn’s husband’s birthday party she decided to go a new route and made a homemade ice cream cake! So many people thought it was a Dairy Queen cake – it was that similar!
Instead of the Oreo base, she used a brownie topped with Skor bar.
This was definitely a hit and sure to be a repeat at many birthdays to come!
There’s an app for that…
At one of the latest birthdays a few of the boys had the age old debate: BlackBerry vs iPhone. Carolyn’s brother has an iPhone and loves it so it was the inspiration for his birthday cake.
The cake was frosted with black buttercream and the apps were made out of gumpaste.
Birthday cake
Carolyn made this birthday cake for her husband. Blue is his favorite color and to spruce things up, edible stars were tossed on top. The kids loved this cake!
Mmm Carrot Cake
Who doesn’t like a yummy carrot cake with rich cream cheese frosting?
This was tastefully decorated with beautiful gumpaste lilies.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Tinkerbell
Alexis was very excited when one of her friends asked her to make a Tinkerbell cake for his daughter who was turning 7. (Finally – a “girly” cake hehe! – and who DOESN’T love Tinkerbell!??)
This was a two tiered Marble cake with chocolate frosting.
The Tinkerbell topper wasn’t hand made – it was a candle purchased from Michaels.
Alexis says: “It was a lot of fun making this cake. I didn’t get to see the birthday girl’s reaction when she saw it but I hope she loved it!!”
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Chocolate Valentine’s Heart
Carolyn made this heart shaped chocolate tart topped with berries for her lucky husband.
It was definitely a happy Valentine’s Day!
Elegant Wedding Cake
Here is an elegant wedding cake that Carolyn made for one of her friends. They wanted simple yet exquisite which is definitely what they got!
A Home Depot Christmas
Carolyn had made this Home Depot Apron cake for her father’s Christmas Cake. Even the little Home Depot man was hand crafted by Carolyn using gumpaste.
Rubiks Cube Birthday!
Alexis’s boyfriend is an avid Rubiks cuber so when Carolyn & Alexis were planning his birthday cake they knew it had to be a Rubik’s Cube!
Her boyfriend was especially happy to see that the “cake is even solvable” (meaning the tiles were strategically placed and the cake could be solved like a regular cube).
It was a hit!
XBOX 360
One of Alexis’s coworkers asked for an XBOX 360 cake for her friends’ son and this is what transpired.
The buttercream frosting inside the cake was also XBOX green!
Spongebob
This is a buttercream cake that Alexis and Carolyn made for one of Alexis’s coworkers who loves Spongebob Squarepants.
The big 3-0
Here are a couple of cakes the girls did for each of their friends’ 30th birthday.
The first cake was for Carolyn’s friend who loves anything girly! We made sure to use funky colors and topped the cake with a shoe and a clutch. When Carolyn delivered the cake, the birthday girl was ecstatic about it. That kind of reaction is why we love making these cakes!
The next cake was for Alexis’s friends’ 30th birthday. Her husband loved the Mickey Mouse cake we did for their son so he asked Alexis to do his wife’s 30th birthday cake. She knew Alexis would be making it but had no idea what it would be and was pleasantly surprised with the theme since the birthday girl is very much a Sex in the City fan!
The cake topper was a Strawberry Champagne Jello shot in a martini glass. :)
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse
The son of one of Alexis’s friends was turning 2 so when she was asked to do his birthday cake she knew it had to be extra special!
Little Girls Love Cupcakes!
In the last post we asked who didn’t love cupcakes – and we know for sure young girls DO love cupcakes! Especially cake sized cupcakes! Here are a few cake sized birthday cupcakes for a few lucky little ladies!
Pink & starry:
This was for our cousin’s daughter’s first birthday. It was a cake feast: Large cupcake cake, regular sized sprinkle cupcakes & cake balls!
Cupcakes!
Who doesn’t love cupcakes? Cupcakes are what started the cake decorating trend for Alexis who had been decorating them before Carolyn had asked to do the cake decorating course.
Alexis figured the course could only help with the cupcake decorating and from there the rest was history!
These Christmas cupcakes are what started it all for Alexis:
Oreo Cupcakes:
Pink Buttercream Cupcake:
Carrot cake cupcake with cream cheese frosting.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Boy oh Boy
There seem to have been a lot of boys born in the past year. Below are a few of the baby shower cakes we’ve done – and they were all for boys!
50th Birthday
There was a surprise birthday planned for our mother in law’s 50th birthday. We decided to make an extravagant 3 tiered cake.
The top two layers were Carrot Cake frosted with cream cheese frosting. The center layer was chocolate cake frosted with chocolate cream cheese frosting.
It was definitely a hit!