# 144 As You Wish Cake

October 22nd, 2012
As You Wish Cake

I made this birthday cake for my daughter - who was very specific on what she would like on her fourth birthday cake. I put everything she wanted on it, exactly as she wanted... and she was over the moon.

It's a chocolate/strawberry swirl cake with pink buttercream frosting, topped with Elmo, Winnie The Pooh, Ariel, Cinderella, a pumpkin, a shark, and lots of frosting spiders. After everyone had their slice, my daughter was very careful in *squishing* each individual spider. :o)

Matching Cupcakes (for her party)

Putting candles where she wanted on her cake.

Eleanor was very lucky - her Nana & Papa flew out from Calgary!!!

Squishing spiders.

# 143 Molasses Brown Sugar Cake

October 14th, 2012
Molasses Brown Sugar Cake

My poor friends. I always experiment on them. We were going to dinner at a friend's house, and I made this cake to bring with us. I used molasses and brown sugar in the frosting... it ended up too sweet and also the frosting was a funny crystallized texture. My mom giggled when I told her about it... I think she knew.

And yes, those are mini marshmallows on top. The dried out crunchy kind.
(-_- ) ... ( -_-) ... (-_- ) ... ( -_-)

# 142 Swimage Cake

October 12th, 2012
Swimage Cake

This was a birthday cake for my husband's boss. Swimage is... his baby. If you don't know about Swimage and you own a computer, check it out here for more information.

# 141 The Cookies N' Cream Cake

October 7th, 2012
The Cookies N' Cream Cake

So I took my friend's advice and I made one for my own kids. They were totally in love! I was glad it tasted decent. :o)
One of our new favorites!

# 140 Bears vs. Jaguars Birthday Cake

October 5th, 2012
Bears vs. Jaguars Birthday Cake

This cake was for a friend of mine, whose son is all about football. This cake was a cookies and cream cake, with vanilla buttercream and fondant accents.

A little while later, I got a phone call saying that this was a much loved cake - and their new favorite flavor! I was encouraged to try it with my own kids... (I did!)

# 139 Chocolate Vanilla Swirl Cupcakes

August 21st, 2012
Chocolate Vanilla Swirl Cupcakes

I made these cupcakes (with some help from my favorite kitchen helper daughter... she is a PRO at sprinkles) for my husband for his birthday. The kids and I brought them to his work as a surprise!

They were chocolate and vanilla, with chocolate and vanilla buttercream. And rainbow sprinkles to boot.

Yes, they WERE this delicious.

# 138 Dalek Birthday Cake

August 20th, 2012
Dalek Birthday Cake

This was a birthday cake for my husband, a big Doctor Who fan like me. I think it was appropriate, since he just EXTERMINATED another year... *hee hee hee*

# 137 Butter Pecan Birthday Cake

August 19th, 2012
Butter Pecan Birthday Cake

This birthday cake was for my husband, at a get-together we had at my ex-aunt-in-law's home. (That's a mouthful! They really are amazing.) It was vanilla cake, with vanilla buttercream and topped with crushes pecans and caramel sauce. In hindsight, this bad boy was way too sweet!!!

# 136 Super Chocolate Cupcakes

August 5th, 2012
Super Chocolate Cupcakes

Because, why not? These chocolatey bad boys were topped in super cocoa chocolate buttercream. They were drool-worthy. I kept sneaking them, I won't lie. Delicious. My favorite so far maybe... but I'm biased, seeing as I'm a chocoholic. :o)

# 135 The Goodbye Cake

August 5th, 2012
The Goodbye Cake

This cake was for a farewell for a friend who was moving a few states over. We sure will miss her!

# 134 Mario Missionary Cake

August 3rd, 2012
Mario Missionary Cake

I made this cake for our favorite Elders, who actually did not come to the missionary luncheon, but all of the other missionaries loved it! My son came and helped me pass out cake and man the dessert table, so we had lots of fun. At the end, the missionaries lined up and sang us a song to say thank you! Logan had a great time serving, and we were really grateful we could put a smile on some of their faces.

Logan approves!

The Missionaries

#133 Rainbow Cookies

July 23rd, 2012
Rainbow Cookies

Okay, I know these aren't technically cake, but I had to share! What a fun recipe. It was just like playdough. All of these pictures are post-baking, so you can really see how the color stays the same.

# 132 The Cake is A Lie

July 23rd, 2012
The Cake is A Lie

My friend ordered a black forest cake from me, for her husband for his birthday. His favorite cake is black forest cake, and I - of course, being the geek that I am - was thrilled especially to model it after the cake from Portal (a video game) - in which you (the player) are constantly promised a cake (which you never get) that looks just as a black forest cake does.
Delicious!

# 131 Flag Cake

July 4th, 2012

Flag Cake

For Independence Day this year, we were actually out of town, in Utah, visiting family. I wanted to try and make this cake I'd had an idea for, and my mother-in-law was totally on board! This is a colored white cake, with buttercream frosting (my mother-in-law's buttercream recipe) and the blue cake... well we made that with no eggs. We used applesauce instead!

The one and only tweezer-applied firework I did on the cake.

The inside of the cake was what really mattered:

My brother-in-law, enjoying his slice!

I think my frustration was just making a cake somewhere that wasn't my own kitchen.

But in hindsight, it was pretty cute.

# 130 Delicate White Flowers Wedding Cake

May 4th, 2012

Delicate White Flowers Wedding Cake

Oh how I love this cake!

This cake was amazing. The bottom layer was dark chocolate cake, filled with (my own recipe) chocolate mousse. The middle was french vanilla cake, filled with fresh strawberries, blueberries, and raspberries. The top was red velvet cake, filled with a cream cheese/cheesecake filling. 

The whole cake was covered in a lightly tinted vanilla buttercream, and over one hundred tiny hand-crafted fondant flowers.

LOVE!

♥ Mr & Mrs ♥

Cutting the cake! I love that I have this picture.

# 129 The Cake Stand Cake

April 29th, 2012

The Cake Stand Cake

So I made this cake stand, and I immediately needed to try a cake on it.

(Of course!)

This was a chocolate cake, with a peanut butter filling (it just sounded too good not to try), covered in vanilla buttercream.

It was thoroughly enjoyed. :o)

# 128 Williams Wedding Cake

April 28th, 2012

Williams Wedding Cake

This wedding cake was for a friend of mine's daughter. Their Utah theme was "monster movies" - which I thought was awesome! So I tried to do something that served some justice to how unique and awesome they were.

This cake was made up of layers of chocolate cake that had a peanut butter filling, and a white & yellow cake that had a vanilla marshmallow buttercream filling, all covered in vanilla buttercream and decorated with a garland of 96 hand-crafted gum paste flowers.

Aren't they great? This is my favorite.

I get an opportunity to take a picture with the cake!

The happy couple ♥

# 127 MS Fundraiser Cake

April 21st, 2012

MS Fundraiser Cake

I made this cake for the MS fundraiser event in Chicago. This cake was a dark chocolate, german chocolate, and white cake, with a chocolate peanut butter filling, covered in vanilla buttercream and fondant.