# 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.

# 126 The Easter Cupcakes

April 8th, 2012

The Easter Cupcakes

These cupcakes were carrot cake, topped with cream cheese frosting (with a hint of orange), topped with chopped pecans.

# 125 Baby Kay's 1st Birthday Cake

March 22nd, 2012

Baby Kay's 1st Birthday Cake

This birthday cake was for my friend, who waited two boys and 6 years for her little girl. Her only request was that it be a girly girl cake, so I threw everything girl on it I could muster. For Kay, I made the inside colorful, because who doesn't love surprises? :o)

This is a white cake, covered in vanilla buttercream frosting.

This is from the camera of Baby Kay's mom.

This is from the camera of Baby Kay's mom.

# 124 The St. Patrick's Day Cake

March 17th, 2012

The St. Patrick's Day Cake

This was a farewell cake for a kid headed off to Air Force boot camp after his big St. Patrick's Day party. It was chocolate and vanilla cake, with vanilla buttercream, and decorated with chocolate shamrocks.

This is how we do St. Patrick's Day breakfast at our house.

# 123 The Escalade Cake

February 27th, 2012

The Escalade Cake

This cake was vanilla, with a fresh strawberry pie filling, covered in vanilla buttercream and fondant. This cake was the first car-off-the-board cake I'd made, and came with some challenges. Having done one now, I know what I would do differently!! (bigger wheels, inset, different mounting, etc) So so many mistakes.

Thank goodness the client who got this cake has ordered from me before - so she knows I can do better!!

# 122 Star Dragon Birthday Cake

February 16th, 2012

Star Dragon Birthday Cake

I decorated this cake for a friend - she baked a yellow cake in a star shape and brought it over with some red candies and lots of candles to decorate the cake. So fun! This was decorated in white frosting and candies with a fondant dragon.

# 121 Sugar-Free Valentine Cupcakes

February 9th, 2012

Sugar-Free Valentine Cupcakes

These were sugar-free chocolate cake, topped with sugar-free vanilla frosting. I definitely have some science to explore concerning sugar-free cakes!!! These were not as good as I wanted them to be. But they were pretty!

# 120 Superman Birthday Party Cake (and Cupcakes)

January 21st, 2012

Superman Birthday Party Cake (and Cupcakes)

This was a birthday cake for my son's birthday party - his first big deal party, at Chuck-E-Cheese, with friends from his school and everything! This was a chocolate cake (his favorite), with mountains of vanilla buttercream frosting (the only reason he really likes cake anyways), topped off with fondant details.

The cupcakes