The Mad Hatter

This cake was for my roommate's mad tea party birthday. She is a little mad in the best sort of way so this was the perfect cake for her. 

To create the hat I stacked 9", 8", and 6" cake rounds on top of each other and carved them down to get the tappered hat. I then rolled out foundant to create the rim. The 10/6 card is made of royal icing that I let dry and harder so that it would stand up and out away from the cake slightly. The tea cup and dormouse are also completely edible and molded out of dyed foundant. 

It looks relatively simple but you would be surprise how much time goes into even basic shapes and designs. I always know when the cake is finished becuase I start involuntarily jumping up and down and yelling, "AHHH! I love it, love it! EHHH!" Haha. There is nothing better than a finished cake that turns out just how you imagined. 

The Big Apple

My good friend Crystal is leaving for her mission to New York, New York South on Wednesday and after taking my own trip to New York this week I had lots of inspiration. I thought she should "Start spreading the news" with a cake just for her before she set off for the Big Apple!


The cake was baked in two separate pieces to create the apple shape. I then frosted it with three different shades/layers of red and piped a stem, leaf, and New York City Skyline to finish it off. I also printed an area map of where she will be living in New York and cover the cake board with it so the giant apple could be the "You Are Here" symbols for her new city:)

Pink Champagne

Happy  Birthday Camille and Mary! The girls threw a Mocktail party so I though I would keep with the theme. It is chocolate cake with champagne frosting, tinted sugar beads which are supposed to be the fizzing bubbles of the drink, and of course some virgin pink champagne holding up the top tier. Everyone loved it and it was a great night! Thanks for having a birthday girls.. I sure love you guys!

Happy Birthday Lolo

This was my birthday cake so I used my favorite tips on the 3 tiers. 

Boo! Happy Halloween!

I had a small leftover cake in my freezer and we were having people over to carve pumpkins so I thought I would pull it out and have a Halloween treat to reward all the creative carvers. 

It was a red velvet cakes with cream cheese frosting. The spider on top is a little marshmallow covered in chocolate. 

More Motorcycles

Once you know my family it's not hard to guess why there is more than one motorcycle on this blog:) I made this for my darling nephews who had a combine birthday this summer. And yes that is my favorite rider, James "Bubba" Stewart, winning the race. The table top is out off Rice Krispies and the whoops section is licorice covered in cookie crumbs. 

Happy Birthday Karen

Karen's favorite dessert is Boston Creme Pie so I made a yellow cake, with vanilla custard filling, chocolate frosting, and a cherry to top it all off. Everyone at work was so sweet with all their ooohhhs and awwwhhs when they saw it. 

Happy B-Day Big D!

This cake tasted sooooo good! It is a rich chocolate cakes with banana cream filling and decadent homemade coco frosting. I loved this frosting technique, it was so simple and looks great. Sorry for the candle holes in the photo, forgot to get a good pic again:) That should be my new year's resolution!

Go Anteaters!

Congrats Jeff! My brother graduated with his MBA from UC Irvine and his sweet girlfriend wanted to make sure we celebrated his huge accomplishment! In case you were wondering, their mascot is an anteater:)

Matterhorn Mountain

My friend at work wanted to surprise her new hubby with a Groom's Cake of his favorite ride at Disneyland, the Matterhorn. I loved loved doing this cake. I am terrible at remembering to take good final product photos of my cakes so the first one doesn't have the Yettie and the second does but was on my phone so it's really little.

Shark Attack

My nephew had a shark birthday and wanted some cool cupcakes. The sharks are frosted Twinkies with Oreo cookie fins and the life savers are frosted donuts.

Hockey Rink

Happy 21st Birthday! You can't see it on the other player but I got his old hockey number and even made sure the player had a righty stick just like the birthday boy. The little hockey players were made out of marzipan and secured with two toothpicks. 

Happy Hump Day

After one year in Denmark my Elders were over the hump and it was all down hill from there. These little individual cakes were baked in cereal bowls to create the hill and the elders were made out of marzipan. 

Pink Lemonade

Lemon cake with strawberry filling for a girls weekend that was just as sweet.

Happy Anniversary

President Olauson called me at the last minute to see if I could whip up an anniversary cake for the Adams. With the ingredients at home this was the end product. 

Fear Factor

I did a training on facing fears and of course wanted work a cake into the trainging somehow. So I made a scary spider... come on who isn't afraid of spiders?!!?

I baked the cake in two different sized cereal bowls to give the spider it's curved body and head. The legs are coca cola licorice and the eyes M&M. 

Home Sweet Home

Home Sweet Home or Hjem Dejlige Hjem. I made this for our ward mission leader HC in Aalborg right after he move to his new beach house. The house is made out of sugar cookie and frosted to look like a little danish home. 

Banished to Bornholm

I made this for my District Leader's birthday/farwell. He had been our DL for several months but was getting transferred to Bornholm and island off Denmark. He was a great DL and we wanted to send him off right. 

This cake was especially fun for me to make because I FINALLY had my cake tips. I didn't bring them with me to Denmark but found myself wishing I had almost everyday. Mom was sweet enough to stick them in a care package for me. I was so lucky to have so many opportunities to bake cakes for people while I was there.

Jeff's Birthday

So this cake was a last minute birthday treat for my brother. We were at our time share in New Port on family vaca so I decided to make him a birthday cake, but I all I had were zip lock bags. Haha. I still think it turned out pretty good:)

Rainbow Fish

This was a cake for a friend in college that love the children's book "Rainbow Fish". It was so easy to do. I just frosted it with blue frosting, covered it with spree candy and made the fins out of gummi orange slices.

Lightning McQueen

This cake not only has a checkered flag on the outside but the cake itself is vanilla and chocolate checkers. For Lightning, I bake some batter in a bread pan which gave me the perfect shape to carve out his body. This was the first tiered cake I ever did and couldn't believe how cute it turned out!