One busy weekend- here is what I have been up to over the last week....

Princess 1st birthday cake - french vanilla cake with whipped frosting with fondant dots and crown.

Pink and black polka dot cake - milk chocolate cake with vanilla butter cream and fondant dots and flowers.

North Carolina Tar Heels cake - french vanilla cake with vanilla butter cream and fondant basketball.

Leprechaun pull apart cake - milk chocolate cupcakes with vanilla butter cream frosting.

Leprechaun pull apart cake - french vanilla with vanilla butter cream frosting.

A lil bit

I am currently baking three cakes - all for this weekend. But here is a preview of two cakes (in the end they will be a lot alike) that I mixed the decorations on just to mess with their excited new owners. (Gotta have fun outside of the kitchen too!)

Personally I don't think the crown goes with the wild and crazy paper but it will go very well with the black and pink polka dots and ribbon that will adorn this cake in the end. I have to say the butter cream on this cake is amazing! (Thank you again, Aunt Kathy)  I now know why people pop into bakeries and buy shots of frosting - yum! (The smoothing still needs some work, but I'm getting there.) Anyway, just wanted to share what I've been up to since it is almost mid month and I had yet to post a darn thing!

The ultimate cupcake

I would just like to say "thank you" again to my awesome aunt who made me a stained glass window as an early wedding present. Check it out for yourself

The view from inside of my kitchen - yes I know it needs to be repainted.

The view from my soon to be dining room.

Words cannot express how happy I am with this awesome gift that I will get to look at everyday for the rest of my life!



Polka dots and a tiara

I'm super excited about my next cake (then again, I'm always excited about cake) - Miss Addison's 1st birthday cake. Today I made my first ever fondant tiara, now for an art class flunky like me, even the little things are impressive (haha).

Number 1 tiara



Once it finishes drying I will post pictures of it standing upright and as always I will sneak photos in of the cake as it progresses.

Smooches,

Weee

The concept is realized

Final update - here are photos from the party and the finished products all set up.

Check out the awesome painting her friend did for her!



If you have been following my post then you have already seen the concepts for the cake I'm currently making. I'm excited to be sharing some of my other coordinating creations.

The cake board -over sized and striped.

The cake - still not finished (haha slid an update in the update post and yes for those of you looking, the picture of the cake keeps changing from day to day)

Zebra striped cake pops - peanut butter cup flavored.

Zebra striped cake pops - chocolate flavored.

Customized cake pop stand

Death by chocolate?

Is it possible to die from too much chocolate? I think this cake just might answer that question!

Death by chocolate cake - triple chocolate fudge cake with blood red chocolate mouse in between the layers, smothered in whipped chocolate frosting, covered in kit kat bars, topped with m&m's and finished with a pretty steel blue bow.

Yikes, stripes...

I'm excited to have another new design, especially one so versatile. Pick your three favorite colors-viola!

Striped cake pops - I think the bottom picture looks like ice cream, love them!