Chocolate Camera Candy Goodie Bag Favors - April 2015

I originally had planned to make these chocolate camera candies for the goodie bags at my daughter Carissa's photography themed birthday party, but unfortunately I ran out of time 😕 (you can see the cake here and some goodie bag cookies here).  We had taken pictures of my daughter with each party guest to print out and put in a homemade frame so everyone could take it home from the party, but that morning my printer decided to run out of ink. 😖 So, I decided we would just deliver the pictures to everyone at a later date (I didn't expect it to be such a later date, but better late than never, right.? 😉)  The good thing was that now I could make the camera candies and include them with the picture and frame. 😊

More details to come... 😊

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Rock Candy Baby Shower Cake - March 2014

I made this cake for my sister Valerie and her husband Josh for a baby shower in honor of their 2nd baby.  I also made some gluten free cupcakes (regular and mini) that matched the cake for some of her friends who have a gluten allergy.

My sister had seen the basic rock candy cake design in a picture.  She wanted to change the colors of the candy to go with their baby theme colors and wanted to add a personalized fondant topper to announce the baby's name.  I ended up making homemade rock candy for the cake.

More pictures and details to come... :)

[Right now I'm just trying to get everything on the blog, then I'll go back and fill in details; you can read a little longer explanation here if you want.  BUT if you have any questions in the meantime, in general or about this cake, please feel free to email me by clicking on the 'Contact Me' tab at the top of the page and using the email address found there.  I will try to get back with you as soon as possible.  Or you can always ask questions or leave a comment about this cake by clicking the comments link at the end of this post.  :)]

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Gender Reveal Cake - It's a... ??? - November 2013

When my sister Valerie was pregnant with their second baby, she and her husband decided to find out the gender.  After some persuading from her friends :) they decided to have a gender reveal party, and they asked me if I would bake the cake for it.  My mom offered to decorate it, but they didn't want us both to know the gender ahead of time, so after I baked and assembled the cake I frosted it with a layer of icing that would conceal any of the colored cake before handing it off.  Then, my mom finished frosting and decorating it.

I baked French vanilla almond sour cream cake in 2- 9 inch cake pans and French vanilla almond sour cream cake tinted 'the mystery color' in 3- 9 inch cake pans.  Since I was using a crystal cake stand, I put a round cake circle on the stand under the cake so no one would see the color of the cake through the crystal.  ;)  I alternated layers of colored and white cake and iced them with white frosting in between as I stacked them.  When all the layers were assembled I iced the cake with a crumb coat.  After the crumb coat set I iced the cake with just enough frosting so my mom couldn't see the color of the cake when she went to decorate it.

My mom iced the cake with white frosting and made little peaks on the sides.  My sister had asked her to write 'Oh, Baby!' on the cake, so she piped it in green icing on the top.  Then she used pearlized pink, blue, and green sixlets around the base of the cake and several on the top.

The cake turned out really cute and sweet, and when they cut the cake everyone was excited to find out they were having a... 

...BOY!  :)

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Box of Chocolates Cake - May 2011

I made this box of chocolates cake for my daughter, Carissa's, Kindergarten teacher as a thank you for being such a great teacher.  The chocolates aren't candy though; I made some cake balls to look like chocolate candies.  :)

I had some cake balls left over, so I plated them up and gave them to the room moms as a thank you treat.

More pictures and details to come... but for now... to make this cake (and cake balls) I basically followed the instructions found on Bakerella's site for her heart candy box cake.  Yay, Bakerella!  :)

[Right now I'm just trying to get everything on the blog, then I'll go back and fill in details; you can read a little longer explanation here if you want. BUT if you have any questions in the meantime, in general or about this cake, please feel free to email me by clicking on the 'Contact Me' tab at the top of the page and using the email address found there, and I will try to get back with you as soon as possible. Or you can always ask questions or leave a comment about this cake by clicking the comments link at the end of this post. :)]

(I created my animated name at this site.)

Taste the Skittle Cake - May 2009

I made this Skittle cake for my daughter, Cara's, 4th grade homeroom teacher for Teacher Appreciation Week.  One of her favorite things are Skittles, so we thought this would be nice for her.

Below is how the Skittle cake looked by itself before I poured the Skittles in the pan.

I used a ball pan to bake this cake.  I filled the pan up with less batter than I normally would though because I didn't want a really round ball shape.  I wanted it to be flatter, not like a sphere, you know more the shape of a Skittle.  :)  After I baked and cooled the cake completely, I leveled the two halves of the cake.  Then I stacked the halves together with buttercream icing in between them.  I crumb coated the cake and let the icing set.  Once the crumb coat was set I tinted some vanilla buttercream with red food coloring and iced the cake with it.  Using a piping bag and some white icing I piped the outline of the 'S' on top of the cake then filled it in.  My last step was to pour real Skittles in the pan around the cake.  Yum.  :)

Cara's teacher really liked the cake, and she especially liked the Skittles that came along with it [which I heard got nibbled on little by little throughout the rest of that day. :) ]

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