Kyle's Half Birthday Cake - August 2013

Kyle has become a fan of NASCAR, more specifically a fan of #78 Furniture Row Racing.  With Henry's connections we took a tour of the race shop for Kyle's party.  Of course I had to make a birthday cake that fit the party!  I made an 8" round cake, iced it smooth, cut out a piece of black fondant to fit the top of the cake.  I then had an edible image made of the cars number.  I cut it out and placed it on the fondant.  I then piped a shell boarder on the top and bottom.

Dave's Birthday Cake - August 2013

Henry's boss turned 50 this week.  Everyone in the office decided to throw him a party and Henry volunteered me to make the cake.  Dave is into sports cars, so the office decided they wanted a mountain with a road and a sports car driving "over the hill".  I made an 8" and 6" cake, I place the 6" on top of the 8" and carved them.  I iced them with green frosting and made a black road with sprinkles.  I made the trees and rocks out of fondant.  I used one of Kyle's matchbox cars for Dave's car (it was a Porsche).

Steve's Birthday Cake - February 2012

My Dad's birthday is February 3rd and we celebrate in along with our Super Bowl Party. His favorite cake is a chocolate cake with easy cream filling and chocolate frosting. The easy cream filling is cool-whip, coconut and mini chocolate chip. I sprinkled heart confetti on top so there was some color.

Kyle's Birthday Cake - January 2012

Kyle wanted a football cake this year. I make a First and Ten football cake (Wilton pan). I put it on a cake board and decorated it as directed. Then I made a 9x13 cake, chocolate with coconut creme filling. I place the football cake on the 9x13 cake.

Kyle wanted to have his cake with the Young Men at church. It was also Lori's birthday (the Young Women's President) so I made her a cake too. See the pictures on the next post down.

Lori's Birthday Cake - January 2012

See above post for the back story. Lori's cake was white cake with vanilla pudding filling and fresh raspberries. The flowers were fondant cut with the Cake Cricut and the border was left over fondant that I rolled into balls.

Kyle's Half Birthday Cake - July 2011

We decided we would start celebrating Kyle's half birthday with his friends, and his actual birthday with family. It is much easier to plan a birthday party in warm weather :). Kyle had been taking swimming lessons this summer and wanted a water park birthday party. I made a cake to look like a water park. It was a 3 tier cake and their were slides going down to each tier. The boats were made of chocolate and the people were made of fondant. It was 100 degrees on the day of the party (the only day we hit 100 of course) and the boats melted before I could get them on the cake. We lost over 1/2 of them :(. Live and learn! Kyle insisted on having sharks in the water.

Mary's Birthday Cupcake Tower - October 2010

I made this cupcake tower for Mary's suprise birthday party. The theme was the 80's. I frosted the cupcakes yellow and used fondant to make the shapes. I tinted the fondant neon colors, cut out the shapes, then used a fondant glue to glue the pices together. After they dried, I used the glue to glue a toothpick to the back. Then at the party I put a pick in each cupcake. The top cupcake had "80's" written on the shapes (also in fondant).

Kim's Birthday Cake - August 2010

I made Kim's birthday cake. It was a white chocolate cake with white chocolate frosting. The filling was white chocolate mouse with fresh raspberries. It was 4 tiers, and hard to stack. The frosting wasn't spreading very well either. But it was delicious!

Bryant's Birthday Cake - July 2010

Henry is the Young Mens president in our ward. This year the priests and teachers went on a 50 mile hike for their scout camp. One of the boys birthday was while they were on the campout. Henry took a cake up to celebrate his birthday.

Kyle's Birthday Party Cake - January 2010

For Kyle's birthday party I made a Mickey Mouse Clubhouse cake. Kyle actually picked the cake he wanted. It is iced with buttercream and then I used fondant to make the clubhouse and lettering.

Kyle and Melissa's Birthday Cake - January 2010

Kyle's birthday is the 17th and Melissa's birthday is the 18th (my niece). So on the 17th we did the family party for both of them. I made a cake for them both to share. I made this candy cake. The whole thing was supposed to be fondant but our family does not like fondant. So we bought real lollipops (1 for each kid) real candy disks, and real spice drops. It was a really easy cake.

Mom's Birthday Cake - December 2009

This is the cake I made for Mom's birthday. It was a white chocolate cake with raspberry filling and white chocolate frosting. The cake was denser than I usually like it but the flavor was really good. The frosting was the best part (Henry always says that the cake is just what holds up the frosting). I just shaved some white chocolate and sprinkled it on the top. Pretty simple, but sooo good!

Kim's Birthday Cake - August 2009

Brian's girlfriend, Kim had a birthday a few weeks ago so we had a birthday party for her. I made the birthday cake. It was a chocolate fanci-fill cake with cool whip, coconut, and chocolate chip filling. Then the icing was chocolate with red roses.

Eivy Mathews' Birthday Cake - June 2009

A friend of mine from church asked if I would make her daughter's birthday cake. Eivy loves Spot Conlin from the movie "Newsies" so she wanted a cake with that in mind. I found a picture of Spot on the internet and had it made into an edible image. I covered the cake in fondant and then sprayed it black. After I put the image on the cake I used frosting to pipe the red suspenders (a favorite feature of hers). This is the end result.

Brian's Birthday Cake - May 2009

Here is Brian's birthday cake. I took a picture from when he was 1 or 2 and did an edible image with it. I then tried to spray it hoping to get a little color on the cake. The spray went on heavier and blotchier than I would have liked. But here is the end result.

Zhenya's Twighlight Birthday Cake - May 2009

Laurel Plumb called and asked if I would make a cake for Zhenya's 13th birthday. She really wanted a twilight cake, as does every teenage girl!:) Here is the finished product. I used my new airbrush kit to spray the fondant black.

Rebekah's Twilight Cake - April 2009

Rebekah Schvaneveldt celebrated her 18th birthday and wanted me to do her cake. It was my first paying job, so I was nervous. She is a twi-hard! I made a cake that had an element from each cover of the Twilight series books. The apple (it was a real apple), the ruffled tulip petals (I made them out of gum paste), the red ribbon and torn red ribbon (made out of fondant), and the chess board and chess pieces (made out of fondant). The cake was a red velvet cake with cream cheese buttercream frosting and then covered in white fondant.

Relief Society Birthday Cake - March 2009

I was asked to make the birthday cake for the Relief Society Birthday celebration again. I was just put in as 1st counselor in the the new presidency and taught what the heck. A few days before the party, Henry's sister passed away. We ended up flying out of town for the funeral that night. So I made the cake, dropped it off at the church on the way to the airport. I was told it was good. It was a two tiered cake with chocolate cake and coconut filling, and white cake with raspberry filling. The cake was covered in a royal/electric blue fondant. The writing was all in golden yellow. These are the Relief Society colors. The top tier had the year the Relief Society was formed, the bottom tier has the Relief Society motto (Charity Never Faileth) and the top number is how old the Relief Society is. All around the cake is wheat in buttercream which is all over everything having to do with Relief Society.

Kyle's Dinosaur Cake - January 2009

Kyle's birthday party was at the Golden Train Museum. We rented the red caboose and the rental included a train cake so I didn't get to make a cake for his party. However for the family party I made a stegosaurus cake. Kyle was into dinosaurs and his favorites were stegosaurus and triceratops. This cake was so cute, I had to make it. It is a half circle cake with cookie pieces for the neck, head, tail, and legs. The spikes were melting chocolate molded into circles.

Silent Auction Winner - July 2008

For a youth camp fundraiser, I donated a custom cake. The Cottle's were the winners of the cake. They had me make a cake for Drew's Birthday. He is really into Harry Potter so I make Harry Potter.