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).

Storm End of the Year Cupcakes - July 2013

Kyle's baseball team finished the season with only 1 loss, and they won the world series for their league.  After the season we have a big party to celebrate the kiddos.  I volunteered to make the dessert this year.   I made cupcakes in both white and chocolate, I used the 1M tip to frost them.  I then sprayed the cupcakes with black or red color mist (I left a few plain white too).  I also sprinkled them with black, red or white sprinkles.  I then printed a picture of each kiddo at bat, cut it out and glued it to a sucker stick and placed then in the cupcakes.  Each kiddo got their cupcake.  

I cut out the team logo and placed it on the top cupcake.

Alyson's Wedding Cake - May 2013

My friend Cori asked me to make her daughters wedding cake.  Of course I said I would!  They were having the wedding reception at the Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatfield in a barn.  They wanted a country setting for their reception.  It was a beautiful setting.

We decided on 3 cakes, each with a story to tell, and different flavors.

This is the cake table with all 3 cakes

This cake was a chocolate cake with coconut filling.  I iced it smooth and used ribbon to decorated it with the wedding colors and flowers used in the wedding party.

This cake was the centerpiece.  It was white cake with raspberry filling.  I iced it smooth and sprayed it with pearl shimmer.  I also used small pearl candies for the dots on the middle cake and the borders on each layer.  The shoe on top was from Disneyland.  Alyson and Derrik got engaged at Cinderella's castle at Disneyworld.  So we wanted something to represent that part of their story.

This cake was white cake with lemon filling.  I iced it smooth and used a burlap ribbon.  The giraffes on top represent their first date.  Derrik flew out to see Alyson over summer break.  They spent the whole week together.  One place they went was the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo.  You can feed the giraffes there, and Alyson loves giraffes.

Gender Reveal Cake - April 2012

Brian and Kim are having a baby! To reveal if it is a boy or a girl they are having a gender reveal party. They told me the gender and I made the cake blue for a boy or pink for a girl. The party is tonight so I can't say much :)

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 and Melissa's Birthday Cupcakes - January 2012

Kyle and his cousin have birthdays that are back to back. So we celebrate them together as a family. This year we went to Casa Bonita for dinner. We were able to bring cake and presents. It was easier to make cupcakes and transport them. I made banana split cupcake. I made strawberry cupcakes and filled them with marshmallow cream, and frosted them with banana frosting. I then dipped the cupcakes in ganache and topped each one with a cherry. They were really good.

Hellstrom Family Reunion Cake - July 2011

I made a cake for our family reunion. It had our logo for the reunion on it (the Denver skyline because the reunion was in Denver and the HE'11STROM at the top). This was the logo we had on all the Amazing Race clues. I did half white cake with raspberry filling and the other half chocolate cake with coconut filling. This was before all the little fingers got to the cake :)

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.

Wolfe Family Eagle Scout Court of Honor Cake - June 2011

I made the Eagle Scout Court of Honor cake for Andrew and Tim Wolfe. Because it was a cake for 2 scouts, I was not able to personalize it and do the merit badges. I still had the eagle medal in edible image.

Andrew Metanias' Eagle Scout Court of Honor Cake - March 2011

I made the cake for Andrew Metanias' Eagle Scout Court of Honor. I wanted it to be personalized for him, so I made edible images of all the merit badges he earned on his way to eagle. I place these on fondant and placed them around the edge of the cake. I also made an edible image of the eagle medal.

Harker Wedding Cake - November 2010

I made the wedding cake for someone in our ward who got married. They were really easy to work with and did not know what they wanted for a cake. All I new was they wanted chocolate cake with chocolate filling. I did a chocoalte cake with a chocolate whipped pudding filling. They needed a 4 tier cake for the number of people attending. I did white fondant with a purple ribbon around the bottom (purple was one of their wedding colors). We used yellow tulips to decorate around the cake. Thanks to Cori Holloway and her friend Charlotte Rowley for helping me roll the fondant! This was one of my best wedding cakes to date.

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!

Brian and Kim's Wedding Cake

I made Brian and Kim's wedding cake. They wanted an octagone shape and 3 teirs (8 and 3 are good luck numbers in China). Their wedding colors were red and black. The topper was made in Hong Kong. I used my cake cricut to cut the images out. The flavors were bottome layer: white cake with raspberyy filling, middle layer: chocolate cake with coconut filling, top layer: chocolate cake with easy cream filling )cool whip, chocolate chops, and coconut). Brian and Kim took the top layer on their homeymoon.

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.