these are cupcakes i made for brie’s youth group shower:
cakery and confections
baby liam’s cake
below, you will find two pictures of the cake i made for chris’s baby shower, which i attended late this morning. we (lorena and i) tried desperately to match the colors of chris’s chosen “theme”, and i think we came relatively close. we had a lot of fun making the cake, too. and isaac and […]
two cakes
these are the two most recent cakes i’ve made. this is one i made for brie’s shower. it’s a devil’s food cake, with chocolate ganache filling and chocolate buttercream icing. learning to make roses has taken up a large chunk of my life. this is pooh. i’m taking a decorating class and our first […]
happy birthday cora!
cora is one today.i made some cakes. well, sort of.i decorated a costco cake for the guests. i made and decorated a “personal” cake for the guest of honor. see below:
sad cake
Our most recent adventure in the wild and crazy world of cake decorating took place yesterday. Lorena purchased a plain half sheet cake from Costco (since we needed a gigantic one for the mega-party) and brought it over and we went to work. Sadly, this cake was for a going away party for Ryan, Gloria […]
Mr. Mischief
I’m too lazy to pull the pictures off my camera, so this camera-phone picture will have to do. This is the cake I made for the boy’s birthday party. I was going to make Mr. Grumpy, to match his shirt, but I think I like Mr. Mischief better. It suits him much better, too: while […]
Friday Cakeday Volume II
Today was our second round of making cakes. We made a firetruck for PJ’s birthday tomorrow. PJ’s mom just thinks we used a flat cake mold to make the cake, so hopefully she likes this… This is a shot of Lorena doing the not-so-fun crumb coat.Here’s me, applying some of the star outercoat (we did […]
Queens of Cakes
For Heather’s shower, Lorena, Chris and I had the grand plan to make a cake with fondant. Actually, Lorena had the grand plan. Chris and I just nodded and went along with it. I guess we watch too much Ace of Cakes and they make it look so easy, so we thought we’d try our […]