Spiderman Cake

This is my Spiderman cake that I made for my son's 4th birthday since it is his favorite character at the moment. I got the idea from http://www.groovy-kids-parties.com/spidermancake.html and it turned out pretty good. This was my first character cake that I have made and hope to make a character cake for my girls' birthdays next year.

Collin's 7th Birthday

We were over run by ZHU ZHU's!!  Collin had to have a Zhu Zhu's for his birthday and TOLD me that I had to make him a Kung Zhu type cake.  Decided to make the cake look some what like the battle arena for the little critters.  Oh and he insisted on a lime cake! 

Here's the little darlin'! 

I was glad to have Mark home with me that day.  I had little miss Carlee, so Mark kept her busy so I could work on the cake.  Mark also made the little pets to go on top and I just painted them.

PRESENT TIME!!

A ninja guy from his cousin Alec.

A Bakugan from Mark.

Pikachu from Carlee.

This grandma gave Collin 4 Kung Zhu pets and one battle armor.  I wrapped each one separate and put each of them in another box and then put the box in a gift bag.  Collin started cracking up when he saw all the boxes inside the other box.

More Zhu Zhu stuff from his mom and dad.

Sweet little Carlee and her "sister". (one of their neighbors)

Collin and Alec.  They are both growing up so fast!!

Here's some of the Zhu Zhu frenzy!

Kaitlyn's Birthday 2010

Kaitlyn turned the big "13" this past July 4th!  I thought that she needed to have a more girly cake and do away with the patriot stuff just because she was born on the 4th of July.  I asked her what colors and flavors that she wanted and that's all.  She didn't know what kind of cake she was getting!  She wanted a chocolate cake with cookies and cream filling and the colors of purple, pink and orange.

Kaitlyn

I have seen some cake boards with a lined groove in them and have been trying to figure out how they made them.  So here's my version of it.

I first covered my cake board with fondant.  This was a 16 inch wide 1/2 inch particle board.

Trim off excess.

Find the middle of board.  Using a very large skewer, I just pressed it into the fondant, going all the way around.  It was kind of hard to keep it centered.

The middle doesn't look great, but it was going to be covered anyway!  I let it dry for a few days before adding any cake.

I then made flip flops.  I just cut a shoe shape, added the little flowers and pressed a patterned mat on the top.

I then poked the holes, rolled out a strip of fondant/gum paste and gave it some stitching.  I folded it in half and rounded the middle between my fingers a bit and put it in the first hole at the toe of the flip flop.

Then take some plastic wrap and put on the flip flop.  Take the ends of the straps over the plastic wrap and break the excess strap off where the other holes are, rounding the ends a little to fit into the hole.  I added the little flower in the middle just for and extra touch.  Let dry for a few days.

When it was time to make the chocolate cake, I used a 12" x 18" pan to bake the cake.  I cut it into fourths and stacked with cookies and cream filling in between the layers.  The top half was carved to make it rounded and the sides where angled some.  Pink fondant covered the whole cake.  White fondant was added over the pink and the stitching effect was used on the edges and straps.  I made a simple cord strap to the purse. 

I'm also testing products for Melissa Dotson over at Decorate the Cake.  I used her Studded Oval Buckle to make the buckle on this purse.  The buckle was made from gum paste and I let it dry for a few days.  Silver luster dust was then painted on it.  The purse strap was threaded through the buckle.

You can find the buckle on her site here.

I also used Melissa's 5 Petal Blossom mold.  They are really quick and easy to make.  Just dust a little cornstarch or luster dust onto the mold, add the gum paste or fondant, press the molds together and voila!  Easy peasy!!

You can find this mold here.

This gift bag was made from another 12" x 18" pan cut in half and layered with filling.  It's covered with purple fondant and stamped with a regular stamp using a deeper purple luster dust and lemon extract.

Nail polish bottle is all gum paste painted with sparkle dust on the bottom and luster dust on top.

This was a fun cake to make!!

Collin and Carlee's Father's Day Cake 2010

Here's Collin and Carlee's uhummm....Father's Day cake.  We just let them do what came naturally!

This is the first time we let Carlee try to ice the cake.

 

Just look at that concentration!

Collin mainly did the top of the cake and some on the side.

This was Carlee's side.

She was pretty happy with what she did!

What goofballs!!!

Kendall and Katelyn's Wedding

This is my nephew Kendall and his lovely new bride, Katelyn.  They are such and cute couple!!  On Friday, June 11th, they were married at 7:30 am in the beautiful Salt Lake Temple.  Joe and I didn't make it down for the wedding ceremony because I was doing their cake.  I sure would have loved to have been there!!  

The day was rainy of and on and really picked up later that afternoon, before the reception.  Rain on your wedding day is supposed to bring good luck and a happy marriage.  It rained from Tremonton to the reception location.  Fun, fun!!  Joe forgot to cover the bottom tier of the cake when he took it out of the car, so it had rain spots on it. :o(   Just had to go with it!!  

This is Kendall's parents, Ted and Carol.  Ted is my hubby, Joe's, brother. 

Now for some of the food that they served.  And just so you know, I just made the cake only!  Didn't have anything to do with anything else.  This was the only thing that was served that I could eat.  They were yummy.

Sorry that this is a little blurry, but this looked so...ummm....mmmmm-mmmm!!!  Chocolate cups filed with some kind of pastry cream!!  I would love to try and make something like this!

Dang it!!  I couldn't resist this one!  They were only like two inches, so they couldn't have been that bad, right!!  They were sure delicious!!

Luscious Lemon Bars!  Drool......

Okay!  Here's my cake.  It's a red velvet cake with cream cheese icing and covered in marshmallow fondant with fresh flowers.

The cake cutting.

Not sure what to do?!!  They were nice about it though.  My camera didn't go fast enough to catch them feeding each other.

I loved here dress!!! 

Getting ready to throw the bouquet.

Garter time!  I think Kendall was really nervous about doing this!  heehee!!

Awww....sweet!!!