Littlest Pet Shop Cake

I made this Littlest Pet Shop Cake for my neighbor's little girl. We debated about just putting the plastic figurines on the cake, but Allie had very unusually requests for the animals-she wanted a lady bug and a pig. I ended up making them out of fondant and they turned out really cute. Allie's other request was for the cake to be pink (so I made a strawberry cake) and to have blue frosting. I added the big pink bow to make it look a little more girly and to match the animals. It turned out very cute.

LV Knights Soccer Cake

I made this cake for one of the players on the LV Knights Soccer Team. His mom had ordered it for his birthday. I have always piped the soccer ball. This time I covered it in fondant, and used a carving tool to make the lines. I then painted the black parts with dye. It was so much easier and so much cuter. I made the Knight logo out of a piece of white gumpaste and painted it with dye also. I chose to decorate the cake portion with a harlequin pattern, with little red buttons. This is my best soccer cake yet!

Golf Cake

Last week one of Seth's friends had a party and he asked me to make the cake. Cole was having his party at King Putt, so he said he wanted a golf club on the cake. I made a little fondant figure holding a golf club with the hole behind him. I saw cakes that had a cute argyle pattern and wanted to give it a try. The tiny red lines got a little tedious, but I liked how it turned out.

Rapunzel "Tangled" Cake

I made this "Tangled"cake for a little girl who was turning 3. I used a plastic tower I had left over from a castle cake I had made. I built the little room on top of the tower and the base of the tower out of Rice Crispy Treats. I covered the rest of the tower in fondant.


This was a fun cake to try to figure out how to make. I had to send it with the customer in 3 pieces, to be assembled at the party. I hope they got it together OK!

Snow Family Cake

I made this cake for the family we had for Pixie Week. Pixie Week is when you are assigned a family and you leave little presents on their doorsteps, knock, and run for 3 nights. You are supposed to reveal yourself the last night, so we made a cake for the occasion. This is a 6 inch cake - so those snow people are pretty tiny. It was fun to make and I had wanted to try making the fondant trees I've seen decorators on TV make. They were very easy to make and the cake turned out so cute.

Birthdays, Cookie Parties and Fun

My daughter has a really good friend who has a daughter (Kailey) that was having a birthday!  This is the cake that I made for her.  It was pretty fun to make.

Kailey had a princess party, so here is Princess Carlee and Princess Kailey.  They had tons of fun!

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Earlier this month was the Festival of Trees in Arco.  The elementary school children all sing on the first day of the Festival.  Here is Collin's second grade class singing their Christmas songs.  He's in the middle with the red and white stripped shirt.  They were all so cute and sang very well!!

Carlee had a great time listening to all the singing.  Of course she was dancing all over the place!

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Well looky here!!  Collin has finally lost his first tooth!!  WooHoo!!!

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Kami hosted a Cookie Exchange Party at her house.

This is the table of all the cookies and candies that were brought!!  What a fun time!!

Deliciously Fun, Flavored Popcorn

Well...I can't make this anymore!!  I loved it so much, that I ate most all of it!  It's so easy to make and the flavors are many!

Here is all you need to make Jello Popcorn:

8 cups popped popcorn

1/4 cup butter

3 tablespoons corn syrup or honey

1/2 cup sugar

1 3oz box jello, any flavor (don't use sugar-free)

Preheat oven to 300 degrees.

Line a jelly roll pan with foil and spray lightly with a non-stick spray and set aside.  Place popcorn in a very large mixing bowl.

Place the butter and corn syrup in a sauce pan on medium heat, stirring until the butter is melted.

Add the sugar....

...and jello and stir to combine.

Increase heat and bring to a boil.  Reduce heat so it just simmers.  Continue simmering for 5 minutes.  The mixture will start out thick and will stay somewhat thick although will become a little more liquid.  

After the sugar mixture cimmers for 5 minutes, immediately pour over the popcorn, being careful to not touch the hot syrup!!  It's very hot!  Mix right away, stirring so that all the popcorn gets well coated.

Spread out the popcorn evenly onto the prepared pan.  Put it in the oven for about 10 minutes.  Some jello flavors have more mix in them then other, so if one flavor is more liquid, it may need another minute or two in the oven.  Remove the pan and let cool.  Break the mixture into pieces and store in an airtight container.  

You could also leave them soft and gooey and you could make them into balls, but if you are going to pack them up for giving it's better if it's been baked to give it that crunch!

Here are lime, raspberry, orange and lemon flavors.  I want to try some more flavors, but I know that I would eat them all!!!