Paige's 2nd Birthday

I must admit that I took a step back in my decorating journey on this cake.  I was 9.5 months pregnant and completely out of energy.  So, while I had a great theme to work with (Minnie Mouse) I simply was not able to complete the wow factor that I love my cakes to have.  I wanted to do a pink cake with white dots.  Unfortunately, the pink turned out to be too light (pink lemonade) and the white dots didn't pop like I would have liked.  It was nice to see that my piping skills continue to improve as the circles were all actually circle and pretty much the same size.  Paige loved it, but I'm thinking I'll have to step up my game next year for her.

Allie's 4th Birthday

Definitely my most fabulous cake to date, Allie's Care Bear birthday cake turned out Amazing!  In fact, I think I even surprised myself.  To begin, I cut the rainbow shape out of cardboard and then used frosting to attach Skittles to make the rainbows.  Purchased blue frosting helped to make the cake color darker which helped the clouds (piped white frosting) and the stars (piped yellow frosting) to stand out clearer.  The Care Bears were purchased and gave it a nice professional finish.  The piping turned out looking much fluffier than I expected which helped to create the illusion of the clouds, while having the double rainbow added depth as well as more color.  I think this is the first time that a cake turned out even better than I had created it to be in my head.  I think I might be getting the hang of this cake decorating thing!

Not to mention that Allie LOVED it and we almost hated to cut into it.

Cody's 6th Birthday

Cody asked for a Lego Ninja cake based on a cake he saw in a magazine.  I decided to replicate it with a few creative changes.  I utilized typical cake supplies such as sprinkles, but added in some chocolate pieces, cereal pieces, pretzels and even a Fruit-by-The-Foot to set the scene for the Ninja.  There was not a lot of frosting skill or shaping skill involved, but the creativity came in making the scene out of edible items.  Overall I was happy with how it turned out (and in my opinion it was better than the example I used), while Cody was thrilled!