Minion Cake

I'm lovin' these little minions lately. After I made this cake, we ended up having a family movie night and I watched Despicable Me2 for the first time....it was too cute! 

This cake is a 3-D cake that I made with several 8"round cakes. It is covered and decorated with fondant. 

Toy Story Cake

I have a lot of fun cakes to post about! The last few months have been pretty busy with lots of fun birthday cakes. Kid's cakes are my favorite. I love how this Toy Story first birthday cake turned out....

I made the cake topper out of gumpaste and the cakes were buttercream with fondant details.

Frozen Cake and matching cupcakes

This is quite possibly one of my most favorite cakes I have made recently! I love how it turned out, and even though I haven't seen the movie, it sure was fun to make Olaf. I made all of the snowflakes out of royal icing by piping them onto parchment paper and letting them dry over night. My favorite part of the cake is the snow sprinkles and pearls. It was quite an appropriate cake to make this week since we have had frigid temperatures and a pretty big snow storm for NC :)

Fire Truck cake and cupcakes

I made this sweet little cake and cupcakes for my friend Preethi's little boy. Landon loved watching me make it and especially liked the "baby firetrucks" (he likes to call everything little "baby") on the cupcakes.

Train Cake

I love this sweet birthday cake! It was covered in all fondant and I made the little train from fondant as well. 

Pumpkin Carriage Cake

 My friend Dianna ask my to make this precious cake/ matching cupcakes for her boyfriend's daughter who turned 5. I haven't met them yet, but I hope to soon! I LOVE how the cake turned out and it was a perfect combination of Fall and Cinderella.

A Surprise Order

A few months ago I received an order from the editor of the book The Little Blue Truck! Back in the Spring I blogged here about my friend's Little Blue Truck birthday party. Apparently, that post is pretty popular because I have gotten a bunch of orders from people all over the country for those cookies and the cake topper. I have shipped some to Florida, Ohio, Alabama and now Boston.

Sooo, when the editor emailed I was super surprised to find out her order was for the illustrator and author of the book! She wanted to send them cookies as a congratulations on the success of their book (a very cute book I might add). Landon and I were very surprised to get the following thank you present....

And here is a pic of some of the cookies before I packaged them all up (Now THAT is a process when mailing cookies). I wrap the cookies individually in bubble wrap, then as a whole in bubble wrap, and finally put lots and lots of packing materials all around them. 

Let me tell you, that order sure made this North Carolina girl quite happy :)

I also recently shipped a smaller order of the same cookies along with another cake topper. This one is also made out of polymer clay, but I changed a few of the animals. Landon always wants to play with my toppers and especially this once since he loves The Little Blue Truck. 

Oh yeah, though I would share this picture of my little guy with ya'll as well: 

That's my precious little boy who likes to go through our trash can and find treasures (such as an empty bottle of blue food coloring). Boy of boy that was fun to clean up and his mouth was blue for the rest of the day ;)

Hot Air Balloon Cake and Cupcakes

Last weekend, I had a pretty cake crazy kitchen! I made this cupcakes and cakes for a little girl's first birthday party as well as the baptism cake below. I made it from sheet cakes and cut out the dress shape. Dave and I have had plenty of extra cake around here this week! 

Mickey Mouse Baseball Cake

I made this Mickey Mouse birthday cake for a 2nd birthday party. I had free range to do what I wanted - I love those orders! I just had to incorporate Mickey Mouse and baseball. It was a triple chocolate cake and was covered in buttercream and fondant. I cut Mickey out of fondant and used royal icing to outline him and add the stitching to the baseball. 

Annnnddd here is a pic of my little helper. He loves to lick the spoon ;) 

Curious George Cake

This cake was made for a baby shower...I LOVE Curious George. "George" is one of Landon's favorite books right now so when I was making this little guy he was super excited. The cake was vanilla with strawberry filling and covered in fondant. 

Bounce House Birthday Cake

Bounce house birthdays are very popular lately so it was fun to make a cake to go along with the theme.  I made this two tier, chocolate and vanilla cake for a recent birthday party. It was really special because I have made a cake for this family (twin boys) the last few years :)  Anywho, I used the invitation as inspiration for the cake. I hope they had a fun time at their party!! 

Oh yeah, I was playing around with picasa and thought this setting made the cake look really cool.