On Your Mark...

This was for my son's 3rd Birthday.  We did 2 small parties with both our playgroups which worked out because I wasn't sure how I wanted to do the cake, the figure 8 or not.  So I tried both.  I baked 2- 9" round cakes and cut a small section out of one so the other cake could fit right up against it.  I then frosted the edges and pressed green dyed coconut against it.  For the top I placed 2 cups in the middle of the circles and then sprinkled crushed oreos around them.  I removed the cups and added more coconut.  I used tic-tacs for the road lines and his favorite cars for on top.

We also made candy cars using gum, hard candy, and starbursts.

This is the best picture I could find of the cars.

Happy Birthday Ethan! 

Heart tier cake

I made this for a Relief Society birthday celebration for our church. It was my first time working with fondant and I thought that it would be easy. Maybe if my cake wasn't heart shape and I didn't have to cut most of the heart shapes out myself it would have been. The fondant was a little difficult to cover the heart but it turned out okay after my friend and I covered most of the mistakes with poka-dots. I did enjoy doing this and will probably work with fondant in the future but on a much smaller scale, (wedding cakes are not in my future.)

Sweetheart shower

We made these for a bridal shower. It was a couple weeks before Valentines Day so we used that for inspiration to do the pink heart cookies.  This was when Patti discovered the lemon cream cheese frosting from one of her magazines. We will use it in the future for sure.  This is when I discovered how much I enjoy doing desserts especially with my amazingly creative friends.  I am so blessed to have them.

All Aboard!

My husband and I made this for our son's 2nd Birthday.  It was my first cake attempt.  We really enjoyed doing this together and listening to our boy bounce around the room saying "mommy make me choo-choo cake."  We baked the cake in loaf pans and cut them into the various square sizes and the round part on the engine we baked in a cleaned out green bean can. The smoke stack is a frosted marshmellow.  The cake was easier to frost when we froze it.