My friend Jennifer Harmon who is my Pampered Chef Director and the President of the Women In Business organization asked if Courtney and I would make a cake for the June luncheon which we were happy to do for the practice and it also gave us some exposure to some new people which is great too!  Three of the ladies at the luncheon asked if we could make cakes for them and so we have some more opportunities to practice.  The bottom layer of this cake is the WASC cake recipe with a chocolate cake mix and 1/2 cup cocoa subbed for 1/2 cup of the flour and then the top 2 layers are the original White Almond Sour Cream recipe itself, the frosting is my Vanilla Buttercream and the blue fondant is Duff’s fondant from Michaels and the white fondant is the fondant from Funfinity.  Courtney made their logo out of fondant for the top of the cake and did a great job!  They gave away the top layer of the cake as a door prize and then we ate the other 2 layers at the lunch but I still have lots of cake leftover so if you live near me and have a hankering for cake, just call and I’ll bring some over!  Thanks to Jennifer for the support and thanks to the ladies of the Women in Business group who were so supportive and kind!

Last cake of the weekend!  We already have 3 wedding cakes coming up this summer so we bought a new flower making kit because Courtney has some new flowers to learn how to do for some of those cakes.  She wanted to practice so when we were all done with the other cakes we put this one together for her to practice on and then she took it babysitting to the Hansens for Bentley and Meadow and Jenn (Hi Jenn!) to munch on (as you might imagine, we have plenty of cake around here and don’t really need more!).  It was a little vanilla cake with vanilla frosting and vanilla fondant which Courtney said tasted great and she is a chocolate girl like me so that’s high praise!  She did great on the flowers, the lily especially is really pretty.  She’ll be practicing more so that we can be ready for the wedding cakes!

Our friend Kimber asked if we would make a New York Yankees Father’s Day cake for her husband Tyler to celebrate his very first Father’s Day.  This was another fun and different cake for us.  We made a vanilla cake (from Ann’s Poppy Seed Cake recipe subbing vanilla for yellow cake and omitting the poppy seeds), vanilla buttercream frosting and vanilla buttercream fondant from Funfinity.  Courtney cut out the Yankees logo and I did the pinstripes but we were out of room for the letters so those had to go on the platter.  We couldn’t quite get the Yankees blue because we didn’t have the right color blue and neither of us wanted to go to Michaels again since we are there almost every day and sometimes twice a day 🙂 but I still think it looks good (but then I’m not a dyed in the wool Yankees fan either).  Happy First Father’s Day Tyler!

This cake was so much fun to make!  My friend Lori called to see if we would make a Father’s Day cake for her husband Derek.  She sent us a list of things that he likes and we chose what we could do to put on the cake.  He loves black licorice so we used that to line the layers and he loves peanuts but we didn’t want to put actual peanuts on the cake so we used circus peanuts to also line the layers.  He also loves Sour Patch Kids so we used those as our unifying theme on the cake, the Sour Patch Kids are doing all the things that Derek likes to do on his cake.  In the back right corner there is a tent with a SP Kid camping, in the back left corner there is a camera with a SP Kid getting his picture taken, in the front right corner is a skateboard with a SP Kid trying to stay on the skateboard, on the front left there is a bowl of chunky peanut butter with a bar of chocolate dunked in it and a SP Kid trying to climb in and then on the top there is a piano with 2 SP Kids playing chopsticks (at least that’s what they’re playing in my head!).  Derek also loves chocolate so this is a chocolate lover’s dream cake – rich cocoa cake (White Almond Sour Cream Cake recipe with lots of cocoa added), thick chocolate frosting (Vanilla Buttercream frosting recipe also with a lot of cocoa added) and then chocolate fondant from Funfinity here in Orem.  While we were making it, it all smelled so good and Cort and I just wanted to go face first in the cake!  Happy Father’s Day Derek!

These cakes were for my friend Dave’s wife Lisa who is an avid marathon runner so he wanted a cake with some of the logos of the marathons that she’s run on it.  It was a good stretch for us to try something new and ultimately it came out pretty good.  Courtney wanted to try her hand at bow making so we made the little present cake, covered it in pink fondant and then Cort made the bow out of a teal fondant and gum paste mixture and we made a gift tag out of white fondant/gum paste and wrote on it with edible food markers.  The logo cake we covered in white fondant and then put a logo on each side and 1 on top.  For those of you who are unfamiliar with marathon logos (like we were), I’ll tell you what they all are.  The “26.2”on the top of the cake is the length of a marathon and the 3 red stripes on the front is the logo for the Red Rocks marathon.

The orange logo there on the side is the logo for the Ragnar marathon.

The logo on the back (or in this photo, on the right) is the logo for the St George marathon which we had to cheat on a bit because we couldn’t do the script that they did in the actual logo on our cake (it was really hard to do in fondant!) and the logo on the left in orange is the logo for the Utah Valley marathon.  It was fun to do something different so thanks Dave for giving us the opportunity!  Lisa loves cherry chip cake so I adapted the White Almond Sour Cream recipe which was using a cherry chip cake mix and adding 1/2 tablespoon of cherry extract to the recipe for flavoring and of course then my vanilla buttercream frosting (when you find something that works and tastes delicious like the White Almond Sour Cream cake recipe and the Vanilla Buttercream Frosting recipe then why not use it?).  Happy Birthday Lisa!