Soccer Ball Graduation Fondant Cake

Another fabulous and funny friend and neighbor Pam, who also subscribes to my blog (Hi Pam, love you too!), called and asked if we would make a graduation cake for her daughter Kenzie who played soccer in high school and got a scholarship to play soccer at Idaho State so we made her a soccer … Continue reading

Softball Graduation Fondant Cake

Our wonderfully funny friend and neighbor Sharron, who subscribes to my blog (Hi Sharron, we love you!), called and asked if we could make a graduation cake for her granddaughter Andrea who played softball in high school and is going on to play softball in college so we made her a softball graduation cake.  The … Continue reading

Zebra Striped Hot Pink Topsy Turvy Birthday Fondant Cake

Our first “topsy turvy” cake for Courtney’s friend Janessa who is turning 18 today!  She wanted chocolate so the cake is the “White Almond Sour Cream” cake recipe (with chocolate instead of white and vanilla instead of almond), my go to Vanilla Buttercream Frosting recipe and several different kinds of fondant – the white and … Continue reading

S’mores Cookie Bars

This recipe comes from the May 20, 2011 issue of “All You” magazine.  My niece Heidi and her husband Mark are here visiting this weekend so it was time to fill up the cookie jar! 2 cups flour 2 cups graham cracker crumbs 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/4 teaspoon salt 2 sticks (16 tablespoons) unsalted … Continue reading

Graduation Cap Fondant Cake

Here is Carl’s other daughter Kelsey’s graduation cake.  Kelsey loves chocolate and her favorite color is blue.  This cake was made in the Pampered Chef Batter Bowl (the recipe for how to do this is on the blog under “Barbie Doll Cake”) with a Dark Chocolate cake mix.  It has the Vanilla Buttercream Frosting on … Continue reading

Cocoa Cupcakes

Courtney and I are working on a couple of graduation cakes for a friend’s twin daughters (I’ll post the cakes later today or tomorrow) and we needed some cupcakes in order to make some graduation caps so this is a recipe from my big file of recipes that I hope to have time to make … Continue reading

Blue and Black Flowers Mini Birthday Fondant Cake

It was Cami’s birthday yesterday who is our cute neighbor and a member of my Sunday School class so Cort and I made her a little fondant covered cake.  All the same ingredients (as in cake, frosting and fondant) as the previous entry for Dakota’s friend’s birthday cake, just in miniature!  Happy Birthday Cami!

Blue and Black Striped Birthday Fondant Cake

This is a birthday cake for Courtney’s friend Dakota who wanted it for a friend who is a girl, did you follow that?  That’s all I know!  Cort and I both put on our Facebook status’ that we were looking for opportunities to practice our fondant decorating skills and so if any of our friends … Continue reading

Mint Chocolate Chip Muffins

Apparently I’m on a muffin kick today so here is #20 from the “1 Mix, 100 Muffins” cookbook. 2 cups flour 1 tablespoon baking powder 1/8 teaspoon salt heaping 1/2 cup superfine sugar (I only had regular) 1 cup chocolate chips 2 eggs 1 cup milk (I used half and half because I had some … Continue reading

Triple Chocolate Chip Muffins

This is #13 from Susanna Tee’s cookbook, “1 Mix, 100 Muffins”.  I just ate two and they were delicious! 2 cups flour 1 tablespoon baking powder 1/8 teaspoon salt heaping 1/2 cup firmly packed light brown sugar heaping 1/4 cup semisweet chocolate chips heaping 1/4 cup milk chocolate chips heaping 1/4 cup white chocolate chips … Continue reading