Our latest wedding cake for our friends Josh and McKann who got married on Thursday. They wanted a simple cake, not too big, not too fancy, with flowers to match the bouquets and decorations so here is our contribution. The bottom layer is actually fake and the top layer is brown sugar cake (adapted from … Continue reading
Cute story, a friend of mine at work who’s name is Ian told me that his daughter got asked to a dance. The boy had asked her using a turtle zip drive saying “I would turtley love it if you went to the dance with me” or something like that so she wanted to reply … Continue reading
Haven’t made a fondant cake in awhile, Courtney has been so busy with her promotion to manager at work and I haven’t been brave enough to tackle any on my own but when my friend Heather texted and asked for this one, I thought I could probably to it on my own. I found the … Continue reading
So, um, yes, that’s a stripper cake and yes, there is a story behind it which I’m about to tell you. A few years ago when we were in England filming at Pinewood Studios in their big huge water tank, we had working with us what I can only assume to be one of the … Continue reading
In addition to the mini Spider-Man cake, Eli also requested Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cupcakes, but only the orange one, who is Michelangelo. These were a lot of fun to make! Eli’s birthday celebration was on Friday so on Wednesday I made the TMNT cupcake toppers so that they would have time to dry. I … Continue reading
Cute little Spider-Man mini cake for our friend Eli’s 4th birthday. It’s a 6″ round single layer vanilla cake made from the “White Almond Sour Cream Cake” recipe, covered in our favorite “Basic Buttercream Icing”, covered in red Wilton fondant (their new fondant is pretty easy to work with) and then finished with spiderwebs made … Continue reading
Here is Ken and Sonja’s official wedding cake – a topsy turvey cake with polka dots in Sonja’s wedding colors topped with adorable bride and groom dinosaurs! I think this cake came out really cute and was perfect for them! The cake is a brown sugar cake taken from the White Almond Sour Cream cake … Continue reading
Two of my cute friend’s got married on Saturday and the bride asked if we would make the wedding cake and a groom’s cake too. Since I work with them both in the movie biz, we decided to do a slate cake for the groom’s cake. The groom used to work for Nat Geo and … Continue reading
Courtney and I haven’t had a lot of time for cakes lately but her friend Brie requested a circus cake for her daughter Perry’s first birthday and we didn’t want to say no to that! I baked, Cort decorated with fondant and then Brie made the topper out of clay. Came out so cute! The … Continue reading
Courtney and I don’t have a lot of time to do cakes much these days but every now and then we are able to fit one in. This one was for Cort’s friend Michelle and when we were done with it, we both decided that it was one of our favorites. It’s a smaller cake … Continue reading
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