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My friend Lynn's daughter, Ashlynn, was Christened this Spring, and I got to be her Godmother! I was so honored, and excited! I was also asked to do the cake for her party, and I knew just what I wanted to do - a Christening dress. I have made two of these before, and I think this last one is by far the best!The first one was for Elizabeth, the daughter of one of my sister's co-workers. I was

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Whew! This spring has been so fast for me - full of activities at school during the week and busy making cakes on the weekends. Three of my friends' kids had their First Communion on the same date, so I was busy making cakes. Two of the kids were having a party together with 2 other children, so we decided to make four 8" round cakes so that each child could have his or her name on one. All

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Allie wanted a "Pinkalicious" birthday party. (inspired by the book Pinkalicious by Victoria Kann and Elizabeth Kann). She asked for pink cupcakes with cherries on top. I tinted my regular white cake batter pink and baked them in cupcake liners that were pink with white polka dots. Creamy pink buttercream, tiny white nonpareils, and some sparkly edible glitter came next. The final touch

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Dr. Seuss' birthday is March 2, and my sister (who is also a teacher - 3rd grade) wanted me to make a cake for her to take to her class. We decided to go with the Lorax because the Truffula Trees are so darn cute! If I had more time, I would have loved to outline the trees and hills with the black food writer pen. I think it would have looked even more like the book. The trees were a little

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I love making cakes for my friend's little girl, Kate! Last year, she was into Fancy Nancy, so I got to make a sparkly, feathery cake. Now she likes Olivia Pig. I think Olivia is adorable! Now, Ms. Kate is a drama queen, so I had to go with the image of Olivia in the ball gown wearing a tiara! I used the colors from her party decorations: red, white, and two shades of minty green. The

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As I was discussing ideas for this little girl's birthday cake, I was very worried that I wouldn't be able to come up with something that worked. She told me pink leopard, and I thought, "Cute! Haven't done leopard yet." Then she said she was into peace signs AND the color "ocean" blue. Um. Okay. Sure, I can figure out something...... So I drew out ideas and tossed them one after another. I

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Here's one I did for a little boy turning 6. I used a 10" square pan for the base cake. The glove cake was baked in the Wilton Baseball Mitt Pan, and covered in fondant. The baseball is solid fondant pressed into a baseball chocolate mold.

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Wow! I have been so busy with work and making cakes I haven't posted in a while! Here's a cake I made for one of the little boy's in my class. He wanted Spiderman, so we looked for a picture he liked. We settled on one of Spidey on a wall. I used my brick impression tool to make the background, but I waited too long and it wasn't doing a very good impression, so I used a fondant tool to make

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My assistant, Lynn, is expecting her second child. We are all so excited for her! Her mom gave her a surprise shower and asked if I would make the cake. She said I could do whatever I wanted - yay! I decided on a diaper bag to match the baby's bedding. I used the Duff Goldman fondant, and it was easy to work with, but didn't dry fully. It was sticky to the touch and the pockets sagged terribly in

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This cake was for my friend's 10 year old daughter, Paige. When I asked her what kind of cake she wanted this year, she said, "CHOCOLATE!" That was a given! So I asked what she wanted the cake to look like. She said, "I don't care - as long as it's CHOCOLATE!" Paige's favorite form of chocolate is M&M's, so I googled M&M's cakes and came up with several designs - there were many versions of

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I made this cake for a friend's brother's wedding. The couple sent me a picture of a cake they wanted copied (I got it Wed. night and the cake was due Sat.!!!), but I haven't been able to find the original decorator to give credit for the design. :( I was just glad it was simple and that I already had the molds for the seashells.The wedding was at a pavillion in the state park, and it was a rainy

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Mandie, a junior counselor assisting me at summer camp, turned 18 recently. Of course, I had to make her a cake. I talked to her mom and found that (SURPRISE, SURPRISE) she loves to shop :) So I decided to make a shopping bag cake. I baked two 9 x 13 cakes and then cut them in half to make four 6 x 8 layers. I stacked a layer of cake, a layer of buttercream, then a layer of cake onto a foam core

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As you probably may have guessed, I'm a HUGE New Orleans Saints fan. So when my friend's son wanted a Saints themed birthday cake, I wanted to try one I've been wanting to make for a while - a 3D Superdome. I used this Wilton soccer ball shaped pan to bake a dome-shaped layer (chocolate fudge cake with Andes mint chips - YUM). The bottom was a 9 inch round cake, torted and filled with peppermint

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This weekend I made a cake for a little girl's first birthday.This invitation to her party was the inspiration for my design:I decide to cover the cake in light brown fondant and put pink ruffles around it in layers to mimic Presley's tutu. Figuring out how to make the ruffles was a bit of a trial and error process, but eventually I came up with something that worked. I rolled out fondant to a #3

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I made this cake for a little girl in my class who loves the Fancy Nancy series of books by Jane O'Connor. Fancy Nancy is a little girl who believes you can never have too many accessories and they all "go" together!Kate and I brainstormed what the cake should be and decided on 3 colors: pink, purple, and blue (according to Kate, "not regular blue - Nancy likes that light blue!"). Kate loved the

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To kill time today as I waited for the biggest game in New Orleans Saints history, I baked some fleur de lis cookies, iced them, and set them aside to dry. During halftime, I outlined some in black and then had to stop to watch the 2nd half of the game. Not too long after my beloved Saints had won, I tried to write on one of the cookies. The result was not my best work - my hands were still

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I was so excited to win a set of Anne Clark Christmas cookie cutters via a contest sponsored by Cookies and Cups, and I couldn't wait to use them! As always, it seems I waited until the last minute to bake, so I limited myself to two shapes from that set - the star and the bell. I used yellow royal to outline and flood the cookies and then sprinkled gold sanding sugar on them. I outlined in

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I had so much fun making this cake! It was for a co-worker's daughter and her friend who were having a joint 80's themed birthday party. When we were talking about what to do, we first thought of a boom box with cassette tapes - and that was a cute idea. Then my assistant, Lynn, said, "what about a caboodle?", and the boom box idea was toast. I ran the idea by the birthday girl's mom who loved it

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I was so excited to be asked to make a birthday cake for one of the little boys that was in my class last year. He is really into football, especially the LSU Tigers. We decided to do an LSU jersey shaped cake with his last name and the number "6" for his 6th birthday. Originally, I was going to use only a 12x18 cake and cut away to make the jersey shape. After LOTS of trial and error using

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Yesterday, I made a wine-themed 40th birthday cake for the mom of one of my students.Earlier in the week, I had made a 3D gumpaste wine bottle by molding gumpaste over a mini bottle. It was looking really good, until it cracked :( I think I should have used a thicker layer of gumpaste. After the bottle cracked, I only had time to make flat fondant bottles and wine glasses.I still think it

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After a very crazy week at work - stuck inside most of the week with the most energetic class of 4 year olds I have had in many, many years, it is finally the weekend! Yay! Time for some much needed R&R, you say? Nope, not for me! I have 3 cakes to bake and decorate.To save myself some stress, I did implement a new rule for myself starting this school year. I call it the "NO Saturday cakes" rule.

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I made this 3D castle cake for a sweet little girl turning 3 years old. The cake part is a three layer 10" round cake with a two layer 4" round cake on top. Each round cake is covered in fondant and then wrapped in a piece of fondant that was rolled out and stamped with a brick pattern. The turrets and turret caps are plastic pieces from a Wilton kit. I used my x-acto knife to make a small

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Thanks to Lori from Lori's Family and Home for giving me the "One Lovely Blog Award" :)The rules to receiving this award are to:Accept the award, post it on your blog together with the name of the person who has granted the award, and his or her blog link. Pass the award to 15 other blogs that you’ve newly discovered. Remember to contact the bloggers to let them know they have been chosen for

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In honor of the much awaited release of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, I wanted to do a post about a cake I made a few summers ago to herald the release of the last movie...I decided to do the Sorting Hat, but wanted to also represent the four Hogwarts Houses it sorts. So I decided to do the House shields in fondant (with some edible marker details) and put them around the Sorting Hat.

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Well, I am happy to write that my second wedding cake turned out fine! I was worried about delivering this one since it had to go to New Olreans...a hotel on the corner of Canal and Bourbon Streets to be exact. Since it had to go an hour in the car, I chose to stack the layers on site and transport them individually to avoid any issues. Here is a look at the back of my car loaded for the ride...I

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Well, I got through my first wedding cake! Thankfully, it was fairly simple - four tiers of smooth buttercream. The bride, Katherine, had ribbon and a topper for me to add once I got it stacked. The wedding was 2 hours away so I made the tiers and put them in containers for the ride. Happily, they all made it just fine.My sister, Sherie, and I got to the site early and I stacked the tiers much

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Cookie cake for one of the teacher's at school. Her assistant wanted me to put the birthday girl's dog, Ramsey, on the cookie. A closer look at Ram-Ram

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My assistant's little boy, Austin, asked for a guitar cake for his birthday. He wanted it to have the Guitar Hero logo, a skull and crossbones, and the words "rock on". I was excited to find a set of 6 paper guitars at Michael's - perfect for a cake template. So I baked an 11"x15" white cake and placed the template on top.I used less water than the box called for and I added 1 T. of flour for

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Horse cupcakes for Olivia's school birthday snack. I used the head of my carousel horse cookie cutter to cut a white fondant horse head shape. Then I used food coloring markers to draw on the details. The cupcakes are vanilla caramel cake with pink buttercream. I smoothed the buttercream, put on the horse head, then piped small stars around the cupcake for a border.

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One of my co-workers asked me to make her daughter's first birthday cake. She bought these napkins by Celebrate Express (from their Bunnies By the Bay theme) and asked me to make a cake to match them. So I rolled out some white fondant and traced out the shape of the bunny. I used my dusts to detail her.The cake is a 2 layer 14" carrot cake iced and filled with cream cheese icing. It is tinted

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I am making another gift box cake for a friend's daughter's 17th b-day. Yesterday, I made the bow and some swirls so they had time to dry. I also baked two 8-inch layers of french vanilla cake with a little lemon extract mixed in-yum!This morning, I levelled the layers and piped a dam of very thick buttercream. Then I added the filling - Duerr's lemon curd. This stuff is both tart and sweet and

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I am making a birthday cake for a 2 year old who is having her party at Global Wildlife. I wanted to do giraffes and zebras, but didn't have time to do 3-D figures. So I decided to try rolling out the fondant and cutting out the shape of the animals. I found a picture I liked, printed it, and then covered the page with clear contact paper. Next, I cut out the figures. I then rolled white fondant

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This is 4 layers of vanilla caramel cake with layers of fresh strawberries and white chocolate cream between. I got the ghirardelli (had to look up the spelling on that one!) classic white chips because Walmart was out of the cheapie white chips I've been using. Won't do that again! The cream tasted okay, but it had an oily film like it was trying to separate - not so appealing to the eye.I had

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This is an 8" square double layer cake with a 6" square stacked on top. I need to review my geometry - the 6" barely fit on the 8" when turned at an angle. The cake is chocolate fudge and the filling and icing are buttercream. The bow and ribbons are fondant rolled in my pasta machine, cut into strips, and formed into bow loops, a center knot, and bow tails. I dry dusted the fondant with super

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My assistant, Lynn, and I made a diaper cake as our gift for our co-worker, Kelly's, baby shower (with the teddy bear cake). It turned out so cute, I had to put a pic here!The turtle is adorable, and when you push his foot he giggles - it is the cutest sound ever!

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Wednesday Morning: Thank goodness the cake layers are baked, the icing is made, and the chocolate layer is filled and ready to be stacked. I just found out I got into a tech workshop for tonight on podcasting/moviemaking. I'm super exctied because we get a flipcam, headset, and microphone plus a small stipend for attending 3 Wed. night sessions, but my cake schedule is out the window!Thursday

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Last night I started baking layers for a baby shower cake.I am using this picture of the plates as an inspiration for the cake: I'm planning 2 layers (one vanilla caramel with vanilla buttercream filling and one triple chocolate fudge with chocolate buttercream filling) with a 3-D teddy bear on top. The bear will be surrounded by baby items made of fondant. They layers will be iced with white

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Cookie cake for one of the assistants at work. The room mom asked me to make it for the class' snack on her son's snack day. This is another frozen buttercream transfer - just like Strawberry Shortcake.

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Well, I'm finally done with all the cookies I had to make this week.First up were these pineapple shaped sugar cookies:They were for a school event called Festivals Around the World. The parents from my class were responsible for presenting a Hawaiian Luau. Every preschool class took a turn to go into the Festivals room and learn about Hawaii. Each group watched a slide show about Hawaii, made

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Whew, my hectic weekend of cake is over, thank goodness!The first one due was this Barney and Friends cake. It was for a 2 year old sibling of one of the students in my class. I melted colored chocolate candy discs and used a piping bag to trace over a laminated pattern. When the candy melts set, it peels off the laminated pattern. The original plan was to make the figures stand up with a sucker

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One side of the 3D shoe mold: I rolled out some Wilton pre-made gumpaste and gently pressed it into the shoe mold. After waiting about 15 minutes until the gumpaste was holding the shape,I flipped it out onto a cutting board: Using my trusty x-acto knife,I cut off the excess gumpaste then put the shoe shape back into the mold to sit for a few days.I will take it out and let the other side dry

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I had a cake this weekend for a little boy turing 3 years old. His party theme was Little Einsteins. We decided to do the red rocket in 3D. I chose to make the rocket out of rice krispie treats(RKT) because they are sturdy, and I knew cake would be difficult to work with with the humidity. To start, I grabbed this oval pan and lined it with plastic wrap, mashed warm RKT into it, and pressed it

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January is to be renamed "countless cakes and cookies month" for me. This weekend, I just have one to do for Sunday, thank goodness. It is a Little Einsteins themed party, so we're doing the red rocket on a base cake of sky and clouds. Next weekend I have 3 cakes (what was I thinking?). One is a bowling theme, another is a Barney(ugh) theme, and the last is one I've been wanting to do for a while

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I had to make a strawberry shortcake cookie cake, so I thought I'd take pictures of the process.First I print a picture that I want to copy. I tape it to a hard surface (my cutting board) and tape a sheet of plastic (I cut a large ziplock up) over the image.Next, I make all of the icing colors I need and put them into icing bags with a small round tip. I trace the image starting with the outline

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I got the day off because our school lost power, so I decided to bake snowflake and mitten cookies for my assistant, Lynn's birthday instead of a cake.

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The first sign of snow- a few flakes mixed in with the rain at 7:24 AM. Ten minutes later...About 15 minutes later...The woods behind the playground were all white by 8:30The house across the street from Barbie's at 9:30The scenery driving home...Beau in the snow at our house a little after 10:00.

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