3 cakes not 2

This week was a little busier then I thought it was going to be. I actually made three cakes this week, I thought it was only going to be 2. They were three very different cakes one for an eagle scout ceremony, one for a wedding shower, and a birthday cake for my cousin Mike. I did not get a picture of the eagle scout cake so I need to try to see if I can get one. below are the other two cakes.

2 cakes this week

This week was a busy week for me. I had two cakes to do this week. The first was for my foster care agencies thank you dinner for foster parent appreciation month. The cake was huge and weighed over 50lbs.  The best part of the cake was the cookie and cream filling. Too bad I am on a diet. I think I could have ate a bowl full of the filling alone.

The second cake was for a brother and sister joint birthday party. The brother was turning 3 and the sister was turning 3. We went with one cake for the joint party 1/2 was star wars and the other 1/2 was princess. I have a lot of experience with joint cakes since I have six kids and we have 3 pairs of kids with close birthdays so we have 3 joint parties a year. I always try to make the kids feel special that their cake fits them. Many times I do one cake. Another thing great about the birthday cake was that my 4 year old loves star wars and my 2 year old loves princesses. I almost felt like I was making this cake for them. My little one LOVED the cake and had a hard time seeing it leaving our house to be delivered.  I hope that Emily and Zachary love the cake as much as my kids did. The birthday cake was made with French Vanilla cake and butter cream frosting. The neat thing is I dyed the batter to the kids favorite colors. So 1/2 is blue cake with blue frosting and the 1/2 is pink cake with pink frosting. On the Star wars half I made R2D2 out of rice krispie treats and the other half I made a princess out of french vanilla cake.

This picture was taken before I did touch ups this morning. The R2D2 did not like the humidity!

Mother's Day Cake

Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there! For Mother's Day I made my mom a cake, of course. The cake was a white cake with coconut pecan filling. It was covered in vanilla butter cream and then topped in fondant. I then hand painted zebra print onto the cake and added green roses because green is my mom's favorite color.

Baby Shower Cake.

I just finished my first baby shower cake. It is for a couple that is waiting to find out the gender of their baby. The cake is a french vanilla but the top tier is checkered board blue and pink with strawberry filling. The bottom tier is blue and pink marble with vanilla filling. The cake is iced with vanilla butter cream. As a topper I decided to use some baby toys so that the parents can take them home. I will try to get harry to take a picture after the cake is cut so that everyone can see the marble and checkerboard.

Two cakes to do in the next 7 days

I am very excited about the two cakes I will be working on this week.

The first one is for a baby shower. I am going to be doing a two tiered circle cake decorated in pastel orange, green and yellow. the baby's gender is a surprise. I think I might make the top layer a checkered board pink and blue cake with strawberry filling. The bottom layer is undecided at this point.

My second cake is for my adoption/foster agency. We are having a thank you dinner for foster parent appreciation month. I will be making a confetti sheet cake with vanilla filling. Around the edge I will be making children of all races holding hands. On the top I am making a child wearing a parachute and it will say  "Thank you for being a child's parachute"

I am excited to get started, but I have to finish my term paper for school first. I guess this will give me more incentive to get this paper done. I will then be off school a couple weeks before Summer semester starts.

WELCOME

Welcome to our first blog! We are very excited to be starting our own home based bakery. Harry and I have been baking for years. Harry started baking when he was young. His father taught him everything he knows. Harry is our resident pie expert. I have been baking and decorating cakes for the past ten years. It is something I love to do. A couple years ago Harry and I started to sell pies around the holidays and just this year we expanded the pie business to include my cakes.

Here is my latest birthday creation. This cake was for my son and daughter's Kentucky Derby themed birthday party. Everything on the cake is completely edible! The silks were made of fondant and then hand painted, the roses were made of royal icing. Cake was iced in butter cream frosting. The sheet cake was devils food with a creamy chocolate filling. The horse shoe and hat cakes were yellow cakes with no filling.

 It was very sad cutting this cake. I loved it so much and worked so hard on it.

It was worth it though. Everyone LOVED it!