Yvette's Good Bye Party - 4/2/10

This cake was made using the butterfly cake pan from Nordicware and a regular square cake pan for the base. 

Laura's Bay-bee Shower - 2/6/10

I didn't know if this cake would actually happen.  I ended up getting really sick right before the baby shower and didn't think that I would be up for making the cake.  Luckily, I started feeling better and had just enough time to pull it off.  We threw a Bee Themed shower for our friend Laura because she was decorating her nursery in a bee theme.  It all turned out very cute!  This cake was made using the Wilton Lady Bug cake pan, which also includes directions for a butterfly and a bee.  From what I'm told the cake tasted good...I wouldn't know because I had no sense of taste or smell for about 5 days from being sick.  Anyway, the wings and tail are the only parts that are not edible.  They were made from cardboard and covered in plastic and decorated with icing before inserting into the cake.

The bees on these cup cakes were made by cutting gum drops in half and lightly flattening them a little.  The stripes and eyes were made with icing and the antennas were little chocolate sptinkles.

Connie's Retirement Cake - 12/18/09

We surprised Connie, one of my co-workers, for her retirement, too.  We used the same decorations from Jane's party only Connie likes German Chocolate cake so I made her a decorated one.  4 layers of german chocolate cake with coconut pecan icing filling and frosting the outside.  Decorated with buttercream icing borders and store bought candy snowflake cake decorations.

Wreath Cake - 12/11/09

This was made for a co-worker using a wreath bundt cake pan which had the whole design of the cake, pinecones, ribbon and all.  I just used buttercream icing to highlight the design.  It was for one of her granddaughter's birthday.

Jane's Retirement Cake - 12/8/09

We had a Surprise Retirement Celebration for Jane (the previous Safe Kids Savannah Coordinator).  We tied it in with our Annual Holiday Potluck Luncheon and the decorations were all blue and snow flakes so the cake was decorated to match.  The cake itself was marble decorated with buttercream.  I made up the borders and the snowflakes were store bought candy cake decorations.

Brett's 30th Birthday Cake - 10/31/09

This is a picture of the cake before we left our house to take it to the party.  I always try to take a picture before just in case.  Good thing that I did this time because by the time that we got to the party there was a blow-out on the side of the cake and it looked like the moon had crashed into it!  I chose not to take a picture of that.  I choose to remember the cake like this!  All the cakes I've made over the last year and a half and this is the first that didn't arrive to the party fully intact...I would say that's a pretty good track record!  And thank goodness it was not a wedding cake for a paying bride...that would have been disasterous! 

The cake itself was german chocolate with coconut pecan icing as the filling and buttercream to decorate.  The moon was made from the round pan that comes with the Betty Crocker Bake and Fill pan set and also had coconut pecan icing in the middle!  Even if the cake didn't arrive looking perfectly at least it tasted good!

Pink Ribbon Suckers - 10/17/09

In case you live under a rock and didn't know, October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.  I made these suckers for a Pampered Chef training - Pampered Chef celebrates "Help Whip Cancer Month" in October.