3-D Football sheet cake

I made another birthday cake for Joanna, this time for her son Alex, who wanted a Football theme:

The effect is a football "bursting" out of the sheet cake, which is a 1/4 sheet cake decorated to look like a football field.  The football was baked using Wilton's Football pan.  I also found the plastic goal posts at the cake supply store.

Even though this isn't a traditional tiered cake, it was assembled using dowel rods for support and stability- you always want to be sure that the sheet cake can hold the weight of the cake on top, also prevent sliding or movement of the cake on top.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

This is a favorite children's book for many:


A friend of mine who lives in my neighborhood asked me to make a Hungry Caterpillar cake topper and a basic white smash cake for her little guy's first birthday.

I love the way Nicole picked The Very Hungry Caterpillar as a theme for the birthday party.  Babies don't always have a favorite toy, animal, color, or ( hopefully) cartoon yet- but I'm sure almost all of them have a book that Mom and Dad love reading to them the most.  Such a special theme for a First Birthday party!

Black Belt Celebration Cake

My Uncle Gary made a trip to Colorado recently to attend his grandson's Black Belt ceremony.  He asked me to make a special cake to surprise him!  I contacted his grandson's instructor and got the logo to use for the cake.  It was a very detailed logo, so I captured it as well as I could in buttercream and a little bit of sugar paper for the black border:

Valentine's Day Sheet Cake

Here is a simple 1/4 sheet cake for a Valentine's Day office party:

First Birthday Cake - Pink and Yellow Ombre Cake

I was asked by Joanna to make her sweet little Emme's first birthday cake for her party, and also a matching smash cake for her one-year old pictures.  Joanna had picked out pastel pinks and yellows and wanted to incorporate the colors into an ombre-style ruffle cake.  I loved this cake so much, it turned out so pretty and extremely girly.   Click here to visit the photographer's site and to see all the gorgeous photos.




I also took some of my own photos of the matching cake set I created for Emme's actual birthday party.

But for some reason my pictures are just lacking something, so I will close with a couple more shots of the BEST part about cake:  eating it.  Happy Birthday Emme!

Thanks again to Sharon Arnoldi for these great photos and allowing me to use them here.
You can visit Sharon's photography blog here:  http://sharonsphoto.blogspot.com/

Fairy Tale Baby Shower Sweets

So, do you remember my first Gender Reveal Cake I did this fall?  Well, that cake was PINK inside, and not to long ago I was able to do the sweets for the baby shower.  The shower had a Fairy Tale theme, and I made some really lovely yummies for it:

A 2-tiered cake with quilted buttercream.

Fairy tale cupcakes with rustic roses and Princess and the Pea choices. 

I also made a platter of fish-shaped chocolate chip cookies for Dad.

The best part is, when I logged into my email tonight to write this post, I had an email waiting for me that Little Miss Story was born this week!  What a perfect ending to this Fairy Tale Post :)

Broncos Cake

A Superbowl Sunday Birthday Cake!