Nerf Cake

I was asked  to make a cake for Clayton's Nerf Birthday Party.  We came up with a cake that is covered with the famous foam darts.  I also added some targets, and a version of the logo with Clayton's name.

Mermaid Cake with Cupcakes

My friend and wonderful customer Julie had known her daughter wanted a mermaid birthday cake for sometime.  I feel like Katelyn was telling me she wanted a mermaid cake last summer!  So once the time came, I needed to make something special.

She gave me her own Ariel doll to use for the main cake.  

I made a dozen ocean cupcakes to go with the cake. 

Oregon Ducks Cake

My friend Jona and her husband are huge Oregon Ducks fan.  If you know her, you know this about her!  So when she showed me a Duck Cake idea for her husband's birthday it was pretty obvious that it would be the perfect cake for him.

I made an 8" cake and added a dollop of extra buttercream to shape into the tail.  The head was a couple cupcakes skewered and iced.  The beak was made of gumpaste and skewered into the head.

St. Patrick's Day Sheet Cake

Lily's 5th Birthday Cake!!! (Rainbow Unicorns)

Early this year, a four year old that I am very fond of decided she was going to have a unicorn birthday when she turned five.  It had to be Rainbow Unicorns. Oh, and her name is Lily, she's also my Official Batter Removal Specialist.

A couple weeks before her birthday, we sat down together while baby sister was taking a very rare afternoon nap.  We talked about what her cake should look like.  We picked rainbow markers out and Lily drew up a plan:

She told me about the rainbow and clouds on the top cake.  The middle cake should have a unicorn with a rainbow stripe behind it.  The bottom layer (and the biggest) should be pink, and have her name in rainbow letters.    When I asked if we should put anything on the top, she drew a big 5 (we ran out of space on the top of the sheet, but it's there on the edge of the paper.)

So I took all of her vision and plugged it into this cake for my girl:

We even tinted the middle layer's vanilla cake to be rainbow colored.  This is the layer we served first at the party for the kids.  I also used this as a comprise to the birthday girl so that I could avoid that rainbow ribbon of fondant behind the unicorn. 

Another fun thing we did for Lily's birthday was make rainbow ice cream cone cupcakes.  Remember those from elementary school?  Lily helped me make them from start to finish and we took them for a special preschool birthday treat.  

I have to admit, I do go a bit over the top for my own kids cakes.  But they watch many cakes go out to other kiddos all year round, miss out on a little time with me through out the months, and always impress me (and give me great relief) that they know the dire consequences touching cakes that are for others.  So come birthday time, I try my best to give them the best cake I can!

Happy Birthday Lily, you are very loved by many :)

Uncharted Cake

I was challenged to do an Uncharted cake for Leigh's son, who is a fan of this game.  I wasn't familiar with the game, so I had to do a little research before I could get started!

Since the game is based on history and adventure, before icing the cake, I tinted the buttercream with a little ivory to give it a little bit of a rustic or parchment look.  A rope border along the bottom gave it a masculine feel, and I made Drake's ring out of Fondant sprayed metallic silver.     Along the sides of the cake, I piped some characters from the game.

Dinosaur Smash Cake

So as you may have noticed, there were a lot of little babies turning one in my life this past month!  I'll finish up my baby boom with this cute little smash cake for Peyton, the son of my dear friend Natalie.  This was a 4" round cake, iced in green with fondant feet, tail and dino head.

First Birthday Smash Cake

My friend Julie found this adorable birthday cake idea and shared it with me, for her little Andrew's 1st Birthday party.

Here's some photos of his perfectly blue and billowy cake.  On top of the cake is a jumbo-sized chocolate cupcake to be removed and used as his smash cake.

Andrew also had his first birthday pictures taken with a second smash "cupcake" I made.  You can check out the pictures here:  http://lifeoflilo.blogspot.com/2014/03/andrew-turns-one.html  He is such an adorable little guy, I love his hair and those perfect bottom middle teeth.  

Photo Credits: Lilo Photography  http://www.photolilo.com/