Big Top Circus Cake with Popcorn cupcakes

My neighbor Deanna loves celebrating with family and awesome cakes to go along with those gatherings.  Her and her daughter, Brittani, asked me to make a cake and coordinating cupcakes for a circus themed party for her grandson, Gavin.  We came up with a really fun cake that looked like a Big Top.  We also created little cupcakes with striped wrappers to look like popcorn cups. I gave each one a spray of yellow to give it that buttery look.

Corvette Cake!

My friend Lynn wanted a special cake to celebrate her father's 65th Birthday.  We decided on a Corvette theme.  I piped an authentic logo on the top.

 Added the Happy Birthday message....

And of course, had to find a way to include a checker pattern!   Dean loved the carrot cake as much as he loves Corvettes!

Flower Cupcake Arrangement

You can have fun with cupcakes as an arrangement.  Here I used them to make large daisy groupings.

Spring Cake

I realize by the title of this post I am terribly, horribly, behind in blogging.  Let's say I took the summer (and half the fall) off...which is ironic, because this cake is for a small business woman I very much admire, and I have truthfully asked her advice on how she does such a great job of blogging her work.  Of course I am speaking of my friend Jen Honeycutt, who takes beautiful photographs, including this one, just last month, of my family:

But onto the cake.  Jen called me because she was having a Spring party / get together, and wanted a cake for the occasion.  I love it when people chose cake for dessert, even if it's not anyone's birthday!  So I got to use some cute little spring fondant cutters that I had just purchased impulsively about 3 weeks earlier.  Funny how things can work out so perfectly sometimes.

Here's some photos of the cake!

Sheriff Callie Cake

My dear friend Janice asked me to make a Sheriff Callie Cake for her daughter's 4th  birthday.  I came up with a cake as fun as Ashling herself.  The bottom layer has a silhouette of Sparky, and a pink bandanna.  There is a metallic gold sheriff's badge with Ashling's name, and a pink cowboy hat on top.

I love delivering cakes to this family because I always get a very enthusiastic and excited reaction from Ashling when I bring in her cake.  You can see her 3rd birthday cake here.