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.

Star Wars Cake

Fondant light sabers and authentic logo

Iron Man Cake

Last year, I made this Thomas the Train cake for Elijah:  http://pinknteal.blogspot.com/2013/04/thomas-friends-train-cake.html

This year, he was all fired up for an Iron Man cake.  How fast our kids grow up!

Gymnastics Birthday Sugar Cookie

A 12" Sugar Cookie is a yummy alternative to cake.  Decorated with buttercream and fondant.

The Lorax Birthday Cake

I made this special cake for my friend Jill, who was celebrating her little cutie Finnley's first birthday.  The Lorax is a favorite book of my daughters', too, so I really enjoyed re-creating the cover of the book in frosting for him.

This is a 9x13 layer cake, done entirely in buttercream.

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.