Drum roll please...both new sites are now live! I've created LiveJournal RSS feeds for each, so you can friend those to keep up with me from now on ( Read more... )

Another edible creation! I made Elmo cupcakes last year for my friend's son's birthday, and this year the theme was Thomas the Tank Engine. "Enough cake for 30+ people plus a dozen cupcakes for anyone needing to leave before the cake was served" was the request, so I figured out a design that would incorporate those together. After about 15 ( Read more... )

Another over-the-top edible creation was a huge success! This was the 11th cake I have made for my friend's daughter's birthday, and this year the theme was pirates but for tween girls, so my concept was "pirate bling" spilling out of an open treasure chest on a sandy beach, with as much completely edible as possible. I keep calling it a "cake" ( Read more... )

I made it on the Sunday Sweets edition of the CakeWrecks blog! The blog started with horribly hilarious professional cakes gone wrong, but then she decided to take a break each Sunday with a different theme of really nice cakes. Last week's theme was Harry Potter, and they mentioned they'd do a second round this week, so I humbly submitted my ( Read more... )

louienet's son Benjamin turned 2, so he had an Elmo birthday party this past weekend. I was commissioned to make the birthday cake, so we decided on Elmo cupcakes, limiting food coloring use by using red sugar over white frosting & making separate features that could be scraped off if necessary ( Read more... )

I've been so busy lately that I'm way behind in posting so much stuff! Let's catch up first with one of the busiest weeks of my life, culminating May 9th ( Read more... )

My default TV channels when doing inside projects are DIY, HGTV and FoodTV, especially Ace of Cakes plus all the cake challenges they have. One of the specials back in February had wedding dress-inspired cakes with one giant corset bodice cake, and I had a brainstorm...corset cupcakes! Take two cupcakes, frost them bases together for an hourglass ( Read more... )

For a decade now I have made an elaborate birthday cake for my friend's daughter's birthday party the Saturday after Thanksgiving. The cake always must go with the party theme, which this year was Guitar Hero. Earlier this year, a fellow Halloween fan had emailed me the recipe for marshmallow fondant she had found & used to rave reviews for a ( Read more... )

I found out a week ago that it was Ruth's birthday on Wednesday, and since she helped me SO much the ENTIRE week before the Hogwarts party, I wanted to do something cool for a cake or something for her even though I knew we'd already have alto cake for sectionals, which is a tradition. I remembered how excited she was to get her iPhone since I was ( Read more... )

This was Melanie's 30th birthday celebration weekend, starting with a cozy & delicious home-hosted dinner on Friday, to which I brought my best elaborate cake creation yet, which was thankfully a big success with the birthday girl & other guests after about 12 hours of work including a 3:30am bedtime before work on Friday, then the partying ( Read more... )