Saturdays are for Sweets

Well here we are, the end of October, about to start the busiest time of the year, holiday season. I decided it was time to finally get these two cakes posted, after all, we did them back in the summer.  They are our regular flavors, vanilla cake with our buttercream.

We sent more graham crumbs with this cake to finish covering the top and then the side as well. We didn't put all of it on here to try to help keep our recipient's car clean.

Both of these cakes were fun to do. I like the beach, so that made these beach and luau cakes fun to decorate.

Saturdays are for Sweets- Happy Birthday Pat Pat

Goodness gracious, can it be? Pat Pat just turned 50! Pat Pat is of course Tiff's mom and recently had an extra special birthday. She was overheard saying that she always wanted a barbie cake, so it was a no brainer to decide what kind of cake to make her to celebrate this huge milestone.

Here is the birthday girl trying to use a decoy, but I don't think anyone will be fooled.

This is the other cake that we were working on last weekend. It was decorated using only buttercream, except for the bow of course. It was our first attempt at zebra stripes and well polka dots for that matter using buttercream.

Saturdays are for Sweets

These are two cakes that we completed a couple weeks ago. The first is a birthday cake and the other is for a wedding shower.

We have made a cake similar to this one, earlier this year. The order was a cake just like the other, however, there are a few differences.

Saturdays are for Sweets..Happy Birthday

Still trying to get to caught up on posting our cakes, and well I did miss posting last Sunday, too busy with Father's Day I guess. Anyway, The first two cakes are for birthdays and then the last one is the cake that we donated to the Student Cake auction at church.

Happy Birthday Times 5

These are our most recent cakes, they were all done this past week, but I am just now getting around to posting them. We have been busy trying to get the house back in order and a little bit of spring cleaning. Not to mention going to Dr. appointments, working in the garden and just simply not logging onto the internet. Anyway, these were all fun.
The first was a Handy Manny themed cake.

The next set of cakes was for a birthday extravaganza, this family had four birthdays all in April and decided to celebrate them all at once, what a good idea! The large cake was decorated similar to the napkins used at the party and the smaller cakes were camo, Hello Kitty, and a present cake.

Baby Shower and an Engagement Party

Here are the latest two cakes that we completed, both this past week. The first was for a two fer baby shower and the second is for an engagement party. In the spirit of always wanting to try new things, we used rice krispy treats to make the toy blocks on the baby shower cake. We don't typically use those, but the were a good shortcut for this one. They were both fun cakes and we hope they were both enjoyed.

Happy Birthday- Sweet Sixteen

We completed this cake this past weekend, for four lovely young ladies who are turning 16. This is by far the largest cake we have put together and it was a bit challenging, but we were very pleased with the outcome. We had to borrow a vehicle to deliver the cake and we did not get to see it put together until we set it up at the Ag center. The top and bottom layer were both chocolate and the middle layer is white cake.

Our latest cakes

Last week was pretty busy, and well for that matter this week hasn't been any slower. We somehow managed to get three cakes done last week. The first one was for a wedding shower and the last two are for birthdays. We had a great time working on them, albeit a bit stressful at times. We just want to do the best job that we possibly can on each and every one of our cakes. This week is of course testing week here in sunny, warm Florida so we have been making some treats for Tiff's teachers, sorry no pictures. Tuesday was chocolate chip cookies, a new recipe, Wednesday was the vanilla sweet buns, I think they turned out even better this time and today was mini red velvet cupcakes. I tried a new icing recipe, that was pretty tricky to make, but I think it turned out well and as I am told they were a hit. Anyway, back to the cakes, I was hoping to get these posted earlier in the week, but I have been a bit busy with making teacher treats, combined with spending less and less time in front of the computer. It has been much too nice outside!

This is the wedding shower cake, white cake covered with buttercream. The flowers and ribbon are fondant. We had high humidity last weekend, not to mention stinkin butt cold temps. Humidity is no friend of cake but we were still pleased with this one.

This cake was our first birthday cake of the week. It is probably my favorite cake that we have made so far, I was and am still very pleased with how it turned out. It is white birthday cake covered with fondant and the circles are all fondant as well.

This was our last cake of the week. It is white birthday cake covered with chocolate buttercream, which we tried a new recipe, because I don't like just adding chocolate powder to vanilla icing. It works a bit different from our white icing, but we just have to learn how to work with it, like I said it tasted great. The flowers are made with royal icing.

 

We had a great time doing the cakes, it did make for a busy week, but we really enjoy it and are always happy to make cakes and confections.

After the cakes were finished we were all tired out. None more so than this little one.

The Latest Cake- Meet Spongebob

I am just not getting around to posting our latest cake. I haven't been feeling that great this week and Little M has been running me ragged, which is only guaranteed to get worse! Anyway the order was Spongebob, now admittidly I am not very familiar with said cartoon character. I think it falls into that 'gross' cartoon category, which most new ones do. Whatever happen to Bugs and GI Joe? My idea of a good cartoon is a crazy gun toting hunter chasing a rabbit to the soundtrack of Vivaldi. That said, I have a little bit of Spongbob and I am at least vaguely familiar with all the characters.

We did have fun with this cake and I think it came together quite well. The cake itself was our white cake with buttercream frosting. We used a good bit of fondant on Spongebob, but it would have been rather difficult to get the look we wanted without using it. However, I do make my own fondant, I don't like the marshmellow stuff and Wilton is just terrible, I also find it is much easier to roll out and use, that and I can control alot of what we use in it to talior it to our need. We understand it was just what the birthday boy wanted and we are very pleased he liked it so well.

Happy Valentine's Day

We decided to make some small cakes for the wonderful ladies that keep the nursery on Wensday nights at church. I figured, hey three inch cakes, no problem, it would even give me a bit of practice on some things I have been working on. Anyway, the project turned out to be a little bit more labor intensive, I even had to call in re-enforcements on Wensdays in order to get finished. They were alot of fun to make and I hope the ladies enjoyed their pre-Valentine treats.

Super Saturday- Cake Edition

Here are the two cakes that we completed this past week. We had fun doing them and we hope that both birthday folks had good days. We also want to wish Happy Birthday to Mary Beth, who also celebrated her 18th birthday this past week!
So, without further ado, here are the cakes:

Mrs. Stephanie's Cake

I don't typically post anything on Sunday besides pictures, but due to request I am posting some pictures of our most recent cake. We did this one for Mrs. Stephanie, our Preacher's wife and we are quite pleased with how it turned out. This was our first attempt at completely covering a cake with fondant and I think it turned out pretty well. The top layer is white cake, while the bottom is chocolate with chocolate chips added in, scrumptious. The accent pieces we chocolate fondant, which was a first for us and this was also the first time we have used our square pans, so this cake was a whole number of firsts. We hope she had a very happy birthday.

Dora Cake

We did a cake last weekend for a friend whose son turned one.  They wanted a Dora themed cake, but not too girly.  Here is what we came up with:

 

  

  

  

  

  

It is chocolate, chocolate chip cake with buttercream icing.  We ran out of time and were unable to make the characters, but we really want to make some out of gumpaste very soon.