Twins' Birthday!

Two of my good friends had a set of twins last year and they asked me to make the cake for their first birthday.

I wish I had had more time to work on a fondant design, but as it was, I ended up having to do the cake at work in buttercream.

They asked for a Raggedy Ann and Andy cake for their boy and girl little twinsies. I think the cake turned out pretty well and the parents really liked it a lot. I totally borrowed the design from a pic I found on Google from Concord Teacakes, I hope they don't mind! It was a super cute cake and I thought it would be perfect to do for my friends.

Hello? Is this thing on?

So. It's been OVER A YEAR since I updated this blog. I'm sure if I had one person reading this they've moved on to bigger and better things.

I mostly can blame it on the fact that I was pregnant most of that time and had another baby. Two kids is awesome but INSANE as far as time flying by. Jellybean is 6 months old now so I'm actually able to sit down for about an hour after the kids are in bed and do stuff.

Namely take a Wilton Fondant and Gum Paste class.

The only fondant I've ever worked with was when I made Ben his Flash cupcakes and my mom's Rolling Stones cake. I've never covered a cake in fondant before so I was scared shitless. I don't know why, it's not really all that scary. It's just like anything else, practice makes perfect.


This is my finished cake from the project. Pretty awesome for a first try, if I do say so myself. I'm hoping to continue and get up the courage to make some more cool cakes and get outside the box a little bit.

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Snow White Princess Cake

For my friend's daughter's 4th birthday, she asked me if I could do a Snow White princess dress cake that are so popular right now.

We make a Barbie one at work, but I have never been decorating on the days when those come in, so I hadn't actually made one before. But their construction is seemingly simple and so I told her no problem.

I think the cake turned out really well, even though I can see a lot of flaws that I would have fixed if I had more time or forethought.

Click here for all of the pictures of the cake.

It's been a while...

The great and bad thing about being busy is, well, being BUSY! But that also means I sometimes neglect this blog.

I'm still enjoying my job at the Bullseye and have been steadily increasing my speed and technique at cake decorating.

My friend's daughter is turning 4 this month and has asked me to make her a Snow White doll cake for her party in two weeks. We make a Barbie one like that at work and though I haven't made one myself yet, they seem to be pretty easy.

I bought myself the Wilton Wonder Mold to make the body of the dress with, just to save myself some time. I will have to make the cake on my own time after work, and with a rambunctious 2 year old always underfoot, as well as a crazy work schedule, that doesn't leave me with a LOT of time to practice my carving skills. Plus, I have OCD, and like to do practice runs of my cakes, if I can, just so that when I have to make them for real they will look awesome.

I'm hoping the cake turns out great for my friend's little one. She's a precious girl, and I hope that I can blow her little mind with her cake.

Also, I turned 31 last month. You would have thought I was a celebrity seeing as I celebrated it for two weeks and during those two weeks I took a trip to Vegas to see my Dad and best friends. My family and I had a GREAT time in Vegas, I wish we could have stayed for a month!

When we got back home my husband took me to this awesome place in Dallas called The Cupcakery.

They have 5 locations, 3 in Vegas and 2 in Dallas. I found that kind of cool and weird, since those are the two places where I've lived. They have $3 cupcakes and tiny little bottles of champagne as well as milk and juice. It was a really nice atmosphere and I plan to go back as soon as my schedule will allow. I only got to taste a few of their choices and I want to try them all!

My favorite was The Julius flavored one, just because I LURVE all things orange flavored (I type as I take a swig of an Orange Crush).

They also had one called a Grasshopper which tasted JUST like a Thin Mint. Delicious! My husband loves carrot cake and got The Bugsy. Also a great one.

February Birthdays!

I seem to have a lot of people in my life with birthdays in February. Two of them are my son and one of my best friends.

My son turned 2 earlier this month and I made him a cake of one of his favorite things:

Guitars! He loves guitars so much, I've been planning this cake for almost a year. I bought the Wilton Guitar Shaped Cake Pan to make the cake. I did not do a practice run on the cake so I was pleased with how it turned out. I would have made the strings a bit straighter and made the neck a bit more clean, but all in all, the fact that my son tried to play it when I sat it down in front of him makes me feel that it at least looked like a guitar!

Click here for the full gallery of pictures of the guitar cake.

My other cake that I made this month was for one of my best friends, Chris. He's the biggest Tiki collector I know, and so, of course, I had to make him a Tiki mask cake!

This was also a "make it on the day" cake, so I had no practice. Thankfully, I have an awesome co-worker who helped me out on the cake a lot. Without her, I don't think it would have turned out as awesome as it did.

I added some flowers around the board to give it some pop and color. Chris loved it and hopefully it was the best birthday cake he's ever gotten.

Click here for the full gallery of pictures of the Tiki cake.

They Call Me Betty Rocker

Tomorrow is my husband's birthday and since I've started going crazy decorating cakes I have been trying to outdo myself for each occasion that gives me the opportunity to showcase my emerging talents.

If you'll remember last year, I made him cupcakes that had the logo of his favorite superhero, The Flash, on the top. So this year I thought I better take it up a peg.

My husband is the biggest Ghostbusters fan I know, and I know a LOT of nerds. He's loved this movie since he was a kid and it's the thing that got him into comics. So I had the bright idea to try to make a cool cake for him that was Ghostbusters themed. Since I now work in a bakery with access to awesome, I figured that I could get away with more than just cupcakes. (Though I DID have to make cupcakes to go with the cake since we don't do carrot cake at work.)

Behold: The Slimer Cake

It's the scariest cake EVER, but Ben liked it a lot. At least if he didn't, he lied and said he did.

Here are the cupcakes that I made to go with Slimer:

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She works hard for the money.

So I'm finally employed again! WOOT!

Since I got laid off from my job several months ago, I've been looking and looking and LOOKING for a new job and I am finally working again.

I was having a hard time finding anything that was full time and permanent in the web design business and even trying to go back to waitressing wasn't going so well for me so I thought I would apply to some grocery stores and chains in their bakery.

I hit the jackpot and got a job in the bakery at Target. Which is like, my other home. I've been there almost a week and so far I'm LOVING IT. My boss is super rad and she's excited that I want to decorate because she doesn't like to. I was hoping to try my hand at being a baker, but they get there at 2 AM and any way I tried to work it out in my mind, I just couldn't find a plausible way to make the schedule work. I may still learn how and do it in a pinch, but with the Noodle, it would just be too hard.

I closed for the first time tonight and we have to throw away the outdated baked goods and I felt like I was committing a crime throwing away so many cakes and desserts. Target donates a lot of the packaged goods to a local mission, which is awesome, but the things we package ourselves have to go in the trash. When I was throwing the desserts into our trash compactor though, I had a strange sense of fulfillment in destroying that which I love.

I also wrote on a cookie cake and a regular cake and the customer didn't throw the cake back in my face, which gave me a sense of accomplishment. My handwriting is atrocious, but thankfully the consistency of the icing we use makes it super easy to do.

Hooray for a job and even MORE hooray for a bakery job!!!