Lori's Baby Shower Cake

My Sister-In-Law Lori is expecting her first child and I've been asked to make the cake for the baby shower. I couldn't be more honored to make a cake for my first nephew (My sister is also pregnant so I'm gonna be an aunt times two!!!) Lori loves monkey's so there was no surprise when she told me it would be a monkey themed baby shower. She looked online for an idea of what she would like and found and texted me this pic:

I have NEVER made a baby bottom on a cake before!! So I was a little bit intimidated. After a little brain storming I decided I was going to make the baby bottom out of gum paste. I just rolled a ball out of white fondant and that was it! Then I made a long light peach colored log and cut it in half and those were the legs then I molded some tiny feet and used a scoring tool to had some wrinkles then I made tiny gum paste toes and attached them to the feet.

I then rolled out a light blue rectangle of fondant to place over the baby bottom as a blanket and added some brown trim and a monkey of course!

I added a tier to the cake because our family is BIG and we were going to need a lot more cake. All in all I was very happy with the outcome, It turned out really cute. It tasted yummy too!

Zebra Birthday Cake

My sister is a big fan of zebra stripes. So for her birthday I made her a zebra striped cake. Now this was before I had any cake decorating supplies so the end result was cute but not to my full satisfaction. I didn't roll the black fondant out thin enough, so the stripes came out a little thick. The bow was a little floppy too. Which is fine but not the look i was going for. I know I'm my own worse critic, but it's how I learn for the next cake.

Mother's Day 2011 Cake

My Mom's mother's day cake was my first attempt at making fondant flowers. It was a very small cake but I loaded it with many flowers and was quite happy with it. My mom loved it too :)

Casey's Baby Shower

This past weekend I had a baby shower for my cousin's girlfriend Casey. I had a lot to do the weeks prior but nothing was as bad as the day before. Friday I had planned to bake the cake and cupcakes and start on the decorating, then finish the following morning before the shower. I say planned like it wasn't how it went, well, I made the cake and it was at the shower before guest arrived. But it did go as smoothly as I planned and wasn't as much fun as I usually have when making cakes. Why? Because I came down with a 100.7 degree fever Friday morning that stuck with me thru Saturday. It truly was the most miserable cake making experience I've had. My heart just wasn't in it because honestly all I wante to do is crawl into bed and not come out until the fever went down. I just couldn't do that though, so I pushed thru and the results were surprisingly good.

 

 Also about a month and a half before I made the invitations for the baby shower myself and I made the party favors for the shower too. Pouring chocolate into molds and making tags with a customized picture of baby Ariana. All in all it was a lot of fun making all these cute things for this shower, but it would've been greater minus the fever.

My first cake adventure....

When my son turned 1 we threw him a big baseball themed birthday party at my parents home which was a lot of hard work and cost just as much money, So when it came to his second birthday we tried to go a little bit more low key (hard to do when you have a HUGE family). The most expensive thing from the first birthday besides food was the cake. It was gorgeous, but a lot of money. So when the second birthday came along and we talked about a cake I decided I was going to make it myself. Now mind you I have many cakes before but none like this one. Once we decided on a theme my creative juices started flowing. I had idea after idea all out of my comfort level. I guess i had been watching too much Cake Boss and Ace of Cakes, I really don't know what got it in me to try such an advanced technique of cakery that I had never done before. But you know what I had so much fun figuring out how to do everything that I knew it was not going to be my last cake and I was right.

Now this cake was far from perfect but I was proud of it just the same. Spongebob's pineapple house, Spongebob himself and Patrick were made out of rice krispy treats wrapped in fondant. It was my first time working with fondant and I found it very hard to cover a cake with it but after many tries and failures I got the cake covered. Still to this day my cake coving with fondant is not perfect but it's improved a whole lot. The cake caught everyones eye and they were in disbelief when they were told that I was the one who made it. Success!!!!!