Ladybug cupcakes for Devin

Stacey's daughter Devin asked for ladybug cupcakes.  When I asked her what she wanted, I was certain she would ask for something Harry Potter.  I was very surprised at her choice. 

Captain America Cupcakes for Dorian

For my girlfriend Corinne's son, she wanted Captain America cupcakes for the class.  I love C.A. so I was more than happy to make these for her!

Hello Kitty cake

I love Hello Kitty!!! I have wanted to make her cake for a while now.  I was so excited when Tanika, a lady who works with Kyle, asked me to make a Hello Kitty cake for her daughter's birthday party!!! And I think the coordinating cupcakes are adorable!!!

Happy Birthday Sam!!! Spiderman cookies...

I feel so lucky that in Bermuda we are allowed to cook treats at home and send them with the kids to school!!!  Most moms send cupcakes with their kids on their birthday.  These cupcakes are often distributed to the kids at the end of the day, on the way out the door.  I can't tell you how many times I have driven through to collect the boys and they are holding a sticky cupcake in their hands, ready to get into the car and devour it...  Obviously, I don't have anything against cupcakes.  I love them!  However, I don't love them smeared all over the backseat of my car.  For Sam's birthday this year, I decided to make cookies instead.  A nice, dry treat that will only produce crumbs...  He is really into SpiderMan right now and wanted Spidey cookies. 

So I spent half the night making 31 Spidey cookies.  He liked them so much, he asked for another batch to be made this weekend... He asked so sweetly, how could I possibly say "no?"

Black and white

Black on white cakes appears to be getting more and more popular.  I love how elegant this cake looks with black!!

Fsherman cake

This is an older cake.  Can't even remember when I made it!  I just came across the picture and wanted to post it. 

Camouflage cake

My latest challenge was to make a camoflage cake... Inside and out.  I don't have a picture of the indside yet, but this is how the camo fondant turned out.  It wasn't as difficult as I had anticipated.

Kyle's 40th birthday cake: Boba Fett

Every time someone wants a Star Wars themed cake, Kyle suggests I make a Boba Fett cake like on ehe saw online.  So for his big day this year, I made the cake for him.

B is for BOY baby bootie shower cake

 

 

I love making baby bootie cakes!!!

 

Happy Birthday Mackenzie

Our neighbor's daughter, Mackenzie, turned 11 this year.  The horse on the cake is meant to look like her pony Mimi.

Sonic the Hedgehog cake for Asher

Asher's mom, Terri, asked if I would make a "Sonic" cake for Asher's party this weekend.  I agreed, even though I didn't yet knw who Sonic is.  I had to start doing research to figure out who he is.  This is my cake rendition.

Happy Birthday Ana!!! Princess cake

Kyle's brother, Derek, brought his family to Bermuda to visit us.  My niece, Ana, celebrated her 7th birthday earlier this month and we wanted to have a little cake "party" for her.  She wanted a pink princess cake like another I made a couple of years ago.  Here's her cake!

Cupcake Wars...

Kyle's company hosted a "cupcake wars" in June.  The theme for the cupcakes was "cocktail."  We entered these "White Russian" cupcakes.  They were soooo yummy!  We won!  The prize was a certificate to the cookery store in town!  Woo Hoo!

Two more missing cakes

In addition to the LV Handbag cake, I also located these photos.  A suprise Birthday Cake for Velda:

And another birthday cake:

Louis Vuitton Handbag cake

I made this cake back in April and I thought I lost the photo... Sooo glad I found it!  This was the first time I had "embossed" on fondant.  It was an interesting experience!!

5 Tier White Wedding Cake with roses

I love this cake!!! Absolutely elegant!

Captain America Cake

My Drew turned 10 on Friday.  For his birthday, I made a Captain America cake.  Kyle showed me a picture of one like it and I just had to try it...  Drew loved it!

Inside, I layered the cake to look like the American flag when it was cut...

And no party is complete without a goofy picture of the Birthday Boy!!!

Chieko's wedding cake...

I did a wedding cake for a destination-style wedding.  It was a morning ceremony on the beach.  The bride, Chieko, wanted hibiscus flowers on her cake.  She designed it herself and I put it to cake!  The flowers were much easier to make than I had thought they would be.  Time-consuming, though!

Puppy shower cake...

My dear friend Deidre is having a boy!  She has decorated her nursery with the cutest puppy theme!  So for her shower, I made a fondant puppy for the top of her cake.

In addition to the centerpiece cake, I made these little matching cupcakes for each place setting at the table.

Wedding cake...

 A recent wedding cake for a formal and rather elegant wedding.

Thank you cake for Bobby...

This cake was for a gentleman at our church who has spent many, many hours over the years "taking care of stuff..."  I can find it difficult making cakes for men.  I always have lots of cute ideas that are almost all better suited for girls and women.   In order to have enough cake to serve everyone at church, I made cupcakes to coordinate.

Jersey cake...

A replica of a soccer team jersey.  Velda requested this cake as a surprise for her brother's birthday.  This is his favorite team.

I found pictures of the jersey online and tried to do all of the details...

Taxi cake...

I just stumbled upon this cake picture when looking for a different picture.  Velda requested a taxi cab cake.  I think it was in February.  It was during a time when I was doing a lot of cakes and travelling.

Pretty cakes for church...

These were for a party at church in honor of those who donate their time.

I find the simplest details can make cakes very elegant.

Spiderman Cake... Happy Birthday Justin!!

This cake is for a little boy named Justin who was our neghbor when we first moved to Bermuda.  This is the first of 5 cakes this weekend.  Done more than 12 hours early!!! That never happens!

Juicy Couture Cake for Juliana's Birthday!

Velda's daughter, Juliana, turns 17 today.  Velda requested a Juicy Couture Cake for her.  This is a cake rendition of the J.C. "piggy" bank.  As always, I had a lot of fun making it!

Birthday Cake for Me...

Today was my birthday.  Drew and Sam wanted to decorate a cake for me.  They are so sweet!!!  The best part is that they only put 10 candles on it!!!  Here it is:

Cupcakes for Sam's Thomas

Both of my boys' first friends in Bermuda are named Thomas.  Sam's Thomas turned 7 on Christmas Eve.  These are cupcakes for his class at school.  Like many, many boys, Thomas loves Star Wars. 

My hundred dollar cookie!!!

I entered this Christmas cookie in a contest and won a $100 certificate to Williams-Sonoma!!  I was so excited!!!  Sam says that now I am famous... He's so funny!

Velda's daughter turns 29...

Velda's daughter turns 39 today.  Velda wanted a "modern art" style cake for the occasion.  This was fun.  I had never done a cake quite like this one.

Gingerbread houses...

One of the first days of break from school the boys wanted to do gingerbread houses.  They had tons of fun!  I think they ate as much frosting and candy as they put on the houses...

Oh, Christmas Cookie... Oh, Christmas Cookie...

I have spent the majority of the last 3 days making my Christmas Cookies.  I tried a few new things this year.  The "snow globe" cookie was really fun to create!  In addition to the cookies pictured, I made Christmas pine trees and mittens... They have all been eaten by my monsters already!  I'll have to remember to take pictures as I go along.  Here they are:

And some close-ups:

I put some sugar glitter on the snow for these cookies.  You can't see it very well in the pictures.

Two birthday cakes for Velda

Velda asked me to do 2 different cakes for this past weekend.  The first was for a Sweet Sixteen Party.  For a girl who apparently loves movies.  Velda asked for the Birthday message on a movie ticket.  I added the popcorn and coke to make it a little more fun.

The second cake was for a Lakers Fan.  Velda sent me a picture of a cake and asked me to replicate it.  I did change a few details.  I used Royal Icing to make the Lakers Logo for the cap.  The picture she sent me had the logo printed on fondant.  I thought this turned out really well.  It looks cool!  It was a lot easier than I had anticipated.  

Christmas Party cupcakes for Grade 2...

These are the cupcakes I made for the Christmas Party for Sam's grade 2 classroom... They turned out cuter than I thought they would.  I didn't have a lot of time to make them and I was having difficulty with the oven...

Happy Birthday Dorian!

These cupcakes were for Dorian's friend's birthday. 

Seeing stripes

This cake isn't anything special on the outside....

You have to cut into it for the surprise inside:



Last week, before we left for Minnesota, Tracy sent me an email with a picture of a zebra striped cake...  All of a sudden I was obsessed.  How did they do that???  I spent a lot of time thinking about it.  I tried one before we left and it was a serious flop.  (Kyle enjoyed eating it, flop or not.)  It took 3 more tries once we returned home to get it right.  I think it looks really cool!  I would have decorated it a little more fancy but since it is just an experiment, I decided to go easy.  Plus, it was after 9 last night when I was ready to decorate!  I had a bunch of leftover batter so I decided to see if it would work with cupcakes:

The technique needs a little tweaking but I still think they look pretty cool!

Cupcakes for Sam's class...

I stayed up until nearly 1 am this last night making these cupcakes for Sam's birthday celebration at school with his class.  Bears are popular at our house!  I love that we can send homemade goods to school with the boys...