The Pirate Cake

The pirate cake, ARG Matey!

The island the treasure is on.

The edges of the map

A tenny tiny red X marks the spot.

The "planks" of wood from the side of the table.

Cupcakes, Cupcakes, Cupcakes

The camping cake

The Epic Camping Cake!! LOL.. We had a joint birthday for my two youngest, Elijah and Joseph. We had all the family over and as we are a family who enjoys camping, we decided upon a camping themed cake. I used a denser cake recipe to hold up all of the "tree stumps". I used a butter cream/cream cheese frosting for all of the frosting decorating. We used 1, 14 inch round for the base and 2, 6 inch rounds for the back "hill". I cut the base board to the size I wanted to allow for the decorations.

Position you large cake where you want it on the board, and then using your large cake pan cut the bottom 6 inch layer to fit snugly against the back of the cake. Cut a groove for the river out of the top 6 inch layer. Put a layer of frosting on top of the bottom 6 inch layer, position the top layer and crumb coat the whole cake.

I traced the river onto the cake and then using tip #234 I applied the grass to the cake and board. I used tip #2b, which is a large basket weave tip, to place the "water" between the grassy areas as well as the pond at the back of the board. I then used a store bought, GASP, blue tinted sparkly frosting gel to give shine and "movement" to the water. The gasp is because I don't care to use store bought frosting's.... But in this case it worked well.

I then used chocolate rocks to line the river, the fire ring, and other placings on the cake. Using tootsie rolls, make a few logs for your campfire, I cut one mini tootsie roll into 3rds and rolled them smooth. I then used a thin sharp knife to trace lines for bark. Using tip # 352 I made yellow flames on the campfire and painted orange highlights on the flames using orange gel food coloring and a paint brush. We sprinkled a bit of cocoa powder into the fire ring to create ashes. I also used tootsie rolls to create the fallen trees and mini PB cups for the stumps for the fallen trees and around the campfire.

The trees were created using rice krispie treats that had been tinted green. First make up the rice krispie treats adding the food coloring before the rice krispies. Melt chocolate chips, and liberally coat the outside of the sugar cones and then press the krispie treats onto the cones. Keep your hands slightly damp to avoid sticking. I made different size trees by breaking the cones into smaller sizes. Allow to dry. We used large pretzel rods for tree trunks, just breaking them to the size you want. Place the trunks where you would like them. I went back and highlighted the tree with more gel food coloring and a paint brush. Then place on pretzel rods.

 The tent was made using fruit roll ups cut to size and placed over graham crackers used to form the shape. Sucker sticks were used to make the tent polls and support for the graham crackers... We used a few german toy animals to place around the cake and I stuck some goldfish crackers in the pond in the back, LOL. Lots a fun, a bit of work. We actually lost power while I was working on it in the middle of the night and I ended up using one of our camping lanterns so I could keep going. I guess it was pretty fitting!

1 14 inch cake layer
2 6 inch cake layers
2 large batches of frosting
tootsie rolls
chocolate rocks
mini PB cups
tips, 234, 2b, 352
sugar cones
chocolate chips
rice krispie treats
sucker sticks
marshmallows

Anniversary Cake

A 30th anniversary cake.

Lego Birthday cake for my youngest!

My babies 8th birthday cake!

More cakes

A cake for a friends daughter who was graduating!
One of my kiddos birthday cake..

Bert the Bass, LOL

Cakes and Cupcakes

A bridal shower cake. One of my son Elijahs cupcakes for birthday at school.
My son Josephs cupcakes for birthday at school.
My bosses daughters graduation cake.
A friends daughters graduation cake.

MMMMMMM Strawberries

One of the CNA's at work had a birthday yesterday so I decided to take her in a cake today! It turned out wonderful.

Some other odd and end cakes

A silly HUGE snowman cake, that is alot of cake, LOL....The bottom is a two layers 14 inches, the middle is two layers 10 inches, and the top is two layers 6 inches, LOL...

Another graduation cake....

My Joey Bugs 6th Birthday Cake

A chocolate fudge cake layered with strawberris and whipped cream!!

Some more cakes

A thank you cake for a gal at work!

Birthday cake for a another gal at work.

Cakes for a wedding.

They only wanted a small round cake that said Paul and Janie (top view) Oh and that spot in the middle is where I placed the topper for a moment to leave a mark for placement of the words and the topper at the ceremony.

(side view)

and then 2 9x13 cakes they truned out pretty good and I was told they tasted good as well.

Some graduation cakes

These were done a for our neighbors daughter who just graduated. We are so blessed to live next to this fantastic family. Their kids are awesome they are so generous we have been truly blessed. The cakes themselves turned out okay and are a lovely french vanilla and dark chocolate fudge swirled. YUMMMMY with cream cheese icing. I am a bit dissapointed in the writing on the cakes I could have done so much better. I do not know why I was not as good on these as others. SIGH

A cake for ladies group

I decided that my ladies group needed a fudge cake for Mothers day. So I made one, LOL. Cream cheese frosting with chocolate drizzled over mmmmmmmmmmmmm. I hope everyone enjoys it.

Birthday Cakes

These were for two birthdays on Thanksgiving. The bottom one was for my oldest who celebrated his 17Th birthday in 2008. The top was for a friends little girls 2ND birthday.

My now 6 year olds Birthday cake

My now 6 year old requested a cake with sprinkles and some yellow as yellow is his favorite color. So he got a cake with sprinkles, LOL. We also decided that since we were having the party at the zoo, it would be a zoo cake. We used some of those little frosted animal cookies for the animals. As you can see the cake is looking a bit soft. Well, a hot afternoon will do that to a cake. He loved it, it tasted great, and so I am happy with it!!!

Graduation Cakes

These were made for a party at our church. The big cake is Dark Chocolate and French Vanilla Swirl, the squiggle cake is Dark Chocolate, and the Congrats Grads is French Vanilla. Yummmmmy.

Cakes to take visiting

This yummy looking slice of cake is an Apple Cinnamon Swirl cake with cream cheese frosting and a Caramel Crunch Drizzle

Scones Scones Scones

Homemade Chocolate Chip Scones
The best recipe also fun to bake and great to share. Just needs some whipped cream.