This was for my nephew’s fiancee’s wedding shower. They got engaged on the beach and will be married on the beach! So, of course, I went with the beach theme! Thank you to Victorious Cupcakes, Cute Little Cupcakes and Ali Bee’s Bake Shop for the design of the cupcakes. The cake is a 10” vanilla cake iced in buttercream with fondant decorations and the cupcakes are dark chocolate iced in sea blue buttercream with fondant toppers and white chocolate shells! Thank you for looking!

I had planned to make this cake for my Dad’s 84th birthday. Unfortunately he passed away a few days before. When I showed my sister-in-law a photo of the cake she convinced me to go ahead and make it as it was totally appropriate for his wake. I believe it was fate that I choose this cake. First I want to thank Toni (whitecrafty) for the wonderful design. Originally it was to have one dove at the top to represent my Mom that passed away almost 13 years ago. Now it has 2 doves, my Mom leading my Dad up to heaven. My brother that passed away last year is represented my the dove sitting in the tree. On the branches are my Dad’s 5 children, 7 grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren. My 3 years old granddaughter always “helps” me make cakes. I give her some fondant and cutters and let her play. While I was working on the cake she came to me and handed me a lovely blue heart. She said “Nana I made this heart for Opa’s cake”. So in the last photo you will see Tillie’s heart to Opa. (Opa is german for grandfather) This was a labor of love and there are definitely a few tears on this cake. Thank you for letting me pour my heart out.

The day before my daughter’s birthday she found out she was expecting! So I decided to add a cute little baby on top and make it a double celebration! My daughter moved her party up 2 days so I didn’t have a lot of time to make this cake. I’m not happy at all with the flowers. They were suppose to be tulips her favorite flower but I don’t think they look like tulips at all. :( Oh well, I did what I could with the one evening I had to make this. The cake is a 6” x 6” butter cake with raspberry filling and buttercream icing. All decorations are fondant. Thanks for looking!

Vanilla cupcakes with buttercream icing. Micro heart sprinkles and fondant decorations. I made these for my granddaughter’s Valentine’s Day party. Thanks for looking!

This is the cake I made for my family Christmas Eve party! It is 3 6” cakes stacked with a 1/2 a ball pan on top and a 6” cake carved into the arms. It is chocolate fudge w/buttercream icing. I covered the cake board in icing and sprinkled sugar and snowflakes on it. The cupcakes are fudge marble w/buttercream and fondant toppers of the characters from the Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer movie. This cake was so much fun to make and all the kids LOVED it! The adults did too!! Thanks to tokazodo for the design of Bumble! Thanks for looking and I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas!

Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer and Friends cupcake toppers ready for my family Christmas Eve party. I’m going to make a Bumble cake and have the cupcakes around the base of it. Thanks for looking and Merry Christmas everyone!

A cake I made for our family Christmas eve party(2011). It is a chocolate fudge cake I made in the Wilton ball pan with buttercream icing covered in fondant. All decorations are fondant. I love the way the Christmas trees turned out. I put a layer of white over the green and than punched out with a snowflake cutter. My great-nieces were so cute, when I went to cut the cake they all came running over to pick their favorite penguin to take home! Thanks to my cake school for the design! Merry Christmas everyone and thanks for looking!

Cupcakes I made for my granddaughter’s Christmas party play date. Chocolate fudge cupcakes with cream cheese icing, sprinkles and Christmas toppers! I don’t know who to thank for the designs as I have seen them in so many places. So I will thank all my fellow bakers out there! And a Merry Christmas to all!!! Thanks for looking!

Pumpkin cupcakes with cream cheese icing and a cute little pumpkin on top!

Chocolate cupcakes with choc. buttercream. Thanks to CakesbyCindy for the design of the turkey.

Pumpkin cupcakes with cream cheese icing for Thanksgivng.

My first giant cupcake made for my daughter’s birthday. Shell is made with candy melts. Cake is chocolate with buttercream icing. I was really nervous about making the shell but it was really easy and popped right out of the pan. I used Tappitts funky letters for the lettering and the flowers and leaves are fondant. Thanks for looking!

White and milk chocolate decorations on chocolate fudge cupcakes with buttercream icing. These went with the lighthouse cake I made for a retirement party for my sister and brother-in-law. The “sand” is crushed sugar cookies and brown sugar. Thanks for looking!

Made this cake for my sister and brother-in-law’s going away party. They have retired and are moving to St. Simons Island, Georgia. St. Simons is known for their lighthouse. I hope I did it justice! The cake is a 10” Mounds Bar cake with buttercream icing. The shells, etc. are made of white and milk chocolate. The lighthouse is a paper towel roll covered in fondant with a flameless tealight for the “light”. I made the dune fencing of balsa wood stained with food coloring. My sister loved the cake! That is what is most important to me! Special thanks to Cake Hatteras. Their beautiful beach cakes definitely inspired me! Thanks for looking!

I asked my 3 yrs old granddaughter what kind of cake we should make for her Daddy’s birthday and she said “SpongeBob”!!! I asked my daughter what she thought and she said he would actually really like that since he liked the cartoon. So SpongeBob it is!!! Cake is choc. fudge with choc. frosting made from a 10” square cake that I trimmed down. All decorations are fondant. Special thanks to Lesley at Royal Bakery for her wonderful tutorial.

I made this cake for my sister’s 50th birthday. It is a 6” and an 8” butter cake with pineapple and raspberry filling. I used the Wilton Floral Fantasy embossing mat and Funky Tappitts for the lettering. This was the first time I made dahlias. I was surprised how easy they were to make! Thank you to patisseriejaja for the design! Thanks for looking!

Dora the Explorer for my granddaughter’s 2nd birthday. Dora with Boots and all her friends! 8” bottom tier and 6” top tier all covered in fondant. All decorations are fondant. Figures are from a play set. Thank you for looking!

Sesame Street cake I made for my granddaughter’s 3rd birthday! Used a 8” hexagon pan and put a different scene on each side. We have, of course, Bert & Ernie’s house at 123 Sesame Street, Oscar the Grouch, Mr. Hooper’s Store (my favorite), Big Bird at the Park and I added a Pet Shop to Sesame Street because I wanted to use my new cute doggies molds! LOL!!! My daughter said there isn’t a pet shop on Sesame Street but I told her as the cake designer I have artistic license! LOL! The cake is vanilla with red, green, blue and yellow polka dots inside! My granddaughter LOVED her cake and all the kids at the party did too! That’s what makes all the hours of work worth it! Thanks for looking!