Taylor's 2nd Birthday!

Our friends, Aaron & Sharilyn, are having a birthday party for their daughter Taylor who turned 2 on April 14th.  (I can't believe she is already two!!!!) 

I went over today to help Sharilyn make cupcakes - the theme is butterflies.  She baked chocolate and lemon cupcakes.  We made the fondant butterflies and I made the frosting and decorated.  It was a fun and easy project! 

Here are some photos - I think they turned out reallllllly cute!  :)

Happy Birthday, Taylor!
Love,
Aly

Post-St. Patty's Day Party!

We had a post-St. Patty's Day party last night - what a blast!

I made my Irish Car Bomb cupcakes again and they tasted pretty good!  These are Guinness chocolate cupcakes with Irish whiskey filling and Baileys buttercream frosting.

In honor of St. Patty's Day - I dyed the frosting green... :)  Here are some photos:

Laker's Birthday Cake!

A co-worker commissioned me to make a birthday cake for his son-in-law.  He said either "Simpsons" or "Lakers".  I opted for the Lakers theme because I thought this would be less time consuming and it was a really small cake.

This is just a plain yellow cake with milk chocolate fudge filling and frosting.  I made it like a Laker's jersey and left room for them to put his name on it and a big candle!

Here's a photo:

Dad's Birthday Cake

We celebrated my Dad's birthday a couple weeks ago.  He turned 56 on March 6th!  :)  Of course, I volunteered to make the cake.  However, Dad doesn't care for fondant so I had to try to test out my buttercream skills... YIKES!

This was a homemade dark chocolate chip cake with dark chocolate ganache buttercream filling and frosting (crumb coat) and a dark chocolate fudge icing.  I used the buttercream for the decorating.  It was VERY tasty!  :) 

Happy (belated) Birthday Dad!  Love you!

Congratulations, Robert & Katie!

My best friend in the whole wide world - Kelley - has a super awesome sister Katie and brother-in-law Robert.  Katie and Robert are expecting an addition to their family in April and today was their baby shower.  I begged to make a cake for them because I love them and I love the theme!  They are expecting a boy and are really into hot rods.  This cake isn't your typical baby shower cake, but it seemed to fit with the theme.

The top tier is a lemon cake with butter cream frosting.  The middle tier is a yellow cake with vanilla frosting.  The bottom tier is carrot cake with cream cheese frosting.  :)

I tried to make a stroller out of fondant but I was having some issues - so it ended up just being flames, jester blue diamonds, and a checkered flag design with the baby's initials on top.

Here are some photos:

Hope it tasted good and that they liked it!
Congratulations to Robert and Katie!
Love,
Aly

Kyle's Birthday Cake!

Lindsay came over today and helped me (meaning she did most of the work :) ) on Kyle's birthday cake.  I baked a funfetti cake with red and black sprinkles.  The plan was to make a dragon cake...
So, we made a black cauldron made out of the cake and a dragon made out of rice krispy treats.  We had some fondant coins and jewels to add a few touches.  We added dry ice to the cauldron to make it smoke... :)

Thanks Lindsay for all the help... you are the best!

Happy Valentine's Day!

In honor of Valentine's Day, I made funfetti cupcakes with pink vanilla frosting.  I used fondant to cut out red and pink hearts.  Unfortunately, I didn't let the hearts harden before I put them on the cupcakes so they molded to the frosting - but it doesn't look too bad!

Here are some photos:

Happy Valentine's Day!  :)
Love,
Aly