Posts from ‘November, 2008’

In my first cake decorating class, we learned how to do ‘figure piping’. This is a technique you can use to make all sorts of 3-D things out of frosting: animals, fruits, flowers, and (shown below): clowns!
For our second class cake, we were shown how to build up icing to make figures. We all purchased [...]

Last fall I took a cake decorating course to spruce up my skills and learn some new skills. One of my favorite new piping techniques was the “basket weave”. For our final class, we created a two-layer oval cake. We then used classic white buttercream to cover the cake in basket weaving and ‘rope’ borders.
After [...]

This past summer, my fiancé’s two adorable nephews turned 5 and 3. Their joint birthday party was water-themed and included water balloon and water gun fights, shark decorations, and swimming in Mimi and Grandpa’s pool.
I was asked to make a cake shaped like a shark for the party. Since I didn’t know where to begin, [...]

What do you do when someone orders a cake for her daughter’s birthday, you whip up all the necessary pieces (green icing, round cake, royal icing flowers), and then she decides she doesn’t want it after all?
You find an excuse to celebrate. Luckily, Andrew and I had officially been dating for 8 months, so I [...]

To be married to the same person for 35 years is quite an accomplishment these days. And definitely something that should be celebrated! What better way to celebrate than with a cake?! Or two, as was the case with the Ryburns’ anniversary party.
Aaron (a co-worker of mine) asked me to make a couple of cakes, [...]

About a year ago, a dear friend asked me to make a cake for her sister-in-law’s baby shower. Because I LOVE it when multiple elements of a party match and correspond, I asked for a copy of the shower invite. Once I had it in my hand, I began deciding how I would incorporate its [...]

Cakes for kids are incredibly fun to make because the possibilities are endless. For Noah’s first birthday, the theme was “Lil Rockstar”, so I set out to make a very memorable cake. I also wanted to incorporate a “smash cake” because grandmas everywhere love pictures of babies making birthday cake messes.
What Rockstar ensemble would be [...]

All during college, I made birthday cakes for friends. But they were nothing fancy…just your typical, two-layer round cakes. That all changed when my dear friend “Amytons” invited me to her 80s-themed birthday party. I offered to bring a cake as my gift to her. I then set to work determining what kind of cake [...]

Welcome to Z as in Zebra! This company is a dream in the making. For the past several years, I have enjoyed making handmade books and designer cakes that thrill and amaze people. Watching a person’s face light up when they see their specialty product for the first time is THE best feeling in the [...]