Posts Tagged ‘Birthdays’

In September of 2009, I started a cupcake adventure. If you haven’t read about it yet, you can do so here.
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It’s cupcake post kind of week, and since I used my blog as a virtual birthday treat for my cousin Zoe yesterday, today I’m doing the same for my friend Jacee. Only her birthday will [...]

I think we’d all admit that no kid’s birthday is complete without a theme cake, right?
Well, who better to help you turn this age…

…than this superhero?!

Amy contacted me for some party/gift giving help. 1: she wanted to have a custom journal made for a gift. 2: her son was turning four and only likes Spider-Man. [...]

A couple years ago, I made a 1st birthday cake with a Rockstar theme. I recently got a request to do another guitar cake–for a girl this time–a girl that was having a Hannah Montana party.
Naturally, after being cut to the correct shape, girls’ cakes start with a base coat of pink icing:

I added details [...]

In September, I started a cupcake adventure. If you haven’t read about it yet, you can do so here.
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This is the third batch of cupcakes that was made for my mom’s birthday: Brownie Cupcakes!
And there’s no denying that once out of the oven, they definitely looked more like brownies than cake. And, boy, did they [...]

In September, I started a cupcake adventure. If you haven’t read about it yet, you can do so here.
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This is the second batch of cupcakes that was made for my mom’s birthday: Black & White Cupcakes. According to the book, these are a familiar dessert to native New Yorkers (anyone?), but are usually in cookie [...]

In September, I started a cupcake adventure. If you haven’t read about it yet, you can do so here.
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The next several batches of cupcakes you’ll see on the blog were made at my parents’ house over Thanksgiving. For her birthday, my mom requested several batches of cupcakes that she could take to the school where [...]

Here’s a “blast from the past” cake…I made this over a year and a half ago for a friend’s little boy. He was turning 4 and the theme for his party was “Pirates!”
I started with a 12″ two-layer chocolate cake, frosted a pale peach/skin tone color. I used a red fabric bandana and a plastic [...]

Several months ago, I experimented with making cake pops. And since I had just been asked to design a cake for a brother/sister birthday party (Carter was turning 3, Campbell was turning 1), I figured it would be fun to incorporate them into the design!

I used primary colors for the cake decorations, and did swirls [...]

Not long ago, Amy, an old high school friend whom I haven’t seen in years emailed me via Facebook (isn’t cyberspace crazy?!) Her sister Ann’s birthday was coming up and she wanted to know if I could make a special book for her.
I always start by asking the client what the recipient’s favorite color is. [...]

Sweet Jacelyn’s birthday party was going to be at a pony farm, so the cake was a horse, of course, of course.
I started with an chocolate 11 x 15  sheet cake.

I made a horse template on the computer and sized it to fit the sheet cake.

Since the cake had been frozen overnight, it [...]