Posts Tagged ‘Birthdays’

Andrew’s youngest sister, Katie, and I both celebrate our birthdays in July. I love making cakes (obviously) and she loves ice cream, so we spent an afternoon making an ice cream cake to share with the ManyMeadows. I also made her this book as a gift.
I used a pinstriped cardstock for the cover to give [...]

I love making cakes for kids’ parties and my fiancé Andrew’s nieces and nephews especially love my creations. Niece Lily recently turned 4, and she requested that I make a pink princess cake for her party.
Here are the step-by-step directions for making a princess cake. I realize you may read some of the steps and [...]

Last summer, I turned 25 on the 25th of July. My “Golden Birthday”. To celebrate, I invited dozens of friends to a “Quarter-Life Crisis” party that would last the entire weekend. Naturally, no party would be complete without a CAKE!
Since it was for my own party, I used this opportunity to try my hand at [...]

During the month of June, I volunteered to make fancy cakes for the price of ingredients. While most people would be willing to eat a delicious, FREE cake, no one took me up on my offer more enthusiastically than Marcy. In fact, the subject line on her email read: “CAKE—IMPORTANT!!!” My favorite snippet from her [...]

Roger found me through my future MIL, Robin’s, blog. His youngest son was having a Kung Fu Panda party and they were in need of a cake. I jumped at the opportunity (I haven’t done many cakes for kids), and started scheming.
I wanted it to be quite different from the cakes you see in a [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]