Posts Tagged ‘Kids’

A while back, the lovely Felicia asked me to make cupcakes for a baby shower. A friend of hers at work was expecting a baby girl, and the whole office wanted to celebrate.
I made 48 cupcakes: two dozen vanilla and two dozen chocolate. The guest of honor loves cream cheese icing, so that was my [...]

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. [...]

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 one of those ‘cupcake’ recipes that isn’t cake at all. But it’s in the book, so go with it. I did.

Want to know the trick to getting lots of things done in the kitchen in [...]

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 [...]

Our Aqua Dragon…? What does that mean? Those are actually the nicknames for the books in this post, cleverly disguised as a title.
1. ‘R’
2. Aquasteel
3. Fire Dragon
These were ordered by this great gal named Theresa out in California (I love knowing that my books are all over the country!) She’d placed a previous [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Not too long ago, my niece Sadie asked her mom why we have noses. Ali replied, “So we can smell things. What’s your favorite smell?” To which Sadie replied, “Pink!”
The girl couldn’t be more right! For her past two birthdays, “pink” has been the only guidance I’ve been given in regards to her cake. Today [...]

Last year, Andrew’s daughter Sierra turned 9 and in honor of her birthday, I made a very girlie cupcake tower, complete with apple blossoms and gerbera daisies made from royal icing. I set up the tower before she arrived home from school, and we kicked off her birthday celebration with the extinguishing of a single [...]