Books. Cakes. Design.
My, how time flies! When Andrew and I met, his youngest daughter was just 5 years old. Now she’s a beautiful 8 year old who just gets smarter and funnier and prettier every day.
Since MJ was turning 8 on April 8th, this was her one and only Golden Birthday. So I was extra excited when [...]
In September, I started a cupcake adventure. If you haven’t read about it yet, you can do so here.
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What, you’ve never heard of a Cupcake Kabob before?!
The first thing I did to prep the kabobs was grab a bunch of these:
And a bunch of these:
If I could help it, I didn’t want to repeat colors [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
For my birthday last year, my fiancé Andrew’s aunt Cristi (a culinary genius in her own right) gave me a cookbook dedicated entirely to gourmet cupcakes. I oohed and aahed over it for months before actually putting it to use. These “Margarita Cupcakes” were my first adventure.
The batter AND the icing actually contain both fresh [...]
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 [...]