Happy Halloween!

I made 7 dozen cupcakes for a company party.  Coconut Cream, Chocolate Chocolate, and Pumpkin.  I hope everyone has a sweet Halloween night!

The Billion Dollar Experience

This is a classic chocolate cake with chocolate french buttercream frosting.

When my 11 year old son, Will, tasted this cake he exclaimed "That is a billion dollar experience!"  It's that good.  Sometimes you just need really good chocolate cake, fortunately, it won't cost you a billion dollars.

Funfinity

I put a cake insert into the wedding cake to allow Becca and Jeff to cut their cake.  You can see that section above.  I've decorated it to look like pumpkin chocolate chip cake with cream cheese frosting.

If you'd like to have a closer look at Jeff and Becca's wedding cakes stop by Funfinity - 222 East University Parkway, Orem, Utah.  Funfinity is an awesome toy store that also sells lots of fabulous cake decorating and candy making supplies.  My Tangled Tower cake is still at the store and you can check out all three cakes when you stop in.

Becca's Wedding

Jeff and Becca Johnson admire the grooms cake at their reception.

On Saturday September 17th my sister in law married Jeff Johnson.  I made the wedding cake, the grooms cake and 500 assorted cupcakes.  It was a beautiful day enjoyed by all.

If you look really closely you can
see the tiny gelatin sequins I made.

I looked at dozens of cakes with Becca and we talked over lots of ideas but nothing really seemed right until I started thinking about her wedding dress.  I was storing the dress for her and so I was able to pull it out and really look at it.  Her ivory colored dress was covered in beautiful white lace and I immediately thought about how pretty it would be on a cake.  So, in the end, I designed something original for her to match her wedding dress.  We didn't want to have to cut up the entire cake so I made the whole thing out of styrofoam except for a small section on the bottom tier.  I put carrot cake into that section so that Becca and Jeff could cut the cake together. 

Jeff loves pumpkin pie and the outdoors which explains the pie and the setting of this cake.  But there are so many personal details on this cake we had to write  " The Grooms Cake Deciphered" to help the guests at their reception understand and appreciate everything I included on the cake.

This is a picture of The Grooms Cake Deciphered - a list of all of the details on the grooms cake and what they meant.

The 500 assorted cupcakes were: 

pumpkin with orange cream cheese frosting

chocolate chip caramel swirl with chocolate swiss merengue buttercream

vanilla pound cake with vanilla swiss merengue buttercream

strawberry lemon twist with lemon swiss merengue buttercream

and

gluten free chocolate with chocolate swiss merengue buttercream

Sweet Summer Cupcakes

Delicious cupcakes in three flavors; Snickerdoodle (just like the cookie but in a cupcake), Vanilla Vanilla and Strawberry Cream.  My favorite were the strawberry cream cupcakes.  Strawberry pound cake with strawberry cream cheese frosting.  So good.

Rainbow Fairy Cake

I asked Alicia what kind of a fairy she wanted to be and without hesitation she said a rainbow fairy.

  On the outside this cake is light and airy with fluffy white clouds but on the inside I've made chocolate blackout cake with vanilla swiss meringue buttercream frosting and caramel snickers candy bar filling. 

The best part about making this cake was the delivery.  Alicia was so excited!  She wanted to keep the fairy version of herself so I made the topper easy to lift off and save.  I'm sure it will be fun to remember this birthday every time she sees it.

Rapunzel Revisited

I was asked to display one of my cakes at Funfinity, a great toy store in Orem, Utah that also sells cake decorating and candy making supplies.  We thought it would be fun to show off my Rapunzel tower with a new cake base.  If you live in the Utah Valley area you should definitely stop in and check it out.  The cake is over 3 feet tall and has lots of fun details that Tangled fans will enjoy.  It took me over 100 hours to make this cake. 

              The front of the cake says "Once upon a Time"  

The back of the cake says "Happily ever After"

I had to put Maximus on this cake somewhere. 

I love all of the wanted posters in the movie.  I chose to draw one with a particularly ugly nose.  You can see Flynn climbing up the side of the cake here as well.

Here you can see Rapunzel and Flynn's campsite, the famous satchel, the frying pan and the sign for the Snuggly Duckling.

My cake on display at Funfinity - 222 East University Pkwy, Orem Utah

Happy 4th of July!

Yummy 4th of July cake pops.  These are strawberry cake and cream cheese frosting on the inside, white chocolate on the outside.