An electrifying 28 Watt Birthday...

To help celebrate the family electrician's birthday I made a cake with an almost working outlet... The cake was chocolate with buttercream icing. The outlet and cord were fondant...

Fra-Gee-Lee

"Fra-gee-lee, that must be Italian, I think that says fragile honey".... Love this scene from the Christmas story movie and made a replica for the Shellaway family Christmas party this year. Special thanks to my sister Michelle for help with brainstorming the cake idea.

I used this cake for inspiration (stole the idea thank you Christy81071 ). The leg is white chocolate that I traced from a very rough drawing. I had a hard time getting the proportions right so it didn't look like a leg stump. I made two leg's in case one leg broke... It is always good to have a back up leg. That is what I always say...


Super cute cousins...

All the girls in one spot... (they lined up the forks- I didn't)


One layer of the cake was fresh raspberry. I thawed, pureed and strained a big bag of raspberries... Made for a really good cake!

White cake and raspberry cake cooling. I cut in half and stacked the cakes

Melting the chocolate.

Coconut prior to food coloring...

Now it is packaging material...



The leg stump...

My very rough drawing... Drawing really isn't my thing...


More pics of the lamp coming together...



The two legs... I used the one on the left because it looked a little more feminine...



Testing the legs... Which one looked better?






The inside of my refrigerator... The outlet cake is being delivered tomorrow... Will post next...

Happy 60th Aunt Linda

(My cousin Matt, Uncle Steve and Grandmom with my Aunt Linda's Cake)

I made this cake for my Aunt Linda who is celebrating being 60 years young. We had the christmas gathering for my dad's side of the family this past weekend and my uncle requested a special cake for my aunt. Unfortunetly Aunt Linda got sick and didn't make it to the party...So sad... My aunt also specifically requested that he NOT make a big deal about her birthday and that she did not want a party so it is sort of curious that she didn't show up ;)

Getting ready to pipe...

My mostly straight, slightly not straight lines...

No centers or leaves yet...

Done...

Hungry Hungry Lady Bug...

I made this cake for sweet little Adeleine who turned one last week. Her awesome aunt happens to be one of my cool friends so I was more then happy to help make Addie's first birthday a little extra special.

The design was borrowed from one we found on the internet (I can't find the reference at the moment- sorry I can't give full credit). The intention was a lady bug but it looked more and more like a pig or a hungry hungry hippo as the cake progressed... Oh well... It was cute none the less.

I used a pampered chef glass bowl to make the curved body of the lady bug and then cut a circle for the head out of small 6" cake. The dots and accents were fondant. Frosting was buttercream. The antenna's were flower wire I colored black (this was the non-edible part).

I love that she devoured the head! She looks like she had a great time! Happy Birthday Addie!

Naked cake

This is the cake I took the head from...

It really looked like a pig... At this point I was worried...

But once I added the fondant accents it started to look a little less like a pig...

A cute lady bug!

Singing Happy Birthday

The first few bites...

Notice the eyeball on her chin? Priceless!

Yummy Yummy!

I can't take credit for these beauties... They were beautifully decorated by Addie's loved ones in honor of her birthday. They look great! Fun and festive!

Gobble... Gooble them Up!

Happy thanksgiving! I made an attempt at the Bakearella's Turkey pops. Cake balls are essentially cake and icing mixed together, formed into a ball, covered in chocolate and then decorated. They were a little harder to make then I thought, but that is usually how it goes... I used a variety of flavored candy corn I gathered at the end of Halloween season. I used chocolate writing pens to make the eyes and gobbler thing that hangs down... I used the top of a candy corn for the mouth. I created quite a mess in my kitchen but hopefully it is worth it when my nieces and family taste the turkey's...

My messy work area...

Waiting his face...

The leftover cake balls... I covered some in chocolate and sprinkles for afternoon snacks tomorrow...

Packing up the turkey's

All packed up... ready to go...

I also made potato and Ham soup for tomorrow as well... Here it is getting ready to boil...

My niece enjoying the Turkey...