Hungry Austin

The Very Hungary Austin... I mean caterpillar... Made this for a super cute one year old...  He did pretty good with the devouring portion of the party... :) 

Note:  Beer wasn't included in the baby's celebration...

Reigning Princess

In celebration of her first full year of reign over her kingdom, Princess Nora celebrated with her adoring public enjoying a cupcake dress cake and a custom made celebration cupcake smash cake...

 Her adoring public

Not sure you can get much cutter then this.... Unless you are my niece or nephew of course...

Her dress is made from her mom's wedding dress along with the green accents of one of her best friend's bridesmaid dress.  Nora's amazing mom had shoes made out of her other best friend's bridesmaid dress...  So awesome!

Lil Pumpkin

My cousins Sweet Lil' Pumpkin turned one and we had a great family gathering to celebrate. There were many loving detail including pictures of the birthday girl all throughout the room and lots of cute pumpkins and orange decorations. My cousin made a great story board for her first year and it matched beautifully with the pumpkin themed cake!  I love it when a good plan comes together!
Great job Jess! The party was a great success. It is always good to see families together, kids playing and everyone smiling...

 

Behind the scenes look....

 All of the "Pieces" ready to dry overnight...  I made way too many pendants and circles... I just kept going and going when I clearly didn't need this many...

I was thankful for a safe transport and cake delivery... No cake wrecks! Yeah!

 

Sia's First Birthday

I had the privilege to make the first birthday cake for our friend's little girl.  I love 1st birthday cakes!  Sia's smash cake had lots of layers of ruffles so her little fingers would get nice and dirty.  The adult cake had pinwheel's, birthday banner and balloons.

Minion 1st Birthday

Had a super fun time making the cake and goodies for this little cuties 1st birthday.  His family are super awesome party planners and go above and beyond to make a fun party.  The best part of making the treats for this birthday was the team effort.  His family came over one Sunday and helped decorate the cookies and cake pops. I supplied the recipe and they finished the decorating.    Special thanks to this website for the cake inspiration.

Cookies are ready for decorating...

Great Job Sara and Michelle!  The cookies looked awesome!

Excellent supervision Allison :)

Carl, Jill, and Michelle- The cake pops looked great!

Cake pops getting their personalities...

 Not sure the birthday boy helper could be any cuter...

 Ready for his close-up!

 All of the pa pa pa paparazzi....

He did a great job eating the cake!

Under the Sea

Today was the first birthday of a precious little girl... It was fun to celebrate and see all of my friends. Her birthday is perfectly placed so it will force us to have parties in the winter and get to catch up with each other...
Her mom gave me lots of creative freedom. She provided some of the birthday girl's favorite toys for inspiration. She loves her crab, clown fish and Orka so I used those as inspiration.  A search on cake central.com produced some great inspiration (in addition to giving me a computer virus, but that is another story...)   Below are some pictures of the cake coming together.  Enjoy!

The Octopus in its infancy...

 Made the coral out of white chocolate. Poured it over crushed ice to give it the trademarks of coral.

Pictures of the finished cake:

The aftermath...

An Animal Kingdom 1st Birthday

My friend's daughter celebrated her first birthday with a theme of an Animal Kingdom. After searching on cakecentral.com we found the perfect cake to go with the party theme.  The thing that made this cake tricky was the delivery. I was traveling for work and couldn't make the delivery.  Every thing went well in my absence and the cake made it to the party with no issues... Yeah!   Here are some pictures of the cake assembly and Celia devouring it!  I love 1st birthday cakes!

Celia's Smash Cake

  

 

 Action Shots of Celia enjoying her birthday cake!

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