Yo Gabba Gabba!

For my nephew's 2nd birthday, I made this Yo Gabba Gabba cake.  This theme had so many possible options, but I tried to keep it fairly simple.  I wanted to focus on the characters, and made each out of fondant.  I also replaced the Yo Gabba Gabba logo with my nephew's name.  Enjoy!

Thundercats 7th Birthday Cake

Thundercats Ho!  It's a familiar call from my childhood.  I remember playing Thundercats with my babysitter's kids when I was 10.  We had a lot of fun.  Thundercats has made it's return 25+ years later and I was excited that a high school friend asked me to make a Thundercats cake for his son's birthday. 

Grandma's 76th Birthday Cake

Since I started decorating cakes for people besides my kids, I've been getting a lot of requests from friends and family.  I love these cakes because I can experiment with designs and do whatever I want...and since these customers aren't paying, I'm a lot less stressed in the process.  This year my Grandmother is staying in NY for the winter, so I made her a cake for her New Year's Eve birthday party.  This is my first attempt at a topsy turvy cake using new cake pans I received for MY birthday.  Not bad for a first attempt.

Just for Fun - Snowman Cake Pops

I've seen cake pops around as I do my research for design ideas and inspiration, but I had not yet found a reason to make them...until this Christmas.  My family had decided to have a "Kabob Kristmas" and make only food on sticks for our Christmas Eve gathering.  A requirement for the 'kabob' theme meant that the skewer or stick had to have at least 3 items on it.  I thought cake pops would be the perfect kabob item, but needed to find a way to get 3 pieces.  Then it hit me - of course, a snowman.  After a ton of research I found very few, and very poor examples of 3 sectioned snowman cake pops.  If you know me, you know this was my challenge and nothing was going to stop me.  They were surprisingly easy...and so stinking cute when I was done.

They are made with white cake and vanilla frosting, then dipped into white chocolate.  I piped on the eyes, nose and strap of the ear muffs.  The scarf is a fruit roll up and the ear covers are M&Ms.  I'm so glad I accepted this challenge and conquered it!

8th Birthday - Winter/Skating Theme

A friend from work asked if I could make a cake for her daughter's 8th birthday.  For her party they were going ice skating.  I had originally planned on putting an ice skate on the top, but changed my mind and went with just a cool, geometric winter theme.

1st Birthday - Fall Theme

Fall is one of my favorite seasons, and why I loved designing and decorating this cake so much.  The cake was for a 1st birthday in October.  It was decorated with fondant stripes, dots, pumpkins and leaves all in fall colors.  I loved making the pumpkins the most.

7th Birthday Mermaid

Seven year olds must love mermaids...because this was the second request for a mermaid cake for a 7th birthday.  This cake is 2 tiers...the bottom is an underwater scene with chocolate rocks and tootsie roll seaweed, starfish and goldfish. The top tier is a beach with graham cracker sand and a frosting mermaid.