Lighting McQueen

There is nothing more that I love than my husband and my son.  For his 7th birthday, we took all of his little friends to see Cars 2.  Of course, he asked me if I could make him a Cars 2 cake of Lightening McQueen....having never attempted one before, I told him heck ya I can.  Anything for you buddy.  So this is what I ended up with.

I was really impressed with myself and really it was quite easy to make.  I had so much fun looking at his toy car and trying to really recreate it for him out of cake.  It was a yellow cake with chocolate cream cheese frosting....totally to die for.

Fast Forward to 2013
A couple of weeks ago, I was sitting with one of my friends and chatting and she pipes up saying that she wanted me to make a cake for her cute little son that was going to be turning 3....I told her that I would love to and asked what the theme was....She looked at me and said you pick out the cake and I will plan the party around the cake.  How is that for fun!!! 

I told her that we must have to do a Lighting McQueen cake.  I wanted to do another one so this was perfect.  I was so excited about how it was turning out that I had to send her several pictures throughout the process.  The base..... 

Getting closer........

 And then finally the finished product.....I loved personalizing the cake just for our Little Micah.

When we finished singing happy birthday to him and cut into the cake he burst into tears saying...."not Lighting, not Lighting" It was totally cute..  he was also happy after a couple of bites of the Triple Chocolate Cake with Chocolate frosting.....It was such a fun birthday.  Thanks!

Open House

If anyone wants to know one thing about me it would be that I love parties.  I love hanging out with friends, catching up with family, and celebrating the small businesses of many stay home moms!  On January 25, 2014, I was able to partner up with Mary Kay, Pampered Chef and Norwex.  I supplied all the goodies for their customers to eat and was able to rock the house with wonderful ladies. 

It was so much fun.  I will totally have to do another one soon.  We had awesome cupcakes.  They were Pumpkin Spice with Cream Cheese buttercream, Almond cake with Lime/Coconut buttercream, White Chocolate with Raspberry buttercream, and my new Reese's Pieces (Gluten-Free) cupcake.  We also had chocolate chip cookies there. 

If you know of anyone that is having an open house and would love for me to cater...I would love to!

Wendy's Baconator

I had a friend ask me if I would be able to make a hamburger cake for her wedding anniversary.  Now that was a request that I had not had before, so of course, I had to say yes!!!  She then told me the story of their first date.  They had a date all planned out, but one of them had to work later than what they had planned so instead of canceling the date they ended up at Wendy's late at night.  Therefore, their first date was over Baconators.  How dang cute it that??? 

We had a Triple Chocolate cake with Chocolate Cream Cheese buttercream filling.  It was way yummy.  I covered some of the cake in marshmallow fondant and make the cheese and bacon strips out of fondant/gum paste. It was a super fun cake to make and also to stretch my abilities.  Thanks so much for the fun experience with this cake.

Mr. and Mrs. Blair Merritt

I can't tell you how excited I was when I received the call from my future sister-in-law asking me to make her wedding cake.  I was so super excited that I took flower and cake classes to brush up and learn new things about decorating cakes.  We went round and round on how it was going to look.  Everything for calla lilies (her favorite) to roses (totally hates) finally settling on these

beautiful flowers....I think that they could be considered Briar Rose flower, but with of course, my little flair.....I thought that they turned out beautiful.

We also had a little problem with the cake.  The bottom layer of the cake when assembling totally collapsed and we had to do some repair to it. 

It didn't work, but we were able to piece it back together enough to frost and bring it to the reception hall in order to have it serve with the other layers.

 We had four beautiful layers of cake.....top being the White Chocolate cake with Raspberry buttercream filling, the second layer being Pumpkin Spice cake with Cream Cheese buttercream filling.  Third Layer was a Triple Chocolate cake with a Chocolate Ganache filling and the last layer was Red Velvet cake with the Cream Cheese Buttercream filling.

We had the Reception at Heritage Gardens and I can not thank them enough for helping with the cutting and serving of this cake.  We had over 300 people there and it was gone within five minutes of them setting it on the buffet.  They were amazing and I was blown away when people came up to me and told me that they were so sad that they didn't get a bit of the delicious cake. I thought we had enough cake, even with the messed up layer, but it was so good and such a variety of flavors I guess not everyone was able to snag a piece.  Just goes to show, keep your friends close, but you cake closer.

Update: 3/21/14
I got so better pictures from the photographer....you just have to see them....There is a lot.  Just love this cake!

It's official....I have actually been able to remember my login and password!!!  Holy cow that only took two years.  Whatever you do write down your information and keep it in a secure location....ie...computer is not one of them.  Our server went out a couple months back which meant that we had to buy a whole new one. Did you know that a new computer does not have all the saved information from the old one??  Yep, with my getting older the "forgetful" gene has officially set in.  I have now taken measures to fully not have to go through that again.  YEA!!!

There will be a lot of posts in the next couple of days as I get things up and running again.  I am truly thankful to all of my friends, family and of course my customers in supporting me in my awesome new business.  This is my passion and I love seeing everyone's ideas being translated into my working hands.

Hope that you all enjoy my website and I look forward to turning "Your desires into my Obsession!"