School Birthday Celebration

 

I suppose that it is not surprising that my kids take a great deal of time to consider what type of baked good they would like to bring to school for their birthday celebration. This year I made all types of what I thought were quite excellent suggestions to my daughter... she didn't like any of them. Then one day she came home and announced "I want you to make cupcakes with faces of all the kids in my class" (I made the mistake of doing this when she had a SMALL preschool class a couple years before)... so I tried my best to dissuade her and offered some other suggestions. No takers.

24 cupcakes, vanilla with buttercream and fondant decoration. All with my best effort to match the faces of the kids in her class.... hoping that 8 year olds would not be offended if their nose or ears were too big or their hair was the wrong shape or color.

My husband and I arrived at her classroom with the cupcakes. The kids were thrilled! A couple mentioned that their hair had changed (I was working off a picture that was taken at the beginning of the year) and one or two mentioned another feature that they thought I could have improved upon... but to my great sigh of relief, the majority loved their cupcakes... most were quickly devoured and a few faces came off the cupcake to take home to show Mom & Dad. Best of all my daughter said - "See Mom, it was the best birthday snack EVER!"

She has already started designing her cake for August... I dare not even ask!

Simple, but elegent birthday cake

This "old school" birthday cake was I Remember Chocolate with a coffee mousse filling. It was covered in blue fondant and featured gumpaste flowers.... simple, but elegant!

Football!

Cupcakes with fondant footballs to celebrate T's 9th Birthday






Best Ever Vanilla Cake with Chocolate Ganache Cream shaped into a Gray Hawks' Football Helmet...

A Little of This, A Little of That

I haven't been doing a very good job of posting... don't know where the time goes!

Here is a peek at what I have been working on lately. More to come, I will try to get it up in the next couple days.

This cake was a "dune buggy/ go cart" for one of my long standing clients. One of these days I will have to do a retrospective of the cakes I have made for his birthdays... he always comes up with a challenging request! The cake was "Best Ever Vanilla" filled with chocolate ganache. The cake is sitting on brown sugar "sand"



This cake was for "Grammy Iris". Sometimes I have a tendency to over think and over do cakes... I was very happy I was able to keep this one simple and let the single flower speak for itself.



The cake was "Best Ever Vanilla" with vanilla buttercream



Nothing says "1st Birthday" like Elmo.... made from "I Remember Chocolate" with vanilla buttercream



Chocolate dipped pretzel ice cream cones for my daughter to bring to school for her birthday celebration! Happy Almost Birthday G!

Happy Sweet 16... Hogwarts Style

This stack of books was made for the surprise Sweet 16 Birthday party of a Harry Potter fan. The stack was created of "I Remember Chocolate" and "Best Ever Vanilla" cakes and filled with chocolate ganache and vanilla buttercream. The cake featured a gold quiddich ball, Harry's glasses and a scarf. The books were titled "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" and "Beginners Guide to Transfiguration"

A Golden Anniversary

This cake was made for a 50th Wedding Anniversary celebration and delivered to The Landmark in East Rutherford, NJ. The bottom tier is "I Remember Chocolate" with bittersweet chocolate ganache filling. The top two tiers are "Best Ever Vanilla" with vanilla buttercream. The outside is fondant with quilting and gold dragees and the top and bottom and royal icing scrolls. The bow is made of gumpaste and hand painted with gold luster dust.

DJ Turntable

What could be a better cake for a music lover than a DJ turntable???!!! The cake was "Best Ever Vanilla" and all the decorations were done out of fondant (even the noise cancelling earphones!)

To complete the look - the dessert table was covered in an organza with circle embroidery and we hung a curtain of records behind the cake. It was a sight to behold!

Purse cake - complete with lipstick and a pearl bracelet (both made out of gumpaste) to celebrate a 40th Birthday. The cake was Best Ever Vanilla with chocolate buttercream.

"Well, as I predicted, the cake was the hit of the party!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Everyone thought it was real!!!!!!!!! My brother walked by it and said, "Where's the cake?" I put it on the dining room table with the gifts and he thought it was a real handbag. ha-ha! So once again thank you for the exceptional job! And...it tasted fabulous! "

Great White Bear

This Great White Bear... the polar bear.... was created for a 50th birthday. The bear was created from Best Ever Vanilla cake and buttercream frosting. His snout and legs were made from my magic cake crumb mixture that usually turns into cupcake lollipops. The board will be finished with royal icing to create ice for him to stand on - more pictures to come. Stay tuned!!

Under the Sea

This Best Ever Vanilla cake with cookies n cream filling was created for a Sweet 16 celebrated at Hamilton Farms in Somerset County, NJ. The cake featured white chocolate shells painted with luster dust and brown sugar "sand" around the base. We also created individual bags of shells to be handed out as party favors.

Congratulations & Farewell!

Congratulations Cara! This cake was created for a combination graduation and going away party (what a great idea!) The three layers were all I Remember Chocolate with different filling - chocolate, coffee and raspberry. The flowers on the top and sides were made with gumpaste.

Oh Baby Baby

Seems that I have been very busy lately doing baby related cakes! This first cake was for a baby shower for twins! The cake was I Remember Chocolate with raspberry filling and Best Ever Vanilla with chocolate filling. The decor matched the invitations and featured some "scrapbooking" decorative items



This cake was for a Baby Naming celebration. The cake featured sugar pearls, a large gumpaste bow and gumpaste butterflies hand painted with luster dust. The cakes were I Remember Chocolate and Best Ever Vanilla.



This extra large lollipop bouquet was sent to celebrate the arrival of a baby girl. All the lollis were vanilla, decorated in pink and white.



This diaper bag cake was created for another Baby Shower of a mom expecting her first girl. The cake was Carrot with cream cheese frosting. All the decorations on the top were made from fondant.

Little Lambkin

So I had to tear myself (briefly) away from the cupcake lollipops to make a baby shower cake for a good friend. She saved the gumpaste lamb - I don't know how well it will keep - we will have to wait and see!

The cake was a chocolate cake with chocolate Reese's Peanut Butter Cup buttercream and the cupcake lolli's (you don't think that I could not include these little delights?!) were carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. OMG!