Just a year too late

My cousin Luke has been DYING for me to make him my chocolate cake with chocolate icing. I didn't get to for his birthday last year, so he's been anxiously awaiting since then. Every weekend we were at my grandma's or a family party he would ask me when his cake was coming. So I finally got to do it! Luke is a great musician, especially with drums, performing with multiple bands at his high school. He's super talented! So my aunt asked me to make his cake into a drum. (not my best fondant job, but it turned out nicely.)

HBD "cool hand" Luke!! :)

Holy Cow it's been 2 months!

How sad it has been that my cake making has been non existent the last 2 months, but as spring is getting closer, more cakes are coming. This weekend I had 2!

First was another fun cartoon cake. Thanks to one of "the ladies at work" Donna asked me to do a cake for her grand daughter Ashley who turned 5 this week. And who is her favorite character you ask??? SCOOBY DOO!

I don't have much artistic ability when it comes to sketching and drawing, but apparently I can draw on cakes?? Oh well, it's a nice hobby and talent to have :) This one turned out ADORABLE and I thought it looked pretty darn good for scooby. Rappy Birthday Ashley! Hope it was fun and great and you enjoyed your cake!!

and 8 years later

So Julie is now a good friend, but has been my boss, and before that, my 6th grade teacher. I also babysit her kiddies, Maddie and Luke after school. I wish I had pictures of them to put up because they're too stinkin' cute and sweet!! Anyway, this weekend they celebrated her youngest daughter's, Lauren, 2nd birthday and congratulated Maddie on her First Reconciliation.

When I got her cake out of the box,

She just wanted to stare at it and touch it, and she kept saying "pity, pity" (pretty) Lauren is such a little lady, so Julie just said anything with Pink will work for her cake. Here is a side view:

Maddie had her Reconciliation on Saturday morning, the day of her party. She is a great big sister and just great little girl in general, so of course she only had to say 1 Hail Mary for her absolution. ;) Julie asked me to do a little cake for her as well. It turned out very sweet, just like Maddie girl.

8 years after she taught me, Julie, and her husband George, are trusting me with their babies...uh oh! just kidding ;) And my Luke story for that day: He answered the door: "What are youuuu doing here?" he didn't know I was coming. And then he continued to ask: "what's on your eyes? Did you get your hair dyed?" clearly the kid is used to me lookin' like a scrub with no make up on and my hair up in a pony tail. He's a crazy goof, but such a comedian. Thanks Vaughn and Brauntz families for letting me spend the party day with you! Happy Birthday, Laur Laur and Congrats Maddie girl!!

love, sarah

"...the ladies at work..."

"The ladies at work_________________" is a common phrase in our household. So, one of the ladies at work asked me to do a cake for her daughter Beth's 30th Birthday. Donna said that Beth loved penguins, so I got to my research of penguin images.

It was a great weekend to be working on this cake because while it looked like this outside:

I was working on this polar penguin cake inside:

It was quite the task to string-pipe all of this cake, but it turned out ADORABLE. It's certainly made my list of favorites! :) Hope Beth had a great birthday!!

First Cake-tastrophe

I have never really had a cake disaster before so I guess it was bound to happen sooner or later. But this one decided to happen just 4 hours before the cake was about to be picked up! ahhh!!! This cake was for Seton High School's, my alma mater, class of 1980 30th reunion.

Originally I had the Seton S logo. That turned out fine, but I did not like my writing on it AT ALL. I wasn't happy with it. But I added some green sugar crystals and it looked better. My mom said she didn't think it was a big enough cake, so I then went and made some cupcakes. But with no cupcake liners left in the house, I sprayed and greased the heck out of the cupcake tin. Well that didn't turn out too well either.

As if that wasn't disastrous enough, I went to move the cake into the delivery box and the icing cracked completely down the middle. It was awful!!!! :(

So I decided to redo the entire thing at about 3:00 yesterday...the cake was being picked up at 6 :) But in the end, everything happens for a reason, and I liked this cake better. This is the Seton High School crest.

With limited time, I did rush myself a little bit and this isn't the most symmetrical BUT I really liked this one better. Hope the reunion was great, class of 1980!

I think I should just keep a template for this one

I went to high school with Ashlee, and thank goodness for facebook! She asked if I would do a cake for her boyfriend's, Jeremy, surprise birthday party. She had been looking for a Bengals cake and saw some of my blog posts on my facebook page and asked me if I could do the Bengals cake again for her...of course I had no objections.

So if this looks familiar, yes you are right. I have done this cake before. This one took even shorter amounts of time for me, but was just as fun. I added a little bit of turf at the bottom so it was a little different. (compliments to my dad for that idea). Hopefully the surprise went off without any problems for Ashlee. When I delivered the cake, it was so far so good for her!

Hope Jeremy had a wonderful birthday!!

"And I said How about breakfast at Tiffany's..."

I've never owned a Tiffany's piece of jewelry, but this weekend, I got to make one! Alex, AKA Baby, who I dance with celebrated her 22nd birthay this weekend!

Alex asked me a LONGG time ago if I could make her birthday cake, and of course I wanted to. And she asked if I could make it into a Tiffany's box. I started researching right away! This turned out to be a VERY cute cake and she loved it!

Baby's own Tiffany's box [the lid was not cake...it was styrofoam ;)]

another view...

We went to El Toro, a Mexican restaurant in Hyde Park, which is DELICIOUS by the way. When we walked in the waiter was like, "let me take that for you (the cake)" i about FREAKED OUT!!! my cakes are like my babies once I finish them, so I was a bit apprehensive... I know I know, I'm lame.

Before we left, Alex received her free Birthday Shot(s) which she took with the same waiter who took my cake!! it was super fun, and her giant green sombrero, and whip creamed cheeks were quite entertaining for us! :)

love you alex! happy 22nd birthday!