Destination Wedding

One of the ladies who works in the Department below me at work asked me to do a cake for her niece's destination wedding. They got married on a beach, so Lyssa's family wanted to send them best wishes with a beach cake...footprints in the sand included!

From what I hear- the cake was a hit. Best wishes Lyssa and Noel!!

Miley's Birthday

Miley's big sis Ali was my first repeat cake- the second zebra print cake, and then this past year, the gryffindor cake. Miley's mom and dad are good friends of our family, so when they came to watch my sister perform, Miley ran up to Krista and asked her if she'd make her bday cake. She had to tell her, no I can't, you'll have to talk to Sarah. :) But I didn't get to chat with the little lady, so it was a complete surprise when I should up on Sunday with her birthday cake!

Big 5 year old now!! Purple and pink are her absolute FAVORITE colors

Her face was PRICELESS! She had the biggest smile and giggles as soon as she looked out the door and saw my car in the driveway. Those are the moments when all the hardwork becomes worth it! :) Happy birthday Miley!

Bestie Forevski

This is my bestie forevski, her name is Chelsea. And this past weekend she celebrated her 21st birthday!!!Chelsea and I have been best friends since the first week of freshman year of high school. She gave the biggest attitude to a teacher behind his back and I knew she was sweet! But seriously- that's how we became best friends. I just wish I would be 21 already so I could celebrate with her, but I guess that will have to wait until mine in January. She had quite the successful 21st bday weekend though. :)

Chels loves tea and she couldn't wait to TRY twisted tea on her birthday! So her cake was this big twisted tea bottle. It was chocolate cake with chocolate chips in it :)
Chels- these past several months have been exceptionally crazy for us, but we've made it this far! :) Thanks for stickin' this crazy thing out with me. #life tehe had to hash tag it. She will be my bestie forevski- thanks for coining that term to! love you so much! -sarah

A Pirate's Life for Brady

Brady's big sister Riley is the little sweetie who requested the Tangled cake a few months ago. Although he looks up to his big sister, all he wanted was a pirate cake! He was even a cute little pirate for halloween. Brady's mom made it clear that he wanted a big ol' chocolate cake. So we did the bigger tier with triple chocolate fudge cake, with chocolate chips, and then the smaller tier was vanilla. All buttercream icing.

X Marks the spot! There was a "treasure map" circling around the bottom tier

Top of the cake- skull and cross bones
Happy Birthday Brady! Hope you enjoyed your day! :)

Long Time No See

Valarie is my dance team adviser at XU. She is one of THE SWEETEST people I have ever been lucky enough to know. Our whole team has been so excited since April when she told us she was pregnant!! But of course she wanted it to be a surprise ughh! ;) When she asked me to make a cake for her family baby shower, I was so happy! We had to go with gender neutral, but I'm glad we did because the booties were SO cute! A month or so after the shower, and during a long dance team weekend, little Grace came into the world!! :) I am so happy for you and Mike, Valarie! Grace is lucky to have you as a mommy! You are wonderful, and will do a wonderful job as a mom! Love ya!

Happy Birthday Maddie!

I know I did a tri-cake for all the Vaughn kiddies last week, but this one was for Maddie's Luau/Pool party with all her girlfriends from school.

She's such a sweetie. She kept telling me how much she loved the cake. Hope you had a fun party Maddie girl!!

Another Marathon Cake Weekend

First cake of the weekend has been in the works for awhile. Cathy is another former grade school teacher of mine, and this weekend her daughter, Riley turned 6! I was in her class when she was pregnant with her and now I can't believe Riley is already in kindergarten! This girl LOVES the movie Tangled and Rupunzel! So what would be more fitting than a Rupunzel cake?

From what I heard, Riley loved her cake! The tower was the first time I've ever sculpted/molded with rice krispie treats. It was a bit difficult, and the tower wasn't perfect, but it turned out pretty well I think!
The next cake was another fun one for my Vaughn family. It was a "happy birthday, baptism!" party. Luke turned 6 at the start of July and Maddie turned at at the start of August. And this past weekend, sweet Karli was baptized. So Julie asked me to make a cake for the whole occasion. Each one got their own tier. Maddie and Luke had already told me what kinds of things they wanted on their cakes, so those were easy. Luke is a KILLER baseball player- well sports player- all around. And Maddie is so into bright colors, hearts, peace, signs, polka dots, Justice clothes- so she wanted the hearts and bright colors. And Karli's tier was a strawberry cake since it was pink! :)
This was a fun one to do, and it was so cute to see how happy Maddie and Luke were that they each got their "own" cake (tier) even though they shared their birthday party! Love you guys!
And if anyone remembers Ali, she requested the zebra print cake for her birthday last year. Her mom, Emily, asked me to do her cake, and I'm so glad I was able to get it in this weekend. Emily said Ali now LOVES Harry Potter (only the good guys). So it took me awhile, but I finally figured out how to do something HP. Here is the Gryffindor crest (HP, Ron, and Hermione's house). Ali still thought I couldn't make her cake, so when she walked in and saw me standing there, she ran over to the counter and saw her cake. Her eyes lit up! It was precious! Ali's family is close friends of my mom's family, so I was happy to squeeze this cake in. :)