Pink Poodles

Elizabeth wanted a Pink Poodle theme for her 5th birthday... so here you have the Pink Poodle cupcakes! Marshmallow heads with buttercream frosting! I agonized over how to make pink poodles for weeks. They smelled delicious.

The mini cupcake 5s below were for the classroom party.

Turtle Cake

Katie ordered a turtle cake for her boyfriend Jeff's birthday. This was my first carrot cake, my first use of cream cheese frosting since my Merridee's days, and my first use of marshmallow fondant! Katie says it tasted good, so that's fantastic news!

The dark green, black eyes, and party hat are all made out of marshmallow fondant. I discovered that the marshmallow version tastes much better than the regular fondant. It's a little harder to work with because it is sticky, but the taste is light years better.

I had a really tough time with the cream cheese frosting. It was really hard to smooth out like buttercream. That's where the marshmallow fondant came in handy!

Happy Birthday Jeff!

Cars Cupcakes and Soccer Balls

Mini cupcakes for Christopher's birthday. The cake was for the party, the cupcakes were for his actual birthday. He likes cars and soccer, so there you have it.

The cars cupcakes are cute and little. The soccer ball cupcakes look really weird standing alone, but very cool with others.

Cars Cake

This is Christopher's CARS cake. His mom told me he liked cars and red.

In my quest to use as little fondant as possible (it tastes disgusting), buttercream turned out to be quite the challenge. Fondant looks so clean, and buttercream is so sticky!

Actually, it was the cake structure that was the real challenge. Without the frosting on it, it looked horrific. I just kept chopping up cake bits and sticking them to the sides with frosting to create the road. What a mess. Luckily, frosting covers up the structural nightmare underneath.

I do like how Lightening McQueen turned out. Fondant characters are too cute.

The top of the cake, looking down.

And my favorite part is there at the bottom - Tow Mater.

Isn't he cute? I almost wanted to keep him. But I figured taking something from a 4 year old is bad form.

The blue and yellow cars are toy cars. The old school kind where you pull them back and then the zoom forward.

Tow mater!! I think I just love the buck teeth.

Happy Birthday Christopher!

Skate Cake

A roller skate birthday cake for a 13 year old. They requested roller skates and flames. I lost a lot of sleep over the cake this week!

While it may look like the one skate is leaning right off the cake, I assure you, it is not. 1) I don't take level pictures, and 2) I cut the top of the cake on a slant and didn't notice. So it's not the stake that is slanting off the cake, it's actually just not a level top by like a 1/2 centimeter. And that's going to torture me.

Wow Wow Wubbzy

My first order from a stranger came through this week. She wanted 3 dozen cupcakes for her daughter's 3rd birthday. The theme was this Nick Jr. show called Wow Wow Wubbzy. She wanted 18 Wubbzy cupcakes and 18 chocolate cupcakes. This is the result...

Yankee Cupcakes

Cupcakes ordered for a Yankee Bridal Shower. It took me forever and a day to get the lettering right on these. I'm still unhappy with them, but what can you do?