Red Carpet Stars Birthday Cake

A "Fabulous Fifty" red carpet birthday cake for my dear friend, Carrie! We celebrated this lady in Hollywood style, red carpet, stars and all! Chocolate cake with chocolate cream cheese filling, buttercream icing and marshmallow fondant accents.

Love this photo of the birthday gal!

Boise Braves 18th Birthday Cake

18th Birthday cake for a colleague's son. Chocolate with vanilla crème filling, buttercream icing and marshmallow fondant accents. The only request was that it be done in Boise High Braves colors of red and black.

Wynken, Blynken and Nod Nursery Rhyme Baby Shower Cake

Who remembers the Wynken, Blynken and Nod nursery rhyme? Anybody? Nah, me either, lol, I had to Google it! But it was a SUPER cute theme for the baby shower thrown for my cousin Molly in November 2015. This is the cake I made for her, (with an audience, no less, ha ha. Actually, they weren't too bad) The cake is chocolate/vanilla marble, with vanilla crème filling, buttercream icing and marshmallow fondant accents (all the figures, wooden shoe-boat and stars are hand formed/cut mmf). Most of my cakes are an ALL day endeavor, and this one was no different. It was, however, a labor of love as I couldn't be happier for Molly and Mike and their new baby Clara!

Pictured with the baby shower invitation

And below is the actual nursery rhyme, for your reading and perhaps nostalgic pleasure . . . :)

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night

Sailed off in a wooden shoe —
Sailed on a river of crystal light,
Into a sea of dew.
"Where are you going, and what do you wish?"
The old moon asked the three.
"We have come to fish for the herring fish
That live in this beautiful sea;
Nets of silver and gold have we!"
Said Wynken, Blynken, and Nod.

The old moon laughed and sang a song,
As they rocked in the wooden shoe,
And the wind that sped them all night long
Ruffled the waves of dew.
The little stars were the herring fish
That lived in that beautiful sea —
"Now cast your nets wherever you wish —
Never afraid are we";
So cried the stars to the fishermen three:
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod.

All night long their nets they threw
To the stars in the twinkling foam —
Then down from the skies came the wooden shoe,
Bringing the fishermen home;
'Twas all so pretty a sail
 it seemed
As if it could not be,
And some folks thought 'twas a dream they'd dreamed
Of sailing that beautiful sea —
But I shall name you the fishermen three:
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod.

Wynken and Blynken are two little eyes,
And Nod is a little head,
And the wooden shoe that sailed the skies
Is a wee one's trundle-bed.
So shut your eyes while mother sings
Of wonderful sights that be,
And you shall see the beautiful things
As you rock in the misty sea,
Where the old shoe rocked the fishermen three:
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod.

^{~Eugene Field 1889}

Marines Dress Blues Stars and Stripes Cake

Made this cake for a young man who has enlisted and is leaving soon to train as a U.S. Marine. A small token for someone who's headed off to serve our country, right?

The cake is French vanilla with vanilla creme filling and buttercream icing. Accents are marshmallow fondant. 

Under the Stars Sweet 16

Made this cake for "a friend of a friend", lol. Her theme was movies under the stars, but for the cake they just wanted simple stars. Tried to change it up a little by offsetting the tiers, and used 4 different sized stars. Chocolate fudge cake with chocolate cremé filling, buttercream icing and marshmallow fondant.

Graduation Cake with Silhouettes and Stars

Another great kid graduates and the opportunity to create his cake us given to me. Lucky me, because for this cake I was given carte blanche in design, and that made me very happy. Because the school colors are red and black, silhouettes seemed a natural choice, and a great contrast.

Used the quote "Reach for the moon, even if you fail youll still be in the stars," and allowed red, black and white stars to complement the cake.

Graduate picked the flavors, vanilla with French vanilla cremè filling, buttercream frosting and marshmallow fondant accents. Simple in taste, simple in design, but I think it turned out just right.

Dora the Explorer Birthday Cake!

Colorful and fun cake! Funfetti cake with vanilla creme filling and buttercream frosting. There are some toys on the cake, but I made the backpack, map, stars and presents from marshmallow fondant.

"Once Upon a Time" Cloud, Moon and Stars Baby Shower Cake

This was a crazy busy weekend, but I promised a friend at work I'd make this cake. See, they asked me if I couldn't do it, then who did I recommend? Aaaaaaand, I didn't have anyone I could refer them to. :o( So, I made the cake. LOL. And I'm really glad I did, because I actually had fun doing it and I loved the way it turned out. They had a nursery rhyme theme . . . Once Upon a Time, which I thought was so cute. Hopefully mom to be enjoyed the cake. It was chocolate with a sinful chocolate fudge filling and buttercream frosting with marshmallow fondant accents. The baby is hand formed from mmf. The moon is rice krispie treat covered in mmf.