Summer Swim party fish

I had fun making this cute fish for a summer birthday party.  The mom always calls her boy her little fish since he loves to swim so much.  It was perfect for him.

Summer fun cupcakes

 Its fun to do an order of cupcakes that are just bright and fun with some cute polka dots.  Loved the teal and yellow together. 

Pink and Black Zebra

Animal prints are all the rage right now  For these ones, I turned the chocolate batter black and the white batter pink and then played around with doing a zebra type stripe through it.  When you bite in it has a real zebra stripe to it.  When you cut it down the middle you can see how it was accomplished better. 

 It works better in cakes than cupcakes as you need to do so many tiny layers of both colors and you can accomplish that easier in a cake, but it is a fun cupcake too.

High School Graduation cake

 This graduation cake didn't get posted when it was done as it came about a week after all the graduation craziness.  And by that time, my mind wasn't thinking about graduation cakes anymore.   But I wanted to get it out here even late. 

 These two cousins got together a week after they both graduated High School.  Ironically they had the same High School colors so it made it easy to decorate the cake.  Bottom cake is triple chocolate, top two are strawberry lemonade.  Frosted with butter cream and accents with fondant.

Flash Back Friday

 Here's a flashback to my first wedding cake when I was taking lessons.  We had a friend who was having a tiny reception with no money so she got this free cake.  I was so proud of myself.  Looking at it now, well I'm just glad she didn't have to pay for her wedding cake.  I made the topper and everything.  This was back 15 years ago.  Styles sure have changed.

Teaching kids to decorate

Over this summer I have had several opportunities to "teach" kids of varying ages how to decorate. 

I have learned a few things...No matter how cute your ideas for them to accomplish, they will over embellish it all.  So the simpler you make it for them the closer to what you want it to look like it will. 

 Age makes a HUGE difference in what you can accomplish.  Really shouldn't try to have any expectations under the age of 8 or 9 and 11 to 12 is a more realistic age to teach. 

Make sure NO ONE will be eating anything they make that isn't related to them due to the number of finger licking clean-ups you watch.

And no matter what....no matter the age...no matter how unappetizing the finished project it...they are always super proud of themselves and can't wait to show off their talents!

zebra cupcakes

I did these cute girly zebra cupcakes for a birthday party. 

 I did half of them white chocolate, and the other half triple chocolate all with a butter cream frosting.  Black accents were in fondant.