Whoa...what a job!  In order to finish the cakes in time I started waking up at 5 am the week of the delivery date.  The temperature's been getting up to 100 degrees everyday.  The only way to beat the heat is to get up before the heat starts:)

Here are the final products.  Come back later for a step-by-step on the logo and the dragon!

This is my first cake ever made for a non-friend customer.  

I am officially done with student teaching!


"And what does that mean for me," you ask?


I get to make cakes again!  If you recall, my husband kindly put a stop to my cake baking at the beginning of the semester. One week into the semester my head was spinning after making a small cake for a friend.  I went along with it because it was in my best interest and it gave me more time to devote to my kiddos.  (By kiddos I mean my students.  After teaching, they become your kids.  If you are a teacher, you understand.)


This weekend I made a My Little Pony Cake.  Altogether I think it turned out pretty well and I learned a couple of new techniques including Color Flow.  The party was held outside with wind gusts up to 30 mph!  I had to leave before anything broke off the cake.  Here's to hoping nothing happened after I left!

Friday I had the honor of making wedding cakes for my brother and sister-in-law to-be.  I didn't have the usual amount of time to put into decorating the cakes, so I opted for a buttercream icing look, instead of the usual fondant look.  


The bride's cake was italian creme cake (see recipe here) with buttercream icing and a strawberry filling.  Bree is definitely a bling kind of girl, so I added some blue crystals to match her blue hydrangeas, as well as some clear crystals.  I don't think they showed up very well but it was worth a try.


The groom's cake was of course chocolate.  I was especially excited about making this cake as it was a surprise to Kyle and Bree!  The frosting is a chocolate buttercream.  I also used a chocolate moose filling and a chocolate glaze with yummy chambord=)  Mmmmm.  The longhorn was made using a mold.  I tried a couple different ways to make the longhorn, one with white chocolate, the other with gumpaste.  I used the gumpaste longhorn because it held it's shape better.


I am still partial to the white cake, but the chocolate cake was pretty darn good too!  I tried a new technique on these cakes, and although they didn't turn out perfectly, I am still satisfied with what I was able to accomplish while student teaching this semester. 

Here is my most reliable, go-to cake recipe.  Whenever I have a request for a white cake, this is what I whip up. This cake will turn out so incredibly moist, every time.  Hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

I have been dreaming of great cakes lately.  You see, I'm student teaching this semester.  Which really means that I pretty much have a full time job.  I been clocking about 10 hours a day.


As a result of all this...my wonderful hubby has created a rule that I'm not allowed to bake any more cakes this semester.  He's really been doing me a favor.  Cakes usually consume me.  It's all to keep me sane really.  


But my sister-in-law's birthday was this weekend, and well, I had to make her a cake.  My hubby and I made a deal.  So I used a frozen cake I had made about a month ago.  I decided not to go the fondant route because that would take a lot of extra time.  Instead, I got to try a new technique I saw on i am baker.  And here are the results:

This cake was a lot of fun to make.  After trying my hand at painting for the first time on the African safari cake, I decided to paint the animal print on this cake (as opposed to using fondant).  I also tried a strawberry filling for the first time.  Both the painting and the filling were a learning experience.  Next time I do something similar I will be a pro=)

I think I am crazy...or maybe you could even call me just plain stupid.  


A couple weeks ago we moved into a new apartment.  On the same day that we moved, I also had a cake to make.  I can't say that it was the best cake I have ever made, but I can say that it was pretty darn good considering.  Just so you know, I wasn't crazy enough to plan on moving and baking on the same day.  We  had planned on moving sometime around the middle of February.  It just worked out that way.  I didn't want to cancel the order, so I made it anyway.  


Here are the results, judge for yourself!

This is a gender neutral baby shower cake.  It is a white cake with buttercream, covered with marshmallow fondant.  

I made this cake for my niece.  She wanted an African safari landscape along with her and her sister riding in a jeep!  After many failed attempts to make animals from scratch, I used store-bought ones.  Since I wasn't successful with the animals, I wasn't about to try the jeep.  Besides, by that time, I was out of time.

Overall, I am very happy with the results.  This was definitely a learning process and next time I will know what to do!