One Quack of a Baby Shower

There it is!! The cake I made for my self.

 Actually, this is the very first cake I have actually made for me. Usually it is a birthday or something for someone else, but not today! Well, it sort of is for the baby kicking me from the inside out, I suppose. Oh well!

This party was held at the fire station my hubby works out of. Not planning on making anything but a baby butt cake, my design emerged at about ten o'clock at night. I was working the white fondant, thinking of what color to make the blanket. Envisioning what pattern I could make. Since I was going the easy way and decorated with rubber ducks in cups, I thought I could throw some duck on it. Trying to keep it simple, since I know I can get lost in the details of a cake, I convinced myself it was an easy shape to cut out and it wouldn't take long at all. 

I should have known...

Then, I started thinking about a little fire fighting rubber ducky my boys used to have, when they were babies. I thought, "Oh that would be cute!" Before I knew it, the time had flown by and it was one o'clock in the morning, and I was brushing off edible blue sparkles off of my hands.

    It was totally worth it! This baby butt and baby feet cake were a smashing hit. The fact that it was a firefighter duck cake made it even more special. Thanks me!!

Baby Blocks Cake

Here is the first cake I made for a baby shower. I absolutely love how it turned out!

It is very easy to personalize. For example, the letters on the blocks are from the parents' names. This would be a super fun cake to use as the announcement on the sex of your baby. You could use all sorts of colors to keep everyone guessing. Then when you cut into the cake, it would be blue or pink to show what your bundle of joy will be! 

Being 8 months nearly pregnant, has me thinking about what cake I am going to make for my shower next week. I wish I had the ability to keep a secret. Maybe I could have done a baby sex announcement cake.  But, ya,  I am not very good at keep my excitement. It is super uper duper hard! I would be better to hire a baker and have the doctor just tell them!  Could you do it? 

A Firetruck for Buck

This is Buck's truck...

This is Buck's truck on cake.

Any questions?!

 

 

Little fire helmets.

Yummy cookies for the wheels.

If you can even see the original picture of this classic fire truck, you can appreciate the work it took to get this done.That dark tiny thing was on my phone and it was the only pic I had to go off of. Again, this is for my favorite customer, a fellow fire fighter named Buck. The inside was chocolate and strawberry with chocolate ganache, then sculpted in fondant.

This was my first fire engine cake I had made so it was pretty nerve racking. Anything for our firefighters though! Thank you to all who serve! This one's for you!

  

Striped Wedding Cake

These flowers took me over ten hours to make out of fondant. The bride showed me a picture of the flowers she was carrying in her bouquet. Then a picture of a striped topsy turvy cake. This was only my second topsy turvy and my first wedding. I was terrified but determined, ya know. The pressure was on!

I am very proud of how it turned out. The final touch of edible sparkles really made it, well, shine. 

Super Mario Brothers Cake

"Move... your... hips.... from side to side! Come on all , it's time to do... the Mario!  Just take one step, and then again...  Come on all, it's time! Do the Mario!!! All together now! Just like thaaaat!" 

Do these lyrics sound familiar to anyone else? Or am I the only 80's child out there? Well go Netflix it, because my kids are obsessed with the Mario Show. I totally remember singing this with my brother and sister after school. Now my boys do. 

 Logically my second son had to pick a harder, more elaborate cake after my other son's choice from the last couple years. While my oldest chose a chameleon cake with cupcakes and then a Sponge Bob this year, my second's choice of Elliot Moose was now considered "baby cake". Therefor a big boy cake would compose of Super Mario and Luigi, and Yoshi.

Well, it was super fun to make. My kids kept adding little things to the requested design. Mom, you can't forget the pipes, and a coin. Oh! And you have to put one of the brown guys.... and a piranha plant! You have a piranha plant!

So, what do you think? Does it make you wanna break out your Nintendo, put the game in, take it back out, blow in the game counsel, then in the game itself, put it back it, put a little piece of cardboard to hold it down in the counsel so it will read it, then close the lid, (or you would if it hadn't broke off in the first few months), then sit back and play Super Mario?? Yes!

My second, proud of his choice in cake!  Rock on dude! Happy 4th birthday!

Oh Gnomeo! Where For Art Though Gnomeo?

One of the cutest cakes I have ever had the pleasure of making has been this adorable gnome cake. One of my best customers, one who comes each year for their birthdays, and has a super fun idea, and also lets me run with it. 

He had a cute little crushed Oreo dirt garden, complete with toadstools made with vanilla wafers.

His little suspenders were so adorable.

I love his little gnome cake ears!

He was ready to go to work with his little rake.

He looks like he is going to wink at me any second!

The perfect cake for any gnome fan. 

Elliot Moose Cake

           

Elliot, Elliot, Elliot, Elliot Moose. He's on the loose.   Elliot Moose, he's on the loose... Elliot Moose is on the loose! Elliot, Elliot, Elliot, Eliot, Elliot, Elliot...... This was the choice for my second son's third birthday.  It was his favorite show. It involves people dressed up like a moose, a sock monkey, and a lion. They play in a backyard around a tree. This cake was a ton of work but worth every second to get a special memory for my son.

Coffee Mug Cake

          

    This coffee mug cake was made special for a surprise party. Excitingly, this was my first attempt at a topsy turvy cake.  It was for my friend's birthday. One of our favorite things to do is get coffee, kick back, and relax. She is a super fun lady with lots of spunk in her style. I thought the green and pink matched her perfectly. The coffee mug is full of cake, and chocolate ganache, then topped with real home made whip cream. Yum!! It was so delicious and, best yet, made her cry! Success! 

     

Ba Gok Says the Snowboarding Chicken

Ah, the chicken snowboarding cake!! During that whole swine

flu thing a couple of years ago, my dear friend's little sister got a dose of it. Sadly she had to miss

Halloween. She was pretty bummed about not being able to wear her chicken suit. So what do you do in Michigan when that happens?

You save it for snow to ski in, of course!

So logically, when they needed a birthday cake shortly after, they requested one to remember that day by. Super fun and a pleasure to make.

                                                                                                                                                                                        

Each figure is based on a family and their skiing outfit.

 The skis, poles, and snowboards are all made of melted dark chocolate. Um, yum!? The pine trees are made of butter cream frosting using a special tip.  The whole thing is covered in fondant as well as the figures being sculpted from it.