Things have been super busy lately. June is the craziest month for us. We have my Dad's birthday on the 11th, a cousin's(niece) birthday on the 12th, Hailey's birthday on the 13th, and our Anniversary on the 14th. To top it off, Father's Day is the Sunday afterwards! Busy month! I had the opportunity to make some cakes this month. Not only did I get to do 2 of my kids birthday cakes, but I had someone order a cake in between! Unfortunately for my Dad this year things were too crazy for his own special cake. I made a stacked cake for Hailey's birthday party and used the top portion for her party, and the bottom portion to celebrate both my Dad's and Hailey's birthday with family the next day. I might have to blackmail my Dad with those pink cake pictures sometime!
Hailey's cake was funfetti cake with buttercream on the top portion, and chocolate cake with a whipped cherry filling for the bottom portion. Both were covered in pink fondant, and decorated with white sugar pearls. Yep....edible pearls. They were good...and really crunchy. The kids all wanted more and more pearls to eat.
This cake was ordered by my friend Rachelle. Her Mother in law was celebrating her 60th birthday and the party was a casino theme. This cake was a blast to make. The new thing for me was the cards. I wasn't sure how I was going to do them...but started looking around and found some card edible images. Edible images are so easy to work with. They are just like stickers...and they look so good! It was easy and a new and fun thing to try! Cake was chocolate with a whipped strawberry filling, covered in vanilla buttercream and wrapped in white fondant. The cake was then decorated in black and red fondant with playing cards and poker chips (made from fondant as well). Thanks Rachelle for giving me this opportunity!
Parker's 1st birthday cake. Where do I start with this one? Whatever could go wrong DID! The cake didn't bake the way I wanted it too, and my frosting kept melting! Believe it or not the frosting was going to be stars all over in white, and then large dots with the colored frosting and number 1 in the middle. The frosting was NOT working with me. No matter what I did I couldn't get it to stiffen up! The stars ended up looking like melted ruffles-SO not boy looking! The large polka-dots turned into big melted blobs of goo. My "red" frosting ended up more pink looking but I didn't notice until after it was already too late. All in all I was disappointed in my melty blob of mess I was supposed to call a cake. It ended up tasting good and I guess that's the whole point. Frustrating to say the least. Oh well. Happy Birthday anyway!
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