We make cakes for all occasions! This one was created for a baby’s baptism. Hadley’s Mom asked for a cross-shaped cake with a quilted pattern an a purple bow. No problem! This elegant cake was perfect for sweet Hadley’s baptism!
Today marks the last first day of the Tampa Susan G Komen 3-Day for the Cure. That’s right, the last first day. The 3-Day is leaving Tampa after this year’s event.
Mel walked in her first 3-Day when her older daughter was only 6 weeks old, and then she walked again the following year when she was a few weeks pregnant. This year, Mel was unable to walk, but she supported other walkers by donating to their fundraising efforts. The cake pictured above was just one of the items Mel donated to help raise money for breast cancer research and awareness.
To all the men and women who are self-sacrificing enough to walk 60 miles in 3 days: You go! You are our heroes! Thank you for what you’re doing!
A few weeks ago, we were asked to make a cake for a young boy’s motorcycle-themed birthday party. We were given full artistic license to do whatever we wanted so we began doing some Google image searches to gather ideas. There are SOOOO many adult motorcycle cakes but very, very few cakes for children. And sometimes, flames & tires are just not what you need for a two-year-old boy’s party.
So we decided to go with a checkered flag theme:
All too often, adults don’t celebrate their birthdays with cake. This is a big problem (at least if you ask us)! But when we adults do celebrate, we celebrate in a big way! 30th, 40th, and 50th birthdays are huge!
We recently sat down with Brenda to design her own 50th birthday cake. She hadn’t had a birthday party in…well, a loooooooong time…so she fully sketched out her cake before we even met to design it!
She wanted fun, funky, colorful, and sparkly! And here’s what she got:
Every once in a while, we get requests for cupcake toppers – fun, cute, mini decorations! Yay! Here are some Angry Bird cupcake toppers we made for a cutie’s 2nd birthday party:
Minnie Mouse is all the rage with toddler girls! And the pink and black birthday parties are so cute!
One of Mel’s daughter’s friends turned 2 recently with a Minnie Mouse-themed party. They gave Mel full artistic license to design Gianna’s cake and here’s what she came up with:
Here’s a fun cake we made for a little girl turning 1! Most kids carry around their favorite blanket or teddy bear, but not Lulu! She carries around her favorite rubber ducky! So we designed her birthday cake around it and even topped it with a new rubber ducky for bathtime.
The bottom tier was iced in blue buttercream and accented with darker blue and yellow polka dots. The top tier was decorated with fondant “wooden” planks to make a wooden bathtub. And the whole cake was covered with buttercream “bubbles.” The rubber ducky topper is an actual rubber ducky that Lulu was able to play with when the party was over and the cake was eaten.
We are proud supporters of Icing Smiles, a nonprofit organization that provides custom celebration cakes and other treats to families impacted by the critical illness of a child. Basically, a family applies to receive a special celebration cake, and bakers volunteer to do the cake for FREE! It’s really an amazing program – especially considering how many bakers willingly devote their time and resources to make others smile.
We have had the opportunity to bake 2 cakes for Icing Smiles and the most recent one was for an Hungry Caterpillar party. Fun! The family asked for vanilla cake with strawberry cream filling, but left the design completely up to us. Here’s what we created for baby Eleanor who was turning 1:
We love creative party ideas, and we recently had the honor of creating a cake for an adorable nautical-themed baby shower! The theme was Ahoy, It’s a Boy! How cute is that?! We were given 100% free artistic license in decorating the cake as long as we used red, navy blue, and brown. Here’s what we created:
The boat topper was a sugar replica of decorations used at the shower. The cake was iced in buttercream and decorated with fondant retro dots and stripes. Everything you see is edible!
And the flavors were white almond cake with Bavarian cream filling in the top tier and chocolate cake with raspberry cream filling in the bottom tier. Yum!
