Bump in the road but I'm back!

Well Hello!  It's been a while.

My family and I decided to move at the beginning of the year and I'm just now getting back into the swing of things.  I've missed documenting so many orders and wonderful celebrations.  I apologize to all my past two month customers that don't get their own dedicated post, but this is the best I can do right now. :)  I even missed a few orders because the camera was still in a box when the order was finished.  Hopefully some pictures were taken and I can get those to share with you!

Here are the birthday cakes:

I did a Charlie Brown birthday cake for a returning customer, Katie M

A cute Sock Monkey themed order- smash cake and cupcakes for little Landry!

A customer favorite, I did this cake again for a very sweet little girl who was also my old neighbor!

Her mom was doing a chalkboard theme, with her monogram, and a blush pink color for the accents.  I LOVE LOVE LOVE the chalkboard cookies.  It was a first for me and I think they turned out so cute!

She also ordered some miniature cupcakes for the little guests at the party

And this was Vivian's smash cake

And the baby shower cake I have photos for:

It was an light grey & pink shower with elephants.  The grey fondant kinda showed up blue in some lights but it was light grey when I mixed it!

The coordinating cookies for guests to take home

I love the monogrammed cookies with polka dots.  I found something similar on Pinterest and I could resist!

Again, hopefully I can get a few photos of the cakes I didn't post because I would love to have them for me and share them with you!

Baby Crosby

Another cute baby shower cake to share!

Ashley, one of the shower hostesses sent over this adorable baby shower invitation and then said to do whatever!  I love those orders! :)  She has ordered from me in the past so she had full confidence that I could come up with something that she would like. (Thanks Ashley!)

I had so much fun with this cake.  I was able to try out a new technique and I got to make bow-tie onesies!

 The top and bottom layers are both iced in buttercream.  The dark navy chevron is actually modeling chocolate, and the onesies are white fondant.  The bowties are made out of sugar as well. 

The bunting banner was really cute.  I loved the paper I found as well as his name. 

Thanks for the order Ashley!  I hope you loved it as much as I do!

Back from Holiday!

I've been really enjoying my time off work.  I haven't been doing anything- no emails, no photos, no baking (except for personal consumption), and no cleaning TONS of dishes from baking!  It's been so nice.

I left on my holiday break without posting all of my orders from the end of November and December though.  So here's to a little catch-up!

First up, is a very small, yet very adorable, baby shower cake for an old college friend of my husband.

It's iced in buttercream with a small, white fondant onesie on top.  Simple and cute!

Thanks for the order Kim!

The same weekend, I had an order for a first birthday for a little girl.  The mom saw this post from my blog and really loved the cake.  So, she wanted me to recreate that with a little tweaking and then make a smash cake for her daughter.  Here they are:

I think this is the third cake I've done like this and I still love it.  I love this version of it too.  The added aqua works really well with it. 

Happy 1st Birthday sweet Adeline!

Wedding Shower for a Doctor Couple

I did this order back in the beginning of November as well.  

This customer was hosting a wedding shower for a couple who were on the path to becoming doctors.  The shower decor was white pumpkins and burlap, but the hostess wanted to include each of their alma maters as well as some doctor elements.  She sent me over several ideas she found online and we picked and chose from that.  

Here's the cute little cake.

Here are the cookies.  How cool are these?!  It wasn't my idea- someone else has done this on Pinterest, but it was fun to recreate them!!

And here are the cupcakes.  The Baylor cupcakes were Key Lime flavor and the A&M cupcakes were red velvet.  My kitchen smelled AMAZING!!  

I got to see a few photos of the decor for the shower and the hostess did an amazing job.  She is very talented and I was so excited all the treats had a cute place to go on her table. :)

This was a fun order with a lot of different elements. 

Thanks for the order Karen!!!

Baby Hayley

I've had several people tell me how much they like my Ruffles, Burlap, and Bunting Banner cake I did back in August.  And Lindsay was one of them!  She needed a cake for her cousin's baby shower and she wanted a very similar cake with minor tweaks.  

I loved the cake the first time, and I loved making it again!

Happy Baby Shower!  Thanks for the order, Lindsay!

Baby Shower for Baby Kate

Y'all, I might have a new favorite.

Last weekend, my friend had her baby shower and I got to make the cake!  I love doing orders for people I know.  Knowing them helps me tailor the cake design to something I know they will like.  But for this order, a friend of hers picked out the design.  And I'm so glad she did because she found a really cool cake idea online.

Here's what she picked:

So cool right?!

We changed a few of the colors to coordinate better with the shower, and I came up with some new button designs using molds I already had.  

Here it is:

I love all the different buttons cascading down the side of the cake.  It's too cute!

I added some shimmer to the bottom layer to add a bit of gold to the fondant.  I also used edible gold shimmer dust on some of the buttons to make them look like gold.

I think the best photo is the one I caught all set up at the shower. 

Happy Baby Shower Baby Kate!  We can't wait to meet you!