R2-D2 Cake

This last minute cake ended up being a lot of fun and I couldn't stop humming the Star Wars theme song as I was working on it! As I was taking a vacation visiting family I was asked to make a cake for the little boys cousins combined birthday party. Since it was Star Wars themed I let my creative juices flow for a while and then came up with this idea. My first though was to create a full R2 but since I was on vacation and I didn't have my cake stuff I decided to scale it down a bit! This is the fastest specialty cake I have ever made thanks to the help of my hubby and momma who helped me color fondant, watch the kids and cut some shapes for me. Since this was for kids I let my son pick the cake and of course he picked funfetti cake and we added chocolate chips to the filling. Everyone loved this cake and didn't realize it was a cake until is was pointed out to them. LOL. I really enjoyed make this cake and the kids really loved how it looked and tasted!

Chocolate cake!

I seem to do a lot of farewell cakes and here is another one. This is a very simple one tier very chocolate cake. The cake is covered in my own very chocolate cover with chocolate pieces and a chocolate squiggly on top.
Inside is fudge chocolate cake with a whipped chocolate gaunache. I wasn't there for the farewell party but I was informed it was gone before the party was over!

Flamingo Farewell Cake

I made this cake as a farewell surprise for a Cpt in the Army who had finished her time and was getting out. She really likes Flamingos and chocolate. The the outside was covered in green and blue to represent the environment where flamingos live. I added green reeds/leaves and then flamingos as well as big letters spelling farewell. The flamingo on top was on it's own until I had an accident with the cake and ended up having to cover the mis-happ with blue (pond like) Fondant. Inside was chocolate cake with gaunache and then the top tier was yellow cake with buttercream frosting with chocolate chips! Everyone loved it and ate it up fast!

Chair Valentine holder

This fun valentine holder is cute and it hangs very nicely on the back of a chair. This holder in the picture came from a certain website, but seeing how ever thing is over priced I decided to work on making my own. Felt, ribbon, velro and a sewing machine should do the trick.

Pineapple upside cake Twist

Since my hubby has become social event person at his work, it means that i have become the social event dessert provider. So for this fun twist on Pineapple upside cake I actually used pineapple juice in the mix for the batter. Using one of my favorite cake and cupcake recipe books (101 gourmet cupcake recipes in 10 minutes) I mixed, baked and decorated a dozen cupcakes and a cake as well. Since I was feeding a good amount of people I made the cake sized version. Everyone loved it and wanted more and I could make it even with two toddler's running around me. And that is tell you something! Here's to Cake!

101 Gourmet Cupcakes

This has become one of my favorite cupcake/cake recipe books. These are fun, quick and easy ways to add to boring cake mix. I absolutely love 101 gourmet cupcake in 10 minutes book and am so grateful for my wonderful mother who send this to me. Since my hubby has become social chair at work I have become the dessert lady. Bring all kids of cakes, brownies and pies. Since I try to bring a different dessert each time I am starting to run out of ideas. But thanks to this wonderful book I have a ton of seasonal, occasional and just fun ideas! Love it and would totally buy it if I didn't have one already!