Fourth of July Birthday Cake

Fourth of July birthday!  How awesome is that?  People spending tons on fireworks to help you celebrate your birthday in every city!  This was for a old friend whom I've known for over 20 years.  It was a simple waving flag with fireworks (not real) bursting out of the stars.  Fun one to do and he loved it!  Happy Birthday Ed and Happy Birthday to our country!

Slumber Party Birthday Cake!

This cake was for a birthday girl who was having a slumber party.  The bodies were Little Debbie Jelly Rolls, which was an homage to my cousin Steve since he works for Little Debbie!  The pillows, heads, hair and blanket were all made from fondant.  It was a great one to do because I was told the color of each girl's hair and eyes!   

Mystery Machine for Markia

The faces were made of  gumpaste.  I used edible black marker to draw the outline, then painted the faces in.

The hill was cake and the vehicle was also.  I probably wouldn't do it the same way again.  The Mystery Machine was way too heavy and it was quite hard to stack.

Ran out of time because I wanted to add scary trees and rocks and maybe a cemetary on the side.  That would have been awesome!

Anyway, the birthday girl loved it, so it all turned out nicely!

Mother's Day

This was supposed to be a jewelry box cake.  I think it looks more like a hatbox.  Talk amongst yourselves...

The client wanted all types of flowers and pearls.  The theme was 'Momma, you are my pearl'.  I made a mixture of gumpaste, fondant, and buttercream flowers.

I learn something on every cake.  If I were to do this one again, I would have made the lid separate instead of the illusion of being open.  I could have put a lot more flowers inside.  I hadn't made buttercream roses in quite some time, so I actually made 20-30 of them before getting back into it!  It's a rare occasion when I make traditional flowers!

I hope all the mother's had a wonderful, blessed day!

Zombie Birthday

My son is crazy. He reads, writes, watches and talks everything zombie related. I've watched several zombie movies with him, including Night of the Living Dead (my favorite thus far), 28 Days Later, and one strange one from the 80's that was so bad neither of us can remember the name. He just turned 15, so needless to say, I made him a zombie cake.

There was a face coming up from the dirt with a tombstone above, and a hand breaking through the ground. The hand was made of fondant and the dirt was crushed up chocolate sandwich cookies (we all know them as a certain name, but I don't want to get into any trouble or advertise for free on their behalf!) Anyway, there were several boys over at the house and they all loved it. It ended up being way too big, and I realized that teenage girls eat a lot more than their counterparts! After three days, I threw the remaining cake away!

New Year's Eve Wedding

This was a beautiful wedding! It was by a pool, outside, with mohagony columns and tealites around the pool. The bride and groom were the most amazing clients to work for! They each had grown children, so this wedding was a fun celebration of their love.

The cake was three different flavors and turned out well. The top, which the couple kept, was chocolate kahlua with mocha buttercream. The second tier was italian cream cake with cream cheese filling. The bottom was a yellow cake with chocolate ganache filling.

I wish Wanda and Matt the very best for their future! Thanks for letting me be a part of your special day!

Over the Hill Cake

This was yet another cake for a friend from high school! I have been fortunate enough to do graduation cupcakes, baby shower, baby dedication and now this one for her mother.

It is actually a square cake with a football pan size cake cut and put on top. The signs were gumpaste, and I used white royal icing and edible markers to write on them. It is a very simple layout, but it really ended up being a large cake!

Thanks Stacey!

Copy of an Invitation!

This was an interesting one to do. The invitation was beautiful and I thought I would try to recreate it. I decided that to do it 3-dimensional would be quite time consuming and costly for the client, so I did a simpler version of 3-D.

All the details were made from fondant. I rolled it, then flattened with my finger where needed. There were a lot of dragees used on this! Also, royal icing was used for the beaded look on the crib, sides and bottoms.

Copy of a Napkin!

The napkin looked just like this, just with the writing along the bottom. This was the first time I had covered a board in fondant, it was actually pretty simple. I tacked it down with piping gel and it did the trick!

The CELEBRATE along the side was done by using alphabet cookie cutters as a template, then painted with black icing color.

The '8' was chocolate and the '0' was yellow cake.

It was a hit!

After looking thorough some past pictures, I found that I had not posted these. The credit card was a fun one to do. The numbers all represented a member of the family's birthday. The expiration date was the anniversary date and the name was the birthday girls, who happened to work at Chase in the credit card division! Pretty fun!

These were done at the same time I did the ivory and green wedding dummy cake. These were real, however, and were just for show. The mini cakes were vanilla with vanilla bc. The cookies were sugar and were made to match the mini cakes. It ended up being a lovely display, and a few visitors to this show actually took them and ate them!

I was really surprised to see that I had not posted these. They were fantastic and fun to make! The cosmetic purse was carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. The MAC tote was chocolate cake with chocolate filling. The lipstick was fondant. The shoes were all gumpaste, my first attempt at shoes!

Southern Living at Home Show

Two separate tables that were both for a wedding and for a bridal shower. We were amazed that the pink and green mini cakes and cookies matched so perfectly! The wedding cake had little purple flowers and yellow stamens, it's hard to see it in the picture. I thought it all turned out very pretty.

Sports Ball Cakes

This was for a friend's little boy. He turned one year old and has a love for all sizes of sports balls. I decided to put together tennis, basketball, soccer and baseballs. When we walked in with the board full of the cakes, the birthday boys' big brother tried grabbing one of the baseballs and myself and my husband both freaked! He didn't get to it!

100 year old birthday party!

These were amazing! The yellow ones were white cake with lemon curd filling. The pink ones were italian cream cake with raspberry filling. Delicious! Everyone loved these!

My daughter decorated this carrot cake. It was for the man of the house, and he barely had any left to enjoy after the party! Everyone loved it.

These were a repeat of a design that we have done before. The design is from a little notepad. I think my daughter did a better job of re-creating it the first time!

More adorable little dresses with matching handbags!

Busy Weekend

What does a teapot, dog, 50th birthday and graduation have in common? The Flour Shop!



It was my first time doing a teapot and I can't wait to do another. I actually used the same ball pan that I did with the ball of yarn so it came out to be a nice size. When it was put in the room where the tea party/bridal party was to be held, the colors went beautifully together!



The cupcakes were chocolate, half with peppermint frosting topped with white chocolate, and the other half with peanut butter frosting topped with dark chocolate. The chocolates were painted with luster dust for the silver and blue effects. The same client who had the graduating senior also had a baby shower the next day for her sister, hence the pink and purple flowery cake. That I never got to try that cake is depressing! It was a white cake with raspberry filling and cream cheese buttercream. I was told it was amazing!



The 50th cookies and the doggies were for a client's mom who was turning 50 this weekend. She loves purple and has little dogs, so that worked well.

Apple Cookies were for fun!

Fun One!

I was asked to do a cake for and 18th birthday. The birthday girl loves socks and cell phones and I was asked what I could do to incorporate them together. This is what I came up with. I would not use the shimmer silver luster dust next time on the blackberry, it made it too shiny. I'm really starting to enjoy mmf!