Well, here goes nothin'! Welcome to my first blog!!! It kinda makes me a little nervous knowing other people might actually read this, but it's time to get on board with technology and jump on the blogging band wagon! This probably isn't going to be a daily blog, until maybe someday when my cakes hit it big and I can quit my day job and just bake all day...ahhh that would be the life....but, back to reality now! I wanted a place where I could post all my cakes and baking projects...well, this is it! I'm sure I'll throw in some 20 something girl nonsense here and there, but for the most part I'll be sharing something SWEET!
Here are two of my most recent cakes, which you can also find in my cakes tab along with a many of the cakes I've done in the past.
This cake was one that I made for a baby shower I threw for one of my co-workers. I used some buttons on the invitations I made, so I continued the button theme on the cake as well. This was just a vanilla cake with butter cream icing in between layers and then covered in sweet, baby pink fondant! I made the buttons out of fondant as well. And with my handy, dandy, new sewing machine my sweetie got me for Christmas I used the lettering function and made this bunting with the baby's name on it...little Miss Addison Mae. It was a fun shower. It's always nice to have down time like this at work when you can just hang out and have fun with people...instead of making phone calls and meeting deadlines! And boy does our office like to EAT!!! Food does not last long in our kitchen, so if you're ever trying to get rid of something send it this way!
And here's another baby shower cake I did that same weekend...it was the official baby shower weekend for me...3 showers in 2 days and 2 of them I made cakes for! This special shower was for a sweet friend of mine expecting her first little one. This baby girl has been long awaited! The ladies at my church did such an amazing job decorating for this baby bird themed shower. There was a yogurt bar with so many delicious treats and for a morning shower it was perfect! There were nests, feathers, and trees everywhere. It was precious. For this cake I needed it to be tall, so I did a three layer vanilla with the butter cream icing and pink fondant to cover it. I cut out a tree and some leaves using fondant and a little baby bird too! I had a hard time making the bird house on top, but luckily I found a little wooden bird house that I was able to just cover in fondant...I hope no one tried to eat that part!! :)
I made cupcakes for this shower too. I did some chocolate and some strawberry (cause you can never have too much pink, right?) and topped them with pink butter cream icing and then sprinkled them with baked coconut and added a few little robin egg candies on top. I loved these little nests! They did have a mishap on the way to the shower in the car, but thankfully with the coconut on top you couldn't even tell...thank goodness!
I also made crème brûlée cupcakes as well when I heard that that was one of the mommy-to-be's favorite desserts. That recipe took some time! But it definitely paid off in the end. The first time I made them they got kinda sloppy when I would torch the icing, but when I made them for the shower I planned to torch them that morning and wouldn't you know it my torch burned out! So they were definitely less messy, but just sprinkled with some brown sugar, not too bad in the end! Oh and I added some little birdie toppers too!
Here's a few shots of the cupcake stand with all the cupcakes and the cake table. We've definitely got some awesome party planners at our church. Pretty soon we'll be having another shower for a sweet baby boy coming soon too!!! Can't wait for that one!
Hope ya'll have a sweet weekend!
~Stephanie~
