Baking Cakes

Two of MonkeyBoy’s friends celebrated their birthday this weekend and their mom asked me to make a cake for the occasion. The party was at an area sprinkler park and had a beachy theme. I was excited to be able to pull out my ball cake pan and came up with a beach [...]

Cakes and crafts

This weekend was filled with cakes and present making.
I made a smash cake (little cake just for the birthday child) earlier this week for a friend’s little one’s first birthday photo session and then I repeated the cake later in the week for his birthday. I also made some coordinating cupcakes.

Then for [...]

Decorating Cake

A friend asked me to make a cake for a twin baby shower so this morning I was busy baking up a storm. For once I was done ahead of schedule and able to clean up my mess myself rather than leave it for MonkeyMan to do.
MonkeyBoy was wanting to help, so as I [...]

Clowing around

We’ve been swamped with work this week. MonkeyMan’s computer labs were broken and needed lots of attention. I had several major time-sensitive tasks at Job #1, more development tasks at Job #2, and then I was asked to make a cake for a friend’s daughter’s birthday today so my weekend is just now [...]

It’s Tuesday

I sure do spend a lot of time in the car. As proof, I hit a milestone this weekend.

The digital number flipping is not nearly as exciting as the old rotary analog odometer dial turning over.

I made robot cupcakes for a birthday party this weekend. I think they turned out [...]

Dino party

We attended our first Halloween party of the season today. I have a diverse group of friends here and one of them is a professional photographer. Another is a mother of two and wife to man fighting cancer. Together they planned a party/fundraiser for the cancer center that is helping my friend’s [...]

Cake-a-palooza

It’s been a busy baking weekend. Yesterday I made a pool themed cupcake cake and cake pops for a friend’s son’s first birthday party. The ideas were straight from Bakerella’s blog. I think they turned out pretty well, with the exception of some bears that decided to amputate their legs and sneak [...]

Cake Pops

I co-hosted a baby shower yesterday. And by co-hosted I mean I made the cakes, favors, Pioneer Woman’s bacon goodies, a name banner, and a scrapbook for the signin sheets. The other hostess did so much more, with her gorgeous decorations and food preparations, house cleaning and cute sign in sheets. Oh, [...]

Baby Cake

One of my friends asked me to make a cake for a baby girl shower she was hostessing. We swapped some idea pictures and settled on this adorable smiling baby cake. I made the head and body separate flavors so there was a little something for everyone. I was very pleased with [...]