My busy season!!

These past few weeks have been crazy and will continue to do so till the end of May!  Here are just a few of the cakes I have made in the kitchen lately.  Below is a massive Minnie cake (psst...some tiers are fake to get this awe inspiring look).

Next up is a super detailed dino cake complete with the birthday boys favorite dinosaurs, the T-rex and velociraptor.

I had a request for a Prodigy cake.  No no...not the band from the 90's.  But a school math computer game that the local kids get introduced to starting in 2nd grade.  My son knew exactly what I was talking about when I mentioned the order.  This is an "infernewt".  The characters remind me a little of Pokemon in that you get to level up and evolve your creatures into different forms!

I actually got to make this last cake twice.  Two young men from the Progressive Taekwondo school recently tested and received their black belts!!  

It's officially the start of my busy season.  And what better way to start off the spring than with an adorable wild animal cake.  The mom and I combined a few cake ideas to come up with something of our own. 

And I am pretty excited by how the final cake came out.  The added billy button flowers I found at Trader Joes were my favorite part!

This shiny cake for a 2 year old used a container and a half of gold luster.  The air in the kitchen was even sparkly.  

And this cake below was so fun to make.  I have known this family for a few years now so it made it extra special.  The "piece de resistance" was definitely the topper.  I went internet searching for something different.  I saw lots of toys and action figures and let's face it. They are just tricky to stand up right most of the time.  And then I saw it.  A plastic piggy bank.  And most of the reviews were trying to do the same thing I had in mind!!  So I ordered without a second thought and consulting the client.  And we both loved the result.

The month of February is near record breaking levels for rain fall.  And the lighting in the house for my cake pictures proves it.  But we got some pretty big milestone birthdays in to celebrate!

First up, is a cooler cake complete with beer bottle toppers and isomalt "ice cubes" for a cousin turning 40.  Just ignore the fact he likes the Dallas Cowboys AND the New England Patriots.  

Next, we have a 40th birthday for a Friends fan.  I can't believe that show is making another comeback!  I really wish I could have gotten a better picture of that couch.

We also had a party llama fit for a newly minted 18 year old.

And a sushi cake for a sushi loving 13 year old filled with Nutella buttercream below

The last few cakes I have done have screamed "little girl"! 
First up is a Cinderella Barbie cake.  I wished I could have tamed her bangs a little but she came packaged with a can of Aqua Net apparently.

Next up is a simple, but adorable, Minnie Mouse cake. 

The last of my frilly cakes was a unicorn music party.  The mom combined two cake ideas she found and told me to have fun.  

This weekend saw three Disney inspired cakes!

First cake delivered was a Toy Story cake in the form of Woody's shirt. 

I also had a Moana cake complete with a suitcase of adorable little toys. Pua, the pig, was a bobble-head!!  How cute is that?

The last cake was for the smallest pixie in the house.  We officially have a 7 year old here and she has become VERY specific about what her cake should look like.  This year's theme was Rapunzel and we needed to include her pal, Pascal, more than anything.  

To say I was excited with how this cake turned out is an understatement.  I was so nervous at the beginning when the mom of a recent entomology grad student said she was looking for a beetle cake.  But with my own bug expert in the house explaining segmented legs and body parts of an insect on hand, I started in on the ground beetle.    

With the main color being black, I knew I needed to amp up the shine and head texture with a super pearl luster dust and a giant clean blush brush.  The youngest pixie helped me arrange a photo shoot outside for this guy before we headed out on our delivery.  

It's December, y'all!!  
We are almost done with this wild rollercoaster called 2020.  I have had my last crazy weekend of orders and I am slowing down here in our cul de sac until the new year.

This cake below was done with edible images on rice paper for the bottom tier decorations. The original cake had a comic strip around the sides but I wasn't finding anything really appropriate for a 3 year old.  Some of those old cartoons are something else!!  So we decided to go with single poses and I think it came out adorable.  The fondant topper was done by sketching out the pose in a thin edible ink marker and filling in where needed with food coloring.  

And I never get tired of unicorn or mermaid cakes.  You can have so much fun with them!  Fun boxes of cupcakes went along with this little cake for a birthday parade this weekend.

What do you do when the customer says I have no clue what design I want?  You ask what the bday person's interests are, right? 

"He likes beer, NC state, computers, tools because he's handy, star wars, skulls....oh and kites."  Ummm....you got it!

This next cake was super cool to work on.  It's a break apart egg toy that reveals a battle dragon.  Somehow my kids have missed this craze.

To boldly go where...nope.  Wrong one.

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...that's the one.  In a galaxy far, far away there was a wife looking for a baker to make her husband's favorite Star Wars character into a cake.  And can I say that I am so happy with how this turned out.  All the paint splotches and edible silver leaf to show the blasts and wear and tear just add so much character to this cake.