So, if you don’t want your cake to melt, please, PLEASE, pretty please…use fondant and DON’T have your cake outside in these conditions (your guests will probably thank you too!).  After all, you’ve paid all that money for me to spend all that time making and decorating your pretty cake…your guests should be able to enjoy it too!

Thank you, Mrs. Weber, for creating a video demonstrating this exact problem!  Sometimes people just need to see it for themselves!

Lego Head Cake

Ben's Lego Cake

Sam’s 4th Birthday! Happy Birthday, Sam!

Coach Purse Cake

I like being able to create cakes that look like things besides cake! This one is one after my own heart…who doesn’t wish they had a handbag made out of cake (shh boys, you just don’t understand!) Happy Birthday, Jennifer!

Cupcake Birthday Cake

It’s funny that both cakes I’m featuring today are for Jennifers! I assure you, they aren’t for the same one though! I think this cake turned out really cute! It was designed after the partyware for the party! Happy Birthday, Jennifer!

Farm-themed Birthday Cake

I love creating cakes for this little one!  This is the 3rd one…year one and year two!  Happy Birthday, Lucas!

Once again this cake was as delicious as it was beautiful!!!! Way to go Emily!! The cake was Fabulous!!!! ~Jennifer

Candy Land Birthday Cake

This was another fun cake to make! I loved Candy Land as a kid and my own kids enjoy playing it too, so it was pretty easy to come up with a design.

I just wanted to send a quick note to Thank You for such a great cake! Everyone loved it and it tasted amazing! ~Jennifer

XBox Logo Cake

This was a difficult cake to create! It looks easy, but any time you have to bend a logo around a sphere, it starts to get wonky! In the end, I was very pleased with the way it came out.

Toodles Cake

This cake was based on the invitations to the party.

Tool Belt Father's Day Cake

Dad loved his cake. He was impressed by the “stitching” on the toolbelt. My nieces and nephew fought over who got to eat the tools. ~Kay

Lawn Mower Father's Day Cake

Safari Gift Box Baby Shower Cake

This cake was designed after the invitations for a shower for twin boys.

Monkey Baby Shower Cake

This cake was also designed after the invitations for the shower. It came with 4 dozen of these too!

Monkey Baby Shower Cupcakes

Mardi Gras Wedding Shower Cake

I really like the way this cake came out…just like the image that was in my head!

 It was delicious!! ~Melissa

Spring Flowers Wedding Cake

I had to deliver this cake on the first heat wave of the season! It was 99 degrees with what felt like a heat index of 110! Not fun with sugar! But it made it in one piece.

The brides flowers matched the handmade ones perfectly and the lace appliques matched the lace on her dress.

Congratulations and best wishes to Lisa and Sean!

Congratulations Laura and Ryan! May you live long, happy lives and always enjoy each other’s company!

These cakes were absolutely awesome! Thank you so much Emily for your hard work. They tasted as good as they looked (and I had three out of the four flavors). Thank you again for a fabulous job! ~Laura

Happy Birthday, Grandpa!

Many of you may not know that I have 2 very cute and fun boys, Benjamin (almost 6) and Samuel (almost 4).  They constantly ask me if they can help and generally get told no, because the particular thing I am making is going to someone else!  They are great assistants in the kitchen, so I enlisted their help to make my Dad (their Grandpa’s) birthday cupcakes!

Dad loves Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Buttercream, so that’s what we set out to make!  I missed the opportunity to get pictures of them helping with the cake, so I’ll give you the recap!  Sam used the nut grinder to chop the pecans while Ben helped shred the carrots on the box grater.  They each took turns measuring, dumping, pouring, and mixing.  Then they put the liners in the pans and helped scoop the batter into them.  They helped make the buttercream too.  When the cupcakes were all cool, we made white chocolate decorations out of melted chocolate.  They piped designs on sheets of waxed paper and then allowed them to harden.  They helped pipe the buttercream on the cupcakes, smooth it out and then decorated them with the white chocolate decorations.