First off, I apologize for not posting recently. I have been busy with life, kids, work, etc… and weeks go by before I sit down and post again. So here I am. Posting.

This weekend I made 2 birthday cakes. These cakes could not be more different. One is for a boy, one is for a girl. One is turning 3. One is turning 13. The similarities are there as well – they both chose the design for their cakes. They both bugged their mommas to make it for them. The mommas both called me. So here they are:

Brennans’s Toy Story cake:

The bed is Lemon cake with Lemon Cream filling. The Toy box is Chocolate cake with strawberry filling. The characters are action figures, the rest is fondant on vanilla icing.

Madalyn helped with the bed. The draping of the blanket was exceptional:

The only toy that was fondant was the etch-a-sketch. Brennan’s mom couldn’t find a good one for the cake.

The latch for the toy box was fondant with glitterdust painted on to give it more of a brassy feel. The wood grain was made with brown and white fondant.

On to cake #2: Sara’s birthday cake. First, here are the instructions given to me by Sara, herself:

The only other item not mentioned is that it would only need to be one tier as it only needed to feed 10 people. Here is Sara’s cake:

Everyone was happy with how it turned out, and pleasing a teenager is an accomplishment of epic proportions, according to all parents of teenagers. The cake was vanilla with a vanilla cream filling and buttercream icing. The zebra stripes and border are fondant.

So that is how I spent my Saturday. Anyone do anything extra fun?

For Aiden’s fourth birthday, he requested a Buzz cake:

The fondant work took longer than the actual cake baking, but I think it was worth it!

What do you think?

For all you Miley Cirus fans out there:

This cake was designed by 7 year old birthday girl, Andrea. I think she did a great job drawing her vision. Check out her Hannah Montana drawing for her cake.

It was fun to create her special cake for her! The cake is 2 9×13 cakes cut and iced. I made the the logo using edible markers on fondant.

There were many ideas out there for this cake but most were covered in fondant. Andrea specifically wanted to minimize the fondant. I liked the final product!

Seriously one of my favorite cakes to date:

I love this cake.

I love that it doesn’t look like a cake but real Legos.

I love that the little Lego man turned out so legit.

I loved having my friend Jamie help make this. I just love everything about it!

This weekend we celebrated my son’s third birthday! I cannot believe he is 3! But I digress…

I wanted to do something fun and different for his cake. He loves ice cream (and will do just about anything to get some – including listen to his mother!) so I knew it would be a win for him!

The cake is an 8″ round chocolate cake. I baked that as usual and let it cool. I then used an 8″ round springform pan for the top layer. I took out a tub of vanilla ice cream and a tub of mint chocolate chip ice cream and let them sit on the counter for about 20 minutes to get nice and soft. Once it was soft, I dropped scoop-fulls of ice cream into the spring form pan so half was vanilla and half mint chocolate chip. That went into the freezer.

After about an hour, I took the springform pan of icre cream out of the freezer and went around the edges with a spatula before opening the pan. Voila! I had a round layer of ice cream! I immediately popped that on top of the chocolate cake and put the cake back in the freezer.

Here is a slice:

After it was good and solid again, I iced the cake in Cool Whip. I know I could make whipped cream icing but I was worried about it separating.

Lastly, I iced the cake after it was perfectly frozen. I used buttercream icing and fondant to decorate the top.

Some things I learned making an ice cream cake:

1. Let it sit out for a few minutes before trying to cut it. It was really solid!

2. Put it back in the freezer after you serve it. The left overs melted all over my counter!

3. Have fun! And it was worth the try!!!