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!

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!!!

Need to celebrate a little princess in your life? Madalyn, my “cakery intern”, has gotten very good at making a princess crown! First for Natalie:

And then Reagan and Mackenzie:

The colors differed a little but the vanilla cake with a cream filling was deliciously adorable!

Chandler is out of town and can’t write her own post so I am posting for her. She made this AWESOME Whale cake for a one year old’s birthday last week:

Isn’t it the cutest? She made the whale out of a smaller cake and covered it in fondant. The fishies and bubbles are made of fondant as well and placed on a sugar icing cake. I’m not even sure what kind of cake she made but it looks adorable!

One thing we like to do for our one year old customers is a personalized cake with a less sugary cake recipe. Here is Blake’s own cake:

I think the number 1 coming out of the spout is my favorite! She did a great job! Way to go, Chandler!