Happy 8th Birthday Jamison - Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2 'Roderick Rules'

Zoe's 1st Birthday - Princess and The Frog Cake & Cupcake Tower

Zoe turned a year and she had a party fit for a princess!  Skye even made her a custom tutu for the event. and she wasted no time rolling around in her Princess and the Frog Ball Pit!  Thanks everyone for helping to make her first birthday a success and thank you 'Yum Yum' for being the best big brother and teaching Zoe how to walk!

The cupcake wrappers were cut using the Cricut Lite Cupcake Wrappers Cartridge. The cake and cupcakes were iced in buttercream, the decorations were from a kit and were topped with purple and green sugar crystals.

Thank you for looking!

~K

Happy 2nd Birthday Kinsley

Can you believe that Kinsely is 2 years old??  Her mom wanted to have a Strawberry Shortcake Themed party.  We made the cutest Strawberry themed invitations using the Hello Kitty Greetings Cricut Cartridge, we had to follow it up with an adorable cake.

We were lucky to find the Strawberry Shortcake Wilton pan on Craigslist just in time for Kinsley's big day. Since everyone wanted to come out to celebrate, we decided that in addition to the character pan, we would use the large sheet cake pan as well.  We placed the shaped cake on top of the frosted sheet cake and decorated with tinted buttercream.

Kinsley's paternal grandmother made her and her baby doll matching strawberry themed dresses and I was lucky enough to surprise her with the cutest Strawberry Shortcake director's chair.  Will we ever be able to top this year's party?? Be sure to check back next year to see!

As always, thank you for looking!

~K

Hunter's Birthday Brawl - Bakugan

This was my second time using the Frozen Buttercream Frosting Transfer (FBCT) method. Each cake is a learning adventure for me. I now know to freeze the FBCT after piping each individual color and most importantly DO NOT let the transfer sit and thaw -- you must immediately place it on the cake and peel it off. In addition, since I was not familiar with Bakugan, this one took some research; THANKS to my neighbors and their collection of Bakugans, I was able to come up with something unique for Hunter's 8th Birthday.

The base cake was a 12" x 12" square frosted in buttercream. I applied the FBCT, border, and corner stars to tie in all of the colors. The Bakugan was made using the Wilton Sports Ball pan set. I star tipped the sphere and secured it to the cake using a bamboo skewer that I was able to drive through the cake board.

Thanks for looking!

~Karen

Happy 1st Birthday Kinsley

This was made for my BWF's daughter that turned 1. We were excited how well it came out. Thanks for looking.

~K

Julius Cake & Cupcake Tower

My friend was having a Paul Frank themed party for her daughter's 10th Birthday. I wanted the cake to look similiar to the invitation so I used the Frozen Buttercream Transfer method (FBCT) achieve my results. This was my first time using the method. It was an easy process, but it will take some more practice on the detail.

Her color theme was teal, yellow, and red. I made the cupcake wrappers with my baby Cricut and the Cricut Lite Cupcake Wrapper cartridge (LOVE IT!!!!). The paper is scrapbook paper from my growing collection that had all of the colors for her theme.

I decided to add a cherry to the cupcakes with white frosting so that they'd look like ice cream (like the top of Julius' head).

Thanks for looking and I would love to have your feedback.

Special thanks to my daughter for her help on Julius and my son for making the cupcake wrappers!

~K

PS - This Paul Frank cake & cupcake tower was featured on the Party Animal's Blog!!

Sushi & Sashimi Cake

I made this for a friend's 40th birthday (they celebrated with dinner at a sushi restaraunt). The base is a 9"x13" cake that was iced in buttercream and then covered in fondant. The sushi pieces are mini-muffins that I frosted, wrapped in a thin black piece of fondant, and topped gumpaste rice (made with a garlic press). The sashimi pieces are gumpaste and sit on small cake slices that were iced in buttercream and then covered in fondant and wrapped with a thin black piece of fondant. The ramkin is a mini-muffin wrapped in gumpaste and topped off with black buttercream frosting to respresent the sauce. The chopsticks are gumpaste. TYFL!