My latest (and greatest) cakes...

Okay, so this is a post with a lot of pictures!
I thought that this time I would show some of the 'process' in making the cakes.

This first one I is probably my best cake I have made yet! It turned out WAY better than I imagined it would when I first started considering the design. When my friend asked me to do this cake, I began googling pictures of ladybug cakes. After seeing a few of them, I created my own way of making it and I was really happy with the final product!

My old roommate Lori asked me to help do a ladybug cake for her daughters 1st birthday (because they call her ladybug). Originally I was going to 'help' her...but with her busy schedule right before her husbands graduation (family in town, too), not to mention having a one year old; and the fact that doing this cake was a 2-day process of baking cakes and then doing the frosting...I kind of ended up doing it on my own. Lori did come over for a bit one night and helped dye the frosting, as well as provided wonderful conversation (we haven't talked in forever!)

First I baked all the cakes and then trimmed them so they would all fit together!

I pieced the german chocolate body pieces together with a fresh raspberry middle.

(Sorry the picture is turned! Not sure why it did that...it's the right way in my file.)

I also baked the 'grass' piece and then split it in the middle for a chocolate pudding filling.
Once they were all pieced together, I frosted the grass piece with a thin layer of buttercream frosting. I also frosted the bug with a thin layer of chocolate buttercream frosting and drew the line for the wing design. Then I placed the bug on the grass.

Then I finished up the wing design with a star tip.

After that, I took some of the original thick frosting and rolled it flat and cut the eye pieces out.

Then I finished up with the actual 'grass', added some flowers, finished the eyes and inserted some edible black licorice antennaes.

Lori took some pictures of the cake at the park where the party was.

I'm glad Addie enjoyed it!

I LOVED making this cake!
It was one of those cakes that when you are done,
the HOURS you put into it seemed worth it!

Thanks for the opportunity to make it Lori (and Addie, too!)

(here's a nice shot of all the layers!)


Here is just a quick picture of the about 90 cupcakes I made for when I taught Relief Society

Easter Sunday. I thought I'd add in a little 'spring' treat with flowers, etc.

Unfortunately it did not stop the snow that still came after that!

And lastly...the Easter Bunny!

My friend Amy has a 3-D cake pan of an Easter bunny that she bought last year.

Since I had cake decorating stuff, we thought we'd give it a try!

Here we are trimming and piecing the halves together...very important. :o)

The artists at work!

The finished product!

Amy with her masterpiece!

No worries, I didn't really eat it (since I'm sure you all thought that).

In fact, I have yet to eat a piece of cake of any of the cakes I've made.

Funny enough, I'm not a big cake person!
That's probably a good thing or else I'd definitely be adding to my midsection.

Then we took the cake to work the next day (Amy and I work together),

and this is what happened...

Our boss decapitated it...

and then left the head and a friendly note on a co-workers desk!

Twisted...I know!