Luau Birthday #3

My friend's kids had a Luau birthday. So this is my 3rd variation of an Hawaiian cake. I made more cupcakes this time.

Farewell Fr. Michael

This was probably one of the most heart wrenching cakes to make....because it meant a dear friend/father/pastor of mine, Fr. Michael, was leaving. But it was good for the mourning process. Nothing special to say about this cake. But it was requested that I make a "cutable" cake. If you see the cake I made for Fr. Michael's Anniversary last year, you'll see this is much simpler. Last time NOBODY cut the cake because they were afraid to. ((Apparently it didn't matter...nobody cut this cake either))

Luau Birthday #2

This Memorial Day, I helped my friend Ginger celebrate her 50th birthday. Her husband threw her a "Hawaii Five-O" Party....get it...50....five-o? Anyways, I sort of copied a previous cake from 2 years ago. This time I did a smaller Hawaiian Islands, and the "Hau'oli La Hanau" is Hawaiian for "Happy Birthday". I just noticed that the flowers for the cupcakes are different than the last ones I made. I must have used a different tip. The water again, was made with a spray on icing for the air brushed effect.

Bachelorette

My friend asked me to make this cake for her sister's bridal shower. She insisted on hot pink and black, although I warned her it would stain their lips and teeth. She said she needed a good laugh because she'd be the only one at the party not drinking :) So I aim to please! The theme was "tying the knot". There were ALOT of words, and well, after 3 years, I'm still not even close to perfect on my writing. Oh well. The knot at the top was tricky. I tried to practice on wax paper and tranfer one, but that didn't work. So this was done free hand onto the cake (I only got one shot) so I'm pretty happy.

Happy 2nd Birthday John Paul

John Paul is all about "Cars" and "Care Bears" so I did both. The star cake is a new pan. It was fun and easy to do the clouds. And I like the swirl effect on the top. See what I mean about the matching sprinkles on the cupcakes?

Happy 1st Birthday Brayden

Happy Birthday to Brayden (Jessica's little boy). This is a large #1 cake with cupcakes and 2 mini #1 cakes for Brayden to eat all by himself (pic is blurry). I've been getting into sprinkles lately. I think it's an obsession. I especially can't ice a cupcake without matching sprinkles!

Gandy Reunion (Cowboy Cake #2)

The Gandy Reunion on Thanksgiving was western theme (like the Driver reunion cake on 6/16/07). So this is basically a copy of the other cake...only round. The center icing layer also has chocolate chips...mmmmmmmm.