My Mom's Birthday Trifle 5/26/12

This is one of mine and my familys favorite desserts! It's so light and low in fat that we seem to be drawn to it!! I use fat free angel food cake that I purchase at the store (who doesn't love a short cut!?),  instant, fat free, sugar free, vanilla pudding, and cool whip. I make the pudding according to the package and stick it in the fridge. Next I cut up some fresh strawberries and blueberries. Once the pudding is set I mix in a small tub of Light Cool Whip so it makes like a moose almost. Then I layer small chunks of angel food cake, pudding mix and fruit. The top layer I just added more cool whip! It's so yummy! :)

Happy EMS Week!! 5/24/12

My husband works for Sarasota Memorial Hospital and his boss had called me and asked if I could make a cake for EMS week. He wanted a chocolate cake with chocolate frosting that said 'Happy EMS Week' and it needed to be big enough to feed at least 50 people. The only draw back was that he needed it in 2 days...well more like 24 hours because it was late on Tuesday when he called and he needed it Thursday morning! I of course said yes! I never pass up a chance at a new challenge! Let me tell you, you can't tell how big this cake was in this picture, but it was huge!!! It barely fit in my fridge and it weighed at least 25 lbs! I made my Mocha Chocolate Cake with Mocha Chocolate Buttercream! I decided I wanted to decorate the cake a little so I made a stethescope out of fondant and made the EMS symbol out of fondant as well! We went the next day to drop it off and I was excited to see the reactions! My husband went back done there later on to pick up the payment and they told him not only did everyone love the cake, most people went back for seconds!! I absolutely LOVE hearing postive feedback!! :)

Aaargh!!! Birthday Pirate Cake! 5/2012

Pirate Cake and Cupcakes!

So....I was asked by a lady I used to work with if I could make a Pirate cake for her son's 6th birthday party. It was kind of short notice but I was up for the challenge!! I made my homemade marble cake with just vanilla buttercream. I made the Cake's pirate face out of fondant and attached it to the cake before I dropped it off....funny story....I also made mini pirate faces to go on all the cupcakes. I was up until 3 am making them all, I sat them on the kitchen table overnight to let them harden. The next morning (or should I say an hour before I had to deliver them) my daughter, (15 months old) without my knowledge climbed up onto the kitchen chair and peeled off all the pirate hats of every single fondant pirates and ate them or demolished them!!! OMG...what could I do but laugh and bust into tears because I knew I didn't have time to re-do all of them!! Thankfully Angie (lady who ordered this cake) knows Lila (my daughter) and thought it was really funny and was understanding! Thankfully also I had gone out the day before to purchase pirate cupcake liners and they happen to come with Pirate Flags, so I was able to stick those in the cupcakes instead! Crisis adverted! :)

Slacking!! 5/24/12

Hey!! Sorry about the lack of posts lately! I have been super busy! I've been getting a lot more business lately and I am LOVING it!!! I will update the blog tonight with new pictures of some of the cakes I have done lately!! :)

Cupcakes for Em!!! 5/2012

My friend Emily asked me to make her 50 mini cupcakes for a church get together she was going to. So these were vanilla cupcakes with vanilla and chocolate buttercream! They were so tiny you could just pop them into your mouth!! Hope they all liked them!! :)