Witchingly Bootiful!

For a Halloween birthday. She was torn between getting the witch cake she wanted and having a beautiful (traditional) cake. I found this stained glass pattern and kept the colours traditional but made them softer. I carved this out of two sheet cakes: the top half is white cake, and the bottom half is chocolate.

Imagination to Reality

October's theme in Cub Scouts was Adventures in Books. We had a really fun pack meeting, with our Cubmaster coming up with a fantastic mystery over missing awards. I volunteered to do the cake, since I had a book pan. I had no idea at the start of the month what I was going to do, but that's what Perry is for.
I finally had an idea of scenes from books, but I had no clue what to use. Perry gave me some ideas of what captured boys' interests and I went to work. I asked Mischa what page number to put on the book, and she suggested our pack number.

Perry then came home, saw the cake, and said it would be cool to have put a smooth brown border around the bottom of the cake (instead of the white shells here) to make it look like a book cover. I scraped off the stars and followed his suggestion. It turned out really cute.
My favourite part of this cake was the rough sketch. I haven't ever drawn a rough idea for my cakes before, and I don't think I've picked up a pencil to draw in 10 years (and I used to love to draw in high school). I changed some things around, mainly not liking the title look, moving the pirate flag/map down so I didn't have 2 black scenes next to each other, and I decided to ditch the Gryffindor crest for the golden snitch (I figured boys would like the sports in Harry Potter, and it was also a good reason to buy the gold dusting powder I've been wanting). I used silver dusting powder on the spaceship and the wings of the snitch and dragon.

(the black squiggle next to the space scene is what happens when you leave a pen and paper within reach of a certain 3 year old girl in our family)

Baby Shower

Here's baby bear again, on a blanket this time.

R2D2

Heart of Gold

This was done for a dear friend. I used edible glitter on the heart.

Blue's Clues

This was Caleb's first birthday cake. I had to make a special egg and milk free cake for him because of his allergies. I did it as a little paw print.

Baby Baptism

This cake is edged on top with a white trellis on a pink background, with white grapes and vines.

Can We Eat It? Yes We Can!

Bob looks happy that Caleb chose him for his birthday cake.

Barbie

A cake for when your daughter wants a Barbie Cinderella.

Boooooo!

I love doing holiday cakes- you can really let your playful side show.

Bugs and Buds

This was Mischa's 2nd birthday cake.

E-I-E-I-O

In my MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) group, we had a meeting on childrens' party ideas. Our group had boy/girl party and decided to use a farm theme. The barn and haystacks are cake. I was going to toast coconut and use that on the ground, but a family emergency happened and my brain wasn't totally with the cake after that.

Witzy

I love Suzy's Zoo characters! They are perfect for baby cakes.

Another Chapter in Life

This was for the farewell party of our children's librarian in Silver City, New Mexico.

I Choose You, Pikachu!

A birthday cake for a close friend's son. A little nostalgic, since he's almost done with high school. I found a Pokemon book with punch out figures, which I then laminated with clear contact paper to keep the grease from the frosting from soaking through.

Construction Cake

I did this cake for my cousin's son, who just graduated from high school last week! He's the first person I can actually say that I've changed their diapers, so there's no way he just graduated!

Baby Bear

I did this cake for the birth of Perry's twin brother's eldest son. Another I wish I had a digital camera picture just to get the detail of the baby quilt.

Spiderman

Caleb's 8th birthday cake. We had a lot of kids over, so I did a shaped pan on top of a sheet pan.

Pinewood Derby

I did a birthday cake like this, too.