Thursday, February 12, 2009

More yummy cupcakes...

Yummy yummy cupcakes I made last week for a friend's birthday! We had a surprise birthday party for him at our home after church! Taco salad was the meal and cupcakes were the dessert!

These were SUPER easy! Anyone can make them, if you do not have an icing bag and tip, just use a ziplock bag and cut the tip of one corner off, put your icing in and then start on the outside of the cupcake edge and work in making a swirl pattern!


The cupcakes were just a regular yellow cake and then there was vanilla icing and chocolate icing with different sorts of sprinkles for color! The sad part was I could not eat any of them! :0( boohoohoo for me! :0)

some close-ups



i got excited with the sprinkles...lol

Love, april

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Tiered cakes...

Tiered cakes...

Here are my tiered cakes that I have made so far! I have two more coming up in April and May! One is a wedding anniversary renewing of vowels (they did not have a real ceremony the first time) and the other is my bil and soon to be sil's wedding cake! I would have had many more but since i have stopped the business, i have been having to turn away customers a lot lately! Its all worth it though! I want to do it just for fun!

Here is a cake i made for my soon to be SIL's sister's wedding. It was covered in fondant and I made fondant flowers for it!


This was a sweet 16 birthday cake! So cute! Fondant icing, white chocolate seashells and fondant flowers! Icing gel for the waterfall!



a four tiered cake that was covered in fondant with buttercream accents



white fondant covered wedding cake with silk flowers



buttercream wedding cake with silk gerber daisies!



white fondant covered with fondant roses on top



four tiered buttercream wedding cake with fondant roses!



three tiered buttercream wedding cake with fondant roses!



Stay tuned...more to come!

Love, april

the cupcakes.

and now....the CUPCAKES!!

Here are some of the cupcakes I have made through the past year or so!
Actually these first two pics are of fondant roses that I have made. They are VERY TIME CONSUMING but I find relaxing! I love making them! I just have to make sure I have plenty of time! They take days!




here are some cupcakes I left for my in-laws since they looked after our dog while we were on vacation!


yum yum.... green daisies

i want one now... :0)

happy valentine's day!

mmm...mmm...good!

heavenly pumpkin spice with cream cheese frosting! :0)

how cute are these! snowmen christmas cupcakes I made for our kids at AWANA!

easter cupcakes...chicks and lambs made out of icing!



We surprised Shaun with a little surprise birthday party while we were on vacation in the Smoky Mountains!

Her cupcakes!


Stay tuned...more to come!

Love, april

Some birthday and other types of cakes I have made!!!

Here are some of the cakes I have done that are birthday or other types of celebratory cakes!

This cake is my nephew James' 7th birthday cake. He wanted it to be star wars so I put on an edible image! Its his favorite, banana cake, with cream cheese icing!


These next two pics were of the cake that I have already showed you above from my nephews party but I didnt have these pics at the time to post...this one is of the little guy himself, James, at his 7th birthday party about to blow out his candle! The one below is just a close-up of the edible image!





This cake I made for my BIL's birthday! It was his 30th! I believe it was a spice cake! My sister threw him a surprise party for him!


This was my niece's 9th birthday party cake...she had a pool/slumber party! I spent the night with them on her and monica's request and we did a fashion show and I did their make-up. We had so much fun! Her cake is Hannah Montana themed with fondant stars and swirls!



This is a VERY CHOCOLATY cake I made for our pastor's birthday!

Here is a fall version of the above cake that I made for my beautiful sister, Monica's birthday!


Here is a cake I made for doctor's office. The problem was my old dog ate the first version of it and I had to create this in like an hour. It was still VERY warm when I delivered it...so I was not happy with how it turned out but I am sure it was VERY YUMMY!



Here are some sheet cakes I have done...

this one was for a friend of the family, Emily's birthday party which was held at a hotel and they were having a pool party! The pool water is icing gel, the towel,slippers and chairs, girl, ball and lifesaver is fondant! I had fun making this!


This was made for Berean Baptist. Jenni Maples ordered it for her church as they were celebrating their volunteers! I made a round cake to come out of the cake like the earth!

The above client ordered two sheet cakes for her sons graduation. He wanted specific things on it, on this one he wanted the bible, chipotle burrito and a guitar. All made out of fondant and other materials!

This one included his sports he played!

Here is my nephew Noah's 4th birthday party cake! Car's theme!


handsome noah!


I surprised Jim this year with a birthday party and this is the cake I made him!

This is a cake I made for our pastor and his wife's anniversary! I felt bad though because I was in a rush so I did not get to do it like I wanted too!

my first and HOPEFULLY last purse cake...i had lots of problems with it but it turned out ok eventually!

my mom/dad asked me to make my grandma rose a birthday cake last year and this is what I came up with! She loved it!

I LOVE PRESENT CAKES! This was for a bridal shower that the lady wanted it to kind of look like a Tiffany's ring box. I love this cake!

This was for a client's little girl who requested a unicorn, butterfly, dragonfly and rainbow to be on her cake! I brought out my inner girly self to do this one, I loved it!

For a cos student who graduated!
Stay tuned! More to come!

love, april

More cakes from the middle stages...

Here are some of my cakes I made around the middle stages of my classes and such! Enjoy!

This is a cake I made for my dad's birthday. The tools are white chocolate, the paper and tape ruler are fondant! I had SO MUCH FUN making this cake for my dad! It was a banana cake I believe!

another view.

This next cake I made last year for Preston's (our friends son) first birthday! He was into bob the builder at the time! I had so much fun making the little wall of bricks with icing and the clouds! Of course I love anything colorful so i fell in love with this cake!

another view...
another view...

This cake below is a power rangers cake I made for my nephew James' 6th birthday party! It was a banana cake with buttercream frosting! The trees were icecream cones covered in frosting!

I think to this day, this next cake is my favorite cake I have made. I dont know why, maybe the color combo or the little bug on top...but I love it! I made this cake for my cousin's baby girl addison, for her first birthday! Icing is buttercream, bug, number and dots and banner are fondant!

close-up of bug...
addison with her cake

This next cake is the first FONDANT COVERED cake I did! I had a blast and realized how much I love working with fondant!

This is the final cake in my second class. We learned the basketweave and royal icing flowers that get stiff as they dry!

another view
This is a cake I made for my best friend, Cari Wooley for her birthday last year! I had to hurry up and make it while they were at sunday night church...so I had to rush but the plus was it was still warm!


This is an easter cake I made to bring to my family get-together! It had a fruit preserve inside with buttercream frosting underneath the fondant. The flowers were made out of royal icing!


close-up of flowers

This was my final cake in my final cake class! I LOVED the brown/pink color combo! Its fondant icing with buttercream underneath and TONS of homemade fondant roses (that took A LONG TIME)
another view...

here is a cute little cake i made for one of grandma starkey's friends while they were in the hospital! Everything was fondant!

Stay tuned for more cake pics!
Love, april