No Cake For You

I am playing cake Nazi right now only because I have been making lots of other goodies that I'm not sure are really worth posting about.With all of our traveling planned for the holidays I have been trying to limit the baking.  I have been swamped!! I'm hoping to get a Christmas cake in soon... Sorry for the oh so exciting and inconsistent blog. Hopefully 2012 will bring more time for decorating!

A Monster For My Little Monster

Meet Eddy

I was wonderfully inspired by pinterest to do a monster themed b-day party for Teagen. He just turned two and what better month than October to bring out all of the monsters :) Teagen had fun helping me make his "pake" and I am incredibly excited he is getting older because we can do more fun things together. He liked rolling the fondant balls to make the nose and buttons. He also helped make the hair by scraping the fondant with a plastic knife. Unfortunately, monster Eddy lost his arms in a terrible accident. We tried to repair him but failed. I guess it's good he is a monster and can get away with the no hands look. I will definitely have to work on that one especially if I try to tackle something that actually has to have arms. :) Oh and I just love his oh so sexy big lips. I didn't do that on purpose but I love them!

The Inspiration

Forty Niner Fun

FYI: I love football and my husband LOVES football. Us Fords are huge 49er fans and luckily this year my hubby's birthday landed right on the season opener game day. I just had to make a 49er themed cake to celebrate.

Dustin claims this is my best cake so far. I like it but I have a feeling it scored more points because the design was more up his alley than my usual pink and bows. I was shocked at how long the logo took me. I had to redo it a few times because I kept getting the letters off. At first it was all fondant, then I used buttercream for the letters to make it more exact. By the time I got the logo finished I was pretty wore out, which is my excuse for the funky looking football. I guess from far away it looks fine but up close, not so good... I ran out of brown coloring and sure enough the fondant kept tearing. I tried to make it look more worn and used to make up for all of the flaws. I actually used Dustin's favorite Monster Cookies for the center. It was similar to using rice krispie treats but a little heavier. Looking at the picture now I should have put the Birthday on top with the Happy but oh well. Can't change it now ;)

He was quite thrilled that I made him pose with the cake.

All decked out

Back to Baking

It has been almost 4 months since my last cake. Time has completely flown by. I am now the newest resident of Fargo North Dakota and have finally finished unpacking the last box. My cake making necessities are out now and I'm 100% ready to get back to baking. Perfect timing too because I just turned 27! Below is my oh so pink creation which according to my almost 2 year old son is "cute, cuuute". I'm not sure he even knows exactly what the word means but I'll take it! The horizontal stripes were really hard to get straight, especially after my extended no cake vaca. Stay tuned for more cakes now that I have officially set up shop.

Oh How I Wish

I think the world would be a much better place if we could have strawberries this size all the time. Is it crazy that I was wishing the cake would magically turn into a real strawberry? Fortunately, I am visiting my fav state (CA) where it's strawberry season and I have literally been eating a huge bowl of the best of the best every day. I'm just still sad it was cake and that is prolly the only time you will ever hear me say that ;) Oh and the Easter basket grass was my easy way of covering the cake board. Please just ignore it especially since it isn't even hiding the board.