Happy Birthday JENNY-JEN!!!! My sweet sweet friend turned 40 today! What’s crazy is that I’m getting closer to 40 and realizing that it’s such a young number!!!!!!! We’ve only lived half our lives…and most of it was spent messing up!!!! – and learning what NOT to do! Now it feels like we’re figuring things out […]
Birthday Cakes, Sculptured Cakes
I just saw this and HAD to share with all of you! I’m TOTALLY making one of these…I can’t wait! I might even do it today! – I’m SO excited! I have the wilton one like this but it doesn’t cut as clean of a line…it’s a bit “dull” because the plastic is not very […]
Cake ToolsEDITED: I had to pull this video due to my contract with Craftsy. I’m so sorry! Please forgive me. But we re-did it and made it SO much better! If you’d like to see crumb coat a round and square cake with SUPER sharp edges using the upside down method and the board on top method […]
Video Tutorials
Here it is…my son’s 4-year monster truck cake! This cake turned out to be quite fun! I’m happy with the end result!! The bottom tier is chocolate cake with Reeses peanut butter cup butter cream. The top tier is vanilla cake with Butterfinger butter cream. Both were SO yummy!The checkerboard pattern was created with edible […]
Birthday Cakes, Photo Tutorials, Sculptured Cakes
Hi everyone! Whew…this week was CRAZY!!!!!!!!! I first off have to apologize for the lack of pictures I’m going to show you! I had planned on taking a lot of pics, step by step, to show you all the entire process of making the truck. But time slipped away this week! I had two interior […]
Birthday Cakes, Photo Tutorials, Sculptured Cakes
I’m creating a monster truck themed cake for my son’s 4th birthday coming up in four days! YIKES! – I can’t believe my sweet baby boy will be four!!!!!! I’ve got the sketch done and a plan of attack ready to go! This is my first vehicle/car/truck type cake, so I’m nervous!!!! I’m learning as […]
Birthday Cakes, Photo Tutorials, Sculptured Cakes
HA – yes, this is Ian…the one I made the green meeple cake for!And here is that poor meeple being tortured! I got a sweet email from Mindy saying that Ian loved the cake and their son Cade thoroughly enjoyed the “beheading” procedure that quickly followed the presentation of his cake!! “Chop his arm off […]
Cake, Funny
My husband and I love strategy board games!!! We own over a hundred games! It’s a hobby and a passion and has given us many fun evenings with family and friends. We play a lot of games with one couple in particular, Ian and Mindy. Ian’s birthday is today and Mindy comes over on Wednesdays […]
Birthday Cakes, Photo Tutorials, Sculptured Cakes
Doesn’t this look like a movie reel cake? – Can’t you see the reels???? No??!! Well, that’s because they’re in the garbage right now!! LOL!! Oh, more lessons learned on this one! I didn’t even take a good picture of it (hence the pic above) because I was too frustrated when we left the house […]
Birthday Cakes, Sculptured Cakes
