Happy 11th Anniversary to us!!

So this year for our anniversary we decided to just have dinner at home. My wonderful sister and her family came for dinner and my kids decided to make us a cake!!

Yes I really did step out of the kitchen while a cake was being made, baked, and even frosted and decorated (I did whip up the buttercream frosting for them!!) It was delicious!!

Thanks kiddos!! Mommy and Daddy loved it!!!

ELMO!!!

My sweet little nephew is getting ready to turn 16...wait....what??? 16??? How is he 16 already?? When did this happen??
OMG he might not want a fun cake from his Auntie?? What am I to do??

So I calmly asked him a few weeks before this big event "So what kind of cake do I get to make for your birthday?" I was totally expecting him to ask for just a simple cake or none at all...his response.....An ELMO cake Aunt Lissa!!!

Woo Hooo!!! I got to make ELMO!! Sooo stinkin fun and sooo cute!! Love how he turned out!
He started as a 3-D bear shaped cake...then I attacked it with a knife, spent an hour or so deep into the giant bowl of bright red frosting and VIOLA!! ELMO!!!

He loved it! It was a devils food chocolate cake with buttercream frosting!! And he was oh so yummy!!

I miss cake!!

Ok so I was thinking a lot today about cake. I miss cake, I miss snacking on the scraps, and I miss creating colors with icing, and I miss the stories a cake can tell...I miss cake.

My son didn't want a big fancy cake this year (Nov.2011) just wanted simple cupcakes and to go bowling with friends. No cakes for christmas, or new years, no cake for my sister or brother's birthday and there won't even be a cake for my birthday!

I think I need an excuse to make cake...maybe a just because its Tuesday cake.

Zariah's 6th Birthday Cake!!

LUAU!!! My baby girl wanted a luau party this year for her birthday, and she wanted a coconut cake....not flavored a coconut shaped cake!!! It turned out so awesome!!

Missing cakes!!!

Here are some of the missing cakes! It has been a while since I updated with all the recent cakes!

Up first is my sons awesome Lego cake (nov. 2010)! Then there is a graduation cake I made for a friends son (May 2011), then there were 2 cakes for a big farewell party for my kids' swimteam coach who moved to North Dakota(June 2011), one was solid rice crispy treat, then there was a basketball theme cake for my husband's boss' son(June 2011)!

Zoe's 1st Birthday Cake!

This was Miss Zoe's first birthday cake. It was just a chocolate cake, but it was lots of fun to make! I was so happy to be able to make this for her!!

Gregs 19th birthday cake!

This was a pretty simple german chocolate cake for my oldest nephew's 19th birthday. I hope he enjoyed it!

Swim team cake

Ok this is waaay overdue!! But here he is in all his fishy glory, some call him Nemo...I call him Lucky. Lucky because I didn't throw him across the room and into the trash!! This was NOT an easy cake! The fins and tail realllly did not want to cooperate with me.

He is a chocolate cake fish with candy coating fins and tail. The sheet cake has our team logo "eat our bubbles" and was a white cake with cream cheese filling! YUM!

This was such a fun, aggravating and creative cake!

I was sooo proud of all our team members this year. Each and everyone of them improved and really worked hard. I really enjoy making a cake each year for this wonderful group of kids!!

Zariah's 5th Birthday Cake!!

This was sooo fun!!! It was devils food chocolate cake with a white chocolate mousse filling!! So yummy!!

And my sweet baby girl loved it!! I can't believe she is 5 years old!!!

Hannah's cake

This cake is for Hannah, it is supposed to have littlest pet shop animals setting on it, they were putting those on at home!

Finally got a pic with all the pets on it!! Turned out soo cute!

It is a yummy devils food cake with white chocolate mousse filling!!

I hope hannah really had a great birthday!

Makinzee's Princess Cake!

This cake is for my cousin's sweet little girl who just turned five! It was a confetti cake with white chocolate mousse on the top tier and milk chocolate mousse on the bottom tier. She was so excited to have a big fun cake for her special day. And I was very happy to make it for her!

Cassie's Baby Shower Cake!

This was a fun cake to make. It was a simple white cake with chocolate mousse, yet the decoration was quite complex. I did have a lot of fun making all the little fondant clothes.

Gluten Free Little Mermaid!

A gluten free cake! This was challenging and fun. Betty Crocker makes a new gluten free cake mix! This makes me so happy since I stuggled with celiac all through my childhood and still have issues with it at times as an adult!

I was very excited to make this cake! It is for a friends niece and is traveling to Boise tomorrow! It is a white cake with buttercream!

The red for Ariels hair was extremely challenging but I think she turned out beautiful, I got a few pictures of this one as I went along. It took a few hours to complete! I hope the birthday girl loves her and enjoys her with out worry of a tummy ache!

Chelsea's Graduation Cake!

This one was for our fabulous friend/babysitter Chelsea who is graduating from nursing school today! We are so proud of her and hope she enjoys this wonderful day and is proud of her self!

This is a strawberry cake with 2 fillings, a layer of strawberry cream cheese filling and a layer of fresh sliced strawberries! YUM!! The little duck is just my way of saying "way to go" and "good luck" Chelsea collects ducks so I made this little one for her out of fondant. The cake is covered in vanilla buttercream with fondant accessories! This cake was really fun to make. I hope Chels loves it!!

A simple cake for mom and dad!

This was a butter yellow cake with lime curd filling AKA melissa's margarita cake. I top it with a special vanilla buttercream with a little salt added to help the margarita flavor! It is so YUMMY!!

And my daughter insisted that Gramma's cake had to have pink roses!