Cutest Aprons EVER

Not my project, but a good friend of mine makes the cutest aprons ever. If you want one, let me know- I'll give you her contact info!

Pathetic Cake

I am in charge of making birthday cakes (individual size) for each of the young women (age 12-18) in our church group. I have been so unmotivated for the last few, no new ideas, nothing cutesy coming to mind... anyway, it's starting to show. This is the pathetic cake I turned out yesterday- actually this is another brownie cake, frosted with cream cheese frosting. Tasted great, just looked dumb. At least the little 13 yr old girl liked it :) Gotta get some new inspiration! Cake making is so fun, but making a little 4-inch cake two or 3 times a month is just not enough to make me want to get out all my fun supplies! I'll do better on the next one!

First Wedding Cake

Here are pictures of the a wedding cake I made for my Sister in Law. Her colors were lime green, chocolate brown, light pink, and white. Her flowers were roses, calla lilies, stephanotis, baby's breath, and various other lilies. Bear in mind that this was an outdoor reception in August and it was 103 degrees. That's why the frosting was sweating a bit. I used a fan blowing on the cake to minimize this, but it was unavoidable.
The bride had two receptions, so I made five layers of cake in all, so she could cut two layers at the first and still have a nice looking cake for the second. They ended up serving most of the cake- over 250 guests.
Here was the cake at the second reception- they only cut and served one layer at the first reception so we ended up with 4 layers displayed at the second.

The key limes are real, but all of the flowers I made using gum paste. I added details to the flowers with non-toxic chalk. Chocolate curls and shavings topped it off. Close ups of the flowers on top:



What do you think? Not bad for a first attempt- I had never used gum paste before in my life. It took me about 2 months of "spare time" to make all the flowers and 3 days to make all of the cake, fillings, and frosting. I was so happy when it turned out looking alright and tasted great!