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Thanks! Amy

Holiday cupcakes! Double chocolate and mint cupcakes with fondant Holly berries and leaves.

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An Army Barbie cake for a young lady who's enlisted for this January. She wanted to make sure that people know she's tough but still likes to be a 'girlie-girl'. She requested that I make the base color for the dress aqua-blue and then air brush some green on it to give it a little bit of a camo feel. I also made an AK47, combat boots and dog tags out of gum paste to complete the look.


I got a phone call from a woman who wanted to have me make a cake for her pastor's birthday. I laughed when she told me that he LOVES the movie Cars and so wanted a Mater cake. I made her a sheet cake and covered it in a simple butter cream frosting. Then I created the 'road' from black and grey sugar crystals. The rocks and cactus are made from fondant and Mater is a toy I picked up at the store.


A super fun baby shower cake made for Kayla. She wanted a whipped cream frosting and LOTS of fun embellishments! I made the bow from fondant, the bear, bottle, powder, rattle, etc. from Rice Krispies treats and the binkie from gum paste.



This was a fun cake to make! McKyna turned 2 and her mom wanted to have a princess themed party. So I created a pillow cake and made a crown out of gum paste and sugar gems. The original crown broke about two hours before the client came to pick up the cake so I quickly made another one and prayed that it would dry in time - and it did! HAHAHA!

More Cakes!

A whimsical all white cake for a young lady turning eight years old. Her mother wanted it to be fairly simple, but fun at the same time. I covered the cake in marshmallow fondant and then piped swirls and loops with frosting.


A simple birthday cake for an elderly woman. The eight inch cake is covered in a basic white fondant and then topped with a variety of gum paste flowers.


Please excuse the lighting for this one! I finished the cake late in the evening and dark outside! This Hello Kitty cake was made for a baby shower - the mom to be LOVES Hello Kitty! Again, it's covered in fondant!


Chocolate decadence! This is a milk chocolate cake with a rich chocolate butter cream frosting. I made the roses with gum paste for just a touch of pink.


An eight inch "Over The Hill" cake for someone at church. Everything is edible except for the dowel that the spinner is attached to. Yum!


This cake is for a young man who is getting ready to join the Marines. His sister wanted to show her support by asking me to make it for him. It is an eight inch cake and everything is made from fondant and then painted the appropriate colors.

Boise State University is kind of a big deal in our neck of the woods so I get a lot of requests for BSU cakes. This one is a gluten free cake that has a raspberry cream filling (made with fresh raspberries that I just picked this morning!) and then it's covered in marshmallow fondant. The Bronco logo is also made from fondant.


Another Toy Story cake. This was a chocolate cake with vanilla filling and vanilla buttercream to top it off. The 'rope' is made from chocolate fondant and the characters are just toys. (Because there's NO WAY I could sculpt something that detailed out of fondant... just sayin')

Star Wars cake for Janet. The bottom two layers are covered in marshmallow fondant. The top is a ball cake shaped to be the Death Star. Ball cakes always look squished to me, not sure why...

Both layers of this Lady Bug cake are vanilla with a raspberry filling and then covered in a basic marshmallow fondant. I made the flowers and bugs out of fondant and used food markers to add embellishments. The "1" is a gum paste/fondant mix that uses the magic of tooth picks to keep it upright. HA! I just completed the look with some food safe heavy gage wire that I coiled around a dowel to get the cork-screw effect. Cute, eh?


Chocolate cupcakes for a baby shower. Some are frosted with peanut butter frosting and topped with Snicker's candies while the others are filled with raspberry, frosted with butter cream and then topped with a raspberry heart.

Star Wars Cake!

Here's a Lego Star Wars cake for a friend's son. I made a sheet cake, cut it in half and then stacked it on itself to create a 2 layer HUGE Lego! I used my cool new air brush to spray the Lego silver, then made the little Legos and Star Wars characters out of fondant.

I totally cheated on this one by using toys instead of making everything, I'll admit it. LOL (I did make the signs and flags, though.) The cake is for a little boy who's turning 3 and LOVES Lightening McQueen. The flags and '3' are made from gum paste and the rest is fondant. He loved it!

It was a busy weekend for me! I had lots of cakes, cupcakes and cake pops to make for people - here's how it went.
The first cake was for a boy who loves Harry Potter. I used a ball cake pan (two halves of a ball that get put together once the cake is baked) for the Golden Snitch and a pillow cake to rest it on. I used some glittery scrap booking paper and floral wire to make the wings and then had fun with my air brush to get the ball all nice and golden.


Alice in Wonderland cake for Natiah's birthday! It's a pillow shaped cake with a frilly checker board as it's base decoration. I made the Cheshire cat, Hatter's hat, pocket watch, tea set, the Queen's scepter and her two card soldiers out of fondant. The Queen of Hearts is made from a jumbo cupcake that I covered in fondant and then I squished her under the pillow (stealing an idea from The Wizard of Oz). A super fun cake to make!


And here are the cupcakes that went with the Alice in Wonderland themed party. There are hearts on swirls of butter cream frosting for the Queen of Hearts, fondant red roses on a canvas of black fondant and the striped shirt and trousers for the Tweedles from the new movie.


Cake pops! These (along with 10 dozen regular cupcakes & 9 dozen mini cupcakes) were for an open house for a couple who just got married. Their official reception was back east and they decided that some fun treats would work nicely for their friends here.

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Some friends of ours like to play a game called Hand & Foot, but they always loose to their wives so we decided to tease them a little bit with their birthday cake. The Rook cards are made from gum paste, the pizza/popcorn/hand/foot are all made from modeling chocolate that I made this afternoon.



A baby shower cake for an expecting mother. The bottle is made from Rice Krispies, the bow is a fondant/gum paste mix and the booties are made of fondant. She loved it!



A cake to celebrate our wonderful Pioneer heritage!

My first wedding cake since I made my sister's last year. There are lots of different flavor combinations here so I'll not bore you with the details! All of the cakes are covered in marshmallow fondant and then decorated with fondant roses and ribbons. Such a fun cake to make!


This was a really fun cake to make. It's a chocolate cake with raspberry filling and then frosted with a chocolate ganache butter cream. The bottle, rattle and baby powder are made from Rice Krispies Treats while everything else is good old marshmallow fondant.


Another Tres Leches cake! These cakes are super yummy! It's a vanilla cake that has three different milks that have been blended together and then poured over the top so that it can soak in to the cake. The frosting is heavy whipping cream that's just this side of butter and then loads and loads of strawberries are sliced on top.

A Tinkerbell cake! These are strawberry cakes with 2 layers of chocolate ganache filling then frosted with a rich chocolate frosting. I covered both cakes with marshmallow fondant and had some fun! I call this cake my "Chocolate Dipped Strawberry" cake. YUM!

An anniversary cake for Angie. A simple vanilla cake covered in buttercream and decorated with royal icing & fondant flowers.

This is a 60th birthday cake for a client. It's chocolate cake with chocolate filling and covered with marshmallow fondant. My mom made the flowers as part of her cake decorating class! They're pansies made out of Royal icing.

This is a Harley Davidson cake for Keith's birthday. It's a vanilla cake with chocolate filling and covered with chocolate fondant. It's supposed to be a tire with the logo on it (hopefully that's what it looks like! HAHA!).

My son wanted an Angry Birds cake for his birthday today, so that's what I made. It's a basic chocolate cake with vanilla filling and then covered in marshmallow fondant.



A lemon cake with raspberry filling for a missionary farewell.

This was Seb's 34th birthday cake. His wife wanted to surprise him with a cake that reflected his love of flying air planes. We started with a chocolate cake that had a cream cheese filling layered with fresh sliced strawberries (YUM!). Then I covered the cake in a sky blue fondant that had 'Happy Birthday' stamped onto it. After creating the runway and air field I covered a toy airplane with gum paste and made the wind sock & Happy Birthday banner, also with gum paste so that it would harden.




And another CTR cake for a baptism! The bottom is chocolate with raspberry and the top is vanilla with raspberry. After covering it in marshmallow fondant, I piped little CTR's and polka dots all over it then topped it off with a couple of cute purple fondant flowers.


Another graduation sheet cake. This time the client wanted one side to be chocolate cake with raspberry filling and the other side to be vanilla cake with pineapple filling. A little crazy, but we did it without a problem. I then covered it with a fluffy butter cream.

A Tron cake for Hunter. This is a chocolate cake with butter cream filling and then covered in black fondant. I'm shipping this one to Utah for his birthday on Thursday!



Graduation sheet cakes! These were for cousins who were sharing a family party to celebrate their high school graduations. They're both vanilla cakes, one with a Bavarian cream filling and the other a strawberry cream filling.

The client called me and told me she wanted something special for her anniversary. They like going to the movies together, so this is what we came up with. The bottom layer is a low-sugar yellow cake with sugar free chocolate pudding for the filling. The top is a mocha-chocolate cake (also low sugar) with a sugar free vanilla pudding filling. The cake is covered in marshmallow fondant and topped with 'popcorn' made from white chocolate.

A cupcake cake! Made because a girl loves her mom. She wanted something unique and fun that her mother would love for her birthday, so we took a couple dozen cupcakes and made huge flowers with them. Lemon cupcakes covered in lemon buttercream - yum!


This is a Tres Leches (or three milk, for my non-Spanish speaking friends) cake that was made for the client's baby who is getting baptised. It's basically a vanilla cake that has a mix of three different milks poured over it while it's still warm and can soak in. The milks are evaporated, sweetened condensed and heavy cream. The cake is topped with a whipped cream frosting and some fresh strawberries. It's a very delicious cake, but VERY rich.


This is a luau cake for a high school graduate. The bottom layer is a vanilla cake with pineapple filling and the top is a chocolate cake with cream cheese filling. The cakes are covered in marshmallow fondant and decorated with fondant flowers.


This cake is a BSU Broncos sheet cake. I have a friend who's family LOVES our dear Boise State football team and so we make a lot of orange and blue cakes.

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My daughter's birthday was yesterday and we celebrated on Friday with her friends. When I asked her what kind of a cake she wanted, she drew a picture for me so that I would be sure to get it right! Hahaha! She wanted blue with stripes and polka dots so that's what we did. I have a mat that you can lay on fondant and press into it to get the printed "Happy Birthday." She loved it!


I made this cake as a prize for a raffle I did at a bazaar this last weekend. It was a chocolate cake with raspberry filling and then covered in marshmallow fondant. I made the flowers out of fondant and then 'quilted' the sides.



The family that ordered this cake are HUGE Boise State fans and wanted to make sure that their one-year-old's birthday cake reflected that. (Hence the blue and orange) They liked this one so much that they've ordered a sheet cake for this weekend wit more BSU inspired decorations.