Team Charlie Mustache and Forks WA Logo Twilight Cakes!

More twi-cakes!  

The first cake is a silly reference to the glorious mustache of one of the characters in Twilight, Chief Charlie Swan, Bella's dad.  The second cake is the logo from the Forks, WA sign (where Twilight takes place).

Happy birthday Nikki!

WordFast Cake

This cake was made for Wordfast, a company that creates translation software.  The cake was based off of Wordfast's ad campaign.  The paintbrush was made of fondant, and I included one of the many cupcakes I made to go with the cake.  Enjoy!

Say It... Cake.

It's time for a new blog venture for me!  I love sharing my cakes on this site, I ran a site called Yeswecake.com when Obama was running for president, and now I have a new site called SayItCake.com.  If you are a fan of cakes, Twilight and Stephenie Meyer's awesome/hilarious vampire universe in general, then come on over and check it out!  I'll feature Twilight inspired desserts and even post a tutorial or two so you can make some Twi-sweets of your own.

As Emmett would say: "We'll tear it apart and eat the pieces".    It is a little known fact that Emmett loves deer flavored cake.  There, now you just learned something!  Just imagine what glorious facts you will learn from the site!

www.sayitcake.com 

PS - If you have made any fun Twilight Saga inspired cakes or if you know someone who has, then send the pics on over to cakehero@gmail.com.

Ponyo Cake

For two years now, I have participated in the PS 234 annual auction.  A good friend of mine teaches there, and meeting all the parents (it's an elementary school in NY) and making a cake for one generous person is so much fun.  This year I was very lucky, because the parent who won my cake requested a Ponyo cake!  For anyone who has not seen this adorable movie, I suggest you go see it as soon as you can.  Ponyo is a little fish who lives in the ocean and dreams of being a real girl.  It's so magical and I can see why four year old Jade loves it so much.

I decided to show Ponyo running on the waves rising out of the ocean.  In the movie, the waves morph into fish as they rise out of the ocean, and then become regular waves again as they crash back down.

The cake was a delicious dark chocolate with fresh strawberry frosting.  Happy birthday Jade!

Evan and Ashley's Wedding

Over the summer Ashley and Evan, my lovely neighbors, came to me wondering if I could make a skee-ball themed wedding cake and cupcakes for them.  I was so honored that they had asked me, and so happy that they wanted to do something fun, creative and non-traditional.  Evan is the proud head of Brewskee-Ball, the world's first Skee-Ball league (check out all the info here).

As you can see from the pictures below, I decided to make each flavor a different point value, each with a little fondant skee ball inside!  The main cake was dark chocolate with a vanilla buttercream and sported Ashley and Evan's cute Pez toppers and the Brewskee-Ball logo.  Congratulations guys!

Brandi's 30th

This cake was made for my friend, Brandi!  A sweet cake for an even sweeter girl, happy 30th lady!

FYI the coloring in the second picture is closer to the real thing...I made a sort of peachy pink fondant color and brushed it in "champagne" luster dust...pretty!

Jack's Big Music Show

Here is another one that has been waiting to be posted for quite some time.  I'm actually really excited for a few reasons:  1.  I thought for sure that the last time my computer crashed I had lost these pics, but yay!  I found them.  2.  Rachel and her husband seem like the sweetest people, and the email that they sent me (which you will find below) seriously brought tears to my eyes.  I have made these guys from JBMS a few times now and I feel sort of a sense of ownership with them (I wish I had invented them!) and to see that they were so appreciated by this family really makes me feel so happy.  So happy birthday Dylan, and thanks to Rachel and fam for their kind words!

Hi!

I am sorry this is so late, but I wanted to thank you so very much for the cake, it was amazing and it made his birthday what it was, as we weren't having a huge party but this cake was the highlight.  We didn't tell anyone about it until the party, so you can imagine the reaction. Best of all my son loved it, when we took it out of the box he clapped his hands and tried to dive towards it to get to it, of course I wouldn't let him.  haha

After the party was over, I carefully took each character off along with whatever else I could take off and then we cut into the cake.  The cake was amazing, yes we did share with a few friends and the birthday boy as well.  haha

I was so impressed by the work of the characters that we decided to keep them as a memento from his first birthday.  I put them in a box and let them get hard, the we shellacked them, stuck them into some spray painted Styrofoam and then put into a shadow box that we have hung in his room.  (see pictures attached.)  My husband and I thank you again for that amazing cake, it made his first birthday more special for him then we could have ever imagined. 

Thanks again

Kevin and Rachel

and Dylan too   =)

Baby Shower Cake

So finally I have brought my camera to work, cause so sad, my computer at home died.  I will be sharing a few cakes in the next few days that were made over the summer, my apologies to everyone who has been waiting!

This cake was ordered by my bud Erin for our mutual friend Nancy, who is pretty much the best and one of the most fun people I know.  The cake was modeled after the invitation to her baby shower.  Like I said, these posts are pretty late cause the baby is here now!  Congrats Nancy!!

Blue's Clues Cupcakes

Liz (who I also made the 80s cupcakes for) asked for these for her nephew Gabriel's 2nd birthday...so cute!  

On a side note, here you can see how bad I am at taking photos and then trying to correct them in photoshop...the colors in Liz's picture of the cupcakes at the party are much closer to what they looked like in person.  Slippery Soap hardly even looks purple in mine.  Thanks for the pics, Liz!

Summer Flower Cake

This cake was for a small family get together/my stepmother's birthday.  Happy birthday Bea!  Pound cake with fresh raspberry and blackberry frosting.