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!!