Sports Fan

Birthday goodies for a fan of the Chicago White Sox and the Indianapolis Colts. The mini cake (5" round, carved into the characteristic topsy-turvy shape) was inspired from an awesome cake that I saw on CakeCentral.
The original creator used Styrofoam balls, covered in fondant. I used the Wilton mini ball pan to make cake balls. however, after it was all done, I could see the virtue in using Styrofoam. the cake softened and wanted to settle and squish. I didn't have a football shaped pan, so I carved the hemispheres from the mini pan pan into footballs.

(By the way... piping straight black lines on top of the cake - check, piping straight black lines on the side of a tapered cake - yikes! that was tough, my hat's off to the Cake Boss )

In addition to the cake, I made cookies. I thought about using rounds, but I think that the square cut came out better and was a better fit. the background stripes were piped wet. All the top images were piped on wax paper over the logos.

Finally, the last little goodies were mini cupcakes. I had wanted to make some fun sugar art for these, but I ran out of steam with all the other stuff. To match the theme, I made white with chocolate sprinkles, and blue with blue stars. (to put the sprinkles just around the edge, I poured some in my cupped hand and tapped the edges of the icing into the sprinkles.)

We will be back at the Market Aug 1st!

We are back from vacation, and will be at the Farmers Market August 1st.

(we will be gone again the following two weeks - California here we come!)

Relay for Life Charity Auction

I donated a cake to the 'Relay for Life' event - charity silent auction, last June. The winning bidder requested this cake for her daughter's birthday. She liked some of my other polka dot cakes, but loves blue, so viola- a blue polka dot cake! I had intended to have more contrast in the blues but it didn't work out that way. I also loved the addition of the chocolate flowers. that little bit of almost-black gives the composition more depth and 'pop.' (my mom told me this, thanks mom!)

Happy Birthday Grandpa and Aunt Lyn!

For my grandfather and aunt, celebrating their birthdays this holiday weekend!

The "Cock Cake" (my cousin, Chip, named it) is for my grandfather, as he and my male cousins went pheasant hunting for a great many years. I had planned to make a more three dimensional pheasant, but it just wasn't working out at all (it looked like a funky chicken). I cut out a piece of gumpaste and painted it.

I made a simple "Tiffany Box" cake for my aunt, who of course loves Tiffany - what woman doesn't!

Both cakes were vanilla white cake with raspberry buttercream filling. My grandfather's cake had white chocolate and chocolate fondant. This is the best tasting fondant! (My aunt's cake was plain flavored fondant, which is also good.) Everyone loved them!

Farmer's Market on the 4th of July!

Here I am at the Farmer's Market on July 4th! I did a reprisal of my most popular cake design from last week - the pink cake with the yellow butterfly. I did a couple more with the Stars 'n Stripes in mind.

Instead of cupcakes, I tried some thing new - 3 inch mini cakes. I got a pretty favorable response to those, so I think that I will be doing more. (but I need to order new boxes for those!)

thank you all that came out in the rain!

Happy Independence Day!

These were similar to last year's cookies that I mailed to a solder in Iraq. I just loved them and was really looking forward to making them again this year! The stars were a new addition, inspired by Polka_Dot_Zebra on Flickr, as were the fireworks, inspired by the incomparable TracyLH on CakeCentral.

I sold these at the Farmers Market and shared them with friends and family!

New Baby Boy!

These were ordered to celebrate the arrival of a new baby boy! They are very similar to my baby girl cookies, but I have been dying to do a copy of McMama's (from CakeCentral.com) baby sneakers! I love the little sneakers as much as the little girl mary jane's.

[For the cookie geeks out there, I outlined the shoes in white. Then, I wet piped the white and blue base colors. While still wet, I piped the dark blue accent lines and lace 'holes.' Finally, I piped the white laces.

Also for the baby bottles, I was a total cheater. I only had that little bit of pink to do and I didn't want to load up a pastry bag, so I just scooped and dragged the icing with a pin.]