Lorax Cupcakes 2012

My nephew has the Lorax movie memorized. So when it came to his birthday party, it was easy to make him  happy. A few pretzel and cotton candy Truffula trees, orange Lorax, and bear cupcakes were all it took to get this movie into cupcake form!

Close-ups of the Lorax and bear cupcakes:

Thanksgiving Baking 2012

My Thanksgiving baking this year included: a chocolate pumpkin pie, two cream cheese swirled pumpkin pies, an original pumpkin pie, and a special order of Napoleon Pastries.

Rose Basket Bouquet 2012

This gorgeous rose basket cake was for my mother who adores yellow roses. The bamboo sides were made from dark chocolate wafer sticks and the roses from fondant. I attempted to include yellow, orange, white, peach, and hybrid roses in this "bouquet" cake. 

Purple Madness Cupcakes 2012

These purple and caramel colored cupcakes were inspired by my sister who loves all things purple. All of the flowers, hearts, butterflies and decorations are made from fondant. Half were white chocolate raspberry over either strawberry or chocolate cupcakes, the other half was caramel icing over strawberry or chocolate cupcakes. 

Rainbow Swirled Cupcakes 2012

Rainbow swirled cupcakes for a birthday party thrown for a girl and boy. What I love about these, is they each turn out just a little different then the next. Some with more yellows, more blues, more red and greens, etc. They had confetti spotted cupcakes underneath to match.  

Baby Shower Garden Flower Mini-Cakes 2012

           I made these fondant flowered mini-cakes for a tea-party baby shower. There are two of each kind of flower. They each had 3 layers of round mini-cake, covered in cream cheese icing.

This last photo is a close up of the beautiful fondant Iris flower I made especially for my sister's cupcake because she loves purple Irises. It had actual stamens and the correct number of petals.

Wise-guy Cupcakes 2012

This cupcake stand I made for my Father who is in truth a very wise man. He has always put his family first and showed us how love can keep a family strong. To illustrate this in a comical way (he's always loved a good joke!), I put together an owl-themed stand under the heading "Happy Birthday to a real wise-guy!"

Mario Cake 2012

    This cake was for two mario fan brothers. It had both of their names in mario question boxes and was topped with mario figurines.

Castle Cake 2012

For my daughter, who loves all things princess, I made a 3D hot pink castle cake. Complete with 3 Disney princesses, 10 towers, and candy hearts it was a sight to behold!

Ninja Cake 2012

This cake has a "ninja" theme with Lego martial art characters on top and a sword right through the cake. The edible fondant throwing-stars have "Happy Birthday" written in Chinese characters. This is the first time I worked with an edible silver-spray made by Wilton. It turned out to be the perfect thing to make my throwing-stars look like they had a metal finish to them.