I Love the 80's ***UPDATED***

This was for an adult's 80's birthday party. How much fun was that?? That was my era, Duran Duran, casset tapes, jelly shoes, stirrup pants, you get the flashback. Unfortunately all those things do not translate well to cake decorating.

I thought it came out well though.

I ended up going with a "Boy Toy" belt buckle for the middle. Man, I wanted one of those, but my mom just would not let me get one. I know why now, but man, I was maaaaad back then. Besides I can see the irony of me having one back then, because believe you me, I was the farthest thing from a "boy toy" that you could imagine.
Anyway...

Here's another shot of the Rubik's Cube from another angle. This came out really well actually, everything lined up! And the jelly bracelets, that I actually had on hand for some reason. I think they were in my party supplies box.


I would end this post with a picture of me from the 80's, but I think I burned all of them.

UPDATE!
OK, I found one of my Senior portriats.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!!!!!! My hair is huge!

The Big Freeze

These were kind of a last minute creation for one of The Kid's classmates. I made his cupcakes last year too, so I was more than happy to do these as well.

He wanted Ice Age cupcakes this year.

Sid and Manny were the only characters I could sculpt, the others kept coming out too blobby.

Add some snowflakes and a few acorns here and there.

Skate party

First time ever making a skateboarding themed cake. Cakes for older boys can get tricky, add too much and it gets to looking too girly. Lucky for me, this family had a pretty firm idea of what they wanted.
Originally it was going to be just a skateboard shaped cake. But we got to talking and decided on a Vans inspired red and black checkerboard with some skateboard decorations.
These skateboards are gumpaste painted with icing gell colors. I know that on a real skateboard it's the bottom of the deck that is painted and decorated, but I thought that it would look weird to have them upside down, so I painted the tops. Artistic license.
And some cupcakes to go along with it all for easy serving at the party.

Yarn Kitty

This was for a teacher's birthday. She ordered a small cake and cupcakes to share with her class.

She likes crochet, and kitties.

Here are the cupcakes that go along with these. She has a rather large class.

Happy 18th!

Another redo of a previous design. But instead of a shower, this one was for an 18th birthday.


Pretty incredibly girly.

It's a Puzzle

One of my favorite little boys had a birthday party during my "break", and so of course I had to make his cake.

He had a scavenger hunt party where the kids had to follow clues around the house to find other clues and items for their goodie bags.

So, the only thing I could think of was an I Spy Cake.

I had to have a good look around my house to find a bunch of stuff to put on it.

I was rather surprised by the number of things that I had around to put on there.

I then listed all the things that were "hidden" around the edge of the cake on the cake board. It was such a simple cake that was really fun to do, and how could I say no to Colton?

Blossoms in Spring

Spring is spring....for real this time. It's sunny and my apple tree is starting to blossom in the back yard. Yay!

Let's celebrate with a cherry blossom cake for Maggie.




Another try at the cherry blossom cake. My method was a little bit cleaner this time, I planned a little better so that I could get more blossoms on the branches before the chocolate hardened up. I love this cake style, it's so pretty, and surprisingly easy to make.