My 30th Birthday

For my 30th birthday I created a 6" round chocolate cake with ivory buttercream frosting. I made multi-colored five petal flowers and used a large purple mum to anchor the design.

Holiday Cupcakes

These snowflake and holly cupcakes were made for a company sponsored holiday sale/craft fair. I took some handcrafted items as well as seven cookie varieties and these two cupcake styles.

80th Birthday

This Thanksgiving weekend's 80th birthday cake featured fondant leaves blowing across the cake and a devil's food interior!

Soccer Balls

Boy Oh Boy

Boy Oh Boy, Its a Boy! Blue and brown were the order of the day for this group of 48 baby shower cupcakes. Half chocolate and half white they are topped with four different decorations including polka dots, fondant flowers, candy melt rubber duckies and 'Boy' fondant medallions.

Daisy Wedding

For this Parker, Colorado, wedding I constructed a 4-tier cake with two chocolate swirl layers and 2 white layers. I added ivory buttercream frosting topped with a gradation of polka-dots. The bride needed to serve close to 300 so I baked 12 dozen cupcakes and topped each with a fondant daisy. At the reception site I added fresh flowers to the tiered cake and arranged the cupcakes on two towers. Congratulations Eric and Kristin!

Happy 40th!

These little carrot cake are topped with cream cheese frosting and were a surprise for a 40th birthday party. Happy Birthday Jay!

Engaging Cupcakes

This past weekend I made 30 cupcakes for an engagement party. The bride-to-be gave me a sample napkin for the event and said that she would like some type of design with her new initial 'S'. So I created these little blue and white cakes for her! Congratulations Brent and Cara:-)

Wedding Hearts

Lakehouse Wedding

This Labor Day I created nearly a dozen cakes for a lake side wedding reception. The main cake was a two-tier square gift cake. Then for each of the reception room tables I fashioned a unique 8" round cake with white-on-white buttercream frosting. The round cakes were baked in 4 flavor combinations: white with raspberry filling, carrot with cream cheese filling, chocolate with chocolate filling and lemon with lemon filling. The flavor assortment and display method created quite a stir as people went from table to table sampling the different flavors.

Retro Flare Wedding

For this wedding project I was able to exercise my artistic license. My hairstylist requested 60 cupcakes and a topper cake for her retro inspired wedding reception. Her colors were cream, black and aqua. I was able to create a custom cake topper with feathers, pearls and fondant flowers to echo the birdcage veil that Jen would be wearing. I created about 200 five-petal flowers for the cupcakes and anemone and ranunculus flowers for the fondant covered 6" cake. I arranged black pearls on the cupcakes and cake in swirl designs to soften the look.

Sunflowers and Roses

A coworker hired me to make 2 dozen cupcakes for her parents' anniversary. Her dad had Kansas roots and her mom was from England. She suggested 1 dozen lemon cupcakes with chocolate frosting and sunflowers and 1 dozen white cupcakes with raspberry filling and rose decorations. She told me afterwards that they had arranged the cupcakes into the year number of their anniversary. How sweet!

Pinkness

For this cake I was given directions to make it PINK! I had some apple blossoms on hand and designed this pink and white confection for a 12-year-old's birthday.

Chocolate!

Daffodil Birthday

This little cake was completed as a surprise for a client's friend who was coming over near her birthday. It was fun to imagine how surprised someone would be to go to an event and get a fun little floral birthday cake!

Strawberry Patch Birthday

When I got hired to make 60 cupcakes and a 6" round cake for a little girl's first birthday I couldn't think of anything funner than little strawberries and flowers. I decided to make the mini fondant strawberries in two shades of pink to emphasize the feminine look. Frosting the vanilla and chocolate cupcakes in white and light pink made for the perfect backdrop for the fondant flowers with pearl centers and independent fondant leaves completed the look. A berry happy birthday!

Lovely Ladybugs

Pink ladybugs, they are everywhere! I completed this project consisting of 60 cupcakes and a 6" round cake for a baby's first birthday. There were three different cupcakes styles, each a different yummy flavor. By making the ladybugs pink rather than red they were much more feminine and so adorable. This project just made me smile the whole time I was working on it!

Floral Bride

Happy Butterfly Birthday!

This 9" cake is ready to fly away topped with five chocolate butterflies and filled with lemon filling. Happy birthday!

Heritage Graduation

It is graduation season! This duo designed to serve 50 was the perfect combination for a high school graduation party. A white sheet cake emblazoned with the school logo was accompanied by 2 dozen chocolate cupcake with little white chocolate mortar board hats.

Vintage Chic Mini Cupcakes