Fall Rosette Cake

I absolutely love fall! The colors are amazing and the smells when I'm baking are something my family and I always look forward to. 

The beginning of October is my in-laws' anniversary, and this year we celebrated their 50th! That is amazing! They are some of the best people I know.

Anyway, since we were celebrating, I was asked to bring a cake. I decided to make a spice cake with cinnamon cream cheese frosting (my own recipe 😉). My house smelled heavenly! 

I decorated the cake with rosettes filling the sides.

For a little splash of color I added a purple gerber daisy. It was simple and looked elegant. My in-laws loved it!

My Little Pony Cake

Being a child of the 80's, I grew up watching awesome Saturday morning cartoons like Strawberry Shortcake and Rainbow Brite. So I was super excited to make this My Little Pony cake for my niece's 13th birthday. Of course, My Little Pony has changed a bit from when I was younger, but it was still fun to sing the old themesong to myself while I made this special cake.

Minnesota Themed Cake

I had a request last week from a friend to make a Minnesota-themed cake for his buddy who was visiting from California. Loons are the official state bird of Minnesota, so I thought it was fitting to make the cake have a loon on it. I'm very pleased with how it turned out. 

Trade Secret: the water looks semi realistic... There is this awesome product called clear piping gel (it also comes in colors, but I prefer using the clear), and when it is spread over blue-colored frosting, it looks like water.

Orange Creamsicle Birthday!

Well, since there are lots of people in my family, we celebrate LOTS of birthdays. I make cakes for several of them (sometimes we get tired of cake), but this birthday was very special to me because it was a joint party for my mother-in-law and my sister-in-law. They are both amazing people and I wanted their cake to be amazing.

Notice the orange-ness? I bet you can't guess what the theme of our party was...yep, orange. My sister-in-law's favorite color is orange, so we decided to build our party around that color. 

So besides being orange on the outside, I made my secret orange creamsicle cake recipe with vanilla pudding filling. Can I just say- deliciousness!

The party was a success and that cake was devoured! Nomnom

So happy birthday to two very awesome people!