Linux World cake

Time for a good old fashioned Friday evening cake FAIL!  I made this cake for Dan when he found out he was going to Linux World for work.  This was back in the beginning of making cakes when I thought that levelling cakes was dumb and a waste of cake.  Well, it's still a waste of cake, but there's a reason for it!  Check out the second picture in the slideshow.

Dragon cake

This is the dragon cake I made for my sister's birthday.  My first plan was to find the old retired Wilton dragon pan and just do that in stars, but when I found the pan on e-bay it was $45 and up.  I am NOT paying that much for a pan that I will likely only use a few times!  So I bought a football shaped pan for half off with a coupon, and created this lovely dragon instead.  It's a combination of cake and cookies.  I got the plan from Wilton, which had the cookie pattern pieces.  They recommended using sugar cookies, and if you wanted added depth to use icing to cement two layers together.  I said forget that, and went straight for chocolate chip cookies.  It turned out rather well I thought.  If I did it again I might do sugar cookies for the spikes, because those would take a better green color.  It was very tasty, my sister was thrilled, and why does my family cut the heads off all my creations???

Lisa's 50th Birthday cake

This is Lisa's 50th birthday cake.  She had her birthday on the Ladies Retreat for our church.  Daybreak Community Church  I made the cakes at home, and made about a hundred royal icing roses in advance to put on the cake.  I drove up with the cakes unstacked in carriers, and the roses in egg cartons to reduce breakage.  The evening we got there I was able to put the roses and leaves on in about two hours.  The moral of this cake is that you should not use gel colors to write on vertical surfaces!  It started dripping down immediately, and by the next morning one of the "p's" was touching the bottom border.

Pax's 1st birthday cake

These are the cakes I made for Paxton's first birthday party.  The main cake is 3 tiers tall, chocolate with chocolate chips.  All the frosting is buttercream.  The head of Mickey Mouse is two cupcakes for ears, and a 6" round cake cut down a little to be in proportion for the head.  That is done all in buttercream with the star tips.  The cupcakes were frosted just with a spatula, and then red white and black sprinkles in the shape of Mickey Mouse's head were applied to the edge, and plastic party rings were put in the middle for the kids to wear.  The cupcakes were a mix of chocolate and vanilla.