Butterfly Mother's Day cake

This is the Mother's Day cake I made for my mom this year.  She really liked the details of the buttercream transfer.  The best part is that it works well with any coloring book page you can find.

Grandma Ottey's rose birthday cake

This is a cake I made for Dan's grandma, Bonnie.  It tured out pretty well overall.  After I made this cake and all the cupcakes, I had to call my mom and apologize for the time in kindergarten I asked for 48 cupcakes with roses on them for the next day.  :-p  They took awhile to make, mostly because I hadn't made roses in awhile before this cake.  The moral of this cake was that I shouldn't eyeball even lines in the middle, it's just no my forte.

Sudoku cake

My mom likes Sudoku puzzles, so I made a Sudoku cake!  It was a giant cake for not many people so that I could make the boxes big enough for me to actually write in.  And yes, you may check.  It is a completed, correct, Sudoku puzzle.  Coming soon will be the Mother's Day cake I made this year, but I have to upload the photos first!

Bucknell cake

This is the first buttercream transfer cake I have ever made. This was for Tim's surprise birthday party. He didn't realize it, but we planned to surprise him after his volleyball game on his birthday at a friends house and watch a football game that night. Dan thought it would be cool if I did the Bucknell logo on the cake. I looked at it and said no way, it's too detailed. Then I thought about it some more, agreed with Dan that it would be really neat to do this logo for him, and so I hopped on google. Google lead me to the frozen buttercream transfer method of things... You take a picture, reverse it, and cover it with parchment paper. Then you pipe the smallest details first, building up till you've constructed the whole thing. Then you freeze the whole kit and kaboodle solid in the freezer for a couple of days. Make sure it stays flat! Once you bake the cake, frost the top of it normally. Then pull the transfer out of the freezer, and IMMEDIATELY flip it upside-down on the cake. You don't want to let it thaw at all, lest it come apart in your hands. Then you can finish decorating the rest of the cake the way you normally would.

I'll be doing two more of these in the next couple of weeks, I've got some cool stuff planned!