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.

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.

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.