Mom's retirement cake

This cake is now known as "The Beast". It's the biggest cake I've ever made, and definatly the most time intensive one, for sure. When I was making it, Aryanna said to my mom, "You know, it doesn't matter how long it took Mommy to make, as long as it looks good and tastes good". Thanks kid, I'll remember that. Anyhoos, here is The Beast. Everything was iced with vanilla buttercream icing. The bottom tier is chocolate fudge cake, with chocolate buttercream filling. The middle tier is vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream filling. The top tier is lemon cake with vanilla buttercream filling. Hopefully we're going to have enough cake tomorrow!
I also tallied up a few things.
108 buttercream roses
161 buttercream swirl flowers (made, but not all used... they kept breaking)
5.5 kg icing sugar
11 batches of icing made (total 44 cups)
24 eggs
30 cups total of cake batter (16 chocolate, 10 vanilla, 4 lemon)
Total time worked on this cake: 10 hours

Happy 9th Birthday Aryanna!!

It's Aryanna's 9th birthday party today!! My gosh, time flies!! since she's getting (and has already received) paint supplies, brushes and canvas, I decided to make her a painter's palette cake. It turned out not too bad, except my paint pots aren't exactly how I hoped they'd turn out, but not too bad nonetheless. Also, I'm noticing now (after the fact) that my fondant writing needs huge amounts of practice. Not too bad for starting the cake shortly after midnight and finishing around 2:30 am. Am I insane or what?



Happy birthday kiddo!!

Happy Easter!!

I was asked to make a combination Easter, birthday & anniversary cake. I decided to go with pastel colors for easter, but it's still pretty elegant and nice for birthday and anniversary. It took a little while to get into the groove of making the roses, but in the end I got it all done, and I think it looks great!

Alien invasion!!

To go out to Megan's on Thursday evening to party, since it was April Fools, I decided to make weire cupcakes. So aliens it was! You have to build up the base of the cupcake with mini cupcakes and donuts to make the shape, then dunk them in the icing. They were pretty cute!

Imperial cookies

A little while ago, I was asked to make imperial cookies, just like the ones they sell at Second Cup. Well, I finally mamanged to find a decent recipe for them and gave them a shot. Well, apparently they were good, because they disappeared in a couple of days. I'm definatly going to be making these again!