chutes and ladders

the morning we are leaving for vegas, i checked my emails to find one from a Tiffany that went to school with my sis in law needing a cake for her son's 2nd birthday.. she has a set of ideas that she provided and suggestions. how fun! but stuck because i am heading out of town and all i want to do now is search the internet for more inspiration. good thing the cake is for august and this is may!

seeing that i had never played or seen the game unopened i had to get one!

inspiration:

reality:

little cohen had a great outdoor party and his mommy did a spectacular job planning and decorating, i am honored just to be involved!

smash cake

baby audrey is turning a year old

and the tradition is a little smash cake.

stephanie took some professional shots of her tearing it up at nana's house.

she is so cute in her BIG bow and rockin' tutu!

for more pics check out her website!

http://www.stephaniefreydenfeldt.com/Smash-Cake.html

still hot at 30

by brother-in-law aaron is turning 30 and the theme is "hot" so all of tara's foods are spi-cy!! his cake is a "tamale" haha, just had to through that in there (she kept referring to it as a tamale) seriously now... a chili pepper. mom came over and drew that out for me and waa laa.. it looks like it should be on the chili's ads! j/k! i added some glitter to make it pop! the cake is a yellow cake with buttercream icing.. again a crowd pleaser combo! happy birthday aaron!

pass the popcorn

i have an order for a movie theme cake... hmmm... the invites were old fashioned popcorn boxes (red and white stripe) and so here goes!

this rectangle cake is now shaped to be a popcorn container. i made white chocolate popcorn and sprinkled yellow sugar on it to make it look like the yummy movie theater butter popcorn. the cake is a yellow cake with buttercream icing. pretty simple, but a crowd pleaser.

i am sure that victoria will have a fabulous 8th birthday at the movie theater with all of her friends. little does she know that i will never forget this cake...

once upon a time.. I like to think of this story as a fairytale/nightmare and not what really happened, oh but it really happened..

i completed this fun cake and all ready for a early saturday morning pick-up (7:30am..yikes!) so on friday afternoon, all is good. oh but i bought the wrong size box. oh well i will head to the store amongst all of the other errands i have tonight and pick one up. no big deal right? i have plans after i leave the house to pick up kylie from school, we hang at decorator's warehouse and check out cool christmas decorations, get our hair cut, go to scott's softball game and pick up michael take him and kylie to granbury, go to the store for the box and land back at home. a lot but doable in one evening. kylie and i received a frantic call from scott.. there are cuss words involved but all in all, he "messed" up he said. well when i left him he was checking out flights to ATL for my mom, i just figured we actually bought one... nope. the cake, he says. of course my heart drops and i need clarification, stat. he proceeds to tell me that he wanted some soup.. ok. he turned on the burner and put the pot on there. ok. well he chose the WRONG BURNER. ok, yep just where you thought, were my cake is. he panicked and yes he fears me. he picked up that cake and the cardboard wrinkled and so did the cake. did i mention that it is red and white and what do those colors make? pink. yea not on a popcorn box. so i am not at home and you know my list i will not be back until at least 10 and i am possibly faced with a complete re-do because the pick up is at 7:30 am. ahhhhh... he takes pics and video with the camera. the video is comical because he is apologizing!! who likes burnt popcorn? well ok my mom, but no one else does. that is the smell i am picking up on, could be in my head too. basically to make this long story a touch shorter, i had to only scrape the icing off and then redo it. oh and scott, he is still alive. victoria and her friends do not know this story and had no idea that this even happened.

there are always "Creative Challenges" but this by far takes the cake..

ema is 2!

little miss ema is having a pool party! a pool party is not complete without fabulous flip flops!!

here is a really "sweet" pair.....

why a candle for each year???

how about a layer for each year? well that is a little much but look at this attempt... count em' up 15 layers baby!! this is the "brenda cake" (butter cake, dark chocolate glaze and milk chocolate frosting) taken to a whole new level... built up to 15 layers of yum.

we celebrated the season finale of our favorite show with a cajun feast and it is brenda's birthday weekend.. the cake was a delicious surprise for her! lots of candles and lots of cake.......... yummy!

happy birthday bren!

michael's legoland birthday party!!!

ok, so my little nephew (the reason why i am auntie m) is turning the big 2!! this year is a fun theme of legos. michael loves blocks, what a better theme?? tara designed an adorable invitation and we sorta designed the cakes to match! she also wanted some lego cookies for the table and the goodie bags!

so michael was diagnosed with mono on his actual birthday and the party was postponed until he got better. unc grump (yes, scott) helped with the first batch of cookies. since it was 2 weeks away the cookies would not have made it, so they were eaten... all 5 dozen of them. we went and visited michael the night the party was scheduled and still gave him a gift and brought dinner and cookies! he is too adorable... he love imagination movers from the disney channel!

ok, the party is on and this time i have a different helper, brenda. she was a vital part of the completion of this big undertaking!

we had fun BOTH times making these goodies - love auntie m