Cakes, Cakes and More Cakes!!!!!

April has been such a crazy month for me. I had so many birthdays this month I rarely turned the oven off. Although there were MANY late nights, I had a wonderful time treating my friends and family to some of the most fun cakes I've ever made.

Andrew's Birthday Cake

Here's a view of all the TREATS....chocolate covered oreos, cake pops, rice krispy treats, and marshmallows dipped in chocolate

Chocolate Cupcakes with Chocolate Icing

Andrew's SMASH cake...chocolate chocolate!!

Rice Krispy Treats

Chocolate Covered OREOS!!

Martin's Birthday Cake---Chocolate Stout Beer Cake covered in Chocolate Ganache....He said it was the best cake I've ever made!!!!

Martin's Birthday Cake---Chocolate Stout Beer Cake covered in Chocolate Ganache....He said it was the best cake I've ever made!!!!

It was definitely CHOCOLATE OVERLOAD!!!!!!

Rosa's Birthday Cake  (Martin's Mom) The basket is chocolate cake and the yarn balls are actually cake balls.

Easter Egg Cake Pops

Happy Mother's Day!!!!  Teapot Cake and gumpaste teacup

Mother's Day Teapot Cake and Gumpaste Teacup

Close-up of Teacup

Close-up of Teapot Cake

Mother's Day Purse and Shoe Cookies

Mother's Day Cookies

Mother's Day Daisies & Hearts Cookies

Hello Kitty Cookies

Amaya's Birthday Cookies

Vikki's VW Cake

 

Monica's 40th Birthday Cake Pop Cake!!!

Ivette's Baby Shower

Here's the invitation that inspired me to make this Monkey Cake & Cupcake Tower.  Congratulations Ivette & Isidro! 

Lexy's 19th Birthday

Cake Pop basket for my god-daughter's 19th Birthday!!  I love you Lexy!!!

Happy Birthday Annie!!!

This was a cake for my dear friend Ann's birthday. It was a banana cake with buttercream icing and fondant sunflowers. 

Angels Cake Pops & Chocolate covered Oreos

These cake pops and chocolate covered oreos were a belated birthday gift for my brother Patrick!

Happy 18th Birthday Emmy!!!!

Last week Emmy celebrated her 18th birthday!  I was so honored to make her hot pink, zebra and bling themed cake!  Doesn't Emmy look absolutely beautiful!!!  As for the cake, the bottom layer was chocolate cake with buttercream icing and the top tier was white cake with raspberry filling. Both cakes were covered in buttercream fondant. It's a new brand for me. (Made by Duff from Ace of Cakes.) It's has a better flavor than regular fondant.  The zebra print is an edible image and the paper circles and accents were made using my Cricut. I also made 2 doz. cupcakes with a fondant "18" topper.  Emmy's mom Tricia did a wonderful job designing the table.  Everything matched perfectly!!

Birthday Cake

I made this cake for my friend's husband on his birthday. It's  a chocolate cake with vanilla icing. The logo is an edible image.  Sorry the picture quality isn't so great. I forgot to take a picture with my camera, so I had to use my cell phone.

Rose Cake

I made this cake for my friend Diana's Birthday.  She showed me a cake similar to this in a magazine a few weeks ago and told me she thought it was absolutely beautiful. I knew right then that I wanted to make it for her birthday.  I can not remember the magazine for the life of me, but this is the best representation I could do from memory. It's a chocolate cake with vanilla butter cream covered in fondant and fondant swag. The rose and the pearls were made from gum paste and then dusted with pink shimmer dust.

Sadie's 3rd Birthday

I made this giant cupcake/cakepop combo for my friend Melanie's daughter Sadie. It's a devil's food cupcake with chocolate icing on the bottom for the "wrapper" and vanilla (pink) icing on top. The cake pops are also devil's food dipped in dark and white chocolate (dyed pink).

Melanie's been working hard putting together a Dora the Explorer party complete with Backpack, Boots, Swiper, and Map!!! She did such a wonderful job!!!

Melanie added a the Dora embellishments

What a fabulous tablescape!!!

Cupcake Pops

Boxed Cupcake Pops

Close-up of the Pops

These cupcake bites were for another party I went to on Saturday!!

LA Dodgers- Giant Cupcake

Since I was born in the OC and grew up about a mile from the Big A....I consider myself to be an Angel fan.  But I briefly turned to the "dark side" and made this LA Dodgers cake for a very special young man. Happy 8th Birthday Andrew!!!!

Happy Valentine's Day!!

I've been a busy baker this week! Valentine's Day for me is the perfect time to show my friends and family how much they mean to me. I've spent the week creating cake pops, marshmallow pops (inspired by Glorious Treats), chocolate stirrer "spoons", cupcakes, chocolate chip cookies, birthday treat baskets, jello parfaits and goodie bags for my class.  It was a lot of work, but I LOVE IT!!!  Happy Valentine's Day Everyone!!!  XXXOOOXXXX

Chocolate Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting

Dark Chocolate Stirring Spoons

Cake Pops

Close-up of the Devils Food Cake Pops w/Dark Chocolate Coating and sprinkles

Valentine's Gifts

Marshmallow Pops (inspired by Glorious Treats)

Goodie Bags for my class!  The tag reads "Have a Sweet Day!"

Marshmallow Pops Bouquet

 Class Party Table

Hello Kitty Cake

I've been working on a few new things with my cakes lately.  First, I tried Bakerella's cake pops!  It was for Martin's niece, Alexis', 4th Birthday!!! She had asked me to make her a Hello Kitty cake back in November. She's only 4...she would ask me for the cake every time she saw me after that. She had no idea her birthday wasn't for three months. But once she saw the cake....she had the biggest smile!!!

Hello Kitty Cake Pops inspired by  Bakerella!!!

Alexis' 4th Birthday Cake

I also worked on a Birthday Cake for Martin's Dad. It was a Lemon Raspberry Cake with White Chocolate Buttercream. This was the first time I worked with White Chocolate Buttercream and I think its my new FAV!!

Andres' Birthday Cake

The last thing I worked on this week were some fondant figures for my cousins Mike & Becky's 40th birthday party. Some other cousins, Monica & Deanna, made the cake and I helped out with the figures. The figures made it safely to the party and onto the cake.... but the cake was moved from one table to another and the figures ended up taking  dive into the green icing.  O'well....didn't matter....everybody still loved the cake.

Mike & Becky's 40th Birthday Cake by Deanna Teran and Monica Benevides

Mike & Becky...back in High School