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I have been TRYING to update my blog.....honestly!  But apparently blogger is having problems.   I promise to keep at it and hopefully it will be fixed soon.

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Thanks for visiting and I hope to be telling cake tales soon!

Lauren's Engagement Party

My beautiful niece Lauren is engaged to be married!!! 

Lauren is such a loving, caring, talented, giving, faithful and beautiful woman, I am so proud to call her "niece".  It seems like only yesterday she was little.

She's a Charleston cutie!

Now she's all grown up and she found her love and is ready to take a leap into married life. 

Jason is one LUCKY guy!  I have only met him once, but I can say his skill at finding a perfect woman is impeccable!

Here is the lovely couple at the party

Here is a great engagement photo session 

The wedding is going to be on the other side of the country so I can't make the wedding cake.  :(  ...of course I jumped at the chance to make a special cake for her engagement party when she came home for the holidays.

The cake is a vanilla almond sour cream and a triple chocolate cake with chocolate ganache and raspberry fillings. 

Iced with buttercream embossed with a scroll pattern and adorned with pearl dusted gumpaste snowflakes.

Love you Lauren! 

Congratulations Lauren and Jason!

Boy Scout Christmas

I PROMISE this is my last Christmas related cake! 

(At least it's still January!)

The strong logo for BSA with a touch of Christmas lights for the local troops Christmas celebration!

Gymnastics Girl

Caitlin is BIG into gymnastics....she's serious about this stuff!

So for her birthday she wanted a gymnastics themed cake.  I asked her mom what her favorite event was and she said she was a "beam" girl.....and her favorite colors are pink and purple.

So I made a chocolate ribbon beam around the bottom edge of the cake and made several purple sillohuettes of different moves.

What a fun cake!  Hope you had a great birthday Caitlin!



Christmas Cookies!

I hope it isn't too late to show you some Christmas cookies!  (Hey at least I don't still have my tree or house lights still up!)

These were the cookie bouquets I made as teacher gifts!  I found these cute little ceramic holders at Michaels a couple of years ago at the "after Christmas" sale and I pulled them out this year and put them to good use!

And these are my version of the famous melted snowmen cookies!  I first saw this style of cookie about 2 years ago and was so happy to have the time to make them this year! 

These were treats for the class Christmas party!

His hat is made from a rolo and a chocolate candy disc!

Thanks for looking!

Happy Belated New Year!!!!

I hope you are all still following me, even though I have been remiss in posting cakes for quite a while now!

I'm sure you all know how it is with the holidays, school being out, visitors, vacation trips and the like....

But I'm back!!!! 

I'll share more cakes from the last month or so and then maybe I'll be back on track to share with you as they leave the kitchen!

Hope you all had a nice holiday season, a safe New Year celebration and are well on your way to keeping your resolutions! 

And if I haven't said it enough.....thanks for following!

Spa Birthday

It's hard to believe how quickly time passes.  It seems only last year I was making Avery's 10th birthday cake and here we are already on the 13th! 

How quickly they grow up!

Avery was having a "spa" themed party.  I think the girls were getting facials and having their nails done. 

When she was coming up with ideas for cakes, she found one with cucumbers and said hers needed to have cucumbers!

This cake is 100% edible. 

The "face" is a chocolate mold, the face cream is pink buttercream and the cucumbers and towel are made from fondant!

Happy 13th Birthday Avery!