Simple Wedding

This was a simple two layer wedding cake that I did for a couple that goes to our church. Some fresh flowers were added later by the florist but I was not able to get a picture of it. The design all over this cake is called "cornelli lace" (see picture to the right for an up close shot.) It's one of my favorite to do on cakes cause it's actually very simple to do but makes it look so much more "wedding-ish".

Family Baby Shower

When my sister was pregnant with her second daughter we decided to throw them a surprise "family shower". The whole family came and were showered by friends of theirs that wanted to bless and encourage them as they looked forward to the arrival of little Abigail. I decided to do this little cake for them. I chose purple cause that's the main color that the baby room is done in.

Here's an up close shot of the purple on white "Cornelli Lace".

For a small Bridal Shower...

Summer Wedding in Montana

In the summer of 2006 I got to do my Cousin Cassie's wedding cake up in Montana. It was a beautiful outdoor wedding and this cake fit just perfectly!

My cousin actually designed this cake when it came to the square shape and spiraled stacking. It was my first square cake and I loved it! She left the actual decor up to me only specifying that she wanted something fairly simple.

Here it is in the walk in freezer before getting flowered up :D.

Ta da!!!
(we used left over wedding flowers!)

An up close shot.

Each layer was a different flavor. Chocolate, White, Lemon and Carrot. For this cake I did not do the baking also. Because the wedding was in Montana my cousin ordered the cakes from a little bakery. We picked them up and I did the rest. Ah! so much easier!

Sweet December Wedding

In December of 2001 I did a "cake" for my aunts wedding, as you can see it was actually five cakes :). It's a little difficult to see the designs in these pictures but on two of the big round cakes and the medium size cake I did simple six sided scrolly designs filled with cornelli lace circling the sides, and small snowflake type marks all around them. The third big round just had the little snowflake marks interspersed and the smallest top cake had just the cornelli lace all over it. The tops of all of them were plain with rose petals sprinkled around. The flowers on the smallest top cake were extras from the wedding flowers. (For a description of cornelli lace see the right side column.)

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!

Just recently, Terah and I did a bridal shower for our dear friend Erin who got married yesterday! Seeing as it is December the shower was a wintery theme. We made many snowflakes in two sizes out of a royal frosting. The bigger ones were hung on Terah's Christmas tree, the smaller ones adorned these tiny bite size cupcakes. We also made some "H"s to go on some of the cupcakes (H being the first letter of Erin's new last name). Enjoy these pictures. I included some of the ones on the tree and also of us slaving over them :). I can't take all the credit for these, Terah helped a ton! She did all the mini snowflakes and the beautiful scrolly "H"s!!

"Spiderman"

This was a birthday cake that I did for my Bible Study Shepherd in February of 2003. Young is a huge fan of the comic book heroes, so our bible study thrrw a spiderman themed party for him.


I sketched out the spiderman face on paper and then cut it up so that I could trace it on one layer at a time.
For the shiny black areas I used a clear piping gell that I colored with black frosting coloring.

It's a little hard to tell in this picture. The border along the bottom is a combination of stright lines and little piped spiders. Don't look too close, I think the spiders only have six legs.

Needless to say, this cake took me a bit of time. But, I had so much fun! It is definately one of my favorite cakes.