Spring is in Bloom

With the exception of the last few cold and rainy days, spring (and allergies) have been in full bloom around here! Spring is one of my favorite times of year, and I especially love the spring flowers and fresh strawberries. I wanted to practice making flowers, and had a new cupcake recipe I wanted to try. First I made a 6 inch yellow cake with a fresh strawberry filling and buttercream icing. The flowers are fondant and the stems and grass are buttercream.

Next I made Strawberries and Cream cupcakes. They are yellow cake with a filling of strawberry cream cheese and homemade whipped cream. The icing is a homemade vanilla whipped cream, soooo good!!!

and the filling:

Carrot Cake

My husband LOVES carrot cake. I have never made him one from scratch, and decided to finally do it. This is a 6 inch cake with a cream cheese icing. I was very happy with how it turned out!! Guess I'll be making a big one of these for his birthday this fall!

St. Patrick's Goodies!!

I had a few new recipe's I have been wanting to try, and decided to use St Patrick's Days as an excuse to do them :) First I made an "Irish Car Bomb Cake". It was a chocolate cake with Guinness in it, and a Bailey's Irish Cream frosting. I am not a big (or really at all) fan of Guinness...but this was some chocolate goodness!

Next I made some sugar cookies for my son to take to school. This is just a basic sugar cookie recipe with royal icing.

Finally I made a cake I saw on the blog "i am baker" (love this blog!) Its a "yellow" cake (you will see the surprise in the middle--7 layers of gradually darker green cake) with buttercream icing. The dots are royal icing, and the Leprechaun and pot of gold are fondant.

And the inside...

Happy Mickey Birthday!

I did a cake for a friend's sweet little boy that's turning 2. They wanted a Mickey Mouse cake, so this is what I came up with. The bottom is a 2 layer yellow cake with buttercream icing, and the "hat" is chocolate cake.  All decorations are fondant.

Birthday Wishes

My little sister was having a birthday, and I wanted to make her some goodies. She lives about 4 hours away so I couldn't just "drop" them off, so I had to wait till my Mom went down to deliver them. I gave her the option of cake or cupcakes, and yellow or chocolate. She picked yellow cupcakes which I made her...but I needed to try out some new pans I got...so I surprised her with a small chocolate cake..the best of both worlds :) She is a UGA fan, so I wanted to try out something new... Cupcakes are yellow cake with almond buttercream icing and the cake is chocolate cake with almond buttercream icing. All decorations are fondant.

Cupcakes

Cake

And I had leftover cake/icing/fondant...so I made a his and hers!

Bouquet of Roses

I had some leftover batter and icing from my Its A Boy cake, so I thought I'd get a little practice in. I saw this technique to make a cake full of roses and had to try it out...I really liked it and am looking forward to making another "for real" rose cake!

Its A Boy!!!

I did a cake this week for a baby shower, and its a boy! The cake is a yellow cake with strawberry filling and buttercream icing. All decorations including the shoes and bear I made out of fondant.

Close up of the shoes and bear