Well its time again for the monthly birthday cake for my husband’s work. Since May is his [and mine too] birthday month, we brainstormed for a fun idea he’d like. We came up with Shaun the Sheep ~ based on a tv show our whole family loves. I have to say my favorite side is the stacked up sheep. 
What was most fun was drawing their pupils. Its amazing how the placement of these black dots can completely change the expression of a figure.
Tower of sheep! I love the middle bottom one with his crossed eyes.
Timmy flying away with balloons…
And of course, Shaun! I would have loved to make a stand up figure of him, but
we thought of the idea at the last minute and its been a busy week!
Tags: animals, farm, shaun the sheep, sheep, timmy
Posted by Steph on May 15, 2012 in
Cupcakes,
My Cakes Last week my youngest daughter celebrated her summer birthday at school. She requested Hello Kitty cupcakes. The kitty heads were made using a royal icing technique that I previously wrote a tutorial on. She loved them and so did her classmates!
Tags: hello kitty, pink, royal icing
Posted by Steph on May 15, 2012 in
Cupcakes,
My Cakes Here are a couple of cute Mario themed mushroom cupcakes I did for a friend.
Tags: 1-up, mario, mushroom, super mario brothers
Posted by Steph on May 15, 2012 in
Cupcakes,
My Cakes Think Spring! Pastels and flowers… I made these cupcakes for the reception after my daughter’s ballet demonstration in April. Pretty cupcakes for some pretty ballerinas!
Tags: flowers, green, pastel, peach, pink, yellow
Posted by Steph on Apr 20, 2012 in
My Cakes,
Novelty This month for my husband’s work cake I received an e-mail from a co-worker of his asking for a special request. Some of their student workers had spent spring break in Guatemala picking coffee beans, helping build a school, and other projects, so she was wondering if I could make a coffee themed cake. Of course I jumped at the chance to do this because I love coffee!
So this cake is a 12″ round cake with coffee flavored icing (one of my favorites!). They all loved it! The plant on the right is what a coffee berries look like when you see them on the plant.
Tags: coffee, coffee beans
Posted by Steph on Mar 14, 2012 in
Birthday,
My Cakes I probably should probably apologize for that title…but I just can’t! Its Pi day (3-14) and it just so happens that tomorrow is the day for my husband’s work cake for March. So this year we did a Pi themed cake. Since we are close to St. Patrick’s day I also made it green….does that make it Pi-rish? 
This is a 12″ circle (of course) cake. I did π to 41 places around, put the formula for Pi in the middle and all around the edges are formulas using π.
Top View
And a few of the side equations…
Tags: Math 3-14, Pi, Pi Day
Posted by Steph on Mar 5, 2012 in
Cookies,
My Cakes And finally we have some Monster High themed sugar cookies. We used this in the goody bags that we sent home with her friends (and served the extras at her family party the next day). These took a bit of time due the fact that there is no set of Monster High cookie cutters – so each cookie, fondant piece, and accent was cut by hand using a template. Time consuming? yes but they looked so neat and she loved them!
Tags: bow, cookie, monster high, skull
And onto Monster High cake number 2! This cake was for her family party. She found this one when searching for ideas online. This cake is a 6″ and 8″ round tiered cake, iced in buttercream with fondant accents. This is the same skull from her other monster high cake.
Tags: black, bow, flowers, monster high, pink, skull, stars
This weekend was a busy one here as we celebrated my daughter’s 10th birthday with her friends and family. This first cake was for her friend party. She picked out the design and I just went with it She loves Monster High so you will see a theme with this cake and the next 2 posts.
This cake is an 8″ round and the skull is done out of gumpaste, the wording is fondant.
Tags: black, bow, monster high, pink, skull
Posted by Steph on Feb 26, 2012 in
Cupcakes,
My Cakes Today is my daughter’s 10th birthday! Double digits! Tomorrow she is going to bring these cupcakes to school to celebrate. They are her design right down to the fun zebra print liners. She even cut out the fondant stars. I did the icing swirl and she did the sprinkles and stars. We make a good team
Tags: black, pink, star, zebra
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