Cupcake Tree

I made two cake last week. One was a cupcake tree. I got my first cupcake order about a month ago for a baby shower. I discovered since that you can't buy a desent cupcake stand that will hold 30 cupcakes. So, I designed this one and Jerry made it for me. It can hold 30+ cupcakes. I put the ribbon around each layer that says "it's a girl". These are jumbo cupcakes, they measure 2x2x2. I wanted them to be pretty, but discover that they don't make jumbo cupcake wraps. So, I made a pattern, got some black paper and a paper punch and made my own. The cupcakes were my famous chocolate cupcakes and white vanilla bean died pink. The tops are frosted with buttercream and them a fondant cap was placed on top. I found out that this was way more work than doing a regular cake. I must say though when it was all done it was really pretty. The gal that ordered it even gave me a $10.00 tip when I delivered them.

Here is the other baby shower cake I also made last week. This cake was for the sister of a former student of mine. She was also a coworker of Sabrina's at Maurice. Her mom is now Tanealya's boss at the pre-school that she works at. Any way, I donated a cake certificate to Special Olympic's fundraiser in February and Stephanie won it and used it for her baby shower. She wanted a jungle cake but hats monkeys. She also wanted a lion on top with palm trees. So, this is the cake she got. The top layer is white vanilla bean, second layer is lemon with huckleberry filling, and the third layer is my famous chocolate cake with fudge filling.

Three Cakes

What a week!! This week I had three cake orders. I normally only do one, two at the most but the stories made it impossible to turn down the last two cakes. Lily's cake was the first one ordered. The grandmother wanted her daughter to have a baby shower and a cake to match the nursery. This is her first grandchild. The next cake was for a woman who was turning 78. Her daughter told me that they didn't know how long she was going to be around because she was fighting cancer. When she asked her mother what kind of cake she wanted she said, " Just get me a white cake from Albertson's." Her daughter wanted a special cake for her. So she called me. Next, came a call from Florida. It was from a mother who's son had just been stationed at Malmstrom and they were having her first grandchild. They are having a SKYE (over the internet) baby shower for them and she wanted a surpise baby shower cake delivered to them. Thus, the baby bootie cake. Kow here is the odd part, all three were girls and all three had purple in them. What are the odd's.

Riley Turns 10 Part 2

February is Riley's official birthday. But, because he shares it with a friend from school, who alway has her party the weekend closest to theitr birthday Riley has to have his later. This year Riley got to have a swimming party. He also got the big cake like everyone else gets. He wanted a castle with a dragon and his playmobil knight. The cake even had a gate, drawbridge and mot. They had a blast and he and his friends loved the cake. Again, HAPPY BIRTHDAY RILEY!!

A Dora Cake for Tatiana

Tatiana is the daughter of one of my brides and grooms. She turned 3 today and she is crazy about Dora.

Mckenzie and Doug's Wedding

This wedding was the son of one of Jerry's installers. The wedding took place at Fairmont Hotsprings. What a great place to have a wedding. We were invited to the wedding and I cut the cake. It was fun to be at the wedding and see the bride and groom's expression when they saw the cake.
This is the top of the cake. When Mckenzie and I talked she told me her colors and I told her I would make a flower topper for her cake. When we arrived at the wedding I saw the bridemaids' flowers and they were almost identical. The only difference was that they had a few white daisies among the puple and green flowers.

This is Mckenzie and Doug cutting their cake. I had to tell Mckenzie that it was okay to cut the cake because she said if she cut it she would ruin it. Well she cut into it and all went well. They each did the traditional feeding of the cake to each other.

Cake on receiption table.
The wedding was great and we had a relaxing weekend.Drove to Bozeman and visited with Aaron and went and saw the giant elephant made of tires.

I even got a picture of the sleeping giant on the way home.

A Yellow Wedding Cake

This was the wedding of a young couple from Chicago. Elleanore is from here. She grew up in Vallier and went to school in Bozeman. She is the marketing director for Phillidelphia Cream Cheese. Leif, the groom is from Sweden and works in Chicago also. They meet on a blind date that her friend's had arranged. She laughts now because she said when she heard his name she wasn't sure about meeting him. She said it was love at first meeting.
Elleanore booked this wedding back in December. She was the most organized bride I have meet to date. Every detail was planned out. She made one trip home in April to meet with everyong to finallize all the details. She then came home the week of the wedding to get all the last minute details completed. While she and her sisters got everything done. Leif and the groom's men went camping in Glacier.
The cake top was designed just for the couple by an artist in Chicago.

The wedding cake was lemon with huckleberry filling.

The groom is an avid reader. Thus, Elleanore choose books for the groom's cake. The titles are his three favorite books. The groom's cake was also a lemon cake. I'm not sure if she choose lemon because it was the groom's favorite flavor or if it was because the cake was yellow.

The reception was at the Charlie Russell Museum. It was suppose to be an outside affair under tents. This didn't happen because we had had rain on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. The ground was too wet to put the tents up. So the reception was moved indoors. The is a picture of the cake table. The five plates on the side are Cream Cheese Mints made from, you guess it, Phillidelpia Cream Cheese. Taylor an I made 900 of these mints.

A little side note. We drove by the church on the way home from setting up the cake and got to see the bride and groom. They were riding to the reception in a yellow convertable. Have you guessed it yet. Her main color was yellow. The groom's tie was yellow, along with the vests that the groom and groom's men wore. Her brides maids wore navy blue. Elleanore made the blue and yellow table runners and napkins as favors for her guests. This was such an organized bride that she even had a seating chart. So the guests could find their table each guest was given a letter of the alphabet and all the tables were in alphabetic order. The museum was beautiful and I'm sure it was the wedding of her dreams.

A Fireman Cake for Aiden

Aiden ordered a fire truck cake for his birthday. Aiden was so excited about his cake. He ordered triple fudge chocolate with butter cream filling. The fire truck is three layers of cake covered with fondant. It sits on a sheet cake. All the decorations are fondant. Taylor was a big help with this cake. She even made her first sculpture, the puppy.

Wedding Cake and Scooby Doo Cake

This is the cake before the wedding flowers were put on it. Taylor came over on Friday and helped me with the cake. She placed all the beads on. She did a great job. Think I'll keep her on as my assistant.

This is the cake at home when I was making the flower arrangements for it. The bride had ordered flowers for the cake, but when I pick them up I was so disappointed. So, I remade the top arrangement and made side arrangements out of flowers I bought at Albertsons. I just might have a career in floral arrangement. LOL. Anyway I love how they turned out. I was even compared to The Ace of Cakes.

This is a first. I actually got to see the bride and groom and get a picture of them with the cake. Yes you do see another cake on the table. It is Scooby Doo. Why you might ask? The groom is crazy about Scooby and the bride wanted to surpise him with his own cake. He just looked at her and had this great big smile for her.

Scooby Doo Groom's Cake

Taylor was a great assistant with this cake also.

Latest Cakes

This wedding cake was an Italian Cream Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting covered with shaved white chocolate and topped with chocolate curls. The cake had to be made with 8 individual 2" layers to achieve the pyramide effect.

Calla Lily cake. Made for a lady who turned 70. The birthday took place at Colin's Mansion. The top two layers are White Vanilla Bean filled with Rubarb and Stawberry perserves. The bottom layer is Triple Chocolate Fudge filled with Buttercream.
Cake at Colin's Masion.
Leslie also loves Angel Food Cake. So I made her one filled with Strawberry Moose and covered with Strawberry whip cream frosing. Flowers and decorations are fondant.

Happy Anniversary Sabrina and Tim

Another cake and another celebration and a Special Moment.
Today is Sabrina and Tim's 17th Anniversary. No, You are not seeing double. Sabrina wanted a white cake with strawberry filling. I didn't have any strawberry filling so she got a white cake with raspberry rhubarb filling. Tim wanted chocolate. So Tim got a chocolate cake. I can remember the hot pink and pale pink dresses. The Cinderalla wedding and the great reception that family and friends helped with. I remember how pretty Sabrina looked as her dad walked her down the aisle. I remember how Tim looked at her and still does. With so much love in his eyes. I'm so glad they took the chance on each other. They are a great couple.
It really doesn't seem that long ago that they got married. But I guess it was because we have had a marriage, 4 college graduations, 7 grandchildren, and numerous celebrations. Lots of activity in the past 17 years that have made us laugh, and cry. But all in all we just keep taking one day at a time and doing our best with what ever comes our way. That's what makes us a great family. Glad you joined our family Tim. Congratulations to you both. We love you.

Bridal Shower Cake

The order was for a bridal shower cake. No specifics just that the bride's colors were pastel yellow, green, pink, and coral. Do you think I managed to get all the colors in? Actually I was baffled by how I was going to get the coral on the cake. The butterflies was my answer.

The Twins Turn 4

Last week end we went to Spokane to celebrate the Twin's 4th birthday.

Of course I baked their cakes. Olivia ordered Princess Belle and Emma ordered Princess Aurora. We had a great time. Happy Birthday Olivia and Emma.