Annika Angel

I just really quickly wanted to share this cake I did for my friend's daughter. Annika turned 1 last week. I made a vanilla yogurt dream cake with Bavarian Cream Swiss meringue buttercream. All of the decorations are in fondant. I made a "smash cake" just for Annika. It was a fun cake to make!

Flavor-licious

Promotion Cake

Giant Cupcake Cake

So lately, I've been pretty busy with cakes. These are two that I've recently done. I've gotten to try new techniques and new recipes with both of them! I love it! It's just too bad that I gave up sweets for Lent because I didn't really get to taste how delicious they were.

The Promotion Cake was done for my friend, Dawn's husband. (It was a pina colada cake with pineapple filling and coconut rum icing. The top tier was a chocolate covered espresso bean cake with whipped chocolate ganache filling and covered in chocolate ganache. Yum.) I got to try a new support system - well, new to me. It was really easy and did hold up really well. Dawn transported the cake stacked from my house to her house to the party venue and it stayed. Of course, as she was leaving, she did say, "Well, I'll be home in a hour and a half." Careful driving did certainly help.

The Cupcake Cake was for Liz, she works with Cyle. It was a lemonlicious cake with cream cheese icing. To make the liner, I painted the cake pan with Merckens candy melts and let them harden. It was so simple and turned out really cool. I wish I could take the credit for the idea, but found it online. Liz jokingly said the only things she doesn't like on cake are olives and ketchup. So Cyle asked if I would put an olive on top. Couldn't resist.

I've got one more cake to do for Easter and then I'll be packing up all of the supplies. I do plan on doing a few cakes while we're in Jackson...nothing calls for cake like graduations, birthdays and a wedding!