Sleepover Cake

This was such a fun cake to make! My husband's coworker asked me to make it for her niece who lost her mom to breast cancer. It was my pleasure to make it and the aunt told me all the girls at the party loved it.


She told me what each girl looked like and I guess they were very excited to see themselves on the cake.


This was my inspiration and the picture she emailed me: click here.

As you can see, I used marshmallows for the pillows. I decided to skip the bed skirt and instead make the "comforter" more ornate. My daughter, who is 5, is now dying for her first sleep over party. She already knows what cake she'll request! :)


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Fondant Birthday Cake

Yesterday was my birthday, and this is the beautiful cake my wonderful and talented friend made for me. She truly is amazing at cake decorating, and I would say fondant is one of her specialties. If you look at my blog header you will see that is what she mirrored on the cake.

Perhaps my favorite part was the detailed stitching on the sides. She used an edible marker and clearly has the patience of an angel.

A couple of weeks before my birthday she had asked me a long list of questions. She tinted the fondant my favorite color and by coincidence the martinis my husband made and the gift bag my other friend brought me all matched. They were all on the same wave length!

She hand-painted this fondant plaque to use as a topper. Isn't she amazing? Oh, and an important tidbit... the cake was delicious!!! Chocolate fudge with milk chocolate and vanilla filling :)

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Sunflower Cupcakes

These Sunflower cupcakes are also from the Hello, Cupcake! book. They were a tad more complicated to make than the Play Pool! ones, but still easier than they look.



I used vanilla cupcakes with whipped vanilla frosting which was tinted in green and yellow. The center of the flowers were Oreo cookies and the ladybugs were red M&Ms.

I made these for a friend's birthday and will definitely make them again. The only thing I will change is next time I will cut the top of the cupcake to make it flat so that the petals of the flower can go around the center (oreo) rather than drop down from it.

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