HAPPY BIRTHDAY AGAIN, QUINN!

 

Last year, it was robots, this year it's all about Wild Animals.  Little Quinn celebrated his fourth birthday with a party favor bag-inspired wild animal cake decked out in all of his favorite colors: orange, green and blue.  Underneath was yummy vanilla bean cake with raspberry frosting.  It's all good.  Happy Birthday little buddy!

NOTHING SAYS HAPPY BIRTHDAY LIKE DARTH MAUL

My friend, Amy, gave me a call to do a lovely Darth Maul cake to celebrate yet another birthday. This gang loves Star Wars: I like the horns. Happy Birthday!

HAPPY B-DAY NATALEE...YOU ANGRY LITTLE BIRD!!!

Made with love for little Natalee, these angry birds on lemon cake and lemon frosting are going to hit the spot at the sleepover tonight. Yummy, yummy in your tummy!!!

SONIC THE HEDGEHOG

I often say "I always wanted to make" this cake or that cake, but I actually never thought about making a Sonic cake. I was happy to make this really cool cake for a little boy in one of my Spanish classes at Noonday. His favorite color is blue and he loves this feisty little Hedgehog. Originally, this cake was supposed to be kind of a sheet cake, but I haven't done a super-challenging, cool cake in a while, so I wanted to make something where the end result was awesome. I love the way he turned out with that ultra-intense expression on his face. Thanks so much Yvette for letting me make Nicholas a super, Sonic cake.

PLANTS VS. ZOMBIES

From disco zombie to bucket head zombie, these toppers were, by far, the most difficult and time consuming toppers I have ever made--ever. Thank goodness they turned out okay. I just wanted to post them for posterity because I would be surprised if I ever get a request for them again. You never know.

ROCKCLIMBING CUPCAKES

I love, love, love these cupcakes! This photo was sent to me by an Etsy customer who ordered my rockclimbing set for her son's birthday. Personally, I think she rocked the cupcakes! So cool! Thanks for the picture DeeDee!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NOAH!!!

Today was little Noah's first birthday, so naturally I made a Noah's ark cake and cupcakes. I was really excited to do work on the animals and all the little details that made this cake special. I loaded the ark up with lions, zebras, pandas, giraffes, an ostrich, monkey and hippo while a white dove flies overhead with an olive colored one its beak. The cake was yummy marble with light blue vanilla frosting. Thanks for letting me make a cool cake for a cool boy! Happy birthday and many more!

ROBOT CAKE

I have been hoping to do a robot cake, because I love all things retro, so this was exciting to me. Unfortunately, I couldn't get that crazy Styx song out of my head while working on this cake. This robot cake is hiding a super-moist organic chocolate cake with creamy strawberry frosting under his fondant skin. Not to be confused with those robots without emotions, this robot wishes his buddy Quinn a "happy birthday" and sports the birthday boy's favorite colors of green and orange. Happy birthday little buddy. Domo arigato mom and dad!

Kevin, the California King Snake cake

Kevin, the California King Snake is a recently acquired pet belonging to my friend's son, Jacob. So, of course, he wanted a snake cake for his birthday. Check out the scales: I made them by pressing an onion bag into the fondant. Pretty cool. I hope Kevin tastes as good as he looks :).

I just received this email from Amy:
"Hey Freya, The Kevin cake was a huge success! When Jacob came home from school and saw the cake, he was so excited. Everyone loved the cake and it was very tasty too. All the adults commented on how cool it was. They all wanted to know who made it. I was actually sad to cut into it. Jacob wanted the middle chocolate part. All the other kids were fighting over the head."

Chuck E. Cheese Birthday

Chuck E. brings happy birthday wishes along with good, clean family fun. Delicious chocolate cake covered with billions of tiny stars of vanilla bean frosting.

KITTY CAT CAKE

I have spent a couple of weeks working on all the little details of this cake for a phenomenal girl who is turning 13 soon. Faith's Mom sent me pictures of her feline friends that mean the world to her. Now, they are immortalized in fondant--of all things--as they whip up a little soiree for their favorite girl. Gotta love those little kitties.
Boo-Boo, the blue Abyssinian, hoists a big gift for her best pal.
Nessie, the ruddy silver Abyssinian, is always getting into mischief and has gotten a head-start on the gift opening.
Shelby is the lazy tabby curled up on Faith's kitty cat tee with a golden noisemaker to get the party started.

PARTY ANIMALS!

Our neighbor, Laura, celebrated her 8th birthday today and requested that her Webkinz make an appearance on her cake as well. The cotton candy bunny, elephant and monkey celebrate atop a candy covered chocolate cake with purple vanilla bean frosting.

WEBKINZ BONANZA!!!

Happy birthday kids! I worked for quite a long time on all the various pieces of this cake which was inspired by my kids' love/obsession with Webkinz. The theme of the cake is a take on the online game Candy Bash Viva Poncho complete with a taco and chile wielding black and white cat decked out in a sombrero and a desert background. The top tier is red velvet and cream cheese and the bottom tier is chocolate with whipped chocolate ganache.

USE THE FORCE, COLLIN.

My little brother, Collin, turned 27 today. He is such a science- fiction lover and Star Wars is his favorite. I used the Williams-Sonoma Star Wars cookie cutters to stamp out the Yoda face: I highly recommend them! I also highly recommend the cupcakes!

Happy Birthday Audrey!

Nine-year-old Audrey is quite the Harry Potter fan, so she requested a Harry Potter book cake for her birthday. I did have fun working on her Harry Potter themed birthday cake which features the Golden Snitch, Hedwig, Harry's magic wand and scarf.

Boy's baseball birthday cake is chocolate cake with vanilla bean buttercream and a graham cracker infield. Yummy in our tummies!