Abi with her cake. I was so glad that she liked it! My mother-in-law says it's going to be a hard cake to top! Bring on the cake challenges...
Thought I would post a picture so the front of the cake could be seen. The tongue has gotten a lot of compliments...
My younger sister-in-law's birthday was today. She is a freshman at UMBC and is majoring in biology. What better way to celebrate her birthday than to make her a cake that looked like a dissected frog! Her Mom had suggested doing anything musical or biology related and I jokingly made the comment that I was going to make her a dissected frog cake and when I got home I couldn't get the idea out of my head! So I searched for some diagrams of frog innards and got to work. One hundred percent worth it. The cake was awesome and Abi loved it!
We had a very important client come to work and tour the facility this week. The tour went smoothly and the clients were very pleased so one of my coworkers and I decided to throw our department a thank you pizza party! He ordered pizza for everyone and I baked these chewy oatmeal raisin cookies with walnuts. There wasn't one cookie left in the tin to bring home!
So I've decided to branch out - who says my year of baking has to be strictly cakes? So I made some gourmet looking peanut butter candy cookies. Basically peanut butter cookies with Reese's Peanut Butter Cups baked right in them and then drizzled with chocolate. Yum! My grandmother said they looked too fancy to eat!
Some people have asked to see a closer picture of the farm animals on the farm cake I made - so here is a good one that shows almost all of the animals a little closer (sorry sheep!).
Another coworkers niece's son turns one this month! She asked me to do a cake since I have done cakes for her in the past. And here was the cake! A farm themed party called for the works - a farm cake with a 3-D barn and silo and plenty of farm animals. This cake took me a week to make. It is the hardest project I have ever done (so far) and the result took my breath away. This is exactly why I am doing my year of baking project - to challenge myself and discover I can make edible sculptures such as this! Of course Colby had to have a matching cow smash cake for himself to make the party complete!
Here is the Minnie Mouse cake. This was done with another Wilton character pan (Thanks P!). Let me just say that black is a very difficult color to make with icing! But thankfully it turned out well (and black!) in the end. I really took my time on this cake and in the end it was totally worth it. I was proud to send both of these cakes off to the baby shower - I hope they made the mother-to-be's day a special occasion to remember! 