my 26th birthday cakes

i had an amazing 26th birthday in dallas this year! my friends were soooo nice to get me a cake from the frosted art bakery in dallas owned by one of my favorite cake artists, bronwen weber! i can't believe i got a cake made by her...she is like my cake idol :) the cake looked awesome, and it tasted even better! it was a vanilla cake with white chocolate icing in-between the layers, and chocolate icing on the outside. probably the best cake i've ever eaten!!

we celebrated my birthday with our friends at a murder mystery dinner!

it was based on the tv show "dallas", and there was even audience participation! i was the "lucy" character :)

there was also actors playing a couple of the main characters. here we are with "jr" :)

i was lucky enough to have 2 birthday cakes this year! steve also got me a cake from dairy queen...it was delicious!!!!!

lauren and nick's wedding cake

lauren's wedding was so beautiful! the sunflower cake was really pretty! it went well with their theme too!

all of us girls!

yummmmm.....

katie and clint's wedding cake

this cake was really great! the design was so different and very katie! i liked it a lot!

me and the bride!

steve and i

paul & carla's wedding cake

i loved this cake. the butter cream was so perfect! the fresh flowers were a nice touch too! me and my hubby!

all of the boys!

steve's 28th birthday cake

for steve's birthday i made him one of his favorites...i call it 'guilt free chocolate covered strawberry cake'! he chose the low-cal option so that he wouldn't feel as guilty eating more of it :)

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it is super easy to make too...

ingredients:

1 angel food cake mix (or store bought)

1 package of sugar free instant chocolate pudding mix

1 fat free cool whip

1 package of fresh strawberries

--prepare an angel food mix as directed (or store bought). once cooled, chop it up into 1" bite size pieces

--prepare the chocolate pudding as directed

--slice strawberries

--using a 13x9 cake pan, arrange angel food cake pieces on the bottom

--next pour chocolate pudding layer

--spread cool whip over pudding (trying to cover all pudding)

--top with strawberries however you want!

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the best picture of mario cut off steve's head, but i had to include it :)

happy birthday steve!!!!

a cupcake event

i had a few friends over for a girls craft night and we decorated cupcakes out of the book hello, cupcake! if you've never seen this book, it is pretty neat. it shows you how you can make animals, art and even food (like corn on the cob for example) out of cupcakes! we decided to make "what a hoot!". the owls looked so hard to make, but they were actually very easy...

the finished product...they were super cute!

we also decided to make "black and white party", except we used lots of different colors instead of just black and white.

i was very excited to use my cupcake stand to display our pieces of art!

each cupcake was unique in it's own way :)

valentine's day cupcakes

i made these cupcakes for a work event. they were chocolate with butter cream frosting...yum!