girly flower cakes

this past weekend my friend lisa and i took on quite the challenge...making 2 (not 1) birthday cakes for a little girl birthday party! their only request was that we use lots of red, yellow, gerber daisies and sunflowers!!

to make the flowers we used gum paste! dyed it, rolled it out, & cut it with the flower cutter. 2 petals were used for each flower.
then the center was a circular cut out that was pressed against a metal colander.

so simple! and cute!

we made about a dozen big and 8 small for each cake.

the next few steps (baking, icing, decorating, etc.) i forgot to take pictures of (oops!), but here is the one i did get because charlie (lisa's english bull dog puppy) was biting my pants while i iced the cake! he is such a cutie!

the finished product! this was a chocolate cake with butter cream icing.

the 'red cake' was a strawberry cake with more butter cream icing (we went through a lot of butter cream!!)

this was such a fun project that i think i would enjoy doing more of ;)

sarah & steve's wedding cake

sarah & steve's wedding cake was absolutely beautiful!

i loved their cake topper too! super cute!!

it tasted awesome too! the filling was delicious! i ate all of mine!

steve and i at tower grove park

'the list serve' girls :) we had such a great time!

lisa and jen's birthday

for friends lisa and jen's combined birthday celebration, i made my very first from scratch chocolate cake! the cake turned out really good too! there were 4 layers with raspberry filling in between and butter cream icing! i covered the cake in fondant and decorated with colored fondant polka dots! the top has an "l" and "j" for the birthday girls (can you tell?)!
the birthday girls!

mike & katie's wedding cake

at mike & katie's wedding we had a very delicious cake!

i had such a great time hanging out with jenni & nickie!!

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