Nickie & Matt's Wedding Cake

This past weekend I had the honor of making my best friends Nickie & Matt's wedding cake!

Here is the final product! But first I will go into more details...

3 days prior to Saturday I began baking, and baking, and baking! 11 white cakes (made from scratch may I add) later...

My main workstation during the 3 days of baking! Thank you to my brother-in-law, David, for letting me create a huge mess in your kitchen!

His double ovens---They saved me so much time! Not sure about that Royals apron though!

Cake ingredients...

51 eggs, 10 lb flour, 8 lb sugar, 3 lb crisco, 1 gallon of milk to name a few

Filling ingredients...

3 Jello Mixes

3 quarts of heavy whipping cream

Butter cream ingredients...

1 lb butter

7 pounds of powdered sugar!

Middle tier baking...

bottom tier cooling...

bottom tier stacked with filling...

5 batches of butter cream... icing the crumb coat (or "dirty icing" as cake boss says)

after putting on the second butter cream coating and adding the stencil to the middle tier...

close up on the stencil...

two love birds!!

thank you to everyone who helped this cake happen!!!
my sous chef kelly, mom, dad & aunt erin for calming my stress & transporting the cake
steve for doing a bazillion dishes and for helping me with everything
krista, steph & becky for hanging out (and helping a bit) while I iced the cakes
david for letting me take over your kitchen and making a mess!
nickie & matt for letting me a part of their special day by making this cake!

My Birthday Bronwen Weber St. Louis Cardinals Cake

It's almost too much to believe! My amazing friends Lisa & Matthew got me another cake from the Frosted Art Bakery for my birthday!! 2 years in a row! I am such a lucky girl!

My cake was St. Louis Cardinals themed!!

I loved it!!!

Lisa & I with the cake right before we cut into the cake and ate it! It was sooooo good!! Great job Bronwen :) And thank you Lisa!!!

Nickie & Matt's Couples Shower--Hawaiian Theme!

Nickie & Matt are getting married! And they are going to Hawaii for their Honeymoon! In honor of their honeymoon location, we threw them a Hawaiian themed couples shower! Of course, I had to make cupcakes!

Vanilla cupcakes with light blue butter cream frosting!


Added umbrellas & sprinkles...

The bride & groom (and their pineapple baby)...

All of the bridesmaids with the bride!

Marshmallow Fudge Mania!

A while back I was given a great cook book, Hungry Girl-200 Under 200! I was in the mood for chocolate, so I decided to make the Marshmallow Fudge Mania! Each piece is only 66 calories and 0.5 g fat!!

Ingredients...
Fudge Brownies Mix
2 cups pure pumpkin
1/2 cup Jet-Puffed Marshmallow Creme
2 Tablespoons of Hershey's Lite Syrup

Mix together brownie mix, pumpkin & chocolate...Stir marshmallow creme...
Swirl half of the marshmallow creme on top of half of the brownie mixture & repeat...

Bake at 350 degrees for 35 minutes! Cook cake & refrigerate for at least 2 hours before serving. Then cut into 36 squares. Personally, I thought the squares were a bit small...2 squares = just 132 calories, so that's not too bad ;)

Easter Cake Pops

At work there is an Easter Goodies Bake Sale. Since my turkey pops were such a hit the last time, I decided to do more of Bakerella's Cake Pops!

I did her spring chickens...

Bunnies...
And sheep!...
They raised a lot of money :)

Valentines Day--Banana Cream Pie

For Valentines Day I made one of Steve's favorites--Banana Cream Pie!

the ingredients...

graham cracker crust:

2 1/2 cups of crushed graham crackers

1/4 cup of melted butter

1/4 cup mushed bananas

1/3 cup sugar

after crushing graham crackers, blend together the remainder of the ingredients in a food processor

bake at 350 degrees for about 15-20 minutes (until golden brown)

chill the crust

filling:

1 large package vanilla pudding mix (prepare as directed)

4-5 bananas sliced and coated with lemon juice
cool-whip

DELISH!!