So I’ve been on a little break from blogging over Christmas but I’m back and hoping to do more artistic and creative stuff in 2012.

First cake of the year was a baby shower cake for my cousin. I had some technical issues decorating at my Nanny’s house but overall I was happy with the cake. It tasted good and I think it was whimsy and fun. The bottom was vanilla bean and the smaller cakes are my Nanny’s chocolate cake recipe.

Recently I did a baby shower cake for a family member expecting a boy! Our family is a lot of girls! So doing a cake for a boy was exciting. I took the design from the nursery design. I liked the lion and thought I would be able to create the design in fondant. Read the rest of this entry »

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So tomorrow we are having a baby shower at work and I was approached to make the cake. I started thinking about a cake that would be a challenge and allow me to use some of the skills that I learned at the fondant and gum paste course. I came up with the “cow jumps over the moon” theme because I liked that story from when I was a child and I wanted to incorporate a little sleeping baby on the top. Read the rest of this entry »

So this weekend I will be working on a cake for a baby shower potluck at my day job on Monday. I was trying to think of something new that I haven’t done before that would be fun and creative. So I started to think about children’s stories and songs.

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