Birthdays at Thanksgiving

I forgot to update my pictures here... This is a Chocolate Caramel Cake with chocolate fondant. The leaves are a gumpaste/fondant mix dusted with petal dust.

Red Velvet

This is a cake that I frosted and decorated in under about 30 minutes while teaching course 1! This is a Red Velvet Cake with cream cheese frosting. The roses are made of chocolate buttercream. Had I had more time I could have cleaned up the edges a bit... made it all a bit smoother, but over all I am pleased. Cream cheese frosting is very temperamental...melts very quickly! My mother in law and the family ate the cake tonight... they LOVED it. By far one of the best tasting cakes I have had! :)

Dusting & Steaming Roses...And flower Cupcakes today!

These are the same roses from my earlier post. Today I brushed them with petal dust and steamed them. I love the way they look, the pictures do not do them justice.









Vanilla cup cakes frosted with Swiss Meringue Butter Cream...Yummmy!

Gumpaste Roses

I bought a cool Rose petal cutter set from England a few weeks back and tried it out the last few evenings. I am pretty pleased with how the roses turned out, although I still need to brush them with luster dust and steam them a bit. I may do that tonight or tomorrow.























http://www.orchardproducts.co.uk/ref1---rose-set-in-a-petal-box-r1-r10-15-p.asp

Berry Bonanza

Inspired by cousin Julie... I brought it to Nate's graduation celebration yesterday. Was a big hit.
Vanilla bean cake, chocolate butter cream and raspberry filling with an English butter cream frosting on the out side.

Relay for Life & Cupcakes

FREMONT RELAY FOR LIFE 6/27- 6/28

Yummy Cupcakes


Yummy Cupcakes


Hope for a CURE


The Survivors Lap


Purple People Walkers


My son dressed as the Purple People Walker

We did it! We made it! 24 hours in the 100 degree weather was a small price to pay for all the good that comes from these relays. We arrived at 7:00am Saturday and were packed up and back home about 11:00am Sunday. We walked a lot, helped fundraise at the event and had a chance to catch up with some old friends. My team was made up of 3 of my best friends in high school and our friends and families. We never would have imagined 20 years ago that our friendship would bring us together for such a worthy cause. We will be back as a team and also as committee chair people next year. We had an amazing fun filled 24 hours. I think Jake and I actually dozed off about 3:30am and were back up and out of the tent at 7:00 am for the Lions Club pancake breakfast. Adam thankfully was at the event most of the time but stayed home over night with our dogs.

We are all mentally and physically exhausted, and also extremely over come with gratitude. Thank you all for your love, support and donations.

My son and I made 70 cupcakes with the Relay for Life Logo on them. 1/2 chocolate with a vanilla English butter cream and 1/2 natural vanilla bean cupcakes with a vanilla Swiss Meringue butter cream. The fondant logo cut outs are Satin Ice white fondant that we tinted purple and flavored with blue raspberry flavoring. They were a bit hit with all the Relayers!

My sons 8th grade graduation cake

Ta Da! Finished and on the table!

Beach

Ipod

Wrestling Mat and Headgear

Baseball


Books

The top cake was a collage of Jake's favorite things over the past 9 years.
This is a lethal chocolate peppermint cake with peppermint butter cream, chocolate peppermint ganache and marbled blue fondant. A lot of fun making this cake, although it was a mess to serve because I did not have enough room in the fridge to keep it cold until serving. The butter cream under the fondant in a warm house is probably not the best! :)