Beach Wedding

These sweet and beautiful treats were done for a dear friend's Beach Wedding. Confetti cupcakes (Brides choice!) with vanilla buttercream topped with gorgeous little gold and yellow sugar roses and sugar crystals.

I was in love with these precious baby cakes. Sometimes I get pretty attached to my creations. This was one of those times!

The cake was done in various layered pastels chosen by the Bride herself! I created an adorable handmade banner to top the Wedding cake as well as Sugar Roses in soft pastels to match the inside of the cake.

Cowgirl Up!

This Cowgirl themed cake was made for a little girl's 5th birthday. Sydney loves anything horses and is a fierce little rodeo star in the making, so this adorable cake was covered in a cowgirl hat, pink bandana, horse head silhouette and rope. It was blanketed by a cute white picket fence with blue skies and green grass - the perfect backdrop for a birthday ride.

For a personal touch, "Daddy loves Syd" was written on a fence panel as a "Happy Birthday" from Sydney's proud Daddy.

Yeehaw!!

An Ace of a Cake!

Recently my good friend Sandra needed a cake for her husbands birthday and so I jumped at the chance. It sounded something like: "HEY! I just started a blog! Let me make his cake. Lemme Lemme Lemme." (Okay, I begged. Hush.)

Her husband likes to play poker (Sandra, on the other hand, likes to watch Daniel Craig play poker in Casino Royale) and so as soon as I heard that word I knew I already had a theme I could work with!

I started off making poker chips using red, yellow, blue and white fondant. I rolled my colors out and cut the "chips" with the smallest circle cutter I owned, which thankfully worked out just fine. I probably would have preferred they be a bit smaller, but you work with what you have!

Next, I just used a black Gourmet Writer pen to decorate the Poker Chips. These are edible and if I had a dollar for every time I used one of these, I would be rollin' in the dough! So handy and so useful. I was turned on to them back in the day by Bakerella (who I ADORE, by the way! Check out HER blog when you get a chance!)

As for the Suit symbols? Well, that was simple enough. I free-handed the Diamond and Club and the Heart was a heart cookie cutter I had laying around. The Spade? An upside down heart with a free-handed bottom. Gotta use those freehand skills for somethin'! At least until I get my tool collection up to speed here.

For the Ace of Diamonds card, I (again) used a red Gourmet Writer pen! I just love 'em.

 Happy Birthday, Sedat! Hope you went all in and had a great time!