Despicable, Xanadu & Peachy Keen

I've decided it's a little funner if I give each cake an actual name, hence the title of this blog post.

The first cake I did was actually last weekend. It was by request of the birthday girls, Chloe and Mimi. They are Carly and Abbie's best little buds that live across the street. They come over to the house all the time and see me making cakes so I think they were excited when their birthdays finally rolled around. They wanted a minion from the movie "Despicable Me" and luckily chose a one-eyed guy rather than two (a little less work for me). This was the first cake that I attempted to actually raise up off the the cake stand. We made supports out of PVC pipe that we covered to look like feet and then hot-glued the bottom cake board to them. It worked out so-so. He was leaning backwards a bit but made it through the party, which is really all that matters in the grand scheme of things.
The next cake was this last Friday for another friend of my girls that lives just a few houses up the street. She wasn't sure exactly what she wanted so I took some creative liberties on this one. Her party invitation was "Wizards of Waverly" place but I wasn't really sure how to capture that in a cake. Her party was at Classic Skating so I decided to make a rollerskate cake and then added a little magic wand. And therefore I give you the Xanadu cake! How could you combine magic and rollerskates and not come up with Xanadu?! (By the way...hope you all are enjoying the music update).

And finally on Saturday we went to a party for Drew's wonderful grandma Jackie. I won't tell you how old she is, only that she is amazing and we love her very much! :) For this cake we went pretty basic. Drew quilted the sides for me and I tried my hand and making some gumpaste roses and carnations. I've only ever made daisies out of gumpaste before so I figured it was about time.
Here is the close up of the flowers from above. I could use a little more practice, especially since I'm going to be making my sister-in-law's wedding cake in March.
So that's what my last two weekends have looked like. I suppose one of the good things about staying home and making cakes on the weekends means I'm not out shopping! The weekdays, on the other hand....

Two new cakes

Since I'm no longer doing my "official" cake blog, I thought I would just post the pictures here on the family one to keep you all up-to-date. I have also added the cake slide show over on the right for your viewing pleasure.

The first cake was for our nephew Sean's 8th birthday. It is Heimlich from the movie "A Bug's Life." It was a chocolate cake with peanut butter frosting. The word "Sean" is supposed to look like it is spelled out with watermelon seeds but I'm not sure it worked out quite like the vision in my mind. That always seems to happen to me!


The next cake was for our niece Katie. She loves the Disney Fairies and I found a picture of a super cute cake online that I wanted to try. I cut down the size and had to cut out a lot of the detail that the original cake had, but I think it turned out pretty cute anyway. This cake was yellow with raspberry and lemon cream filling. Yummy!
I hope everyone had a fantastic Christmas and New Years. I wish I had some good pictures to post but unfortunately I got lazy (imagine that?) and used our little point and shoot camera instead of the SLR and the pictures were horrible. Just know that we had a great time and the girls have especially loved all the new video games we got for the Wii and DSi.

Baby #4 has yet to be named. It may be surprising since this is our fourth girl, but we actually seem to be having a harder time narrowing down a name this time. I thought I wanted something one syllable but now I'm not so sure. So far we like Brooke, Emma, Reese, Sloane (is that with an e or without? Don't know), and Kennedy. But the list seems to keep growing instead of getting shorter. Luckily? I have another 16 weeks left to decide. My pants are all getting a bit tight and I'm afraid I might have to give in soon and start wearing maternity clothes. Boo.