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....