Can't have enough chocolate

Chocolate on the inside and chocolate cream cheese on the outside.......yummy.

Summer 2008

Behold the most frustrating cake of my life! But when you hit rock bottom, you can only go up right? (Unless of course you weigh a ton,like this cake does)

Maybe we should throw in a lake, and see what happens...

Camo Cake for Travis

Travis, (married to Robert's sister, Rachelle), was turning 27 this month, but was only going to be in town one more night, so Robert and I wanted to make something just for him. At the Wright family Sunday Dinner, Robert and I made this camouflage looking cake since Travis is in the Army. Inside was a two layered carrot cake, and the outside was chocolaty cream cheese frosting in 4 different colors. We learned a lesson from using cream cheese frosting..that it is totally unreliable! Oh well. No matter how much extra powdered sugar I added it stayed runny. At least it tasted great!

Does this count as a cake?

Roseanne had her annual Gingerbread contest tonight, and Robert and I made a football stadium. We also hung a coke bottle with an attached rolo to serve as the blimp hovering above.

Summer 2007

This cake was small, but time consuming with the sugar crystal coating on the outside! It would have been taller if the styrofoam layers would have come in the mail, but Pretty Party Place biffed the order. Oh well.

Underwater world

We had a cake making night for the church's Mutual activity. All the cakes came pre-baked and individually wrapped, and the frosting was pre-made at Fry's. What an ingenious idea! We didn't have to do anything but design them. I made mine an underwater scene.

Abigail's 3rd Birthday

Roseanne wanted us to make a princess castle for Abby's 3rd birthday. The crawling vines up the sides gave it a Barbie movie type look.

Claire's Birthday

Robert's niece, Claire was turning 3, and Robin (her mom) asked us to make a Cinderella cake for the b-day party. It turned out well, but using those character mold pans are harder than they look. Sure, the cake will bake alright, but once pulled out of the pan, you end up having to "free hand" the entire character yourself anyway.

Rachelle's Wedding

This was the cake for Robert's sister's wedding. She wanted it tropical, and I think we succeeded! The top two layers were real, the bottom three were rice crispy treat (which I will never ever ever do again), and the flower arranging I pulled off by using my skills as a gardener at the temple. Not bad, huh?

Ben's 5th Birthday

Ben (my brother) loves cars. Mom asked us to make a cool car cake for his birthday. 3D cake molds are always great for catching the fancy of a child.

Edible Oracle

This was an ode to the days of being on the grounds crew at the Mesa temple.

We passed!!

Our final test was pulling off the two tiered wedding cake with a bazillion gum paste roses. The roses were the hardest part because they took so long! I eventually cut them short from the required amount because two days of working on them (with help from my sister, Bonnie)was long enough for me! Yea! we made it through all three cake courses and had a good time.

The gift of sugar

This was our first try at using fondant and gum paste.

These were our graduation cakes from class 1. We learned to make roses and tort the cake as well with pudding. (we were really supposed to use jam or something gross like that, but chocolate pudding sounded way better.)We each made our own. It's too bad youcan't see any of the details in these cheap walmart one-time-use camera shots.

Abigail's 2nd Birthday

my niece, Abigail was turning two and shares my love/obsession with ponies. Roseanne asked us to make a pony-style cake, which we took as an excuse to buy a really cool "grass decorator tip". The pasture just wouldn't have been the same without it.

Making flowers and leaves was part of this assignment. I experimented with colors to get the mauve shade for my cake, and Robert worked hard on leaves for his tree cake.

Our first cakes ever! Robert made a castle, and I made a tractor for our class assignment.