First, my Calvin has turned 4. He had his birthday on July 2nd, however my cousin Margaret decided that this was a great day to get married so I was out of town for his birthday. (It was an awesome wedding though and Calvin will never know the difference) We had him in Omaha the weekend before his birthday and we celebrated with a very awesome birthday cake.
Calvin is a huge super hero fan. Everything needs to have something to do with super heroes. Luckily I was given a fairly easy task by Nancy to make a Flash cake. I only needed 3 colors and the design was fairly simple. The cake was red velvet with cream cheese frosting that I dyed yellow. I covered the cake with homemade fondant and my friend Teresa was taking pictures and she caught my shocked face when the fondant went on in one try.
The cake turned out well and Calvin thought it was pretty alright too...
Here's a good shot of the inside of the cake:
After Calvin's birthday, we had the 4th of July. I filled an order for my roommate's mom. She wanted cupcakes that would work well for the holiday. I used a vanilla base for all of the cupcakes. The red frosted cupcakes had raspberries in them and the blue frosted cupcakes had blueberries in them. They had a little variety but were overall delicious!
I thought they were adorable!
One of my best study buddies from Grad school turned 30 at the end of our summer session. I told him I would make him a cake and I think he thought I was joking. I told him I would make him a rainbow cake and I still think he thought I was joking. I managed to throw together a cake between getting off work and getting to our last class and it still turned out pretty cute. It wasn't my best effort as it was a little rushed but everyone at the bar loved it and Jason was amazed by the rainbow inside which I think is just fun.
I was also super annoying and got 30 candles to put on the cake.
It was a VERY bright cake. Sorry Jason!
However, the most successful cake of the month was the German Chocolate cake (Seen here). My friends and I were planning a trip to Kansas City for this Labor Day to enjoy Irishfest as well as their Renaissance Festival and we wanted our friend Katrina to come up. However, she lives in Florida as is broke (just like the rest of us). Seeing as her parents were pretty much my other set of parents in high school I figured there was something that could be done about this. Teresa came over and helped me make the cake. She made the pecan coconut frosting, her first time making it, and she did a lovely job. I made the rest of the cake and we put it all together. Teresa did her usual help of taste testing...
This would be how Teresa usually helps. I think she's doing me a favor saving me the empty calories. :)
We had an inside tip that her dad's favorite cake was German Chocolate so it was the clearest form of bribery. We showed up unannounced with the cake and pretty much begged them to buy her a plane ticket. Lo and behold, cheesy grins, a little bit of groveling and a super delicious homemade cake not even out of the oven an hour can apparently do wonders, especially when you pipe PLEASE on top! Needless to say that Katrina will be joining us in Kansas City in a couple weeks and I can continue to brag about the ability of my cakes to sway others to view things in my way.
There are some other cute pictures but I can no longer steal them off Facebook and she hasn't sent them to me!
I hope to be able to update a little bit more frequently. I need to try a little bit more. Fall is starting though and I loooooove Fall flavors. I promise to be better. I'll take suggestions! Sorry about the delay though.
Love you all!
Mo Mo
