Wild Rumpus!

For my son Colin's 2nd birthday party we decided on a "Wild Rumpus" based on his favorite book Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak.  The theme was born when my husband found all sorts of fun wild things' stuff in the dollar bin at Target back in April...so 6 months later here we are!  I made lots of signs, pom-poms and printed out lots of printables from the internet.  Then came the cake.  Usually, my husband doesn't have too many opinions on the kids' parties, and I think I sometimes drive him crazy with my obsessing and planning.  However, this time he had a clear vision of what he thought the cake should look like.  Luckily, I found an inspiration cake on one of my favorite cake blogs that made his vision a reality.  I was a little nervous about recreating this cake, but I knew it turned out well when Colin (my little Wild Thing) saw it and said, "Rrrrrrr, hold it, Max, rrrrrrrrr!"  He says, "hold it" anytime he likes what he sees!  The Wild Rumpus was a success, Colin had so much fun with all of his wild buddies.  I can't believe my baby is 2!  Happy Birthday Colin!

Moishe

Max

Max's Colin's Private Boat

A crown for the king of all wild things!

Crown Sugar Cookie favors

Custom Posters with Colin's face...thanks Paula! 

Cutouts for photo-ops

Birthday Boy's t-shirt

My 1st Wedding Cake!

This fall wedding cake was for my cousin Lindsey and her husband Brandon.  They wanted to incorporate the fall theme of their wedding into the cake, so we went with an ivory cake decorated with gumpaste leaves.  The top 2 tiers were yellow almond cake with buttercream filling and the bottom tier was chocolate with buttercream filling.  This cake had to travel over an hour to the reception site, which made me quite nervous but worked out fine!  Congrats Lindsey and Brandon, love you guys!

Baby Girl Shower Cupcakes

 These cute little babies in blankets are half chocolate cupcakes and half vanilla.  They are all decorated in buttercream frosting.  I might have gone a little bit overboard with the photo shoot of these little girls, but I thought they were too cute!

Fall Cupcakes

Just some fall cupcakes to practice my gumpaste leaves for my cousin's upcoming wedding.  Yellow cupcakes with buttercream frosting and chocolate cupcakes with peanut butter buttercream.

Fore!

This cake was for my husband's family golf tournament.  It was one layer chocolate cake and one layer yellow cake with buttercream filling.  The sand trap is graham cracker crumbs and the golfball is gumpaste.  Fore!

22nd Birthday Cake

The request for this cake was that it have chocolate buttercream and the birthday guy's favorite color red.  This is what I came up with.  It's yellow almond cake with chocolate buttercream filling and icing.  Happy Birthday Andrew!

Giraffe for Grandma

My daughter Addie got to pick what kind of cake we made for my mother-in-law, her grandma.  She decided it had to be a giraffe cake because grandma loves giraffes.  The cake was one layer chocolate and one layer yellow with chocolate buttercream filling and buttercream icing.  Happy Birthday Grandma!