Pink & Yellow

Another bachelorette cake - requested in hot pink and yellow. I wasn't sure how I was going to do this one because I don't think these two colors look that good together - but you have to make the customer happy right! So the first "draft" of the cake I was not happy with. Every time I looked at the cake I cringed!

I loved the bottom row - but the other two ribbons just didn't flow with the cake. They had to go. So I changed the middle ribbon and added the ribbon - I still wasn't happy with the cake.

Better - but still not perfect. So off come the top ribbons - it's the black ones in there that I don't like - so back to the drawing board! Also, that top row needs something..... I have it!  Ribbons in pink, yellow and white - check! A thin ribbon over the zebra print - YES! NOW I love this cake!!

And just so you know - the saying around the cake was requested! :)  Here are the pops that went with this cake - Fudge Poppers!

Second Clubhouse Cake!

So instead of trying to fashion the hand and shoe out of styrofoam (which was a royal pain in my arse the first time around) I made them out of clay!  Much nicer looking! I was working on this cake until 11:30 pm last night and just as I was getting ready to text my neighbor to see if she was still awake she texted me! I immediately grabbed the cake and ran next door to show it to her - she was thrilled! So I start asking her about where the party was going to be and she tells me Randall Oaks...... wait a minute....... do you mean to tell me it's going to be outside? It's supposed to be freaking 95+ outside! Oh no, oh no , oh no. My pops do not hold up so well in hot weather - they have a tendency to melt into a puddle of chocolate and stick! Oh no, oh no, oh no. Now what do I do? GOT IT! I have treat bags that I will wrap each one into and they can go in a cooler! So back home I trudge at midnight and of course I don't wrap them that night, that would have made too much sense! I wait until I wake up at 10:45 am this morning to do this! So my neighbor comes over with one of those little cooler lunch bags and we bag up some ice and pack the pops in there and off we go to the birthday party! The mother was happy, the guest were happy! The birthday girl seemed to like the cake but she was only 1!!  SUCCESS!!! I'm not sure what I love more - making the cake and pops or seeing the people's faces and how much they like the cake and pops! :)

Here are some pictures of the clubhouse cake!

Lester's Graduation Cake

Here are the pops I made for his graduation cake - they reminded me of little balls of sunshine! For this cake I decided to try something different and stacked the layers to look like a stage. I guess in a bizarre sort of way it was a stage - a pop stage! I made fudge and mint pops for him. He's my neighbors son and he had sampled some of my mint pops not more than a week earlier, and from what she told me he was drooling while eating them so she asked if I could make some more for him! OF COURSE! (This seems to be my mantra!) When I brought the cake in people were coming up and telling me how delicious they were, so I hustled my butt over to where Lester was and told him that if he wanted any of the mint pops he should go pilfer them from the cake now or else they were going  to be all gone by the time his party was over! By the end of the night I think they had a handful left over and between the three of them next door they were quartering them to share just to make them last!

What did I agree to do?

So after the Bachelorette Cake another one of her co-workers asked me if I would want to make a cake for her twin boys 2nd birthday. OF COURSE! She asked me if I could make it look like Mikey's Club House...... OF COURSE......... but I'll have to do some research since I have a 20 year old and a 16 year old and haven't seen kids shows in forever! So after much searching and finally finding a picture that I think I can at least work off of I start to work on the cake. It's funny how quickly the colors come to me when I am in the store and have an idea of what I want the cake to look like! Making the house part was easy - it was the shoe and hand that were the challenge for me! I have another girl who wants me to make another cake just like this one and the thoughts on how I can improve it are already flowing though my brain!

Annie's 50th Birthday!

For another co-worker that I absolutely love! It was her 50th birthday and just as she always asks me what I want her to make for my birthday (her chocolate chip cookies of course!) I asked her what she wanted me to make her - she tells me she wants some of my fudge pops! Little did she know that I was already planning on making her a cake and pops! Her favorite colors are black, red and white - so making a black and white cake was perfect! I didn't want the normal doom and gloom feeling for this milestone birthday - so I picked patterns that reflected her personality perfectly! This is one of the few cakes that I actually got to take a picture of with the pops in it! Now that I have my Crackberry I will be making sure I get pictures of ALL my cakes with pops from now on!!

The Wedding Cake

Simple, elegant and beautiful! I love this cake as well!

The Bachelorette Cake

So when I take my daughter to her haircut appointment the following Monday after my appointment, I go with more pops and the cake from the co-workers daughters 15th birthday. I have to show her the cakes I am talking about. Of course after the oooh's and aaah's she tells me she definitely wants me to make a cake for her wedding party with 60 pops! Even better is that one of the girls next door comes over to see what we are talking about and my hairdresser gives her one of the pops to try - she sees the cake and she loves the pop and wants to know if two weeks notice is too short for her to order a cake for a bachelorette party she is throwing. Oh heck no! I ask her what colors she wants and she tells me hot pink and black. I don't think that there are any colors that go together better than these colors! So this cake is my absolute favorite to date and I even tried making some "special" pops for her! I had those pops in the box with the regular ones and needless to say she got a kick out of them!

An impromptu cake

I love the colors of this cake! Love them! My neighbor was going to a wedding shower for her niece and said if the shower wasn't the next day she would have asked me to make her a cake. Well, let's just say I am not one to back away from a challenge so I literally made this cake in an hour and had pops all packed up and ready for her by the next morning! She took the cake and pops with her to the shower and everyone loved them! The poor bride to be almost didn't get to have even one pop when they spied a guest with extras in hand to take home and confiscated some from her for the bride to be! I love a happy ending!

Another co-worker wants a cake!

Since the LO gave me back my cake I figured HEY! Why not recycle it! So I did! With a change in colored ribbons and curls I have a whole new cake! This one was for my bosses wedding anniversary and she requested bright colors!

Because of her cake I got a request!

So the mortgage loan officer that I process for asked me if I could make a cake for his daughters birthday - she was turning 15 and of course I say OK! I ask him what her favorite color was - purple - and this is the cake and pops I made for her! I was so excited for him to see it and just hoped he liked it as much as I did! He did of course and said his daughter would love it! Him and I met after my haircut appointment for me to hand over the goodies and I made him promise to take a picture of his daughter with the cake - I never got the picture - BUT since I had gone to get my haircut, I brought my hairdresser a couple of pops to try - she loved them! She asked me if I would make a cake for a informal wedding party that they were going to be throwing in June for a friend of hers and of course I say YES! You'll get to see that cake in a couple of more posts!