Downhill Ski Cake ~ Happy 60th Birthday Joe!

Joe turned 60 this year.  He is an avid skier and his daughter thought an Over the Hill Downhill Skiing cake would be the perfect thing to surprise him with for his birthday!

Now, how exactly does one make a ski mountain out of gumpaste?  After much thought, I figured that a base of Rice Kirspie Treats might just work - here is the beginning of a ski mountain:

Sort of looks like a ski mountain, right?

AND, here are the pics of the cake...ahhhh....now it looks like a ski mountain :)
 
  

Skier w/ glittery snow on his clothing

The names of the runs were:  Agony,  Geezer Gulch, Tourist Trap and Young at Heart

HAPPY 60TH BIRTHDAY JOE!! 
Joe's cake details:
Signature White Cake
Raspberry Filling
Vanilla Buttercream
The Ski Mountain is gumpaste covering rice crispy treats.  The skier, trees and run names are all gumpaste as well.

Monkey themed 1st birthday! Happy Birthday Maggie!

Maggie celebrated her first birthday today and what a great party it was!  With a large under 3 crowd in attendance, Maggie's mom planned a fabulous party complete with a bouncy house, toddler sized tables and chairs, lots of ride on toys, toddler enticing play areas and food (and cake!!) to please toddler palates.  My little guy fell asleep en route, but when he awoke and looked around, his eyes lit up and he was off, full speed, for hours!  What a fun day it was!

Maggie's bedroom has monkey decals on the walls and her mom carried these cute little monkeys over into the theme for her first birthday party.  Monkey balloons, a monkey pinata and of course a monkey cake!  Here are the pics:

Matching cupcakes!!

And here are a few from the party:

 

CANDY!!



HAPPY 1ST BIRTHDAY MAGGIE!!!

Maggie's cake details:
Signature White Cake
Chocolate Buttercream Filling
Vanilla Buttercream Frosting
Fondant accents
Sugar Pearls on Cupcakes

 



Onesie cookie favors for Baby English!

I've never met this Mommy to Be, but I know her sister very well. 

Her sister ordered these adorable little onesie cookie favors for Mommy-to-Be's baby shower this weekend!  

All 50 cookies were a bit different, some said "E" while other said "Baby" and others had just designs.  Dots and stripes and hearts...

Pink, blue, white, yellow and green pastel colors, as Baby E's gender is a surprise!

 

The cookie details:  sugar cookies with royal icing.

I hope they were fantastic and congratulations to the mommy to be!!