Sneak Peek - It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

Here are the gumpaste figurines for my upcoming Halloween cake.  This cake is for a charity event.  I have been a Snoopy & Peanuts fan for YEARS, so I am just loving making these!  Take a look:

First up, Linus waiting for the arrival of the Great Pumpkin:

Snoopy's house and the Trick-or-Treating house: 

Pumpkin costume: 

Leaf pile & ghosts: 

Charlie Brown himself: 

Snoopy (LOVE!!): 

Lucy in her green monster mask: 

dirty Pigpen ghost and other ghosts: 

and this one (not cake related) is MY sweet Charlie visiting a pumpkin patch at a Cider Mill this weekend.  He's just so cute I just had to include him in this blog post 

Happy Birthday Sasha! ~ Hungry Caterpillar Cake ~

Sasha turns one today and is having a hungry caterpillar themed party.   Her mom ordered these adorable invitations from Ebay and then ordered a cake to match.  The cake is my signature white cake with vanilla buttercream.  The caterpillar is gumpaste, as is the leaf sign.  The 1 is buttercream and the two lines of color on the base (to match the invite) are Satin Ice fondant. 

Here are the pics:

HAPPY 1st BIRTHDAY SASHA!!

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!!

Ahoy, Matey!

Yo Ho Ho, Logan is celebrating his 5th birthday today! 

What better way to celebrate than with a pirate themed party and a pirate ship cake?!  

Here are the pics:

The pirate ship & plank....

      Arrrrgggg....ther'be treasure in these h're islands. 

 

 Happy Birthday Logan!  Your mom tells me that birthday celebrations are big events at your house - I hope this cake helped make your pirate party the best party yet!

Logan's cake details:
-10in square Signature Chocolate
-filling: raspberry preserves

-vanilla buttercream
-treasure chest with coins, pearls, rubies and pearl necklace - gumpaste
-pirate ship - hand formed from gumpaste with RKT base
-shark fin (not shown in pic) gumpaste