Graduation

Whether it's Kindergarten , High School, or College,
every graduate needs recognition that their hard work is acknowledged
and that they are supported for whatever life may throw them next.

Graduates this is for you!

Chocolate cake with chocolate chocolate icing...ummm!!

This was for my little sister Samantha.

She was the last of six kids to graduate for High School.

With the icing being chocolate, I tried to make the

decorations look like an heirloom.

The below cake was my first full sheet cake

it was 2 layered, so it probably would feed

100-120 people if the cuts are right.

marbled half and half;

half white and strawberry, and the other half

was marbled white and chocolate

Not everyone goes for a traditional look.

some designs are based on one's personality, others

are based on a hobby or an interest.

It's your cake, eat it up!

Cupcakes

I even found Spongebob muffin cups to match.

Pool side parties are the best for Cupcakes! Looks like a cake, but minus needing forks, plates and a knife to cut it.

Below I bought the Elmo and Cookie Monster toppers, but the sea creatures I made from candy molds.

Cupcakes are now starting to grow on me a little more than cakes.
A swirl of icing and sprinkles and hands are reaching into the box. You can't go wrong with cupcakes and especially for kid parties, cupcakes are grab and go no fork or plate needed. Unless of course you are serving a scoop of Blue Bell with it.

CUPCAKES

The beach cupcakes have been my favorite ones so far. The sand was made from graham crackers, and I molded balls,whales,crabs,sun,octopus,pail and shovels using Wilton's pre-made colored fondant. I colored white candy melts into a sea shell molding kit of mine and thus giving me all the shells.

I used 3 different shades of icing to get the wave / water effect for these fish. 1/2 were made of fondant, and the other I used my Butter Cream Icing. Now this was for a Birthday party for a one year old, so a small personal cake was needed just for him!

The below was a test to see how a cupcake cake would look. Once again no cutting and serving needed just grab one. Now I used just a store bought icing (chocolate fudge) for these and that was my only problem I had.

Your going to have holes as a cake because the cupcakes are not square, they don't fit together. So the icing was sinking into each hole, not giving you a flat smooth top. It was for my family so I just went with it, but for future cupcake cakes I will definitely use butter cream for a more stiffer stabilizer.

Now these little babies were easy, cute and did not take much time at all, especially since they were on a stand with fudge and chocolate chip cookies. This was for my sisters baby shower and the entire cupcake I used butter cream with a few sprinkles. The bouquet cupcakes (purple ones) were just as simple, using a single icing tip for each flower and dotting the center.

Handy Manny

This cake was for a 2 year old birthday party at a local pizza/game/prizes venue. The idea of having their favorite cartoon character on their cake settles all decisions for the party, and everything else falls into place after that considering this is the only piece of decoration to personalize your childs cake at one of these venues.

Now I personally like the cakes for kids that have the miniatures, because whats the first thing they do after the candles are blown out..... they lick the icing off the bottom of each piece - wax and all.

It's great!

Now the only "so called problem" about these cakes are finding the miniatures. If you could find it at your local Wal-Mart, Target, or Toys R' Us that would be ok. But I find myself grabbing them from AMAZON.COM, And this leads to shipping charges. You may find cheaper prices but the shipping gets you in the end.

Houston TX. is one of the largest cities nationwide and the only cake supply store I have found is MAKE-A-CAKE. Its a relatively small store but they carry larger sizes and pans that I cannot always find at my local Hobby Lobby or Michael's which also carries cake supplies. Me being located North of Houston is the biggest problem. They are located in Southwest Houston.

All-in-all I can normally find exactly what I'm looking for whether it's on-line or across town.