Meet Marjorie

Take two on the chick cake. Take one was ducky, really.

I'm a perfectionist, and so I can pick pick pick, but all in all, it came out swell.

Isabel saw me writing on Marjorie, and HAD to do it as well. Marjorie was given a tattoo on her heiney.

Marjorie attended the Central Florida Letterboxing Winter Gather today, where she was photographed and enjoyed by some of the attendees. :)

The Chick that Became a Duck

Aye-aye-aye. Thank goodness I am all about the practice runs.

I decided to try and make a Chick named Marjorie, Ryan's Marjorie actually. I always try a practice run, to iron out the kinks, and boy were there kinks.

1) I forgot to grease the small bowl. BAD move. You can see the small, beat up cake behind Isabel.

2) I did not fill the small bowl with enough batter. So, no grease and low batter = squashed head.

I used a small and medium bowl. Next time I will use the small bowl, with more batter, and the large bowl for the body.

I also used store-bought icing, chocolate. I knew it would make a mess but I did not want to waste all the butter and sugar on a test run so I was ok with the chocolate mess we made.

Isabel helps me smooth on the fondant.

Then for some reason, she ended up less of a chick, and more of a duck. *sigh* So I just went with it.

And this is why I do test runs. Sorry Marjorie. :)

Spongebob Cake

I....am stupid. Stupid, stupid, stupid.


A friend could not find a Spongebob cake for a birthday party this weekend. The boy having the party has had Spongebob as the theme for 3 years, so they've already seen them all. Talk about loyalty!


Stupid me says "Yea, I can make you one." Why am I stupid? She lives in Boston. How the heck am I going to get a cake to Boston?!?!? Then I panicked. Can I even make a Spongebob cake?!?!? Holy Moly, what have I done?!


I skipped my workout tonight, bad me, and I went to work on a practise cake.


Isabel...was beyond thrilled. She kept saying "You're a good baker" and "Where's your baker hat?" So cute.




Isabel holds a picture of what I'm going to make.








Mommy's little helper



Cake with icing, and yellow fondant.






I SEEEEE YOUUUU!

(At one point, I gave him a moustache, and evil eyebrows. It was fun.)



See, I'm really making it.



Squeeeee!!




This last picture was taken with my camera phone and sent to a bazillion people.....who I realized were probably ASLEEP! SORRY ALL!!

OK, so HOW DO I GET THIS TO BOSTON?! LOLOL.

Pony Stable Cake

This one was made on Mother's Day weekend (May 2008), with my mom. It came out pretty bad, in my opinion. I used a box cake, which don't like doing because they are too moist and the fondant tends to cave the cake in.

Isabel had been bugging me to make it for a while.





Mom's making the flowers.



The sponge is holding the pony heads in place until they dry.



Another pony head.


A very happy Isabel!

I never did get a final picture without the sponge holding up the horses' heads while they dried, but here they are.

Wizard Cake

I took a hiatus from baking "fancy" cakes until April of 2008, when I made my Wizard Cake.

Rather than re-post, please click here to go to my other blog, where I posted informaton about him.

Mower Cake

This cake was a very quick box cake I made in August of 2007 with store-bought icing that I colored green. It was a "Thank you" to our neighbors who continually loaned us their lawn mower while Sears had our lawn mower. (Actually, they lost it for two weeks. They had no idea where it was. It got lost between where we dropped it off and the repair center, VERY frustrating.) Anyway, the neighbors kept loaning it to us, so to thank them I made this.

Snow White Cake

Next up, we have a Snow White cake, made in August of 2007.