tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34034060037233932282024-02-18T23:39:40.707-08:00Cake MamaCakeMamaCakeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12219920286160825368noreply@blogger.comBlogger357125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403406003723393228.post-91877547400290641192017-06-03T19:11:00.002-07:002017-06-03T19:12:55.733-07:00Kristi's Baby Shower Cake<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
When I first found out that my friend Erin's sister was pregnant I said, "I'll make her baby shower cake!" So this cake was a long time coming! </div>
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Kristi's theme for the shower was absolutely adorable. Her invites were rustic chic and she was going for a pink and gray theme. I'm not doing it justice by explaining it. It was so elegant and cute! Mason jars filled with baby's breath. I mean, come on!!</div>
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Kristi was very clear that I could do whatever I wanted with the cake. Of course I wanted her to like it and I know that she is a fan of white cake with vanilla frosting. Her sister Erin said that nothing compares to <a href="http://thepioneerwoman.com/food-and-friends/swiss-meringue-buttercream/">Swiss Meringue Buttercream</a>, so I opted for that. The top and bottom tier were white cake and the middle tier was my favorite - chocolate!</div>
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I made the little booties on top out of gum paste.<br />
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Here's the cake at it's destination. It looked perfectly "dressed" for the occasion!</div>
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Here's Kristi, the beautiful mother-to-be! </div>
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Chocolate cake --- YUM!!!!<br />
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And to keep the festive flow, I added some pink sprinkles in the cake batter. All of the frosting and filling was Swiss Meringue Buttercream. </div>
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The day was absolutely perfect and Kristi's baby girl was welcomed so lovingly by all of Kristi's family and friends. It was such a beautiful party! We're so excited to meet your daughter!</div>
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My daughter loves all things chocolate and peanut butter. Her cake was a no-brainer! We actually found a Reese's chocolate cake in the bakery department of our local grocery store, but I couldn't buy a cake. I'm the Cake Mama!! So I looked at what the cake was and it was a chocolate cake with peanut butter mousse filling and chocolate frosting. Okay. I can totally do that!</div>
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I found this delicious recipe for <a href="http://www.bhg.com/recipe/pudding/peanut-butter-mousse/">Peanut Butter Mousse</a>! Oh my goodness - it was SO good! My chocolate cake is my go-to - Ina Garten's <a href="http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ina-garten/beattys-chocolate-cake-recipe-1947521">Beatty's Chocolate Cake</a>. There is none better than this. The <a href="http://allrecipes.com/recipe/26019/creamy-chocolate-frosting/">chocolate frosting recipe</a> was a really fun find - it spread so easily and tasted fantastic!! And there you have it! Topped with Reese's peanut butter cups and Reese's Pieces - she was SET!</div>
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Jo LOVES Peanut Butter Cups!!</div>
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We had Jo's party at pottery painting, glass art work place nearby. Her friends all got to make glass pendants and it was a blast!<br />
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I can't believe she's a decade. My how much we love her!</div>
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My daughters have both seemed to enjoy the villains in the Disney movies even more so than the Princesses. As my oldest daughter once profoundly stated, "The heroes wouldn't be heroes if it weren't for the villains!" True story. <br />
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So when my little Maren started showing an admiration (and fear...but mostly admiration) for Ursula from Disney's <i>The Little Mermaid</i>, we started to plan the party around this new love.<br />
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There are a lot of Little Mermaid cakes out there, but not so many for Ursula that weren't terribly scary! LOL! My girls are also both fans of the little plastic Tsum Tsums, so when designing her cake, I tried to incorporate an Ursula Tsum Tsum as the top tier. <br />
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To make things even more complicated, Maren said that she wanted a surprise party. Now, she was turning 5 and this was a big deal...clearly. So she told me that she wanted to be up in her room "crafting" while we assembled downstairs. I would call for her to come downstairs and everyone would surprise her. Now, this was HER plan. She told ME this. So on her birthday, we did exactly this. Grandma and Grandpa came over, and Aunt and a good family friend all wished her a surprise happy birthday. <br />
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While it's EXACTLY what she wanted, I think she was hoping for a few more of her friends to celebrate with her. She didn't say anything, but I could tell. Little did she know here bigger surprise was coming up in two weeks with a whole Ursula theme!<br />
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All of her classmates and good friends from the neighborhood came to celebrate with her. The surprise was EPIC! And it made for a day she won't soon forget. <br />
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Happy Birthday, my dear 5 year old Maren. My, how much you're loved! CakeMamaCakeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12219920286160825368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403406003723393228.post-82333946958721213492017-02-27T13:56:00.000-08:002017-02-28T03:58:26.557-08:002017 Academy Awards Party<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Another Academy Awards Party is behind us. This year, we switched things up a great deal. In all honesty, we got a puppy in August of last year and the big crowds we've had in years past just seemed to be so daunting to us as we tried to navigate our usual party. Danny and I decided to scale down a bit to keep it easy and casual. And my schedule has been overwhelming lately so I really welcomed this more relaxed atmosphere. </div>
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We invited just a few friends over for dinner and to watch the Oscars with us. Again, we kept it casual, but that doesn't mean we didn't plan! We had a good time changing things up a bit.</div>
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Per usual, we <a href="http://ampa.invisionerp.com/all-products">ordered the year's official Poster</a> and my daughter, Jo, made the Best Picture Banner this year. Our parting gifts to our friends were the popcorn boxes filled with popcorn, candy and soda.</div>
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The past Academy Awards programs also made an appearance as well as some additional film reels I'd acquired this year. The two posters of Julie Andrews and Cary Grant are among my favorites. <br />
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To accommodate our dinner party, we moved all of the living room furniture into our dining room, and moved our dining room furniture (and an additional table and chairs) into our living room. </div>
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Place cards were these chalkboard easels I found at Target this week! What a find! Danny used chalk to write names and he made them look like little clapboards. </div>
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The easels were on top of the napkins that were <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRl65iAKar0">folded to look like envelopes</a>. (And the Oscar goes to...) <br />
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The card inside the envelope was actually the menu for the evening. Here's the back and front of the cards that I made and ordered from <a href="http://www.shutterfly.com/">Shutterfly</a>:<br />
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We kept the food themed to an Italian meal that started with a variety of Antipasti. <br />
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Bruschetta and Caprese Salad were favorites!<br />
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Danny had a Tiramisu Martini ready for the guests when they walked in the door. These were DANGEROUSLY delicious! Good times were had almost immediately after consumption! LOL!<br />
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Caesar Salad followed by a palate cleanser of Orange Sorbet.<br />
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Lasagna with Celery Bread was absolutely scrumptious!<br />
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Our evening was very fun and full of lots of laughs. The fact that it ended in such a surprising fashion just added the icing on the cake! Here's Danny - mind blown! Congrats to Moonlight!</div>
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Our Parish hosted an amazing evening at the beginning of Advent this year. Ministries and groups of women could reserve, host and decorate a table for a candlelit night of prayer in preparation for Advent. It was a magical night, and the group that I'm affiliated with reserved two tables. I was requested to make the desserts for tables and opted to do Yule Log cakes for the event.</div>
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Vanessa and Danny requested their son's 1st birthday cake from Cake Mama. I came out of retirement for this one because - how could I not? I had done the cupcakes for <a href="http://cakemamacakes.blogspot.com/2012/09/vanny-and-danny.html">Vanessa's wedding shower </a>and this is just too fun - to make a cake for their son a few years later? </div>
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The huge Disney fans they are, they requested a Mickey Mouse cake for their son, Abraham. White cake with cream cheese frosting and a rice krispie treat Mickey hat made the cake. </div>
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They had a beautiful late summer day for the party!<br />
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This was Abe's first "sweet" food... He's clearly not sure what to make of this.</div>
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Mmmmm! Heaven!!!<br />
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Happiest of birthdays to you, little Abe! Can't wait to celebrate many more with you!</div>
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You know how things never truly go as planned? You envision an event going one way, and then it takes a totally different direction? Well, I had plans for my daughter's 4th birthday. I had plans. She was going to have a garden party. We'd read the Hungry Caterpillar and do some gardening and the kids would leave with a sunflower ready to bloom for the summer. I had picked up Eric Carle themed gift bags, cute little flower wands (and this was YEARS ago) and everything that went with it. And I was ready for her 2nd birthday party until....</div>
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So I saved all of the stuff for her 4th birthday. And you guessed it. She didn't want a garden party. She was all about Jake and the Neverland Pirates. So I went with it. My brilliant husband incorporated all of the garden stuff into this party by bringing in Tinkerbell (seriously BRILLIANT!) so the garden stuff is gone AND Maren got her dream golden birthday party. Win-Win! Here are some pictures from her party this weekend. </div>
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The cake is actually decorated quite simply. It's the Jake & the Neverland Pirate toys that really make it. I used brown sugar for the sand and found some candy shells at a candy shop. The cake itself is white cake and chocolate cake. I torted both layers and filled them blue buttercream. Maren's favorite color is blue and this was her request. I layered the cake with white, then chocolate, white then chocolate so it was also striped on the inside to go with our color theme. </div>
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Did you know that I had to go to three different stores before I could find Pixie Stix? I mean, what kind of a party would this be if not for the Pixie Stix? Totally worth it. <br />
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Gummy Worms = Fish Bait<br />
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Maren got a treasure chest for her birthday and it came in handy for the treasure hunt! (All of the goody bags were inside).<br />
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The kids had a BLAST sword fighting outside. I thought I was going to pass out from laughing so hard. <br />
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Uncle Jimmy took quite a few beatings! <br />
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The kids also got to go fishing! They loved this too! My husband put a magnet at the end of string and the kids got to fish out metal nuts. I think they more loved the cheer of the crowd when they "got something!!" It was cute!<br />
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They also played a Hook Toss. They had to try to hook some diving rings onto Hooks. Again, cheers made it so fun!<br />
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Then it was time to walk the plank! We had to bring this one indoors because the weather turned rainy. But that didn't stop the kids. They went from a really wide board, down to a little skinny one. They all had so much fun with this! Again, cheers from the crowd made it even more fun!!<br />
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Here's the food. My husband made the food labels and I think they added so much to the buffet!<br />
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Pirate ship watermelon boat. Lots of fun fruit in there too!<br />
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Carrots with Seaweed (spinach) Dip and Cannon Ball olives. <br />
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Skully's crackers and cheese. <br />
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Gold [chicken] Nuggets and Dead Man's Fingers (mini hot dogs).<br />
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Pirate Punch!<br />
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Now, on to the treasure hunt!<br />
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I found this ginormous Jake from Amazon.com. He was so much bigger than I thought he was going to be! With the exception of a baby-Evie, the kids all loved him! And for some reason really wanted to punch him??? LOL!<br />
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For some quiet time, the kids decorated their own pirate hats. I think CJ did a great job here!<br />
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Happy Birthday to my little Maren! We are so proud of our little girl!! </div>
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Yep! Oscars season has just wrapped up and we celebrated in style again. Our 17th Annual Academy Awards party was in full effect last night and we had such a wonderful time with family and friends. Some old traditions and new traditions came to be and I'll walk you through our party here. </div>
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I love handing out Oscars and this year was no exception! In years past, I made <a href="http://cakemamacakes.blogspot.com/2015/02/cake-mama-oscars-2015-edition.html">chocolate Oscars</a>, but I just wanted to do something a little different this year. So, when I came upon an <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Statue-Plast-Clusive-Cookie-Cutter-PC0281/dp/B00U7UQRDW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1456784807&sr=8-1&keywords=oscar+cookie+cutter">Oscar cookie cutter</a>, I couldn't believe it! I ordered it and baked the day it came in the mail! </div>
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To decorate the Oscars, I went with a gold, red and white theme and changed up the designs on each of them. Using the color flow technique made for a messy kitchen, but lovely cookies. These were our parting gift to our guests. </div>
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Packaged in small gift bags and wrapped in coordinating ribbons, they looked the part!</div>
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The house was decorated with flowers in popcorn boxes...<br />
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...and so many Oscars posters and gear. </div>
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It's become a tradition to make a banner of all of the best picture nominees and place it across the fireplace. It's the focal point when you enter the house and it draws attention to the last award of the night. Who will it BE?!<br />
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If you watched the 2015 Oscars, you saw that the Lego song, "Everything Is Awesome" was nominated. During the musical performance, they handed out Lego Oscars. No, we didn't get one of <i>those</i>, but Danny found a website that provided the <a href="https://ideas.lego.com/projects/96037">instructions to make one</a>. He ordered each of the individual pieces and created it. Voila! Lego Oscar has joined the tradition!</div>
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As our guests arrived, they received a name tag of a nominated actor or actress. If their actor won the Oscar, they received....<br />
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...a bag of popcorn and some candy. Aside from the ballot, it kept things interesting throughout the night. Our guests had a little more at stake! <br />
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This year, the Academy was selling a notebook that had words of wisdom from some past Academy Awards winners already printed within it. As our night went on, we had our guests sign our book, and we'll do this each year until it's full. I think it'll be a wonderful treasure for us to look back and read about the sweet and ridiculous things our friends wrote year after year. <br />
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I always have a good time hiding the paparazzi throughout the house. ;) They show up in the most unexpected places. <br />
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Now, for the food.... For the first part of the night, the dining room was the location of our appetizers. <br />
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"The 100 Year Old Man Who Crawled out a Fruit Tray and Disappeared"<br />
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"Brie" with "Straight Outta Compote"<br />
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"Bacon Cranston"<br />
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The kitchen table hosted the snacky, sweets. Here are "Malt Damons."<br />
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And now for the main course:<br />
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"The Revenachos"<br />
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"Mad Mex - Fiery Road"<br />
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"Fajita Shades of Grey"<br />
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Here's Erin. Her sister Kristi took home first place and her husband Steve took home 2nd place. She's thrilled. ;) <br />
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Forty isn't so bad when you celebrate it constantly throughout your birthday month. Seriously. So many celebrations and it was awesome. The first one, the night before my birthday, was "technically" a surprise party. While my husband tried his best to keep the party a surprise, him leaving out the detailed notes (date, time, location, #of people) in my office for an entire weekend destroyed any chance of the party being a surprise. So it wasn't. But who was coming WAS the surprise and it was good. ;) </div>
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My family (Dad, Mom and Brother) designed my cake. For the last 2 years, I've been a Coordinator for my daughter's American Heritage Girls troop. I've love every minute of it. Playing off of that "scouting" idea, my family designed some badges that I've earned over the years. My cake was a really creative recap of my first 40. </div>
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college (Kelly and Marie pictured below). Oh the stories that were shared. ;)<br />
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Here's the posse in its entirety and we were a silly crew. This pose is my favorite by the way. Nothing gets people laughing like trying to take a very serious or angry picture!! LOL!!</div>
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And then, much to my surprise, I came home to 40 flamingos in my front yard. Where did they come from, I wonder?!!</div>
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On my birthday, my girls got to make me a cake; something they desperately wanted to do. <br />
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I even "let them" frost it too! <br />
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Recycled badges and almost all of the candles -- this was a purdy cake!! XOXO<br />
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The following weekend, I had a wonderful group of my friends over for a few rounds of Bunco. The theme was pajamas and big hair and boy did we deliver. <br />
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If you've never played Bunco, you are missing out! Get a group together and start playing! The laughter - the moving - the counting ---- it's awesome!! </div>
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A special thank you to everyone who made my birthday (month) so special. My cheeks hurt from smiling and laughing so much! You are all so loved! Thank you!!!</div>
<br />CakeMamaCakeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12219920286160825368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403406003723393228.post-68057890194913794812015-09-29T12:00:00.001-07:002015-09-29T12:00:51.419-07:00Baby McDonald<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
My sister-in-law's niece and her husband are expecting their first child this Fall. I couldn't be more happy for this special couple. So, when my SIL requested a Cake Mama cake for the shower, I was happy to hop out of retirement to make it happen. ;) </div>
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The theme of the shower was woodland animals and the invitation was as cute as can be with a little raccoon and a fox under a few birch trees. So, I tried to recreate the invite in cake form, and here's how it turned out.</div>
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The cake is a chocolate-flecked cake with buttercream filling and frosting. Delish!<br />
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I wish Baby McDonald the best life can offer! He.will.be.loved. </div>
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In July, my Grandma Dorothy turned 95. I had such a great time making her cake. I wanted it to be a cake AND a story of her wonderful life. She was going to share this cake with the residents in her community so I wanted to make sure that it would please everyone. I went with half chocolate with strawberry filling on one side and half vanilla with cherry filling on the other. </div>
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Then, I poured through her photo albums and "borrowed" a few gems. I took these pictures to our nearest grocery store who was able to copy these pictures onto frosting paper. And here's what I came up with:</div>
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Happy 95th Birthday, Grandma!!!</div>
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Nicole is our wonderful babysitter neighbor who happens to have a birthday right around the 4th of July. We enjoyed a delightful neighborly 4th of July celebration with her and her family and included Nicole's birthday as a part of our patriotic party. </div>
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Her favorite cake flavor is red velvet, so I knew I could do something fun with that. I wanted to surprise her with a plain old birthday cake on the outside, but when you cut into it....</div>
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...there's a little American celebration inside. <br />
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The whole cake was velvet, but the coloring was plain, blue or red velvet to make this pattern work. <br />
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The cake pop flavor is white cake and boy, are they good!</div>
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Best wishes to the bride-to-be!CakeMamaCakeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12219920286160825368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403406003723393228.post-23981807299076075612015-07-19T17:25:00.002-07:002015-07-19T17:25:51.309-07:00Evan's Monster Truck Cake<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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The cake itself is a chocolate cake with buttercream frosting. His mom purchased the trucks for the top and around the cake. I covered the cake with black fondant and decorated the sides to look like a giant tire. I made a ramp out of extra cake on the side and purchased some chocolate candy "rocks" from our local candy shop to decorate the sides of the ramp. More cake was placed in the middle of the tire, where another Monster Truck could crush it. A grass border completes the cake.</div>
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What a fun scene!<br />
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White with pink trim and pink with white trim. That's what these cake pops were all about. The white ones were made with white cake, and the pink ones were red velvet. These were placed at each place setting at a wedding in June. I'd welcome the dessert - any time! Not just for a wedding!</div>
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Here they are all wrapped up and ready to celebrate the newlyweds!</div>
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Yesterday was Laura's birthday and we celebrated it right. A group of us met at a local hot spot and we ate well, drank well and celebrated with cupcakes.</div>
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Laura was not expecting us to sing "Happy Birthday" at the top of our lungs and NONE of us were expecting the entire establishment to join in the song. </div>
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After cupcakes, a quick game of Cards Against Humanity wrapped up the fun celebration.</div>
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Here Josie's posing with her #8 and the sign she made. Behind her is the cake, but we'll get to that in a little bit. <br />
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My husband created the large Lego "punch-out" that you see behind Josie. It was used as decoration for the party, but as kids left, they got to "punch-out" a circle and take home a Lego mini-figure. <br />
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As the kids arrived, we wanted to capture some fun! The room we rented for Josie's party had a BEAUTIFUL view of the lake, so the early arrivals had some fun out on the balcony!<br />
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The first station is where kids got to drop Legos into a small cup on the floor. It was a race! The first to get all 10 (they each had the exact same pieces) into their cup won. At this station, the kids earned a Lego marshmallow Pop!</div>
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The next station was were kids got to make a necklace or a key chain out of an assortment of Legos. These were takeaways and I love how creative the kids were! No two were alike!</div>
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We had a fourth station where the kids were able to decorate their own goody bags. I had markers and stickers available to them and it was nice that they could carry all of their loot around in one place. <br />
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Josie did a great job decorating for her party! Here's a toaster!<br />
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While we waited for the pizza to arrive, there was time to play musical chairs, to the song, "Everything is Awesome" of course!<br />
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And then there was cake. Josie selected the Chocolate Flecked Cake. Totally her favorite. To make this guy, it was three full layers of 8-inch cake on the bottom, torted (so 6 layers of cake to 5 layers of frosting). The top tier is another layer of 8-inch cake torted and a top 6-in tier. All covered in fondant. The Legos are edible, made of various colors of Candy Melts.</div>
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The next day, Josie brought in Lego treats to celebrate her birthday at school. These were pinata cookies, filled with mini M&Ms. </div>
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Connor celebrated his 1st Communion and I'm so honored that I was able to make a cake to help celebrate it! He wanted a white cake. It's frosted with buttercream frosting and topped with some fondant and 1st Communion topper. </div>
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We're so proud of you Connor! Congratualtions on such a wonderful event!</div>
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My Maren has been a fan of Team Umizoomi for quite some time now. If you're unfamiliar with the show, let me explain that the show is on Nick Jr. and it's all about math; patterns, measuring, numbers and shapes. I enjoy the show but not nearly as much as my daughter. So it made sense that we would celebrate her 3rd birthday with a party all about her favorite show.</div>
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A shirt that ordered for her off of <a href="https://www.etsy.com/people/sewingdivas3?">Etsy</a> arrived just in time for me to complete the design of her cake. All Maren wanted was a blue cake. Just blue. So I went with that. Her blue Umizoomi shirt arrived and so did my ideas. I'd make her a blue velvet cake and have it coordinate with this great shirt. </div>
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Here's how the cake turned out. Lots of shapes, patterns and the number 3 along with Bot, Milli and Geo in Umicar. </div>
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Here's the cake at its final destination right by the goody bags. My husband "takes the cake" for all of the work done on the goody bags. He made Milli headbands, Geo belts and my other daughter, Josie, made Bot's Belly Screens. We also included some Fruit by the Foot, shape slinkies, bracelets and bubbles and Umizoomi stickers. </div>
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After going on a few Umizoomi adventures and "earning" their Milli headbands, Geo belts and Belly Screens, the kids were ready for lunch and cake. <br />
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Maren's a little unsure of what to do while everyone sings to her. But she made the most of it!</div>
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Happy 3rd Birthday to my sweet little Maren! I hope you're party was Umi-riffic!</div>
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<br />CakeMamaCakeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12219920286160825368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403406003723393228.post-38600154604481853112015-04-26T20:54:00.001-07:002015-04-26T20:54:36.338-07:00Josie's 1st Communion Cupcakes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
My Josie received her First Communion this weekend and boy did we celebrate. Her family and very important friends came to the church to celebrate with her, and after we went out for a celebratory dinner and had cupcakes for dessert.</div>
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Josie didn't want a cake. She insisted on cupcakes with little crosses on top. I fortunately had a candy mold and was able to make these chocolate crosses (two at a time, mind you) for the top. I placed each one on a pink fondant round and I think the effect was very pretty.</div>
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Josie asked that I arrange the cupcakes into a cross. And had I used double-sided tape to secure them to the cardboard, they would have retained this shape by the time I arrived at the restaurant. Alas, they did not. Instead, they all jumbled to one side of the box. </div>
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Congratulations and blessings to my dear Josie. We are so very proud of her. CakeMamaCakeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12219920286160825368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403406003723393228.post-55893129334468971982015-04-26T20:46:00.000-07:002015-04-26T20:46:17.820-07:00Jonathan's 1st Communion Cake<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Congratulations and blessings to Jonathan on his very special day!CakeMamaCakeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12219920286160825368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403406003723393228.post-9416996526352967482015-04-26T20:41:00.000-07:002015-04-26T20:41:12.320-07:00Sophie's First Communion CakeSophie had big plans for her First Communion cake. She really wanted a blue cake. Royal Blue. And she wanted a host with a gold cross on top with light blue accents. And she wanted a red velvet cake. And a chocolate cake. She had big plans.<br />
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And thanks to her detailed plan and description, this is what she got. <br />
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While I was catching up on (if you can call it that) my magazine stash, I came across a Family Fun magazine that featured some fun Easter treats on it. One of them was orange chocolate covered strawberries that looked like little carrots. There it was. I HAD to make them. It was a little sweet with a little healthy. Who wouldn't like that?!</div>
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A very cute addition to any Easter fun occasion! <br />
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Happy Easter!!!CakeMamaCakeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12219920286160825368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403406003723393228.post-75433528129973186832015-04-07T04:53:00.001-07:002015-04-07T04:53:38.767-07:00April Fool's Day 2015<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Well, the chicken pot pie doesn't smell like chicken pot pie. <br />
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It's not chicken pot pie! It's sweet! And that's candy!<br />
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Brave girl taking a taste...<br />
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If you want to make these little chicken pot pies it's super easy! I used one small box of instant vanilla pudding and made it as directed. I refrigerated it for 30 minutes and then added the <i><b>candy</b></i> peas and carrots. I poured the mixture into little graham cracker crusts that I found in the baking isle. Prior to serving them, I added some drama by pretending to take them out of the oven and acting as though they were hot. ;)</div>
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Happy April Fool's Day!!!</div>
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I have made this cake <a href="http://cakemamacakes.blogspot.com/2010/10/baby-shower-cake.html">before</a>; <a href="http://cakemamacakes.blogspot.com/2013/06/baby-cakes.html">many</a>, <a href="http://cakemamacakes.blogspot.com/2013/09/baby-cakes.html">many</a> times, but never was it a girl! This was a fun one to make again and I'm so happy I got to make the pink diaper. ;) </div>
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Debra requested this cake for her coworker's baby shower. </div>
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Both cakes are white cake with a creamy buttercream filling and topped and decorated with fondant. Lots of it. <br />
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Many blessings to the mom-to-be! I hope the rest of her pregnancy is comfortable and quick! </div>
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