There are more fish in the sea!

Last week Angie and I booked 2 cakes, well at the very last minute we had a mother of the bride come to us and ask if we could do her grooms cake and what do you think that we said?? YES! Of course! I guess the groom is a hunter and the bride not so much...this is how it turned out! Reminder...I am not a hunteress not hunter's wife...PTL I was working with a hunters wife!!

We thought that it came out really cute!! Everything on the cake is edible except the figurine, 4-Wheeler, and Camping Light! The trees are made out of rice crispies and actually were really good!! PTL for a microwavable recipe!! The bride and groom LOVED the cake and actually did a reenactment of the cake, we have yet to see the picture but when we do I will post it!!

Father's Day was Sunday...did you call your daddy?? I hope so!! This family sure did show how much they loved and appreciated their daddy by surprising him with a basketball cake with the symbol of his favorite team! Can anyone take a gander at just what team that was??? Here is the end result!

UK Basketball is where it's at around here! And I have to admit that I have been sucked in to the UK fan-dom! UK all the way for basketball and OSU all the way for football! :-) That's how I roll! :-) HAHAHAHAHA Anyone who knows me at all knows I don't know a lick about sports soo it should strike you as hysterical ;-) This cake had a lot of firsts for us: This was the first time that we attempted a round cake and I might add that it is very challenging to ice, the first time that we attempted making home made chocolate buttercream icing which I might add is SO much better than the canned! If you are willing to try this EASY recipe I will give it to you at no additional charge! :-)

My mom called me at the beginning of the week and wanted to know if we could make a cake for their VBS and since the theme was under the sea we immediately said YES! We were SO excited about this cake! We knew it was going to be a lot of fun colors and shapes, we were just so EXCITED to do this cake for them!! Not to mention that the people getting the cake were very near and dear to my heart so it made it that much better! As we were going through the process of making a cake, anyone with teenagers will know that there is SO MUCH DRAMA in their lives.  Dating, boys, girls, mistakes, make up, GAH the list goes on! So, I dedicate this cake AND the title of the blog "There Are More Fish in the Sea" to our Youth Group! Love ya!

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Have a SWEET day! :-)

Astros!

Angie and I made a cake for a Little League end of the season party last week! As with most of the cakes and creations that we come up with, they never quite come out as we see them in our heads, but they always come out looking better than expected! We wanted to do a picture of what the ball field looks like from above.  You know, infield, outfield, pitchers mound, all that.  Here's what we ended up coming up with! I think it turned out really cute for the kids!

We also made 2 dozen cookies that looked like baseballs for the kids to enjoy as well!

These cookies were some what of a challenge! We had never worked with color flow before so we thought we would give it a shot because it's supposed to be good sugar cookie icing.  We get some color flow from our local Hobby Lobby (Gotta spread the love!) and mixed it up exactly how it said.  Well, word on the street about color flow was that it could be thick or thin but that you just add water to thin it out...well I'm here to tell ya that if color flow is at all too thick good luck squeezing it through a tip!! It's not going to happen folks! It took both Angie and myself to get these cookies iced!! We were doing some reading on color flow after the fact and realized that it shouldn't be THAT thick and unmanageable...HA well, like we say we learn as we go and we have fun doing it! The kids loved them and really in the end, that's all that matters! We want our confections to make our customers special day, even more special, so all the hassle and mishaps are worth it in the end!

What do we have in store for you in the future? Here's a sneak peak!!

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Have a SWEET day!

And The Winner Is....

US! Angie and I won 1st place AND people's choice in the Hobby Lobby Cake Challenge! It was so exciting and both of us are still in shock that we won both! We were up against people who had been doing this for a while and to be honest everyone's cake had their own unique things that brought out their strengths.  We were totally floored!

Angie and I have totally found a talent that we share in common and where 1 is weak the other is strong.  I have totally enjoyed working with her and I believe that we will be doing this for a long time! At least I hope so! We have decided to make a little business out of it! Click here to become a part of our group on Facebook where you will get the latest uploads and updates, AND you can click here  to join our fan club!

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Graduation and ... Cake off?

I had no clue that when I started this cake class that people would actually ask me to make a cake for them, I mean really, do they know who they are asking to make a cake? I can't even walk a straight line, but somehow I can pull off making a pretty good cake! My friend Angie and I have taken the first course in the Wilton Methods for cake decorating and we had a BLAST!

The class was 4 weeks long and out of those four weeks, three weeks we completed cakes! Here is my first cake:

We had to take and transfer that rainbow from paper and put it on the icing using piping gel...it's easier than you think and even if you think you are not an artist and couldn't possibly do it...you can because I get the first place prize in "Least Artistic Ability" category and I totally rocked at doing this! I was quite pleased with how they turned out! 

The third week I was out on vacation so I didn't make a cake, however I did have to come back and learn the technique which was how to make people faces using different types of dots and how to make a clown.  Editor's Note: Please don't ever ask me for a clown cake.  Clowns freak me out and these clowns just look possessed! However, I guess it's something I'm just going to have to get over!

The fourth week we were supposed to bring in a cake and have it frosted and put at least 3 Wilton Roses on it.  Now, this makes for a pretty sad, but funny story.  I am in the middle of moving into our new house, which means there are boxes every which direction and we had family that was in to visit.  I forgot about the class until the day that we were supposed to have it so I come home from work and start making my cake.  I'm not too worried about getting it done because I had plenty of time to do the cake, make the icing, and ice and the cake in enough time to get out the door to class.  I pulled my cake out of the oven and all looked great on the outside so I waited for 10 mins to let it cool in the pan before flipping it over and getting the cake out of the pan. 10 mins passes and I go to flip the cake over and pull it out of the pan and it FALLS COMPLETELY APART!!! I was so upset! I had no cake to bring to class because when that happened I totally had NO time to worry about making another one because I had an like 30 mins before I was supposed to be at class.  So, I couldn't take one in that week either.  BUT I'm glad because I got to work on making roses, and let me tell you, they are SO hard, but I actually became pretty good at it the more I practiced! I actually enjoyed learning how to make them and they are not as scary as what I thought at the beginning of the class. 

At the beginning of class our teacher came up to me and Angie and asked us if we would be interested in competing in a cake off...THIS SATURDAY..did I mention the class was TUESDAY! WHAT??! HA! Well, because we are crazy we said we would do it! We were the only ones in the class asked to compete in this competition so we thought that was really cool! Anyway, the theme is the lazy days of summer and we have a really sweet cake picked out that we are currently working on.  I am so super excited about this cake but am also so super scared at the same time! I am not putting a picture up of it right now, but I will give you a hint..it has something to do with summer!! :-P 

Angie was asked before we were asked to make the cake for the competition to make a cake for a graduation.  She asked if I would help her because we are basically a team anyway, we work really well together and one person's strengths highlights the others weakness and so we work great together! Anyway, I went over yesterday and we spent the entire day working between the graduation cake and the Hobby Lobby cake.  We got a lot of things completed for the Hobby Lobby cake yesterday and we also managed to mulit task and get the graduation cake completed! Here is the out come...what do you think? 

 

We had the best time working on it! It's 2 books stacked on top of each other with a graduation cap on top all of which is edible except the top of the hat! Angie and I have basically decided that we are going to do each cake together, which I'm really excited about because I FINALLY have someone that enjoys making and decorating cakes as much as I do! 

So, this is what has been going on for the past month! I will post a picture of our competition cake possibly tomorrow but probably Sunday.  If you are in the Ashland Area and really don't have too much to do on Saturday, come by Hobby Lobby in Russel around 12 and vote for our cake for people's choice! We are super excited, but super nervous because we are going up against people that have been decorating cakes much longer than we have! Wish us luck!!

Have a SWEET day! :-)