Kathy's Cakes

For my boss's birthday- she's the finance manager. 

After much planning, I finished the wedding cake for my sister Anna and her husband Shawn. The cake turned out great!! Even though along the way there were some unfortunateness- it was down pouring when we delivered it, but were able to make it just fine. It was a 4 tier white cake, with green accents to match the wedding color. I am happy to say that it was a success!!! I made homemade buttercream frosting and my sister had a silver cross to go into the top inside the white frosting roses with green leaves. Each tier had a green satin ribbon with clear and green gemstones for accent. This was also the first time one of my cakes had their picture taken by a professional photographer. Super exciting!

Happy Birthday to my fiance!! He hit the big 24. He likes baseball. And he likes to smile :) The bases are marshmallows! and the sand is brown sugar. Because he turned 24, he has that many points  Baseball Bat

This is a shower cake for my sister! 

I made these chocolate dipped strawberries for a bachelor party for my sister's fiance!

This cake was mostly for my Grandpa who is 100% Irish, and his birthday falls around St. Patrick's Day. 

HAPPY MARDI GRAS! I even put a little plastic Jesus figureine in the cake!   Jester!

  We made our own frosting roses! 

A simple birthday cake with  frosting roses for my aunt.

I had been planning this for a while. It is a practice for my sister's wedding cake. It's got 4 tiers- two are white cake, one is marble, and the last is chocolate. That's right.... there are 37 eggs in this baby. But I also used some of that batter to make a few cupcakes: I also made mini roses for the mini cupcakes. Dirty iced cakes Top of cake, homemade frosting roses, with a cross that will be on top of my sister's wedding cake. My huge cake I added leaves The finished product. I used a satin ribbon on the bottom for an added simple decoration.

I finally tried fondant for the first time. I really liked it. Here I used some shimmery powder that I painted on the frosting flowers that I made myself. I made my own icing leaves with homemade buttercream frosting. It was easier than I thought. The drapes are made of fondant, as well as the pink hearts and pink roses on the sides of the cake. To make them pink, I just kneaded red food coloring in the white fondant. The Final Product!

My first time trying out frosting roses!

I decided to make a Rosary cake for my priest!  He was very surprised I used small pearl sprinkles for the beads!

A huge cupcake with baby cupcakes around it :)

  Here are some Christmas Cakes! First is a snowman, then a Christmas tree, and then a 4 layer cake.     I gave this Christmas tree cake to some friends that hosted a night of playing cards. This next cake is somewhat like a MSU cake I suppose because it is green and white! The top layer is actually just a cupcake. On this cake I used a green spray can edible thing, it's just like a spray paint can, only the paint is edible.  Top view of the 4 layer cake.

This is my Minnesota cake. I've got a friend that currently lives in Texas, but used to live in MN. He came up recently and so I thought I would surprise him with a MN cake. I was making it in the kitchen and would not let him see what I was doing until it was finished! I had Jeff distract him for a while. The picture to the right is before it was frosted.   This is Brad with his cake!

Hello World! I have decided to make my first blog ever. It is about cakes. I recently got interested in cake decorating, as I have watched Cake Boss on Netflix. I have made a few cakes so far, and plan on getting better and better. I plan on posting pictures of my cakes as I make them. Today I ordered 3 cake decorating books online. Here I go!