Teacher Appreciation Cake

This cake was for a birthday party of a good friend of mine (who just happened to be a teacher).  It's a 1/2 chocolate sheet cake (don't remember if I added a filling).  I used chocolate ganache for the chockboard and modeling chocolate and fondant for the accent pieces.

Baby Block Cakes

These cakes were for a baby shower.  Each cake was a 4 1/2 x 41/2 x 5 white almond with strawberry filling.  I like how I placed the third block on top, but it was a little scary driving to the shower. 

Peep Cupcakes

My husbands favorite Easter candy is Peeps.  He has to have them in his Easter basket (yes, he still gets an Easter basket full of his favorite Easter candies).    So these cupcakes were for him.  I don't think he even noticed the cupcakes, he went straight for the Peeps.  

Lily Cake

This is a cake I made for an Easter brunch.  This was just a small 6" white cake with chocolate butter cream frosting in a basket weave.  I made the Lilies out of fondant.   It made a great center piece. 

Easter Cupcakes

These cupcakes really dress up a table for an Easter gathering.  I used green dyed coconut, but if you don't like coconut, you can always use green chocolate shavings.   Or make it really easy and use a grass tip and just use green butter cream.

Earth Day Pudding Treats

For the past two Earth Days, I've been going to my oldest daughters school and teaching them about the importance of recycling and planting gardens in a yummy way.  This treat is so easy to make.  Here are the steps:

1. You'll need small terracotta pots, individual snack size pudding cups, green spoons, fake flowers, hot glue gun, Oreos, gallon size bag, and gummy worms.
2. Crush the Oreos in the gallon size bag so that it looks like dirt.  Cut worms in half.
3. Hot glue one flower to the tip of each spoon.
4. Place pudding cups in pots and remove top.
5. Carefully place enough crushed Oreos on top of pudding to cover it. 
6. Place gummy worm into the pudding and place spoon in center of each pudding snack.

When the kids are done with their snack they rinse out their pudding snacks and recycle them.  I also have real dirt and flower seeds on hand for them to plant in their pots.  Tip:  Cut wax paper for the bottom of the pot so the dirt won't fall out.  Bring plastic wrap and rubber bands to cover the pots so they won't spill on their way home.  The kids love it!

CAbi Cake

A friend of mine is a CAbi consultant and had a spring preview show at her house (If you've never heard of CAbi clothes, please check them out, love their clothes).  Anyway, she asked if I could make a cake for her party in the shape of the logo.  The cake was a 1/2 sheet white almond cake with red raspberry filling.  I used butter cream frosting and fondant flowers.  The party was a great success!