Go Speed Racer

Go speed racer-or Reece racer as we say in our house. Reece's 4th birthday is Monday, August 25th. We are having his birthday party this weekend and he's still pretty much into Speed racer. The cakes a standard 3 tier w/ the first 2 square and the top round. Bottom layer is brownie w/ chocolate ganache icing, second is banana nut w/ caramel icing, 3rd is peanut butter w/ peanut butter icing. All covered in fondant of course. First layer is the checkered flag, second is the speed racer checks, top is just white w/ the number 4 all over it for his fourth birthday. I made all the decorations out of gumpaste and painted them-w/ edible paint. Of course my almost 4year old son sees me doing this and say "Mommie paint my cake". Hope this doesn't make him think he can paint food w/ anything. In front of the cake is something my 9 year old daughter made for him w/ the leftover fondant-the flag w/ cutouts of his name. Can't wait to cut into that brownie-it smelled really good. Also can't believe my baby is almost 4-where does the time go?
ps-Jerry says to make sure I tell everyone that my hot sexy husband helped by keeping the kids occupied-how could I do it without him.

Baby overall cake

This is the first cake I've made for someone other than my kids and once for my mother-in-laws birthday.  My husband's co-worker couldn't find anyone to make a cake shaped like baby overalls to match her party theme-so I agreed.  Just a little nervous when it's for someone else.   I'm really bad at saying no too, but I kinda wanted to see how it would turn out.  I think it's pretty good.  I had a blast making it.

Toy Story Cake

This was Reece's cake for his second birthday.  I made several layers of rice krispie treats, brownies and cakes in a 9X13  cake pan and iced them.  Covered them w/ fondant that I made a quilt pattern on and then painted w/ food coloring.  Bought the bronco stamp from ebay and stamped w/ food coloring.  made the pillow w/ fondant as well.  The rug is also fondant.  The blocks are rice krispie's w/ cut out fondant allowed to dry.  The rug is also fondant-braided.   It's placed on plywood covered w/ hardwood looking contact paper to resemble the hardwood floor in Andy's room.  The headboard and footboard are melting chocolate the I traced the pattern out on wax paper taped over a pic of the head and footboard from the internet.  I attached these w/ icing-easier than I thought.  The figures are mostly McDonald's happy meal toys I bought from ebay.  This is probably one of my favorite cakes and one of the easier ones to make.

Creepy Crawly Cupcakes

These were the cupcakes my daughter took to school for her birthday-yes, I baked the entire week in addition to working.  They were her usual gross theme-no princess cakes for us.  The cupcakes are her favorite flavor-brownie/chocolate chip cookie.  Iced w/ chocolate ganache icing.  Used white icing writer to make the webs and then attached the gross realistic bugs ordered from oriental trading-what could be better for a 9 year old girl to take to school.  Had to make her teacher some cookies though-she doesn't like chocolate.  I'm always a little suspicious of people who don't like chocolate.  Anyway, simple, delicious, and perfect for any little princess's birthday.

Spiderwick Cake

Here is my latest creation, a cake based on the Spiderwick Chronicles movie. It's a three-tiered cake based on the house in the movie. The bottom layer is stacks of Rice Krispie treats covered in icing and fondant. The middle layer is a peanut butter cake, and the top layer chocolate cake.

The big round window is made of rolled fondant that was painted with food coloring, as is the jars that spell out Kenzie.

The book is made of sheets of brownies covered in icing and then fondant, and the pages are edible rice paper that were traced with food coloring markers.

The figures are McDonald's toys.

I'll start digging up photos of my other cakes and post them as well. Hope everyone enjoys.