Fast Cars and Women....and a few other things

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Ready for this week's adventures?

  I have five cakes to showcase this week.  It was a good week to celebrate...whatever the occasion happened to be.  I'll start with my favorite cake of the week.  Another cake for the Ryherd Family.....I love those people!  :-)  They keep me busy and always want something fun and unique.  What's more fun for a 1-year-old boy than a race car???  Not much.....unless it's that certain race car named:

LIGHTENING MCQUEEN!!!!

Happy Birthday Wyatt!

...and, of course, every 1-year-old needs their own smash cake to demolish...

Smash Cake



Both cakes are iced with buttercream and decorated with pieces that I made from fondant.  The blue and yellow balls, the black squares, and the road are all made from fondant.  The flags are made from red fondant on which I then painted the message with black food coloring.  Even Lightening McQueen was hand made by me and completely edible.  My 3-year-old son was a little curious about why I would want to borrow his toy McQueen...and was very watchful to make sure I wasn't going to give it away to someone else!  I had it sitting on the table to reference while forming the fondant into the right shape.  He was sure glad when I handed it back to him!

That covers the fast cars, now....on to the Ladies,

the Girls,

the Twins,

The Pointer Sisters......

I could go on, but I think you've got the picture.  Well, here's the picture:

Save the Ta~Tas!!!

I made this cake for a lady with breast cancer.  Some of her friends and co-workers ordered it to have at a Girls Night Out for her before her upcoming surgery for the cancer.  Her son also has cancer.....makes my crazy, hectic life seem pretty easy.  Reminds me of just how much I have to be thankful for.

It is iced with a thin layer of buttercream and then covered with fondant.  I then piped the buttercream trim onto it.  It was actually easier than I expected it to be....although, I have to say felt a little weird as I was smoothing out the fondant.  I was thinking, "I hope no one walks in as I'm cupping the breasts on this cake to get the fondant smooth!"  That would be awkward! Ha! 

Anyway, I think it turned out quite nice...actually, I might be a little jealous. 

Maybe she's just extra perky because of the COLD weather we've been having:

Brrrrrr!!!!!

Do you see that???? It says "BLIZZARD" on my weather center in my kitchen window!!!  We didn't get too much accumulation out here, about 4 inches or so.  My road was better than the streets in town.....maybe it was because the wind was blowing 9 million miles an hour!  OK, maybe not quite that hard, but out here in the wide open spaces, the snow didn't stick much...it just blew on past!  I also want to point out the -5 degree low temp....who ordered that?  Through another log on the fire!

Oh, look....here's the upcoming forecast:

See that fluffy, cute little pink cloud that says 5-6"???  Hopefully, I can make it up to Wichita for Brent's appointment with the Orthopedic Specialist (maybe he'll get to wear a tennis shoe out of there instead of that big ol' boot--I hope, for his sake), get groceries for the Valentine Banquet, and go to Cake Stuff before most of that hits the ground.  I'm pretty confident in my driving abilities...but some people see a snowflake and suddenly they are so completely incompetent that they shouldn't even sit behind a steering wheel, let alone start the car and drive it.

OK...done ranting about the weather...it is winter, after all, right?  Come on Spring, the groundhog says you're not far away...I hope he's right!

OK, Back to Kakeland...

My next cake was a baby shower cake for a Mommy who likes K-State.  Baby is a girl. 

So...Pink and Purple, of course!

The baby quilt is made from fondant and the purple details are hand painted with food coloring.  It says "K-State" on the middle square.  I also used my fondant/gumpaste tools to make seam lines and ruffled edges on the quilt.

The other two cakes that I made this week were both birthday cakes.  One was Dora the Explorer.  I found a picture I liked and piped it onto the cake using buttercream icing.  Some of the sprinkles around the edges are shaped like ABCs and 123s.  Fun!

And finally,we have Toy Story!  I love that series of movies.  I think Zackary could possibly quote the entire Toy Story 3 movie and always insists on acting it out as we watch it.  Why did we pay so much to see it in 3D at the Warren when it came out??? It's like 3D every time we watch it with Zack!

So, here's the cake:

I started this cake with no real idea of how I was going to decorate it.  I had the two characters to go on it, but no real direction.  So I decided to "write" the Happy Birthday message like the Toy Story Logo with the 4 dangling off the end like the 2 is on Toy Story 2.  I used fondant and my alphabet cutters to do the lettering .  I did the piping around the yellow letters with blue buttercream.  I think it all resulted in a fun design.

One last delicious picture:

Homemade Pizza!

Well, it's not a cake...but it turned out looking so yummolicious that I had to take a picture of it!  It tasted just as good as it looked, by the way.  :-)  We love homemade pizza at this house!

Until next time, remember:

"Vegetables are a must on a diet.  I suggest Carrot Cake, Zucchini Bread, and Pumpkin Pie."

                        --Jim Davis

February 8, 2011