Wednesday, July 29, 2015

CAKES AND COOKIES!


THESE ARE THE MANY CAKES, CUPCAKES AND COOKIES MY FAMILY AND I HAVE MADE FOR BIRTHDAY PARTIES AND SPECIAL CELEBRATIONS OVER THE YEARS!
cupcakes made by piping cake colored icing onto cupcakes using
different decorator tips.  Added candy eyes, miniature marshmallows,
dum dum lollipops, & other assorted candies
Cotton candy added to background


Circus Animal Cake
printed out flag template found online
added puffy alphabet letters on the flags

used a glow stick under a cutout for this cake

We made marzipan cookies to decorate this cake with
they are always fun to make as you can shape
them any way you want!






Made this "White Horses" cake for my mom's birthday
It is based on the story of how she met my dad


Game night
Cake with rubiks cube (we didn't make it, used a real one,
but I have seen them made!  we did add fondant pick up
sticks. The scrabble letters are shortbread cookies we
made



My dad collects stamps so we made him this cake

Dominoes (Brownies)


We had a 50th Alice in Wonderland party
the top is a cake, the rest is cardboard and we
covered in icing


Another Alice in Wonderland cake
this was made with fondant icing
and a teapot candle we found






Lollipop cookies we made for a Wizard of Oz themed party

Wizard of Oz them with the tornado coming
down from the ceiling made of black material
Bought a sheet cake and decorated it

This is a cutout of my mom as a little girl I made for her
birthday

This was an inkblot birthday party cake we made
We had everyone make inkblot pictures and name what
they looked like. 



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This was a beach birthday party theme
a sun bonnet cake and flip flop cake (above)



This cake was made for a fairy woodland party theme

These were individual cakes we had made for all the
guests to decorate at a bridal shower - This one we
decorated as a sample

these were cookies we made for a bridal shower

some of the individual bridal cakes that guests decorated
at bridal shower

My son in a variety of his super hero
costumes - I  scanned the photos
and cut them out glued on cardboard

We did a travel vacation party theme for my dad since
he loves traveling and going on family vacations
His name is Wally thus the Wally's World sign we used
He has a white van we all travel together in. Wanted to
use an old station wagon like we had as kids but we couldn't
find one



For my mom's 80th birthday we did
the theme from the book and movie
"Great Expectations" That is why
there are rats by the cake! 




High School graduation book cakes

We bought this cake for my sister's 50th but we
decorated ourself







My mom and dad's 50th anniversary

Game night Chinese Checkers cake

My son's 30th birthday cake
I used cutouts from everything
that represented him



Just a good old fashioned pineapple upside down cake!

Leftovers!
We did a "Dime" party for my mom's 70th Birthday.
She is always finding dimes and she feels they
are a sign of good things - Her father used
to give her dimes.


cupcakes we made for Valentine's Day


Valentine shortbread cookies baked from scratch and decorated

cupcakes we made for Valentine's Day

Easter

we bought a sheet cake and decorated it for my
mom's birthday

My cake topper

Marzipans we shaped for Easter


decorating cookies with everyone on Christmas Eve

ice cream on a stick cake


watermelon cake my mom made

funny alien cake




paint palette cake for my brother who is an artist