Sunday, October 26, 2008

Birthday cakes

For my friend's kids birthdays this year...

(March 2008) Maryn turned 6 and was asked to be suprised with her cake, so I made her a butterfly cake. This was a 2-layer, 9-inch round pan cut, positioned and shaped to form a butterfly. The cake itself was a strawberry poke cake.

(April 2008) Brett turned 4 and wanted a "Cars" birthday cake... This cake has 2 parts. A marble sheet cake on the bottom, and a Lightning McQueen cake on top. It fed 9 adults and 8 or 10 kids, I think.

(May 2008) Then, Alyssa (who turned 13) also said to suprise her. Her 9"x13" sheet cake was a peaches and cream cake, topped off with additional peaches in a flower/butterfly (you decide) design.

(Oct. 2008) Brynna (9) is really into High School Musical, and her birthday happened to fall during the same month as the opening of HSM3. The cake didn't turn out very well in the picture. The 9"x13" cake was a double-chocolate chip cake, and has a red/white checker pattern as the background, and then the text was hand-written and filled with yellow sprinkles.
- She also had a "friend" party, where she wanted to do "crafty" activities. This included cake decorating, and I was called in to help. The 4 girls decorated cake halves (6" round) to look like purses. The above picture was the sampler to give them an idea.


(Jan. 2008) A (different) friend asked if I would make a cake for her friend, Dinny's suprise party. This was a 13"x18" 2-layer sheet cake (to serve approx. 40) with whipped topping and fruit in the middle layer. The fruit included mandarin oranges, peaches, pineapple, pear, kiwi and strawberries.

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