Round 'em up cowboy...

We celebrated my nephew Blake's 2nd birthday with a cowboy themed cake. This cake was a two tier white almond cake with vanilla buttercream and rasberry filling. The cake was accented with an edible belt buckle, hat and western stars.

One of my early cake creations was Blake's 1st birthday cake last year. It's great to look back at the cakes I've made in the last year and how much I've learned. This year I plan to kick it up a notch and put more focus on wedding cakes...watch out Martha here I come!

Birthdays & Beer....

What birthday guy doesn't enjoy a little beer on their birthday? So I thought why not make an edible cake version too!

This year we celebrated Dave's birthday with a 'barrel of beer' cake. One all ages can enjoy. It was a four layer vanilla cake with three layers of chocolate truffle filling. The 'barrel' was handpainted with food coloring, decorated rock candy ice and sugar beer bottles with custom birthday labels.

The cake caught some eyes when we celebrated Dave's birthday at Buffalo Wild Wings in Ankeny. Thanks to the great gals there & great service, we had so much yummy food we barely had room for cake!