Alligators...

Last year I made Grayson sharks, this year he's into alligators....I did sort of a cutsy swamp theme with snakes, turtles, frogs and gators.

Thank You Mary!

A thank you cake for a coworker who got shafted by our employer. We all recently had to rebid for our positions, and she lost her permanent day shift charge nurse postion, and now is working nights. The sad thing about this is that she is a remarkable nurse, charge nurse, woman...she will be missed in her position, and the department will suffer because of this change.....Thanks Management...(not!).

Anyways, this cake is modelled after the gift bag beside it...I ended up doing the stripes late last night, and this morning realized how imperfect they looked. But do like the overall of the cake. The cake will be topped with fresh daisies when we reach it's final destination...

The top cake is turtle, and the bottom is vanilla with strawberry filling and lemon icing.

Once again, and from the bottom of my heart...Thank You Mary. You will be missed, you are appreciated and I am sorry for this change.

The Cake Slice Bakers Present.....Lemon Poppyseed Cake!

This month's cake is from the cookbook, Sky High: Irresistible Triple Layer Cakes by Alisa Huntsman. I opted to make the cake into cupcakes because I had promised a friend some cupcakes, so I killed two birds with one stone.

They are a light cupcake with a hint of lemon flavor, and crunch of poppyseeds. The frosting is an almond cream cheese buttercream. I thought that the frosting was delicious, but overpowered the cupcake....I really couldn't taste any lemon.

Verdict - I will definitely make these again, but next time will use more lemon in the cupcake and less almond in the frosting....

Congratulations Mary and Bill!

An engagement party cake. My first attempt at gumpaste peonies...I had a better one, but It didn't fit on the cake nicely....

Cupcakes to go with graduation cake....

The first picture is actually from the fireman cake from a couple of posts ago...it was a "special cupcake" for the birthday boy, rather than a smash cake.

The other cupcakes were ordered with the preceding cake...graduation, pretty and beavers.....

I tried a twist on my devils food cucake today, I put a half a tablespoon of almond filling in the center...it baked the same texture of the cake, and gave it a nice little bite at the end. I topped it with an amaretto frosting.

The flower cupcakes are vanilla with lemon and raspberry flavored american buttercreams.

The graduation hats are carrot cake (recipe courtesy of Martha Stewart in her cookbook 'cupcakes') with cream cheese frosting.

Congratulations Nichole...

Make a graduating from electrical instrumentation school, make it pretty...and oh yeah, she likes to "hunt beavers"....could you put that on the cake.....

HAHAHAHA.....

This is what I came up with, after consulting with my friend Frosty...

more pictures of fireman cake...

First Birthday Fireman Cake and Cupcakes.

A fireman cupcake tower with a small 6 inch cake on top...the top is removable, I thought it would be easier that way.

Vanilla Bean and Amaretto Pound Cupcakes...

From Warren Brown's "Cake Love", his vanilla poundcake recipe, but instead of brandy I used Amaretto. These cupcakes are yummy....Full of yummy ingredients and full of taste. I topped them with a 50/50 ABC/SMBC raspberry amaretto buttercream...topped with raspberry puree and toasted almonds. I had some extra chocolate cupcakes too, so I topped them with the same.

Ni Hao, Kai Lan...

This was a replica of a two tiered cake...unfortunately, I don't know who it originally came from...