Elmo Cake

Last weekend my mom and I had an extremely busy day on Friday as we prepared two special cakes for our dear friends. Yolanda and Monica didn't plan this accordingly and they ended up having both of their kids' parties on the same day! Luckily, one was at 11:00 am and the second one was at 4:30 pm. To us, that meant a busy Friday, tons of buttercream, very few hours of sleep and a really messy kitchen.

Yolanda had an Elmo theme going on so she wanted to celebrate her son's (Nicholas) second birthday with an Elmo cake. She found a design that she liked and gave it to me to recreate the cake. Here's the cake she wanted.

I decided to change the tones to make it more vibrant so we added several bright colors. Nichola's cake was butter chocolate with buttercream frosting and filling. Elmo and the Sesame Street sign were made out of chocolate and I found that Yolanda had a tough time cutting it at the party because she liked it a whole lot.  Here's the cake we made for him (Later, I'll find a shot where you can see the entire design).

Here's the chocolate Elmo.

Happy Birthday Nicholas!!

BTW, we had a lot of fun at the party. Yolanda is really crafty and the table where the cake was sitting was decorated amazingly. She decorated marshmallows and made these beautiful treat bags for the kids. I'll post a picture of their table when she sends me a picture of it.

Mocha Cake

Today we made a delicious three layer mocha cake filled with vanilla buttercream frosting. It was for a young man named Nick turning 25 years old so I thought brown color would be appropriate. To add more flavor, chocolate ganache is drizzled on top of the cake.

Monsters Inc Cake

Mike Wazowski, Sulley's scare assistant from Monsters Inc was the main attraction on this cake. The monster is completely edible since it was made from chocolate. The cake is all chocolate with raspberry filling (yummy combination) and it is covered with buttercream frosting and adorned with fun fondant circles all around.

 

Along with the main cake, the birthday boy got an additional "smashing cake" so he didn't have to dive into Mike - the monster.

Tania, Saul's mom, ordered his first birthday cake last year from us. It is one of our most popular kid's cakes. Each cake was a different flavor and it was star piped with buttercream. Here's a picture of it.

Boombox Cake

A friend of my daughter Lillie had a birthday and she is into Hannah Montana, her name is Nadia. She didn't really want to have HM's picture on the cake, but wanted to have something about her. He mom Ana mentioned a boombox and we thought it would be a great idea to create it as a cake. Take a look!

I didn't plan on putting a CD player, but then I figured that Nadia turning only 5 years old she wouldn't even know what a tape was. The inside of the cake was chocolate and white with buttercream frosting. The cake was covered with our homemade fondant and we adorned it with stars all around. Nadia loved the cake and her mom commented that it was too pretty to eat. 

Carrousel Cake

This new cake was made for a party with a Carnival Theme. We designed a two level Carrousel cake with cute animals made out of chocolate. Lions, giraffes, hippos, tigers, oh my! The bottom cake was lemon and spice cake with vanilla buttercream. The top tier was chocolate and white cake with vanilla buttercream. Kids love that buttercream. The topper consisted of cupcakes and chocolate lollipops.

Along with the cake, we made some cinnamon cookies and we placed some of the chocolate made animals on top of them. Our cookies always come wrapped in cellophan bags and tied with a matching ribbon.