Happy Birthday, Leanne!

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A triple-chocolate cake, iced in chocolate ganache, covered with fondant and studded with M & M's.  The Green Lady M&M is all fondant.  This is for our long-time friend who is the biggest chocoholic I've ever known ;-)

Sweets for the Sweet

Love making those Valentine's Day cookies!

Elephant!

A little gray gumpaste elephant holds the birthday balloon aloft atop a chocolate cake for the party goers,  while little William gets to dig into his very first birthday cake, baked especially for him.

The monthly birthday celebration cake for the nurses and staff on Kate's floor at Texas Children's.

A new chocolate cake flavor I developed last week ... I call it 3-D Chocolate!  A deep, dark, decadent chocolate cake iced and filled in whipped chocolate ganache, then topped with poured chocolate ganache.  This particular cake is a 4-D Chocolate, since it's wrapped in yet another layer of chocolate slabs and tied with a ribbon!

A sweet little birthday cake for a freshman at a local university who is far, far from home on his birthday.

Chocolate Choo Choo

I believe every two year old would want a birthday cake like this fun one!

Well, Helloooooo Kitty!

One tier chocolate, one tier vanilla.  For an adorable 4-year-old.

Elmo

Big Elmo and Little Smash Cake Elmo went out the door to help celebrate a baby boy's First Birthday!

Brontosaurus at the Science Museum!

Enough sour creme princess white cake and buttercream icing underneath that green fondant to feed 40 people.  That was one Big Brontosaurus!

Party at the Cockrell Butterfly Center!

For a sweet five-year-old who loves blue and pink and butterflies!  Each tier has a chocolate layer and a vanilla layer so guests can eat what they love and leave the rest.  Or ... eat it all!  Buttercream icing and edible wafer paper butterflies. 

A sparkly, girly princess turns 30

What a total joy this cake was to make.  Happy Birthday, Karla!

The disaster that was Emily's wedding cake ...

No pressure on the Mother of the Bride to make the wedding cake, right?  I had all four tiers perfectly iced and decorated and ready to stack and complete upon arrival at the wedding venue, 90 minutes by car west of Houston.  90 HOT minutes by car in early October in Texas.  90 HOT minutes wherein evidently NONE of the AC in the front of the car made it to the back of the car where the cakes were riding.  Kate and I were freezing in the front seat, covered with goosebumps and wishing we'd packed mittens and wool blankets.  What could possibly happen to the cakes in the far back, when we were so cold up front???  Well.  A lot could happen.  Like massive butter meltdown of all that buttercream icing.  DISASTER.  I didn't even take a 'before' picture of the groom's cake because it had broken into a million pieces and I wasn't at all sure it could be restored and I was afraid my new son-in-law would have a heart attack if he saw it.  (When you see the picture of his cake and realize that he's a Chicago boy who followed his bride down here to the Heart of Texas, you will understand why I was in fear ... )

Ten hours, 3 pounds of butter and 12 pounds of powdered sugar later...

The wedding cakes are rescued and restored! 

She loves pink and purple and horses

And she's turning nine ;-)

Cake for a Sunday morning party at The Zoo!

Pretty in Pink

A white princess sour cream cake covered in buttercream roses for my favorite Democrat's birthday.

Mermaid!

The entire design of this cake was dictated by the sweet 7-year-old birthday girl herself.  I love customers who know exactly what they want!

Izzy and her Dora Backpack cake

Pardon the birthday dinner detritus in the background.  Izzy is totally into Dora the Explorer these days, so Nana made her a Backpack cake, complete with Map!  And that framed picture in the background on the bookcase?  That would be Nana's first grade school picture.  Oh my.

Dragonflies, butterflies and froggy

The birthday girl loves her bugs!

Sombrero!

For a dude turning 60, with the party at a local Mexican restaurant.  His grandkids call him "Pie", thus the symbol on the cake.  Clever, eh?

Izzy is Two!