Thomas the Train!

Here's another cake I made for Cartwheels and Coffee.  Stinkie was dying to put the train on the cake...so I LET HIM!  He was so careful and did such a great job, don't you think?
The cake is Chocolate Sour Cream cake, a new recipe that I am in love with that bakes up like a dream and tastes lovely.  The filling and frosting are vanilla buttercream, with fondant accents.  Everything is edible except the Happy Birthday sign and the Thomas, which I got on sale at Walmart for $3!  It's not the regular Thomas train for the tracks, though.  It's...wait for it....MEGA BLOCKS!  It comes apart into 5 pieces.  Stinkie loved it but I wouldn't let him play with it.  I hope James has the best birthday ever!  The party is tomorrow morning.
  This was my first time doing a spiral carving on a cake, so it was a little nerve-wracking.  Thankfully, I had to carve out enough cake so there was a lot of "leftovers" to snack on!  The technique ended up being pretty simple and I didn't have too stressful a time with it.

The hardest part of this, believe it or not, was the mountains.  The funnest part was the clouds.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JAMES!

I haven't posted in a while!

I'm pretty pooped out from dancing all night last night at a FABULOUS wedding, so this is going to be brief.  I took a cake hiatus to prepare myself for this coming month.
Last night I did my second wedding cake...well, it was kind of my first since this was the first one I was paid for.  It was SO stressful but I did like that it came out looking like the picture the bride provided and that the tablecloth I made fit so well!

Hm.  Let's see, did I make any cakes since the Father's Day cake?  YES!  I made a cake for my Father-in-Law's birthday.  It was a fun little cake and it was completely custom.
I don't know that I can go into all the details that made this cake perfect for him, but I'll tell you what it is.  It's him sitting in his LaZboy with his headphones on, knitting a new car.  Around him are three of his grandchildren (he is raising the two girls with my Mother-in-Law) causing mayhem.  He is smiling.  It's like cracking a code...but MIL LOVED it and FIL saved the topper!  Here he is...see the resemblance?