For fans of three famous brothers...

This is based on the logo from the Jonas brothers
TV show. (Creating the band logo would have
been much too hard!)

Hopefully you can recognize

the "King of Pop":Michael Jackson!
It was the best I could do for
this request...use your imagination! :^)

I copied the "Flower Fairy"
from a picture. The flowers
on the cupcakes are made from
marshmallows!

Latest cakes!

I was really excited with the way this cake turned out!!
I saw the idea online and had to try it. The bow is made
of fruit-by-the-foot!

Elmo turned out great, too.
I think the 2-year-old birthday girl liked this one!

M-I-N...N-I-E...M-O-U-S-E!!

I created Minnie Mouse this morning for a three -year-old birthday girl. People often ask how I make my cakes. They assume I have cakes pan to make various shapes. I don't usually! So now I will show you how I made Minnie...step by step.
First, I need an idea! In this case, I had the napkin from the birthday party. Next, I drew a sketch of Minnie to help me decide what pans to use, and how much cake I needed!

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Next, I baked a 12" round yellow pound cake using my secret recipe. Then I baked three 8"round cakes using the same recipe. All cake parts went in the freezer overnight. (Frozen cake is easier to work with.) When I was ready to decorate, I cut the cakes into the shapes I needed for Minnie's head, ears, and bow.



The next step is to crumb coat everything. This involves coating everything with a thin layer of vanilla icing. It seals all those cut edges, so the finished cake doesn't have crumbs in the icing.

Everything went back into the freezer so the crumb coat would set more quickly. While I waited I prepared the icing, coloring vanilla icing pale peach for Minnie's face and pink for her bow. I decided to use dark chocolate icing for the ears and the sides of her head. When I finished icing the head and ears, I iced the bow with pink and put it in place. Finally, I used decorating gel and icing to add Minnie's face.

My first cake in 2009!

I wasn't thrilled with my chocolate buttercream frosting,
although it did taste good.
It Didn't look as pretty as I would have liked!
I like the way the baby shoes turned out, though.

Cake for a Georgia Fan

My latest cake is for a Georgia Bulldogs fan...pretty good for a hand-drawn G!