Guess how Old?

This cake was for a "round birthday for a friend of mine. I thought 60s and tie-dye went well together. It was a fabulous lemon pound cake with lemon cream cheese frosting.

Babyshowers

Several of my co-workers have been expecting babies and so we had a wave of baby showers. Here are some cupcakes, that I made for the various occasions.

Topsy-Turvy in Blue

This weekend the son of a friend of mine got married. They wanted a grooms cake for the rehearsal dinner in his favorite color blue. So we decided on a topsy-turvy cake with three layers in 12", 8", and 4". The cake itself was a white chocolate cake with an espresso custard filling, covered in cream cheese frosting.

Princess Castle

Castles are in fashion this month. This one was for a girls 4-year birthday party. We have a chocolate base and a golden butter cake castle.

Beach Party

This was a birthday cake for a 6 year old boy. It was a beach party theme so I made a larger version of Marlene's last birthday cake. It is a 12 x 12 yellow cake in two layers with cream cheese frosting. the sand is graham cracker crumbs. The beach people are Teddy grahams. I tried to make fondant palm trees, but this spring is just too moist and they just disintegrated. Thank goodness for plastic.

My home is my Castle

It has been a while since I made a castle. This one has a 16 " round chocolate cake base and is made out of a yellow butter cake. I dug a mot, lined it with marzipan , and filled it with blue jello. The kids at the party loved it and when they kept asking their parents for more "water" they actually meant jello.

Strawberries and Cream

It is the time of the year for strawberries. When I was a child I loved strawberry cake best, so I have made many different versions of strawberry cake. But I think this new one is definitely one of the best. It is a Americas Testkitchen recipe. What could be wrong with three layers of buttery cake, strawberries and various configurations and plenty of cream?