Monogram Cake!

Last weekend we attempted our very first monogram cake! It also happened to be our largest cake to date! After a couple of preliminary disasters (involving the oven and some pretty brown cakes that have been donated to a good home), we think it turned out pretty well... The fondant turned out perfect... at least the best we've ever done.

We think the letters turned out cute! They were really fun to do once we figured out the design we were going for... which took much longer than we would care to admit on this blog.

We don't have a picture of the inside, but we made the buttercream hot pink on this one. We are thinking about making that our signature thing... Brightly colored buttercream inside all the cakes! Who knows what color you will get? It will be our little surprise for every one...

Until the next cake...

-Mallory

Happy Birthday, Anna Grace!

We made a cute little birthday cake last week for a SIXTH birthday party! It's hard to tell from these pictures, but the cake is actually light pink on darker pink - so in other words, extreme cuteness done at the birthday girl's request! We decided to attempt all lowercase letters this time... so that is something new for us that we are pretty excited about! Hope you like it!

It's a Football Pie!!!

Another weekend full of baking and decorating...

The first cake we did was... SURPRISE... another present cake!!! We loved the big "H"... and the great platter Laura found that was the PERFECT size for our beloved present cakes! She is so good at finding these things!

The next cake was our favorite cake we've ever made (this is what we always say when we do something new). In honor of the Super Bowl... a football cake! We had SUCH a fun time with this one... especially creating the little bits of "grass" around the bottom. Go Steelers...or Cardinals... or whoever won! Just kidding... really...

I hope everyone enjoyed their cakes... We very much enjoyed creating them!!!

-Mallory

So Many Presents!

Today we made another present cake! We are getting to the point with these cakes that we really don't even have to talk (or think, much) about the cake at all while we are making it... We just blab about whatever is on our minds and the cake just sort of happens...

I'm not so sure how I feel about that... Maybe it's time for a new challenge...

-Laura

Baby Shower FUN!

"What were we THINKING?" is what Laura and I usually say when we commit ourselves to more than one cake in a weekend. Not last night though...

Laura and I both have sweet friends who asked us to make a cake for the baby showers they were hosting. We decided that since the paisley cake was so enjoyable to make, we would look closely at that experience to see what we could learn. Mostly what we came away with was eating dinner before we started yelling at each other and vowing to never speak again would be the first step to successful baking/ decorating (we are two GRUMPY girls when hungry). This changed our experience drastically! We were calm, happy, and simply loved every second of the process!

The first cake we made was for a boy. His name will be Mason, and Laura and I just loved that name so much that we decided it should be on the cake. Luckily, the mommy had a blog that we could peruse to "get to know her" before we designed the cake. Her fantastic blog gave us an idea of the colors and type of design she would want. We felt confident by the end of the night that she would be pleased with our creation. We surely were!

No strict guidelines were given for the second cake... we had a vague idea of what we wanted, but ultimately decided to "go with the flow." Needless to say, we were nervous! With several new supplies, we tried a few things until we came up with an idea that worked (we think) very well! As Laura said, "It looks like a REAL baby gift!"

By the end of the night we were talking about how much we ADORE making cakes for baby showers! There are endless possibilities for sweet designs!!!

-Mallory

Leah and Lauren's Paisley Cake

My sister Leah and her friend Lauren wanted to try making one of our cakes, so they came over to my house on Monday and Tuesday for their first lesson!

They pretty much did the whole thing while I watched and instructed! Mallory was still in SC on Monday, but she joined us on Tuesday and helped out with the decoration!

Leah and Lauren had high hopes for this cake design and we were both pretty pessimistic about how it would turn out... It seemed so detailed and intricate and complicated and... we just didn't want to give them any false hope that they would actually be able to complete such a masterpiece...

IT TURNED OUT GREAT!!!!!!

Honestly, I don't think we've ever completed a cake so cute and they are first-timers! They are totally going to be designing all of our cakes from now on!!

-Laura

We broke our cardinal rule...

After the infamous weekend of the doxie cake AND the Auburn cake, we promised each other that we would NEVER again attempt two cakes in one weekend... BUT, as I'm sure you are aware, last week was FUN WEEK. It was pretty much inevitable that two cakes would fall on the same day...

This Saturday we spent the entire day getting these cakes done - but it went so much better this time!

The first of the two cakes was a surprise to us (well, we found out about it AFTER our fondant prep day of 9 colors), so we had to make the fondant first thing... We decided to go with lighter colors than usual, but we love them so much! The texture of our new fondant was perfection! The cake itself was a fun & new design for us, so we have a new favorite cake...

We then moved onto our next onesie cake... those things have become pretty popular... Maybe they'll become the next Lava Lamp or Beanie Baby or Tamagatchi or something, and we'll work like crazy for three years and retire at the ripe old ages of 26 & 27! Hey, it could happen...

Anyway... this cake was for Leah and Baby Carson! We took our inspiration from the baby registry and did this one in blue, brown & ivory with dots to match Carson's room. We heard it was a hit at the shower, so we are thrilled that they were happy with it!

-Laura