Double Doozie

I know I'm a little late in posting these pictures, but it's been a busy week! To catch you up, we made two totally fun cakes last Friday!

This cake was for Laura's sister's "Stateside Again" party that her friends had in honor of her return from England! We decided to go with a stars and stripes theme, and look how cute it turned out!

We also had another onesie cake to do on the same day... This one was for a baby girl and in the lovely color scheme of pink and green! Precious!

If you are an avid reader of this blog, you are probably thinking "Whoa, whoa, whoa... Isn't your ONLY rule that you don't do two cakes on one day?! Don't you ALWAYS regret breaking this rule?!" Well, my friend, we have triumphed! Two cakes at once and they both turned out super human cute!

-Mallory

Up in Flames

My grandparents celebrated their golden anniversary this May, and our whole family found two whole days a couple of days last week when all of our schedules were free enough to spend a little while in Atlanta celebrating with them. My mom asked me to make a white and GOLD cake for the occasion, so that was something new... GOLD! SPARKLES! Woo!

It sort of started out heading down hill and then just picked up speed as we went along... I will elaborate.

Since this was a mid-week cake, I baked all the cakes ALONE and I guess it just wasn't my day... Knowing that it was all on me helped me to ruin about SIX cakes in about three hours.

Seriously?

At least I made the fondant and the buttercream okay on my own... My confidence was sort of semi-restored... Mallory came over after work, rescued the cakes, and we got the main elements done super easily and quickly. (Yay!) We packed it up for SLC's first ever on-site assembly...

So smug.

Things were looking up! Just not for very long...

At my aunt and uncle's house, Leah helped me put all the pieces together, and we really put in a good effort... but we had some issues with the little gold pearls sticking and then sliding down the side of the cake leaving little sparkly slug trails behind them. Cute, right?!

Don't we look glum?

Here is the finished result...

Okay, so maybe it isn't SO bad...

Of course... I think it looks so much better in the pictures than it did in person. I probably should be keeping that to myself... but this is a blog, not a portfolio...

Oh, and our super cool number shaped sparklers were also sort of a let down... They looked nice before they were lit, but guess what... They don't burn long enough for the first ones to still be on fire when the last ones get started...

Cake provides comic relief... Go figure!

Luckily it was for the family, and since they didn't pay, they couldn't complain!

Somehow I don't think they were going to anyway...

Have a wonderful week, and stay tuned for the next two cakes we have coming up this weekend!

-Laura

SLC Gets a Mini Makeover!

One of SLC's very best friends is quite a pro at blog design, and she offered us a free button yesterday! You know us... Who are we to turn down free anything???? Especially anything for our fabulous blog!

Once she sensed our extreme excitement (because we came right out and told her we were flipping over her gracious offer), she decided to make us a new header, too! Before we knew it, we'd gotten a bonafide mini makeover!

Now aren't we fancy?

It's Just Like... It's Just Like... A Mini... Cake! Hey! Hey!

We made a tiny cake this weekend, and it was big fun! It's sole purpose in life was to serve as a centerpiece (and then as a take home dessert for the parents-to-be) at a baby shower on Saturday morning...

Usually our cakes this size are just one layer, but since this was the whole thing we changed it up a little! This one was three mini layers! That much more buttercream only serves to make it that much more yummy if you ask me!

Have a great week! More cakes coming soon!

-Laura

Remember Us?

Okay, folks... So it's been awhile, but we are officially BACK from our little baking hiatus. I'm sure we were missed, but don't worry -- we missed you, too! And after all, absence makes the heart grow fonder... or so we've been told! Anyway, as of yesterday afternoon, we are back with a bang!

We are always thrilled to do something a little bit different for a change, so you can probably guess how excited we were when SLC's new friend Monica asked us to do a baby boy shower cake in turquoise, green and orange!

(If we have made a cake for you in the past and you want to believe that your cake is the cutest cake we've ever done, then by all means go ahead... BUT, seriously, how cute are these colors?!)

Have a great weekend!

-Laura

Baby Boom!

Is it just us, or does it seem as though there are new babies everywhere these days?? We LOVE it!!

This weekend we made another onesie cake... This time for mom-to-be Heather and baby boy Jacob!

We were very excited to have been given "full creative license" on this cake, so we tried something new!

Hope you like it!

-Laura

Twice as Nice

It's no secret... we LOVE making cakes for baby showers! It should come as no surprise to anyone that when we were given the opportunity to create a cake for the shower of a mommy expecting TWINS... well, it could go without saying that we were TWICE as excited!

We KNEW we had to do two cakes (there ARE two little babies on the way after all)... but after some discussion, Laura and I decided that there would not only be two cakes... there would be *TWO* TWO- tiered cakes!!!

We had SUCH a fun night... even if that last picture wasn't taken until close to midnight...

Have a great week!

-Mallory