Cakes by Steph

Fashion girl cupcakes

admin — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:31:44 +0000

My daughter is at it again - designing her own cupcakes to take to school today. She picked it all out… and even helped me do them.

Barbie Girl

admin — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:28:59 +0000

My daughter turns 8 next Friday - hard to believe another year has come and gone. It seems like I was just posting her birthday cake when she turned 7! This year she wanted a Barbie girl theme. I guess more “big girl” barbie? Anyway, we had family over one day and her friends over the next day so…of course 2 cakes. :) Here’s what she designed…she she designed them. Right down to every detail…every dot color, every shape placement and the request of the 8 on top. She even dipped into my colored pencil stash to help me sketch it. It was so fun to see her bring her ideas to life on paper for me to create. A budding cake designer!

Chocolate Love

admin — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:41:03 +0000

This is February’s cake for my husband’s work meeting. Putting together V-day and some chocolate - what a pairing! The cake itself is covered in a chocolate ganache and then a heart is made on top with some chocolate truffles. Yum!

Valentine Cookies

admin — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 02:32:31 +0000

Yesterday I worked on these cookies for my 2 daughters to take to class for their valentine’s day parties. My oldest daughter (almost 8 yrs old) has grown very particular about her cake and cookie designs :) I find it both cute and humorous. She saw the bridal shower cookies I made last week and loved the designs. This past weekend I asked her what design/color she wanted for their v-day cookies. Her reply “I want the back to be light pink and I want a red heart in the middle and make it with the curl on the one side like that cookie. But I don’t want the crooked heart mom, I want a regular one [see previous post - I used a whimsical heart]. And do some of those little hearts up at the top too. That’s not too hard is it?” :) She makes me smile - her list of requests yet she wants to be sure its not going to take me a million years.

Well much to my delight it didn’t - I baked and completely iced these during the day on Wed while she was at school….all 55 of them! They went quite fast really. Both she and her sister loved them which made my day. Hopefully their friends love them too tomorrow - but then again, what’s not to love about cookies!

Bridal Shower Cookies

admin — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 03:24:14 +0000

Long time no post! We are in the middle of a kitchen remodel here so I haven’t been doing many cakes lately. Mostly because so much of my stuff is packed or hard to find. I do have great work area though thanks to a temporary kitchen setup. Here are some cookies I did that were for a bridal shower. 70 cookies total… This was my first time playing with the tiered cake cookie cutter despite having it since last summer. So much fun! I can’t wait to do more designs with it.

Apples in the Basket

admin — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:27:40 +0000

Here is the Nov cake for DH’s work. This is a 10″ round cake with chocolate buttercream and a 6″ round, 3 layer cake on top, iced in chocolate buttercream and fondant strips on the outside to make a “basket”. All of the leaves, apples and acorns are fondant. Happy Fall!

Halloween Cookies

admin — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:20:12 +0000

These cookies (4 dozen of them total) are for my daughter’s to take to their class parties tomorrow.

Halloween Cake

admin — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:19:10 +0000

This cake was for my husband’s work for October birthdays. Buttercream icing, gumpaste accents and a fondant covered ghost cake on top.

Monkey Baby Shower - part 2

admin — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 01:02:42 +0000

And here is the cake from the baby shower. Three tier (4″-6″-8″) done in buttercream with fondant accents and a fondant sculpted baby monkey on top.

Monkey Baby Shower - part 1

admin — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 01:01:10 +0000

These cookies were made for my sister’s baby shower this weekend. She calls her baby her little monkey :) So we did monkey things for the shower.