Welcome Baby Angel

This cake was ordered for a large party to celebrate the anticipated arrival of Baby Angel. When I arrived to deliver the cake, family and friends were busy cooking up lots of food that smelled delicious and decorating the home - baby Angel is already getting spoiled! The cake is a 12 inch round which is approximately 45 servings - cake is white almond sour cream filled with 3 layers of strawberry mousse, iced with American buttercream and decorated with fondant with a blue, purple, white and yellow color theme. The baby booties are made from sugar and can be kept as a keepsake.

They also ordered white chocolate suckers as party favors - pacifiers, diapers, baby booties and "its a boy".

Artist Night - Jenifer Samaha Photography

Jenifer, of Jenifer Samaha Photography, was the featured artist for a gallery night at Cabin Coffee in Glendale. Jenifer is an amazing lifestyle photographer specializing in children, maternity and senior photography. She ordered baskets of chocolate dipped marshmallows and pretzels to serve during the event, a basket for the raffle drawing, and business card favors. Everything was decorated in the colors green and orange to coordinate with her logo.

16th birthday basketball cake

This cake was made for a boy's 16th birthday celebration - he's a huge basketball fan and is a member of the Cave Creek Cactus Shadow's team. The school colors are blue and gray. This cake is a 10 inch square chocolate sour cream, chocolate mousse filling and iced with American buttercream. The basketball is covered with fondant. The school mascot is an edible image.

Here's a closeup of the basketball - I texturized it using a papertowel that had the similar pattern as a basketball!

2 kids birthdays

These cakes were ordered by two moms in my MOMs club for a playgroup birthday party. The butterfly is made from 6 inch and 8 inch hearts - half of the cake is chocolate sour cream with white chocolate mousse and the other half is white sour cream with rasberry mousse. Icing is American buttercream and decorations are fondant. The train cake is for a boy who is a huge Thomas the Tank fan - his mom will be placing a train on top of the cake. This cake is chocolate sour cream with cookies and cream filling, iced with American buttercream. The signs are made with edible images on fondant - the stop sign was a special request.

sand castle cake

This cake was ordered for a family get together. Its almost exactly like the sand castle that I did last summer for a MOMS club end of the summer get together - they even wanted the same message on the cake. The cake is chocolate sourcream, rasberry mousse filling, american buttercream icing covered with crushed graham crackers and sanding sugar. The shells are white chocolate.

tequila bottle

This cake was made for a friend's husband who collects Tequila. We had a little fun with the label adding his photo, changing the name from Ron to Don, and changing the date to 1967 (his birth year). The bottle is made from fondant, painted with food color and dusted with gold. The label is an edible image. The cake is a 10" x 10" cake that was cut in half to make a 20" x 5" cake. The cake is double chocolate sourcream, filled with white chocolate mousse, and iced with American buttercream.

birthday box

Want something delivered to a spouse or friend's work to surprise them on their birthday? How about a Simply Sweets birthday box filled with Simply Sweets chocolates. This box was ordered by a woman who wanted to surprise her husband at work with some treats that he could share with coworkers. The box was filled with a large Happy Birthday chocolate bar, chocolate dipped pretzels with sprinkles, chocolate dipped fortune cookies with nonperils, rice krispie treats dipped in chocolate and drizzled with white chocolate, and oreos and graham crackers that were chocolate dipped and decorated with a birthday theme (cake, packages and a party hat). The color them of this box was yellow, red, blue, and white.

This weekend was my mother-in-law's birthday and I made her a birthday box filled with Simply Sweets treats in the colors of pink, yellow and white.

and of course, we had some cake - this 6 inch cake was double chocolate sourcream, filled with white chocolate mousse and iced with American buttercream decorated with cornelli lace.

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Luau birthday celebration

This cake was ordered by a woman who was throwing a huge luau themed suprise birthday party for her husband. This was a large cake, 12 inch round which serves approximately 45, and cupcakes were added for more servings. Cake was white sour cream, rasberry mousse filling and iced with american buttercream. Flip flops and palm trees are made of fondant. Shells and surfboards are chocolate. "Happy 30th Birthday Jason" is printed on an edible image with a palm frond background. Sand is crused graham crackers and sanding sugar.

space shuttle themed birthday cake

This cake was made for a boy celebrating his 4th birthday who loves anything to do with space. The cake design was done to coordinate with the partyware. Cake is white sour cream with chocolate buttercream filling and icing. The planets are made out of fondant and the space shuttle and letters are made from white chocolate.

Happy Birthday Harrison

business thank you gift

This gift basket was ordered as a thank you to a cosmotology school owner. The basket includes chocolate molded lipstick, compact, mascara, eye shadow and chocolate dipped pretzels, oreos, graham crackers and rice cereal treats.

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Pilot congratulations

This cake was ordered for a future pilot who just completed his first solo flight. Mara lives in the Netherlands and wanted to send a congratulations cake to her boyfriend who is attending flight school in Mesa. Cake is chocolate sour cream, filled with chocolate mint mousse and iced with chocolate buttercream. The airplane is made from white chocolate and the photo and message are edible images.