Jessie's Baby Shower

My cousin Jessie is having a baby :)

It's A Boy!
We are so excited for her. On Halloween morning she had a baby shower and I offered to make a cake for it. After some complications *I'll explain those later* we made it to the shower about an hour late. I felt so embarrassed.

So Friday night I worked on this cake until 4am. I was pretty awake too! I wasn't getting tired at all. Plus Justin had friends over until about 3 haha! Yeah we're crazy. So I climbed into bed at about 4 am and set my alarm for 8am so i could get up and finalize the cake and leave my house by 10am so we could be there at 11am when the shower started.

Saturday morning I wake up completely panicked. I vaguely remember my alarm going off, but I must have been so tired I turned it off. I jumped out of bed frantically at 9:30 knowing I only had a half hour to get EVERYTHING done for the cake, shower and get ready... Yeah right. Not happening. I was so upset at myself. So then a few minutes after I wake up my mom calls me. For Jessie's gift we were making her burp cloths, Binky clips and a blanket. Mom and I together finished the burp cloths and Binky clips and the mom said she was going to finish the blanket Friday night while I worked on the cake. This is what mom said:

"Um, I didn't finish the blanket because I'm lame. I apparently don't know how to line up fabric and sew a straight line."

My heart dropped. I took sewing for 3 years and yes my mom DOES know how to sew seams. That's all this was. I knew I wouldn't be able to get it all done. I felt so bad. So the blanket had to wait. I finished the cake, we tied the burp cloths and Binky clips with a cute ribbon and we were walking out the door at about 11am. Which was when the party started. And we had to drive out to South Jordan which was a 30-45 minute drive.

So I'm walking out of my house with the finished cake in my hands and i totally smeared the writing BOY across my chest. I was so upset. It looked so cute and I screwed it up. I should have stuck with fondant letters instead of buttercream. So you can really tell I messed the letters up.

This baby was my favorite! It was so fun to mold all the little fingers, the ear, and hair :o) He's too cute, isn't he?

I love the buttons for the border. Those were fun!

Jessie's Aunt made all this food! It was amazing!

A few minutes after we were all done eating and just chatting in the front room I see this little boy, probably Jessie's cousin, climbing up onto a stool and onto the bar. I think I was the only one watching him do this, but it was like slow motion, he reached forward and just DUG his whole hand into the side of the cake, right between the bottle and rattle. I just snickered and let it be. Only seconds after it happened his mom saw him. It was so cute. But i figured we were only going to eat it anyway and we had already gotten pictures and stuff :o)

Jessie!

So we get to the party and all my cousins are dressed up as pregnant women! HAHA! I love my cousins! Jessie (in black) is the only one who is pregnant, although Katie (in pink) is married too :o)

Lucy, Jeneil, Aunt Leah, Olivia, and Me

Jessie and her sister Lucy

This is Courtney, She looks so cute, holding her pregnant belly and everything! Haha!

This is Katie. She is married to Jessie's Brother, Clancy. Doesn't she look adorable!

Sisters, all dressed up!

Here's the trick to their pregnant belly's! What a good Idea!

Anyway, It was a great party, and the cake was so fun. I am excited to create my next baby shower cake.

I'll also be posting the pictures of the cake on my cake blog!

New cake post

Click here to go to my cake blog and see the final cake I made last night!

It went a little something like this :

1st All Fondant Cake

So as some of you know, I'm in course 3 of my Wilton cake decorating. It is the course on Fondant and Tiered cakes! So on Tuesday our instructor had us bring a cake so we could learn how to cover and decorate with fondant.

Let me just tell you, I LOVE IT! It was so fun. Last week when I was sitting in class and she told us what we were going to be doing I thought "I'm never going to be able to make that." Well class went awesome! It was actually really easy. Working with fondant is so much nicer than working with buttercream. It is easier to clean up and it looks A LOT better. Fondant just gives a cake an all around clean, smooth look.

I'll definitely be working with fondant LOTS more :o)

Justin plays softball every Tuesday night. So after class I called him and he said he won his game, so i said we have to have a celebration party at our house so we can eat my cake. It was lots of fun!

Lemon cake, with lemon cream filling. Not my favorite, but still good!

Awe :o)

Byron was so intrigued by it:

I am so excited that i learned how to cover and decorate a cake with fondant! In another week we will be doing a tiered cake! Yipee!!

This is a Trifle I did for a BBQ on Labor Day:

Bridal Shower

So I'm sure all of you are wondering what my last cake was for. My good friend Lindsey Sweat is getting married and so we had a bridal shower for her. I had so much fun making this cake. I still have to say the best part is bringing the cake in and seeing the reactions. I'm so glad I was able to go to the shower! There were SO many old friends their that I have missed and I loved that i was able to catch up with them. I shouldn't wait so long to see old friends!

People asked me if it killed me to cut the cake that i spent about 5 hours on. But no, i don't think it does. It's the satisfaction knowing that I've helped and made people happy. That's the best feeling ever.

So on Wednesday evening I started this cake, but first I found out what Lindsey's colors were: Lime green and bright turquoise blue.

My Messy Kitchen. This is a White cake with Strawberry Cream filling, and white butter cream icing.

Getting ready for the bow!

These are the loops for the bow. I had to let them dry over night.

The border is butter cream, Not fondant like the circles and bow.

All finished! I love the way this cake turned out. I'm so happy for Lindsey and Ryan. They are such a cute couple! Congratulations you two!!

Also, I want to thank Kiley for throwing such a fun shower! You did awesome. But we're going to miss you while you are in Brazil. You will be such a strong missionary and will touch so many lives. We love you Kiley!!