YUM! Cakes by Beth

Reindeer Cookie

2011-12-20T13:36:00.000-08:00

Here are the cookies I made for a cookie exchange this week. Getting into the holiday spirit! I used chocolate covered pretzels for the antlers, mini chocolate chips for eyes and red MMs for the noses.

Second go at the Minnie Mouse cake

2011-04-20T13:04:00.000-07:00

Magic Rabbit in a Top Hat

2011-04-20T12:58:00.001-07:00

Rabbit in a Magician's Top hat! Jack turned 5 this week and here is the cake from his birthday party.

Basketball cupcakes

2011-02-07T11:51:00.000-08:00

Sorry these are such a horrible pictures. I forgot to take better ones at the basketball party.

Individual Present Cakes

2010-12-17T05:55:00.000-08:00

Dradle Cookies

2010-12-17T05:50:00.000-08:00

I saw these on Family Fun and made them for a few guys in my office on the last day of Hanukkah. They are Fig Newtons with gel icing. The magazine used pretzel sticks but I didn't have any so I used coffee stirrers as the handle.

Wine Tasting Cake

2010-11-12T11:57:00.000-08:00

40th Birthday party! Wine and cheese tasting! Fully edible; all fondant.

Eclipse - Twilight Cake

2010-06-29T06:06:00.000-07:00

Michele's Spa Birthday

2010-06-21T06:17:00.000-07:00

Darin's Birthday Cake

2010-06-18T05:59:00.000-07:00

Darin loves going to the beach, he loves golfing and he works for Coca Cola. So we designed a special cake for him that incorporates all of his favorite things. I'm in love with all the fun details. I hope he enjoys it as much as I enjoyed making it.

Jada's smiley face cake pops

2010-06-11T06:11:00.000-07:00

I forgot to take a picture of the pops with their cute little faces before I wrapped them all up. A picture of them wrapped is pasted below.

Friday cupcakes

2010-06-11T06:00:00.000-07:00

Daisy cupcakes

2010-05-21T07:43:00.001-07:00

Becky ordered these for her Son's Rehearsal Dinner.

Happy Birthday Jeannie!

2010-05-21T07:40:00.000-07:00

Blue and Brown Babies

2010-04-28T05:33:00.000-07:00

Another set of baby toppers... I find it amazing that I haven't repeated any color combination yet. I love them every time.

Darth Vadar Cake

2010-04-23T05:18:00.000-07:00

Barn Cake and Farm Animal Cupcakes

2010-04-20T12:18:00.000-07:00

This cake and these cupcakes were for my nephew Jack's 4th Birthday. It's funny because I feel like I just started making cakes but his Super Hero cake was one of my firsts last year. He LOVED the chickens!

Mickey Mouse Cupcakes

2010-04-19T07:46:00.000-07:00

I made these for Jack's class on Friday to begin his birthday celebration! He definitely loves anything Mickey Mouse and these were no exception. His class gobbled them all right up! The ears and party hats were made of fondant and the stars are large primary colored sprinkles found at my local craft store.

Blake's First Communion cake

2010-04-09T08:03:00.000-07:00

Blake's mom contacted me and asked for a very simple first communion cake. I gave her a few options to chose from and this is what we came up with. I think it's so sweet and clean.

Spring Cake

2010-04-09T07:56:00.000-07:00

This was a practice cake for me. I've been waiting to try out some semi-realistic flowers. I think this cake is so pretty. I hope the ladies at Dave's work enjoyed it!

Baby Booties Cake

2010-04-02T06:46:00.000-07:00

Twins! Cupcake Toppers

2010-03-26T05:55:00.000-07:00

Cat In The Hat

2010-03-19T06:17:00.000-07:00

Cole's CUBcakes

2010-03-08T06:01:00.000-08:00

My nephew's first game of the season was on Saturday; he's a Cub this year. It turned out to be a beautiful sunny day. I made these cupcakes for his team's snack for after their games.

I tried out the swirls in the cupcakes that I saw a few weeks ago. Just add a couple drops of food coloring to the batter in each cup and swirl with a toothpick. I made the toppers the night before and let them dry on a wire rack over night to hold their shape. To make the bats I swirled light brown and dark brown fondant together to mimic the grains in the wood. I used gel icing to decorated the toppers. Add a swirl of icing to the top of the cupcakes and top with your hand made toppers and aren't they cute?

Petit Fours

2010-02-08T10:44:00.001-08:00

They are a lot harder than they look... It's covering them with the icing that I'm going to have to find a secret trick to before I attempt these again. But they are yummy and very, very sweet!

Homer Donut Cake!

2010-02-05T05:26:00.000-08:00

This is a Birthday cake for one of Dave's co-worker's husbands. He LOVES the Simpsons. She contacted me looking for the Simpson's signature pink donut so I upped the fun a little! I hope you love him as much as I do!

Make-up Bag Cake

2010-02-01T12:17:00.001-08:00

Here's a Birthday cake for a friend of mine. My sister had a few ladies over for a girlie brunch and what is more girlie than Make-up?

Auburn Cake

2010-01-29T06:01:00.000-08:00

War Eagle.

Saints Cookies

2010-01-27T06:38:00.000-08:00

I know my friends and soon to be family in Indiana aren't going to be happy about these.... but ... sorry guys.
Sugar cookies with royal icing.

Palette Cookies and Artist Cake

2009-12-11T11:02:00.000-08:00

New Moon Cake

2009-11-23T11:17:00.000-08:00

Pink and Green Babies on Petit Fours

2009-11-23T11:14:00.000-08:00

Fondant Ducks

2009-11-11T06:18:00.000-08:00

Pink, Brown and White babies

2009-11-10T06:31:00.000-08:00

More baby cupcake toppers. Everyone's favorite and they are so much fun to make! :)
Before Pacifers.

Totally finished

Pumpkin cake

2009-11-02T10:46:00.000-08:00

Graveyard - Pumpkin Patch Cake

2009-10-26T08:52:00.000-07:00

Indiana Jones Cake

2009-10-23T07:14:00.000-07:00

A new style for me. This is the first time I've shaped the actual cake into an object and it's the first time I've made a human figure.

Michael's 1st Birthday Cake

2009-10-02T05:34:00.000-07:00

Here's a two tiered cake to match Michael's birthday invitation. And a smash cake on the side for him to dig into! Happy Birthday little Michael. Enjoy!

Adrienne's baby shower cake!

2009-09-25T06:17:00.000-07:00

We're getting ready for Baby Poe!

NASCAR cupcakes

2009-09-08T06:47:00.000-07:00

Atlanta Motorspeed way had their first night race on Saturday. We also had a

Butterfly cookies on a stick

2009-09-08T05:57:00.000-07:00

Tired of the same old boring give aways at birthday parties? Give your guests a treat they will love! Say 'Thanks for coming!' with a royal iced sugar cookie on a stick. Tie it up with a ribbon and a tag to tell them how much your enjoyed having them.

Pink Princess Cake

2009-09-02T08:48:00.001-07:00

Every little girl wants to be a princess... right? What better time than her Birthday?!? Tatum and Lulu celebrated with a two tiered pink princess cake! How could it get any better?
I used a white gel pen for the writing, pink dusting powder to add a little shine to the crown, and white candy pearls for detailing on the crown and signs!

Colorful Books Cupcakes

2009-08-25T07:38:00.000-07:00

These cute little back-to-school cupcakes have books and chocolate sprinkles.

I rolled white fondant out thinly and cut two rectangles placing one on top of the other; I folded them over to make four pages.
I then colored fondant with various colors and cut thicker, larger rectangles to wrap around as book covers; I scored each on the left to look like binding.
I piped white icing on each cupcake in an inward swirl.
I added chocolate sprinkle for color.

Girly cupcakes

2009-08-25T07:33:00.000-07:00

School Bus Cake

2009-08-11T12:34:00.000-07:00

Shopping Spree

2009-08-05T07:15:00.000-07:00

Do you love to shop? Do you have a few favorite stores? Here is a cake that is probably close to any girls heart. I took a 9 x 13 cake and cut it into three smaller sections, covered with fondant and stacked. To make sure the bottom layer wasn't holding all the weight I used dowels and cake boards between each layer. The Nordstorm box top is purely a fondant decoration.

Camping Trip

2009-07-31T05:41:00.001-07:00

Here is the finished product. I added the oar at the last minute, so the photos of the cake with the oar are not as good. But I thought the canoe needed a little something extra.

Happy Birthday Blake! I hope you have a wonderful birthday party. Don't let the bears get you tonight! :)

Camping Cake

2009-07-31T05:36:00.001-07:00

The beginnings of the camping cake.

Max Cupcakes

2009-07-24T12:46:00.000-07:00

Locumtenens.com announced the name of their little blue logo today. Meet Max... This is Max 175 times.... I think I'm done with cupcakes for a while.

School Spirit - Notre Dame

2009-07-24T06:56:00.000-07:00

Do you have a favorite sports team or school? Celebrate with a cake!

Babbit's Birthday Cake

2009-07-15T07:57:00.000-07:00

This cake was created with the help of the Miller, Kinnamon, and Hendershot families. I colored large balls of fondant and let the kids imaginations run wild. Their only direction was to make something that Grandma likes. And guess what? Grandma loved this cake!

Locumtenens.com Cake

2009-06-30T06:34:00.000-07:00

I incorporated three company logos onto this cake. It was a thank you for some hard work done.
I free-handed everything on this cake except for the small light blue circles on the sides. The puzzle pieces were a lot of fun but took some time to make.

Dora and Boots Cake

2009-06-12T06:17:00.001-07:00

I love this cake. I found the Dora and Boots figurine at the store. I covered the cake as usual with one color and then cut small strips from a lot of different colors of fondant that I mixed. I'm not one for repetition so I didn't do the same colors in the same pattern or at the same widths apart. I then took some strips and wrapped them around some wooden chopsticks and let dry. I also made loops around twisted paper towels for the bow. Then I attached all of the pieces to the cake using corn syrup. Next, I cut out stars and drew faces on them using black food coloring and white gel icing. I slid them about half way onto some floral wire and placed around the Dora and Boots figurine in the middle of the cake.

Happy Thursday Cake

2009-06-11T06:29:00.001-07:00

Who needs a reason to have cake? Here is a fun and quick decorating idea. Ice your cake with your favorite frosting, take the back of a spoon and make fun little dips and peeks. It makes for a cute presentation without all the fuss. Throw on some sprinkles, add a ribbon and you've got a fun cake for any occasion!

Stella and Dot Mini Cupcakes

2009-06-11T06:22:00.001-07:00

Mini Cupcakes for a Stella and Dot jewelry party. If you are interested in buying some fun jewelry or maybe having a party of your own visit: www.stelladot.com/taylorbryant.

Minnie Cake

2009-06-05T08:15:00.000-07:00

Here is the newest cake. I'm back at it after a week or so off. A Minnie Mouse Cake for Mollie's birthday! The inside of the cake matched the outside. We made the top tier chocolate and the bottom strawberry, both with butter cream icing. Happy Birthday Mollie!

Kindergarten Graduation

2009-05-15T08:25:00.000-07:00

Tatum is moving up to Kindergarten!

A co-worker wanted a cake for his daughter's Preschool graduation. I thought crayons would be appropriate. I covered a small box with fondant so that it would hold it's shape. After it had time to dry a little, I added the crayon tips and extra decorations to make it look like a crayon box. Then I rolled out a white piece of fondant and cut it into a rectangle to resemble a piece of paper... I added red lines with a ruler and red food coloring pen. I wrote the message out as it would appear on a real piece of paper. I added some really cute 'reading, writing, and arithmetic' ribbon around the bottom to finish it off.

Congratulations Tatum!

Happy Birthday Cake!

2009-05-15T08:17:00.000-07:00

Here is a birthday cake I did for a co-worker's daughter. They wanted simple polka dots.

My new love is the ribbon! Although I think the tiny balls are very cute, they are also very time consuming to make and attach. The ribbon is the way to go if you don't have a ton of time on your hands. They both make for a great presentation.

Happy Birthday Marley!

Great America Bake Sale with B2B Workforce!

2009-05-15T08:15:00.000-07:00

Great America Bake Sale with B2B Workforce! We raised $1,000 to help reduce child hunger in our community! Share Our Strengths along with volunteers have raised over $600,000. They need more help though to reach their goal of $1.3 Million. Visit the link below to get more info and sign up your own bakesale today!

For more information: greatamericanbakesale.org

Hannah Montana

2009-05-08T07:15:00.000-07:00

Here is my Hannah Montana cake! I jazzed it up a bit with some crystal sprinkles but be careful with them. They get on everything and end up in places that you don't want them.... a little messier than I expected. But I do have to say it turned out pretty cute.

New Babies

2009-05-04T08:02:00.000-07:00

A friend is having a baby shower for her sister so she asked me to make her some babies. These little guys traveled from Atlanta to Louisville. She will then add them to her own cupcakes.

Picnic for the bugs!

2009-04-24T05:48:00.000-07:00

Here it is, the cupcake picnic table covered in bugs! Usually I try to keep the bugs off my table but these are just too cute and they taste great! Who wouldn't want a bug made out of chocolate?
I frosted and then covered the cupcakes with fondant circles. Then, I took a cake board and flipped it over to use the brown side and painted it with acrylic paints with markings to look like a picnic table... added a few benches, covered in bugs and you have a picnic table ready to scare away any picnickers that walk by!

Student of the week cupcakes

2009-04-22T05:18:00.000-07:00

Student of the week cupcakes! I found this idea online. Chocolate covered Graham cracker with piped on ABCs are your chalk board. White Good and Plentys for the chalk and MMs with a dot of icing for an apple with a green leaf.

Animal Baby Shower Cake

2009-04-20T06:25:00.001-07:00

Here is the finished baby shower cake. I love the way it turned out... it's so sweet! I think my favorite part is the little lion.

Jack's Super Hero Cake!

2009-04-20T06:11:00.000-07:00

This is my first two tiers cake. My nephew had a super hero birthday party and instead of having the normal everyday super heros we did characters from his favorite shows. My Mom really helped me out with this cake. She was great!

Cake Pops

2009-04-20T05:53:00.000-07:00

I had some left over cake from my crazy weekend of baking so I made these cute little cake pops. They are really sweet but yummy. You crumble up the cake and mix with frosting. Add the lollipop sticks and put in freezer. Once they have hardened some you dip them in melting chocolate and let dry. Add faces with food safe pens or food coloring.

Practice makes perfect

2009-04-14T11:17:00.000-07:00

I started to practice making things out of fondant. I wanted to see what all I could do. Be sure not to store in the fridge... they don't do well with moisture.

Mickey Mouse Birthday Cake

2009-04-10T07:05:00.000-07:00

My other nephew's Birthday is next week... and this is my practice with royal icing before that big project comes! For this one he asked me for a chocolate Mickey Mouse cake. I'm not sure what possessed me to cover a chocolate cake with white icing... but it wasn't smart. I did a layer of icing and then put the whole cake in the freezer to firm up then I recovered with another layer to hide all of the chocolate crumbs. I know he likes icing so I'm sure he wont mind. I did the Mickey on top and sides out of royal icing. I printed out a picture of him online and covered with a piece of wax paper then piped Mickey's outline with a piping bag onto the wax paper. Next, I filled in the sections with thinned out royal icing in the appropriate colors. I did the same with the Mickey icons on the side. Then was the big moment... was Mickey going to actually come off the parchment without breaking into a million pieces? I said a little prayer and was pleasantly surprised to find out they all came off with relative ease. I then applied the Mickeys and surrounded the cake with one of his favorites, jelly beans!

Easter Bunny Cake

2009-04-10T03:45:00.001-07:00

This was my first cake. I made it for an Easter party a few years ago. I took two round cakes and cut one in half and shaped it into ears and placed above the other cake. I used frosting and twizzlers and jelly beans to make the face. Then I surrounded it with jelly beans for a little extra Easter color.

Cupcakes for Cole's Bake Sale

2009-04-10T03:41:00.000-07:00

My nephew's school was having a bake sale and I wanted to make something that pretty much anyone could replicate. I bought peeps and jelly beans for the Spring season. I baked cupcakes and topped with green icing... added a peep and a few jelly beans as eggs. A chick in a nest... how cute is that?

Shower Cake for the Bride-to-Be

2009-04-10T03:36:00.000-07:00

This was my first cake since the bunny one a few years back. I decided to see how I liked using fondant. I think I had more problems with the cake itself than I did with decorating it. I just You Tubed cake decorating and watched a couple of videos before diving in. It was a lot of fun! I learned alot from this first experience. I also learned that I had a new love!

Baby Shower Cupcakes

2009-04-10T03:31:00.000-07:00

A co-worker is about to have her first baby and I wanted to bring something special to her shower. I decided to work on cupcakes so I created these little babies and blankets out of fondant and sprinkles. I iced the cupcakes first to make sure they stuck to the tops. I tried to make everyone different... at least in color combination if nothing else. I loved how these turned out but it took a lot longer than I had planned!

Cookie's Birthday Cake

2009-04-09T15:18:00.001-07:00

The Wedding cake was practice for this cake. This was for my Mom's birthday and I don't think I'll ever want to do any cake twice, so I got creative. My Mom loves art just as much as I do and she just picked up painting again so I thought this was the perfect idea. Everything on this cake was made from hand out of fondant. This is my favorite cake so far.... I just love the bright colors!