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Cakes

I am not very good and it takes me a long time, but I do enjoy making cakes for friends and family that I think they will enjoy, or hopefully make their day just a little bit better. Here are some of my creations...

June 16, 2018 - Gram's Retirement Party
Andy, the superstar developer for whom I've made several baby shower cakes over the years, was leaving the company for another job. I made him a cake that looks like his favorite food. He will be missed.

June 16, 2018 - Gram's Retirement Party
Marty's Mom finally retired from being a kindergarten teacher, so I tried to make a cake to celebrate her joining the "Every Day is Saturday" club.

May 24, 2018 - Chris's Farewell Party
Chris, who I have worked with almost daily for the last 10 years, was leaving the company for another job. So of course I made him a cake. Chris likes to hunt and target shoot with his son, and he likes to drink coffee. He will be missed.

April 1, 2018 - Easter
I let Sami pick out most of the recipes for Easter - she picked these mini-cheesecakes, decorated with little "nests" on top made of toasted coconut and candy robin eggs.

March 10, 2018 - Lexi's Birthday Party (Cake)
For her birthday party, Lexi said she wanted cupcakes and spring colors this year. So I went with a spring theme for her party and made cupcakes into a couple flower bouquets.

March 10, 2018 - Lexi's Birthday Party (Veggie Tray)
Everyone assumed I would do a horse cake for Lexi's party, but she's had a horse-themed cake before, so I created a veggie tray in the form of a horse for her. This was the hit of the party!

March 9, 2018 - Lexi's Actual Birthday
Since Lexi's birthday was on a weekday, we celebrated with the family on the weekend, but I did make her a very tasty carrot cake in my new cast iron bundt pan as a special dessert on her actual birthday. It's not fancy but it tasted GREAT.

December 6, 2017 - Andy's Baby Shower
Superstar developer, Andy, on my team at work, is having his third child (and first boy). I knew he liked chocolate chip cookies, so I made a big one.

October 11, 2017 - Sami's Birthday
Sami asked for cupcakes and a Paris theme, so I did some white and some chocolate cupcakes - some with a homemade lemon curd filling and some with homemade strawberry preserves filling, placed on a cupcake holder that is supposed to resemble the eiffel tower.

May 4, 2017 - Kathryn's Birthday
Kathryn is on a paleo diet (and generally doesn't like sweets anyway), so this gave me an opportunity to make this veggie train that I've wanted to do for a while.

March 22, 2017 - Work Celebration
We had a party to celebrate the general availability release of version 17.1 of our product, so of course I volunteered to make a cake. Notivation is our team name.

March 9, 2017 - Lexi's 9th Birthday
Lexi wanted her cake to be a surprise, but she listed off about a million animals that she liked. So I went animal-themed.

February 15, 2017 - Granddaddy's Birthday
Granddaddy isn't much on food coloring, so I was going for something fairly simple. And Sami really wanted to do a cookie-cake.

January 26, 2017 - Garima's Baby Shower
Garima is one of the lovely developers on our team at work and I wanted to do my part to help us all celebrate the pending arrival of her first child (a boy).

October 11, 2016 - Sami's 11th Birthday
I attempted a horse theme for Sami's birthday.

May 4, 2016 - Kathryn's Birthday
Kathryn does not care for cake but she loves fruit and she's a huge Grateful Dead fan.

April 5, 2016 - Andy's and David's Baby Shower
As it happens, two of the developers on our team were expecting additions to their families.

March 9, 2016 - Lexi's 8th Birthday
I was going for a horse-themed cake for Lexi.

December 20, 2015 - Christmas
I wanted to make a Christmas tree cake, but when it looked like an aardvark halfway through frosting it, we kinda went with it.

October 11, 2015 - Sami's 10th Birthday
Sami was into soccer and also really likes cookie cakes so this was my attempt at a soccer cookie cake.

March 9, 2015 - Lexi's 7th Birthday
Lexi said something about wanting a ladybug cake.

February 15, 2015 - Granddaddy's Birthday
At the last minute, I decided to make a quick sheet cake (with a lemon curd filling).

December 21, 2014 - Christmas
A Christmas tree made with cupcakes.

October 11, 2014 - Sami's 9th Birthday
We had an Elsa princess theme going for Sami's birthday, so this is Elsa's dress.

October 11, 2014 - Cupcakes for Sami at School
Sami wanted me to make homemade cupcakes for her school birthday treat this year.

September 30, 2014 - Andy's Baby Shower
Andy is a super star developer on our team and I was excited to help celebrate the arrival of his first little one.

March 9, 2014 - Lexi's 6th Birthday
Lexi seemed to enjoy playing games, like Candy Crush, on her tablet, so, I made a tablet cake.

October 11, 2013 - Sami's 8th Birthday
Sami said she wanted a cake similar to the fairy cake a made a while ago, but with deer on it.

March 9, 2013 - Lexi's 5th Birthday
Lexi was particularly into space, so I made a rocketship cake and some little planet cupcakes.

February 5, 2013 - Gram's Birthday
Gram is a kindergarten teacher so I thought I'd try a book cake.

December 7, 2012 - Marty's Birthday
I got some new cake decorating tools so I tried out some new decorations on a fairly simple cake for Marty's birthday.

October 11, 2012 - Sami's 7th Birthday
When I asked her what her favorite color was, Sami said "rainbow". So that, and her facepaint from the recent craft fair that she liked so much (rainbow flower), inspired this cake.

March 9, 2012 - Lexi's 4th Birthday
Lexi's is all about anything purple and she loves cats.

February 15, 2012 - Granddaddy's Birthday
Granddaddy has been in a clock-building mode lately. Can you tell how old he turned?

December 7, 2011 - Marty's Birthday
Marty was happy to have recently gotten his truck back after it had to basically be rebuilt from the top of a huge tree landing on it and crushing it.

October 11, 2011 - Sami's 6th Birthday
Sweet Sami had recently enjoyed a carousel and I foung this very cute cake kit.

May 8, 2011 - Grandmommy's Birthday
My Mom loves daisies so I thought this flower cake pan would do the trick.

March 9, 2011 - Lexi's 3rd Birthday
Lexi was really into fairies and Tinkerbell. This cake was a big hit, especially the chocolate rocks.

February 15, 2011 - Granddaddy's Birthday
Granddaddy likes to play the banjo so I thought this might be appropriate.

October 11, 2010 - Sami's 5th Birthday
This is the first cake I ever made in my life. I wanted my little princess to have a homemade princess cake on her 5th birthday. I figured out how to do it by watching a YouTube video and tweaked it a little bit. This is the cake that started it all.

October 11, 2010 - Sami's 5th Birthday
My Mom gave me a cake decorator tip set for my birthday.
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