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...
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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! |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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). |
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October 11, 2016 - Sami's 11th Birthday I attempted a horse theme for Sami's birthday. |
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May 4, 2016 - Kathryn's Birthday Kathryn does not care for cake but she loves fruit and she's a huge Grateful Dead fan. |
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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. |
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March 9, 2016 - Lexi's 8th Birthday I was going for a horse-themed cake for Lexi. |
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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. |
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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. |
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March 9, 2015 - Lexi's 7th Birthday Lexi said something about wanting a ladybug cake. |
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February 15, 2015 - Granddaddy's Birthday At the last minute, I decided to make a quick sheet cake (with a lemon curd filling). |
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December 21, 2014 - Christmas A Christmas tree made with cupcakes. |
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October 11, 2014 - Sami's 9th Birthday We had an Elsa princess theme going for Sami's birthday, so this is Elsa's dress. |
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October 11, 2014 - Cupcakes for Sami at School Sami wanted me to make homemade cupcakes for her school birthday treat this year. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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March 9, 2013 - Lexi's 5th Birthday Lexi was particularly into space, so I made a rocketship cake and some little planet cupcakes. |
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February 5, 2013 - Gram's Birthday Gram is a kindergarten teacher so I thought I'd try a book cake. |
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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. |
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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. |
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March 9, 2012 - Lexi's 4th Birthday Lexi's is all about anything purple and she loves cats. |
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February 15, 2012 - Granddaddy's Birthday Granddaddy has been in a clock-building mode lately. Can you tell how old he turned? |
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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. |
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October 11, 2011 - Sami's 6th Birthday Sweet Sami had recently enjoyed a carousel and I foung this very cute cake kit. |
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May 8, 2011 - Grandmommy's Birthday My Mom loves daisies so I thought this flower cake pan would do the trick. |
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March 9, 2011 - Lexi's 3rd Birthday Lexi was really into fairies and Tinkerbell. This cake was a big hit, especially the chocolate rocks. |
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February 15, 2011 - Granddaddy's Birthday Granddaddy likes to play the banjo so I thought this might be appropriate. |
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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. |
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October 11, 2010 - Sami's 5th Birthday My Mom gave me a cake decorator tip set for my birthday. |