Gold Fantasy Flower Cake

I love finding a cake design that works well in a number of venues, this one does that! I love a good gold accent piece, but really love the way these gold lace flowers look to dress up a cake!

 Even more, I love that it looks good and even a little different in many settings!

 I love how warm it looks in a more rustic amber lighting,

As well as how fun it is pool side with some foliage beside it. The bionic cake design!

8 is great! Baptism cake

Baptism cakes are always a fun cake for me to do. The kids are always so excited and I think love the cake even more than a birthday cake. I get a lot of requests for my little figures representing the child and love how excited they are to see themselves on their cake!

This cake was fun to do because the special girl is close to my heart!  She loved her cake and her little figure, and it smelled divine! One of my favorite flavor combos- French Vanilla and raspberry!

 Special girl Zoey is one of Miss J's very good friends- it was great to share her beautiful day!

Little Monster Party Feature

I was so excited to have my little guys 2nd birthday party featured on one of my favorite websites. I loved putting together this party, it was so fun and colorful for a summer party, and terribly fitting for my little man who loved to growl like a monster anytime he saw one! Check it out!!!

Little Monster Birthday Party

February 07, 2017                                                          

Monster madness has begun, so hurry, come along, and join in on all of the fun!

rafted by Tya Nelson of Padicakes, out of Salt Lake City, Utah, this Little Monster Birthday Party is packed with adorable party ideas; perfect for any little monster – boy or girl!

Monster details of ever kind can be found in this birthday bash, but these specific ones are sure to make you smile:

• Darling monster cake
• Fuzzy monster standees
• Colorful linens + table covers
• Cute monster cookies
• Monster boxes filled with partyware
• Monster mallow pops
• Fuzzy monster centerpieces

Vendors:
Invitation: PeachPops
Party Design, Desserts, Cake and Decorations: padicakes
Photography: Tiffani Linn Photography

Little Monster Birthday Party

Little Monster Party Details:

This is what Tya said about styling the party- “I knew exactly what kind of party I wanted to have for my little guy’s 2nd birthday almost as soon as his 1st passed. One of the first things he learned to “say” was to growl like a monster. He thought it was so funny to hear! I wanted to have a little monster party for him, but didn’t want it themed after the Disney themed Monsters. It was actually a lot harder than I expected to find non-Disney-Monster party items, so I ended making it all myself!

When guests arrived, the children were escorted to the side of our yard, to prepare to “become” monsters with our awsome face painters whom I had contacted a few weeks prior and given photos of the invites and types of monster faces I was looking for. They did a fabulous job transforming our little guests into little monsters!

From there, they were free to go enjoy our Little Monster photo booth, complete with props and word signs. It was so much fun watching the kids at that all night and the photos they took were adorable! They loved petting and posing with our life size fuzzy little monsters, that were so easy to make as well!

Our last station allowed them to adopt their own little monster to take home. Since most of our guests were going to be under the age of 10 I wanted it to be an easy (mess free) activity, so I made the monsters and their face accesories a few weeks in advance from brightly colored felt. All they had to do was to pick a blank stuffed monster, pick out eyes or eye, fangs, mouth or horns and then glue them on and let it dry.

From there, our little monsters played and dined on mini monster sliders, and a fun and colorful dessert table of Monster Marshmallow Pops, Orange Dreamsicle Monster-oons (macarons), decorated sugar cookies, Goober dipped pretzel sticks, Chocolate dipped sandwich cookies, Slimer Limer cupcakes and cake pops. I was especially happy with how the cute little monster cake turned out. I accented the cake and the dessert table with little fondant monsters hiding throughout.

One of the things I most loved about this party theme, since it was in June and outside was the opportunity it gave me to incorporate bright bold colors and textures into the decorating of the yard, from paper lanterns strung throughout to the balloons and fur fabric that i wrapped vases for the tables in. Despite it being a very windy and slightly cool day, all the colors still made it look fun and cheery”!

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Sweet 16th Elegance

I was thrilled to receive a cake request from an old childhood friend this week, I was even more excited that she wanted a classy but simple sequin cake for her beautiful daughters Sweet 16th birthday party which was a bit of a surprise for the birthday girl!

I loved the colors once it was all put together. I've always loved the pale pinks with gold!

I finished it off by cutting a simple 16 out of gold glitter cardstock for the top. I'm a sucker for simple but elegant touches, and who am I kidding- who doesn't love a little glitter...or alot!

The perfect sweet cake for a perfect Sweet 16!

African Serengeti 40th Birthday Cake

I have planned this cake for a  few years. My husband spent 2 years in southern Africa in his twenty's serving a religious mission and doing much service work. He has always loved Africa and I've always wanted to give him an African cake. The opportunity came in the perfect way- his surprise 40th birthday party! I had a hard time coming up with a theme for the party, even after a year of trying to plan it, since he is a man of many loves!  Finally, after much though, I decided to theme the party around all his favorite things! What better way to represent Africa than the cake?!

 He loved, and speaks fondly of the many different Safaris he was able to travel on. He loved the animals and the scenery and the beauty of the colors. So for the cake, I decided to spotlight exactly those things!  I couldn't pick a favorite animal pattern, so I chose the cheetah and zebra.

 Photos of the African savannah always show the gorgeous red and orange sunsets, so I decided to highlight the sunsets and put the animals and trees in silhouette against the colors!

I wanted a simple but rustic way to separate the tiers so I simply tied some raffia around the bottom two tiers and loved how vibrant the colors turned out! One of my favorite cakes, I'd have to say!

Happy 40th to my wonderful hubby! Here are some pics from his fun Favorite Things party!

Musically Sweet Violin Cake

This cake was a challenge I was excited to take on! A cake was requested for the 20th anniversary celebration of a violin music studio, and she requested something classic but with a bit of a wow factor and also to include an edible violin on top.

It was fun to brainstorm ideas with her, and we came up with a simple top, highlighting the 3 dimensional violin to go on top, with a few red chocolate flowers to give the cake a pop of color.

For the bottom tier we went with classic white frosting rosettes. I thought it would be a nice element to give the cake some dimension with the mix of fondant and buttercream, plus I decided to airbrush a bit of gold luster dust to give it some shimmer- who doesn't love a little bling!

My favorite was the middle tier, which we decided to wrap in a type of sheet music. To accomplish this, I printed music sheets onto wafer rice paper and shredded it into bits. The process of "gluing" it on allowed for the paper to shrink up a little on the edges, giving it an aged and worn look. It was finished off with a touch of the gold luster dust  to match the bottom, giving the bottom two tiers more of an antique finish and spotlighting the violin on the top- fresh white- tier. I loved how the middle "aged" sheet music tier turned out!

 The violin was a new project for me, but I have done a handful of wood finishes so that part was fun as always. The struggle once I had the violin pieced together, was what to use for the strings. Sadly, everything edible was either too heavy, or would degrade (in the event of spun sugar) in the fridge which, due to a previously schedule trip, was where the cake would have to stay for 3 days before the event. I ended up using a heavy black thread, which suited it fine. I may have used a dark metal thread if I were to do it over again!

 
In the end, this was a fun cake to work on and I was more than thrilled to see it come together! Of course, the true verdict is in the clients face, and I was thrilled to see her slightly speechless when she picked it up!! Congrats to the Ruth Godfrey Violin and Viola Studios for a wonderful 20 years!