What a busy weekend!

This is the 3rd and final cake of the weekend, a chocolate cake with buttercream frosting. This was decorated with a giraffe for the birthday girl, who was turning 3!

Lemon blueberry cake

Sam is going home to celebrate his mother's birthday today, so I made a delicious birthday cake for him to bring with him. I modified my go-to lemon blueberry cupcake recipe to make a 2-tiered lemon cake. I didn't put blueberries in the batter, but instead used sugared blueberries between the layers.

Old McDonald had a farm, e-i-e-i-o

With a baa baa here...

And a cluck cluck there....

Here an oink, there an oink, everywhere an oink oink...

I finally had the chance to make the farm animal cake pops on a farm scene, complete with a barn and silo. Thanks to Adam and Amy for giving me this opportunity!!

I hope Jack enjoyed his first birthday! Here he is enjoying a "hog on a stick":

Scrabble cake

One of Kate's good friends is having a Jack & Jill wedding shower today. Both the bride and groom are avid Scrabble players, and the theme for the shower is Trivia, so a Scrabble cake seemed particularly appropriate!

After frosting the entire cake, I used a ruler to measure out the 15 x 15 grid on this 12 inch square cake. Then, I used pearl dusting sugar and "painted" the colored squares. Then I used white frosting to pipe over the lines. The letter tiles are made from dark and white chocolate - I melted the chocolates and piped the letters on waxed paper ahead of time so they hardened into individual candies.

Can you tell what 7-letter word can be spelled using the extra tiles?

Alphabet block cake pops!

I made these alphabet block cake pops for a baby shower today. Sadly, I can't take credit for the idea, but I can take full credit for the execution! Thanks, Natalie, for such a great idea!

It is hard to tell with the glare on the wrappers, but the pops read "Congratulations," which is then followed by a moon + stars, a sun, and a red flower.

Here is a close-up of the non-letter blocks:

And a close-up of the first few letters:

I am very pleased with how they turned out. I was somewhat concerned about them looking square enough, but I think they came out well!

Last-minute baby shower cake!

This weekend, I was lucky enough to have a last-minute baby shower cake order for a baby girl! I received the call on Sunday night for a Monday afternoon party, and was happy to make a chocolate cake with vanilla frosting. I'm really starting to love the argyle pattern for cakes, and think it is just perfect for a baby shower event (or any other cake really!). It requires more math than I anticipated, but I'm glad I thought about that ahead of time, or it would have turned out to be an argyle disaster!!

The finished cake!

Updates

Like a dope, I didn't take any pictures of today's projects because I was running late. But...

Father's Day cake pops are now officially available at Parker & Otis in downtown Durham. There are Super Dad pops, #1 Dad coffee mug pops, and grill pops. Both vanilla and chocolate pops are available.

Also, we had a great turnout at the C+H neighborhood home tour and after-party. Thanks to all who came, and I hope you enjoyed the lemon blueberry cupcakes!