Cakes, Cakes, Cakes!

My passion is planning and styling, but I also do alot of baking for my parties as well. I don't LOVE baking, but I do enjoy it. I've made a few cakes for some recent parties that I wanted to share with you. I find cake making to be somewhat stressful. The littlest thing can go wrong and you are just "off" for the rest of the cake. Luckily, I haven't had too many of these moments. I did however recently make a cake and it was a little slanted which drove me INSANE! Once it's all put together and decorated you can't go back and fix it! {I just wish people wouldn't look at it from the side.. I know, unlikely.} I do love the outcome of the cakes once they are all decorated. They can make a dessert table/birthday party!

This Mickey Mouse cake was one of the first I ever made! Like my Fondant Characters? Ha, JK- I WISH! I totally cheated and bought a couple characters from the Disney Store to put around the cake. I think they looked so cute though! It's also an easy way for people to buy store bought cakes that are inexpensive and use your child's favorite character figure, race car, or truck on top. I covered this cake in fondant, and cut out fondant to make it looks like Mickey's House on the show. I added some grass and "Gwen" fondant circles to finish it off.

This Peace cake is the one that I had trouble with the slanting. I was so bummed. This cake was made for my daughters BFF {so they call each other} She is over my house often and sees me baking a lot. She asked me if I would make her cake for her birthday. Of Course I said yes!! I made the fondant peace signs and fondant flowers. I added some candy lettering and gumballs around the cake.

This cake is one of my favorites! I just love how it turned out. Blues clues is such a popular show still, and so may kids love it! I baked the entire cake Blue inside. The kids LOVED it. I made a bunch of fondant characters and a fondant house. I added clouds and grass to the cake.

For this barnyard cake and cupcakes, I made a simple "smash cake" and made a sheep laying on top made out of mini marshmallows. I think the sheep looks so adorable! I surrounded the cake with cupcakes adorned with cupcake toppers. I love how they look together!

This was my first Blues Cakes. So by the time I made the second one, I knew what I wanted to fix. The cake was meant to be a little more girly than the traditional colors. Don't look at my Blue. I know, I know the colors are opposite! But overall I still think it turned out really cute! The birthday girl loved it which is the most important part!!

I hope you enjoyed a looked into my cake baking world! :)