For "someone's" boyfriend who turns 21 today. Seems like an awful lot of cookies to me (3 dozen), but I'm betting he'll inhale them within the next 24-36 hours. 
Her cute daughter (and son in law) drove all the way down here from Dallas to pick up this cake today for the mom's birthday party tonight in Houston. How's that for a fabulous daughter!!!
(Don't ask how old that makes me!)
... when your plan ahead/organizing skills trump your lower brain functions such as remembering what day it is or where you left your car keys. 
This one was designed after the shower invitation, which was an adorable multi-layered square invite in black, white and hot pink. White princess sour creme cake with tons of buttercream atop.
Designed after the birthday girl's party invitation. Lots of White Princess Sour Creme cake and loads of delicious buttercream icing. Fondant megaphones line the sides of the cake and the little cheerleader herself is crafted from gumpaste. 
Another fun mermaid cake. With fondant "pearls" and white chocolate-molded sea creatures. Not to mention the green buttercream seaweed and blue buttercream wave-border. The party-goers receive cookie favors in the shape of seashells, sandy footprints and fish.
I have long wanted to do a fire hydrant cake -- so now y'all know I can do one! What a bunch of fun this one was. Three 6" cakes, plus one dome-shaped cake on top. Iced in buttercream, covered in red fondant. The little sticking-out-thingies are rice krispie treats covered in red fondant and held onto the cake with toothpicks. 
A replica of the novel this book club read last month. Obviously a southern-based novel (note the cotton), so we did a fabulous pineapple-coconut cake with buttercream icing and fondant accents. How deliciously southern can you get? Also did a couple dozen "Southern Tea Cakes" to go along with.
The design for this cake was taken from the nursery bedding and a stuffed pink elephant that sits in the corner of the crib, awaiting the new baby girl's arrival.
This year's family reunion (for 75!) has a Hawaiian Luau theme. The coconut-tree leaves declare the names of the 10 siblings. The flowers are silk (my skills don't extend quite that far yet). Sand is brown sugar, water is piping gel tinted blue, sunset is buttercream painted on in varying shades of red, orange and yellow. The sun is fondant. Everything else is tons of White Princess Sour Creme cake and buttercream icing. Yum!
I want one for myself now! The ice cream scoops are actually fondant covered "cake balls" sitting inside a cake bowl, sitting atop the birthday cake. The adorable birthday girl likes all things pink, so the cake is pink inside and trimmed in pink outside. With a few polka dots for decoration. I am SO craving an ice cream sundae right now ...
This cake for a gal who truly loves her shoes. Especially Tory Burch flats. Never heels. Always flats. Using the adorable shoe-shaped (what else?) party invitation as inspiration, this is what I came up with. White Princess Sour Creme cake, iced with buttercream, covered in fondant, and decorated with royal icing. The little flat on top is made of gumpaste, and I totally ripped off the Tory Burch logo from the internet. Where would I be without the internet?
Our middle child turns 23 tomorrow. She now lives in Chicago, a mere 1,000 miles away. No more elaborate birthday cakes for her. Now she gets a tiny little six-inch that will hopefully survive the trip via the USPS. This is a pink champagne cake, with pink buttercream icing. Covered and decorated with fondant. I also sent her a dozen decorated cookies -- all high heels, purses, princess crowns and glitzy sunglasses. Shhhhhhhhh. It's supposed to be a surprise.
Not the best picture I've ever taken. But this is a two-story vine-covered stone castle cake with sugar cube dentils and paper towel roll/ice cream cone turrets which were covered in royal icing. Chocolate cake, buttercream icing, fondant "stones" set into the gray cement walls. The vines had pretty little pink flowers scattered everywhere. Wish I'd gotten a better picture of it all. It was pretty awesome.
A pink champagne cake (pretty-in-pink and delish!) with buttercream icing and fondant roses, for a woman of a certain age who isn't really crazy about the concept of "celebrating" birthdays any more.
Boy. Do I do "custom" cakes, or what? Even made up a new recipe to incorporate Hennessey cognac into a German Chocolate cake this time -- at the request of the birthday girl's friend. The traditional coconut pecan icing is pretty much impossible to decorate on top of, so this is what I came up with. 
The bride and groom are music majors, their wedding colors are red and gold. This is an open music box cake, with red flowers spilling out over the front and side. Can you see the silver (gumpaste) engagement ring in the front? I also did some music-note and grand-piano cookies to go with the cake. Love this one.
A big birthday party for a six year old. She wanted the teapot and teacups birthday cake, with the colors all based on the party invitations. As this cake would not be big enough for all, below you will see ...
A baby shower cake based on the nursery decor, which is white, pink and black toile. Love it. Wish I'd been cool enough to do the same theme in our eldest daughter's nursery.
For an adult woman who always wanted this kind of cake as a little girl. I love to make cake-dreams come true.
