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Mallory's finally getting her birthday party. We've had such busy weekends since her birthday that this was the first chance to have a couple girlfriends over. She was trying to figure out what she wanted for a cake and I told her that was already decided!! Poor girl. Well, she loved it!! Her girlfriends think it's pretty neat, too. They really had fun watching. We'll take it to the crop this afternoon and have a little party there.

Loading the past

It has come to my attention that I never really have loaded some of my better cakes from the past. Mostly a matter of time, but also figuring out a new computer. I feel I've done well keeping up with the ones I do! Anyway, this one came up in a conversation and I thought I'd post it. Its shape is out of proportion because they were more interested in having enough cake for their guests than they were in having it anatomically correct!

Two cake week

I had two cakes for Saturday this week. Grandma Rose talked herself out of an Easter cake, so none there. She said she still has the last four cakes in the freezer, so she really didn't need any more!
This one was for Scott's son and grandson. Scott is the one that helped so much on the house last summer. I have really enjoyed having some way to repay him with small favors, but he has insisted on becoming a paying customer. I'm not much in favor of that, but he's not one I believe I could win an argument with anyway.


The other is for a sweet 16 year old who helps me in Cubbies. She really is one of the sweetest gals you could know, so it was so special to get to make her sweet 16 birthday cake. It's a carrot cake, so I used the same cream cheese colors I used for little Juliet last week!

Oh, Juliet, how lovely art thou...

This is the one I was working on last night. I felt like it was the longest day at work... ever! Don't know why, I just really hurt. It took a while to get going, but I really love this one. It's a shower cake for a baby Juliet, the baby and granddaughter of some folks that I think are an amazing set of people. The couple helps me with homeschooling, so I have a lot of interaction with them! They had six kids, and three of the girls are now having kids. Their twin boys graduate this spring, so I'm also looking forward to those cakes.

Anyway, this one is a carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. It is only colored brown, it is NOT chocolate frosting! The accents are a dusty lime and rose that matched the invitations, and I can only hope, the rest of the party!!

Mallory also made truffles, so I should get some pictures of those, too!

Ambassador

Michael has had me make a cake for the residents nearly every month since he started working there. We both enjoy it so much. I say nearly because sometimes it's cupcakes instead, or he's done brownies or something else. Wednesday, he had meetings in Omaha when I received a call from Robyn to see if I was bringing in a cake for the party. Well, I hadn't put it on my calendar, so I hadn't even begun. The kids helped me and we made a whiz-bang job of it! This was also the first month I've had the names to put on the cake. I usually do a themed on that just says "Happy Birthday," but I told Michael I wanted to start putting their names on them. So anyway, this isn't my favorite one, but I was very glad to get it done for them.

Simple things

These are my most recent cakes, though rather simple ones. They are what the kids wanted! They were for our cousins, but then their party got delayed and they invited Mallory to share the day. Sure made things easy on me! Anyway, these are all I have on the new computer. I'll post more when I figure this thing out!!

Twin Barbies

It was a princess party! These were for friends of mine, which makes them all the more fun. Matthew was having some friends over and they were very concerned that I was making Barbie cakes for him. It took a while for me to catch on to their concern, but finally did and got them straightened out!
The princesses enjoyed their cakes and we enjoyed making them! More later when I get photos of Matthew's real cakes!