Thanks to my son Jonathan (who is now TWENTY years old and helps me with computer problems!!) and to my friend Steve (who apparently could see this blog when I couldn't see it from my own account!), I am back to post more photos of cakes!!!  Happy days!  Now I've just got to hunt for them. ;)  It certainly has been fun looking back at these cakes of yore! Some of them are actually pretty good, and it makes me happy seeing them and thinking I actually made them.

Well, I've managed to find two more, so here they are:

First, a waterfall cake, created directly to specifications by Katy for her 10th birthday:

This cake was so fun to make!  Not sure how the giant star fits in with the cake theme, but that's what Katy wanted, so that's what she got!

And second, a Liam Payne (from the band One Direction) cake for Dianna's 14th birthday, during her One Direction obsession phase! This one I painted on directly with food colouring; I didn't bother mixing all those colours of icing! :)

This one was a lot of hard work! But I was pretty pleased with how it turned out, and so was Dianna. :)

Some more cakes...

Looking through my photos, I found a couple more cakes, one of which I made as the final project in my cake decorating class.  We had to make a wedding cake with royal icing flowers on it... I chose daffodils and pansies as mine.  Alas, the top layer of the cake had a sliding accident in my car on the way home from class, so the basket weave is disturbed in one spot, but other than that, I was pretty happy with it.  This is it:

I also once made an Orphen cake for my sister's birthday.  If you're not familiar with Orphen, look him up!  This cake took forever to make, as it's more like a painting than a cake!  I had to mix several shades of skin color for his face, and several browns for his hair.  Too bad the corners of this cake were already taken off and eaten when I took the picture, but oh well!

This cake is Ord from Dragon Tales.  I made him for my friend's little girls' birthday.  This was many years ago, around the same time as the Grouch cake, and I actually carved the shape of him out of cake before frosting him, so he'd be semi-three-dimensional.  His claws are made out of banana Runts!

Welcome to my cake blog!

Well, I'm going to start by posting a bunch of photos of cakes past and present... hey, this may turn out to be a one-post blog if I end up never making another cake!

Naah... I always think I never want to make another cake, but then someone's birthday rolls around and I end up making one anyway... and enjoying it! And then swearing I'm not going to make any more!

This is a castle cake from long ago, before I learned that a four-layer cake must have supports in it to prevent it from sagging!

This is an Oscar the Grouch cake I made for my daughter's 2nd birthday, nine years ago. It was very easy to make, but turned out great!

I made this Webkinz cake for my other daughter's 8th birthday, when Webkinz were all the rage. I personalized it by putting some of our own Webkinz on it.

I made this Pokemon cake for my daughter's friend's birthday, with his favorite Pokemon on it.

I made this Outlaw Star cake for my sister a couple of years ago. It was very hard to cut out!

This is a Handy Manny cake I made for my neighbor's little boy's 4th birthday. My husband stayed up half the night helping me make all the little tools out of fondant! Handy Manny is made out of fondant too, and stuck onto a dowel rod so he would stay put on the cake!

I made this Monkey Island cake for a little girl who loves pink and monkeys. It was really fun to make, as it kind of tells a little story rather than just having characters who sit there. I was quite fond of those monkeys by the time I was finished! The palm trees, however, would not cooperate and insisted on having droopy fronds.

And my latest cake - a Pokeball, for my daughter's friend again! It was really hard to get the top of the ball that smooth without using fondant, but I try not to cover my cakes in fondant as it doesn't taste that good compared to regular frosting. I covered the top of this cake with regular frosting tinted as red as I could get it with gel food coloring (so it would still taste good but not show through white), and then I spread a layer of red frosting from a squeezy tube over the top to make it nice and red. That squeezy frosting smooths out quite nicely.