We had Weddings!

In the past year, from last November to June, we had four children get married we are expecting two more weddings next year one in Missouri in February (maybe) and one in in Utah in July…whew!

We are happy our children have found wonderful people to marry and are all happy and doing well.

Three of our children asked me to make their wedding cakes  and here are the pictures we took.

This is our Nov. 2015 wedding. Each tier is a lemon cake with lemon filling. I slice each layer after it is baked so each tier is four layers of cake and three layers of filling. The tiers are all 6 inches tall.

This cake was our May 2016 wedding. this cake is white cake with a strawberry fluff filling.  Again I sliced each layer after it is baked so each tier is four layers of cake and three layers of filling.  The tiers are all 6 inches tall. The emblems are all created with fondant.

This is our June 2015 wedding in Missouri held at the Civil War Ranch by Carthage Missouri. We drove so I was able to take all of my supplies and I used my sister’s kitchen while she was at work and created this cake. This case is a combination of a yellow tier with a butter cream filling, Strawberry tier with strawberry filling and a chocolate tier with of course a chocolate filling.

Again I sliced each layer after it is baked so each tier is four layers of cake and three layers of filling.  The tiers are all 6 inches tall.

The sunflowers are all hand  made one peddle at a time out of gum paste and a gum paste center, then assembled to make these really life-like sunflowers.

 

I WIN!

It has been a while, three weeks I believe, life has been crazy.  My sisters are fussing at me for not blogging for so long.  So here it is I started this one on the 17th of May and life has calmed enough for me to finish it right now.

If I havent been sick I have been chasing crazy teenage girls around, and if I havent been doing that I have been sick AND chasing crazy teenage girls around.

What is it that happens to an otherwise perfectly good girl when she turns 15?  I suppose it isn’t just the 15 year olds I guess it depends on the make-up of each girl, they can tend to vary.  Where does their good sense go?  where is their desire to please mom?

I was in a clothing store the other day.  Behind me were three women. One about my age and one a bit younger maybe in her 40’s and a young mother toting a little 4-year-old boy, who was very done with being in a clothing store shopping with mom.

The 40 something mom commented on how well the little boy was behaving.  She went on to say that she had more troubles with her little girl than any of her boys.  They young mother commented back about how she understood that statement as she has an eight year old little girl who gives her fits already, that famous eye roll.  The 40 something mom replied, “Oh, yes!  I have a thirteen year old daughter who has attitude as big as can be.”

The older woman behind me entered the conversation stating the same ideas about her daughter at those ages and how she struggled when her daughter was 16 years old.

Listening to these very dear and loving moms, I had great compassion on them.  I turned to them and commented that I to understood the issue of raising teenage girls, they can be trying at best at times.  Then I announced, I WIN!  I have raised 10 daughters, I am on my last three and they are all 16!!! I WIN!

Everyone laughed, and said I should be in the funny farm by now, and I suppose counted themselves lucky!

Today things are a little more calm and I am glad. I have gotten to decorate this fun little cake for my two granddaughters that have turned four.  They are a week apart and we had a little celebration for both of them at my daughters home.  I chose this particular design because the girls are so into princesses.  And my oldest four year old likes to look at grandma’s cake books and she gravitates to the wedding cakes, so I combined the two ideas into this cake.

I used the Pillsbury Funfetti cake mix and a regular butter cream icing.  Since I was a bit short on time and didnt want to make alot of different colors I also decided to use the spray food coloring to add color and design, then i just used basic white for the trim and finished off with pink roses and silver crown on the top.  I found the dangly jewels at the craft store they are from the Duff Goldman Collection.

The girls loved the cake and I was Queen of the Grandmas for a little while.

The tricky part was that i delivered the cake to my daughters home early in the morning and by party time there were two small finger size dents in the side of the cake.  But Olivia did show some restraint, because in years past she has actually climbed up on the table where grandma had a cake waiting and actually took bites, lol!

So here I am at 51 juggling the crazy rebellious teen girls that seem to struggle with making sense of the world and little four year old princesses, quite the difference.  I just have to keep reminding myself once my teens were little princesses and I love them the same now as I did when they were Little Princesses.

 

 

More Cake Pictures

Here are more pictures of cakes.  I hope they will inspire you to try your imagination and stretch your abilities.  I have become better and better I believe as I use my talents for the benifit of others.

The Cup Cake Wedding Cake is unusual.  I had never made a cup cake wedding cake before, so this was a challenge.  Especially because the bride wanted the cup cakes turned on their sides.  A little physics and math had to be incorporated to make it work.

I think the effect turned out great!

If you have questions as to how it was accomplished just let me know.

 

About The Cakes

I have many more photos of cakes I have designed and made.  But apparently I need to name them  in my picture folder before I can better transport them.  give me time on that.

In the mean time if anyone has comments or questions or even suggestions they are all welcome  .

I began doing cakes at the Baskin Robbins store I worked at in Wichita Ks.  several years ago.  I have never done it before.  After that I went to work at an IGA store and worked in the bakery there, with my new-found talent and interest I was able to work with the decorator there and learned even more.

I do have an interest and talent in art so that was helpful.  After working for the bakery in Wichita, I went to work for friends of ours in Joplin Mo. at a family owned bakery, Mac’s Bakery. Owners were friends of mine since I was a child and they took me on and continued to train me in the art of Cake decorating. I worked for them for about 11 years, doing nothing but cakes.

I found I had a talent for detail and matching colors.  I could look at the picture the customer brought in or at the party napkin I was to decorate onto the cake and I could look at the colors and be able to mix the icing so that the colors were nearly a perfect match, this always added to the delight of the customer.

I have continued learning new techniques through the years.  Right now I do cakes for family and friends and any church activity I have been invited to do a cake for.  I do not have a store front, I just work from home so I do not advertise or charge for cakes.  Sometimes a friend will pay me a little usually just the cost of ingredients.  I mostly do it because I enjoy the challenge.