Hello Kitty!

This was so fun, because I never get to do girl cakes. And I can't lie, they are a little bit more fun then little boy cakes. This was for my friend Beth's daughter's 5th birthday today. The last few months she has wanted a few different things.. like Barbies, and princesses, and finally we settled on Hello Kitty.

The flavor was funfetti, and my creme bouquet-vanilla butter cream. the Kitty was fondant. I know it isn't 'fancy' but for some reason, I just love this one.

Here is Ada loving on her cake.

That picture right there is the reason I love doing this.

Do the Dew

When we were in Vegas a while ago, we were shopping at the Outlets off Charleston, and Trav and Brady found this hideous Jazz jacket, that was on sale no less, but was still $90. As they were trying it on, this guy mentions how 'awesome' the jacket is, and how he loves the Jazz.. blah blah blah, and soon we find out he is from Utah as well! Small world. As the day goes by, we decide it is time to go home, and we are waiting at the elevator and this girl is like "Trav?" and we turn around, and it's the guy from the sports shop wife, and she knows Trav! It was crazy! They knew each other in high school in Vegas, now we all live in Utah!

As time goes by, she starts sending us some messages about her husbands birthday coming up and she wants a Mt. Dew cake. How fun for me! I love doing new things that aren't generic in any way. The flavor was chocolate cake, Oreo filling, and creme bouquet-vanilla butter cream.

Who doesn't want a giant can of Mt. Dew? Yum. I sort of cheated and ordered an edible image of the label, but I really wanted to make sure the colors were correct, and I think it turned out so cute! My favorite part was this:

The nutrition label I managed to squeeze in there! I just came across this, and HAD to use it.

Happy Birthday Jeffro!

love loVE LOVE you Aubrey with an E!!

About a month or so ago, my good friend Aubrey moved away with her husband to Texas, where they are starting a new business. It was a sad day at Ruby, but it gave me an excuse to make a cake (and it feels like it has been a LONG time since I have been able to bake anything). I'm still not the best at 'hand writing' with frosting stuffed in a bag, but I keep trying my best.

One if the blogs I follow, is Cake Wrecks. It's a place where you can post pictures of cakes that decorators butcher, but still sell for money anyways. Like when I got this 'gem' for my 20th birthday.. 'Happy Brithday Day Carolyn'.. and we still paid for it. Suckers.

Anyways, (only a slight tangent, but I promise it will come together in the end) the whole time I'm piping, I'm thinking, 'This cannot end up on cake wrecks'. I was worried about the correct punctuation of 'We'll', and decent spacing and style, and went I got to Aub's name, I panicked. For a split second, I forgot how to do a B in cursive.. and then I just stubbled through the rest, just happy that my B looked readable.

When I put the cake in the car, I just put it in the back seat like I always do, never had any problems. This time, the filling was a raspberry sauce, and while sitting on the warm (slanted) back seat, the top layer, slid half-way off the bottom layer!! Not completely, but just enough that I had major damage control to do when I got to the store.

After some crafty work, it was back to almost normal, when it was time to present it to Aubrey. She walks up, she is all excited, and the first thing to come out of her mouth was..... 'You misspelled my name' I FORGOT THE E!!! All my anxiety about that stupid B, and I skipped right over the E. Ugh! It was a good laugh. Maybe I belong on Cake Wrecks after all lol.

I hope they call me on a mission..

Ok, so I know that I haven't posted a lot recently, but I have been so busy starting my decorating classes, I haven't really been able to bake much. Here are some yummy treats I whipped up for the reading of Brady's mission call

Congrats to my only younger brother (in-law) Brady, who was called to serve in the Morristown, NJ mission! He will report to the MTC August 25, and there he will learn the authentic way to fist pump!

Since the family gathered, I decided to whip up some cupcakes. The flavors were, (from L to R) vanilla cake, raspberry filling, vanilla icing; vanilla cake, peanut butter/choc icing; and vanilla cake, vanilla icing.

Not too fancy, but hey, I'm trying to update ok?? And they are pretty cute. If you squint, you will see the sprinkle are red, yellow, and blue :)

And here is my son, refusing to have a cupcake of mine, diving into an ice cream cone instead. RUDE! Congrats again Brady! I'm sure there will be more 'mission' festivities, so more LDS things to come lol