August cakes

I started to get back into the swing of things with cake once August hit. I had my first order for the first week of the month from a returning customer who wanted 2 cakes for her twin girls.

In the middle of August I almost always make cakes for my niece and nephew, so the Barbie cake is for my niece who turned 5 this year and King from cars is for her brother who turned 3.


On the same day that the King cake was due, I also finished this cute Bathtub Rubber Ducky cake. I really liked the way that it turned out. It was a really busy day. On top of finishing off the 2 cakes I picked up my mom from the airport and we hurried off to dinner as a family that night because it was also my birthday. I didn't make my own cake though. I had ice cream cake. Yummy.

The New Addition

During the month of July I did not make any cakes. In fact, I actually turned down two opportunities to make cakes. That was a hard thing to do, I always want to take any chance I get to make something new.
My baby girl finally made her entrance into the world on June 30th, 6 days past the due date. Her name is Alexis Rose Henry, and she may have been late, but when the time came to arrive it was quite a big hurry. I am so thankful to have had great Midwives to help us through the process.
We've had a few rough nights, but for the most part Lexi has been a great baby. My challenge lies in keeping my two boys occupied and behaving well.
So even though there were no cakes in July, it was still a really eventful month. And now, two and a half months later, she is growing and changing every day. I just love to hear her 'talk' to me in her little baby cooing sounds. If I had a video camera, I would want it on all day to record and preserve everything she does, as I know it doesn't last long.

The first picture is at 13 days old and the second was taken at 2 months old.

June Cakes

I told myself that I would go easy on the cakes in June because my little girl was due near the end of the month and I needed the rest. This first cake, another Topsy Turvey was for the beginning of the month, and I had already finished working my full time job (YAY!) so I had time. But of course I am really good at procrastinating and left a lot to the last minute as usual.
The design changed because of my lack of time at the end, but I am glad that it did, as I like the way it turned out. I can't even remember now what I had planned on doing for the middle tier.

The other cake of the month, a Farm theme done for a friend who was having a double birthday celebration for her two girls, was actually scheduled to be made by someone else because I thought for sure I'd be having a baby right around the time the cake was due. But of course stubbornness runs in my family and my little angel decided to stay put for another week, and I got to make the cake to pass the time while waiting. I had a lot of help from my mom who was staying with us for a while to help out with baby. So along with helping to keep my two boys in line she helped model the little animals for the cake. The cake was a hit at the party and I've already had a request to make another one down the road.

To view more cake pictures see my Flickr page.

Back At It - May Cakes

Wow, it has been a really fast few months and I have not posted anything since May.
So here are the other cakes that I finished off that month.
The Dragon cake was made for my son's 6th birthday. He had his party at a movie theater, and we watched "How to train a Dragon" I modeled the cake after one that I spied on someone else's Flikr page a while back. I loved her version and think mine turned out quite well too.
The other cake was actually designed by my husband for his friend's 40th birthday. He went shopping for the accessories and had the design ion his head, but is in no way adept at icing a cake to look the way he wanted it so he had lots of help from me. But he was still pretty proud none the less.

A Topsy Turvey month

TT in little boy blue
Originally uploaded by sarahenrycakes

In the span of one months time I ended up making three Topsy Turvey cakes. I became very confident in the construction of them. I used to believe that the cake had to be very dense in order to not fall apart when carving it and so that it can support itself when stacked, but really this is not the case.
The first TT was the Casino cake and I used alternating layers of vanilla and chocolate pound cake. I was trying out a new (to me) recipe for the vanilla pound which tastes absolutely wonderful, but was a hassle to make. The density of made it take forever to bake and once it was completely baked through the outside was very crusty. Good thing I was carving it off.
When I made the Abstract TT, since I knew that it did not have to travel very far, I decided to used my easiest vanilla cake recipe, which is light and moist. Carving it and icing it was not that much more difficult than using pound cake. I was also not covering it in fondant as there are so many people who really prefer to leave it off since it doesn't have the greatest taste. It made it to the party perfectly fine and everyone loved it; the look and the taste.
Finally, since it made my life that much easier, I did the same with the Dots and Stripes TT. Everyone seemed to want vanilla cakes that month. Again with this cake there is no fondant decorations. It makes it a little harder to get really smooth edges on the designs, but it does make the cutting of the cake much easier as well as making the taste nicer. Another good point to make is that the cakes are much lighter in overall weigh when there is no fondant, making carrying so much easier.
It was certainly a busy time for me, and now I must really slow down. My baby girl is due in under 4 weeks, and I do still have a couple more cakes to make before she comes. I think that is she does happen to come early, the people who the cakes are for will likely understand why I can`t get the cake finished. Think so?

Abstract Topsy Turvey

Abstract TT
Originally uploaded by sarahenrycakes

Casino Topsy Turvey

Casino Topsy Turvey
Originally uploaded by sarahenrycakes

Boys Birthdays

Dirt and Worms
Originally uploaded by sarahenrycakes

I was more than busy in April. There was one weekend totally devoted to one year old boys. Here are two of the cakes from that weekend. One for a little guy who's mom wanted it to be quite obvious that this was a boy's cake. What boy doesn't like playing in the dirt digging up worms.

Barney

Barney
Originally uploaded by sarahenrycakes

Another of the boys got his favorite character on his cake. Although Barney is not my choice of characters I was more than happy to try a new character on cake.

Seeing Doubles

So, things have gotten out of hand with blogging, meaning I haven't done any in way too long. So here's a few of the cakes that I have done before which were made in the last few months that I've been neglectful.

I was asked to make another Butterfly cake in April, I made Minnie Mouse again back in March, and another of the Millenium Falcon in February. See, I told you I was way behind.