My baby is turning 19!!!!

Tomorrow!!!!!! Well...Josh is my biggest baby...my sweet boy, my first born. Josh came into this world almost 19 years ago....at 4:51 AM on August 28th..a blue eyed, strawberry blonde, 7 lb 10 oz bundle of sweetness. He is still blue eyed and strawberry blonde, and is slightly more that 7-10 now but he still makes my heart burst with love as it did the day he was born and he has made me a very proud mama. Josh is good man with a beautiful heart and kind soul. And in honor of Josh reaching the 'legal drinking age' (which is really what this birthday is all about for him!!)..I present his birthday cake!!

Last Cake of the class!

So I have just finished the second series in cake decorating at Michaels. And this is my "basket of roses" cake!

Attempting a beer bottle!

so, this isn't completely what it would look like...but I'm trying to get the general shape of a bottle and this will go on the top of a 9x13 cake.

A woman obsessed!!!

With Beer!!!! And not the drinking kind...'cause really the thought of drinking beer makes me vomit in my mouth a little. The kind I am obsesed with is the cake variety of course! Since deciding to make Josh a cake resembling a beer bottle, I have been constantly thinking of how I can acheive this. Also, I wanted to model it after his favorite beer, (although at 18 and completely underage he should not be drinking at all..and doesn't in my presence)...and when I asked "what's your favorite beer" his answer was "an open one"...funny funny boy! Turns out he is partial to Coors Light. Thankfully its not something we stock in this house (Beer = Disgusting) but he did "get a taste for it" (as he says...) at the trailer ( I could make all sorts of trailer park jokes here right now, but I will hold off...back to cake!).

So...what I am thinking so far....a 9x13 cake as the base...chocolate of course! And then I will ice that with the buttercream vanilla flavored icing that I make (delicious!) and then I am going to make round cakes to use the round edges to make the bottle so that the bottle looks in more 3D laying on the one side of the cake. I have a frozen 8" rond cake in the freezer so I will be attempting to practice this at some point today. Lets hope it works!!

Castle Cake!

So here is the cake that I made for a friend's daughter's second birthday. I am pretty proud of the cake, though it isn't the greatest job, I think its pretty good for a first crack at it. Things I have learned: need to work on the filling in with the stars using more consistent pressure...some were to low, others went too high (but who can hate all that extra yummy icing!!). I also need to remember to read directions ahead of time and make sure I have all the right tips...turned out that I didn't have the right tip for making the drop flowers so I had to make a quick trip to Michael's to buy it...but I did have my 40% off coupon so I saved a dollar!!





Now for my next cake...which is next weekend, I need to make a cake shaped like a beer bottle or some other bottle of alcohol. Josh is turning 19 and very much looking forward to being able to buy his own booze...so a booze related cake sounds appropriate.

A basket of flowers!!

So I thought I would try my hand at basket weaving! It initially started out a bit of a mess, given that I forgot one of the vertical stripes...but I decided to have flowers overflowing down the one side and this covered up my mistake. I think it looks not too bad!

A birthday cake!!

My neices turned twelve recently and came for a visit so that we could wish them a Happy Birthday! This also gave me a chance to practice my cake decorating!!