Horizontal Ruffle Cake for a Baby Shower

I was so excited to create a variation of a ruffle cake for one of my favorite people...ever.  My dear friend is expecting her second child.  A girl no less.  So excited to meet that little one.  Her baby shower was pink and very much her style.  This was the cake I made for her.

As you can see, it was a two tier Swiss Meringue Buttercream ruffle cake.  This time the ruffles were smaller and horizontal rather than the more common vertical ruffles.  I used a natural bourbon vanilla buttercream which gave it an off white color and finished it off with a large fondant flower.  Feminine, sweet, and quite fitting for the occasion.

I also made large cookie favors for the guests.  I didn't want to go with the old standby rattles, bibs, onesies and other quintessential baby shower items, so I went with a feminine look and feel and incorporated the font and tiny hearts reflected on the invitations. 

I really loved the maternity dress form on the cookie.  It was just "baby" enough without being too cutsy or generic.  Just like my dear, sweet friend.

Thanks for checking in.  Hope you like this latest ruffle cake.

Nursery Rhymes Baby Shower

There is something in the water...that's for sure.  The last 45 days have brought me more baby showers than I know what to do with!  A couple weeks ago, I had the pleasure of making a baby shower cake and coordinating cookie favors for an old friend's best friend. 

The theme was Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes.

She wanted to do a stack of books cake and incorporate the nursery rhymes theme throughout.  So, we added some hand modeled sugar figures representing various well known nursery rhymes.  We have:

The Cow jumping over the Moon (Hickory Dickory Dock)
Three Blind Mice
Mother Goose herself
and of course....

Humpty Dumpty (before he fell off his wall!)

The cookies we decided on were:

The Cow Jumping over the moon

Mary's little lamb

Mary, Mary Quite Contrary's Garden

The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe

and my favorite...

Humpty Dumpty



Thanks for looking!

Flour Girl

Oh Louie....

Louis Vuitton and Chanel brands are popular topics amongst us girls....aren't they?

This was a birthday cake I made last week for a gal who loves her Louis Vuitton collection.  To add servings and switch up the design, I added a bottom tier gift box cake with a big gold ribbon and bow to add a little glam.  The Chanel lipstick and compact were specifically requested to represent the birthday girl's favorite makeup.

I also made Louis Vuitton wallet and keychain cookie favors.  Now all the guests could have a little Louie in their lives too.

Thanks for checking in....

Flour Girl

FORE!!!!!!

Last weekend I had the distinct pleasure of creating cookie favors for the wonderful people participating in the golf tournament benefiting Casa de Amparo.  The event was called "FORE - the Casa Kids Golf Tournament" and was held at the beautiful Rancho Bernardo Inn.

As you may recall, I am lucky enough to have recently struck up a relationship with these wonderful people that I told you all about here.  For this important event, I donated 150 cookie favors to include in the goodie bags of the participants of the fundraiser.  They also held a silent auction to raise funds for their very important cause.

The design was inspired by the fabulous Sweet Sugarbelle.  She is definitely one of my cookie idols.  Check her blog out.  She always has beautiful photos of her impeccable work, and she is always so generous with tips and tutorials for anyone interested in learning.

I hope they raised a boat load of cash for those sweet, deserving kids!

Thanks for stopping by...

Flour Girl

My Little Princess

Is it me or is the Princess craze much more prevalent now than say...20 years ago.  I really don't remember the Princess thing being so popular when I was a kid.  Maybe I'm wrong. 

I assume that has much to do with the tremendous marketing and merchandising by Disney over the last couple decades.  Disney Princesses are EVERYWHERE!  I remember my thing was Strawberry Shortcake...  I loved her.  Ask my sister...she would be more than happy to explicitly  make fun of  describe my love of that sweet little, strawberry scented red head and her strawberry house.  My love for her may or may not have been slightly displaced by my obsession with strawberries.  What is that all about?  I have literally had a strawberry cake, strawberry shortcake, or some other strawberry dessert every birthday...seriously, every birthday.

My first birthday (before there were smash cakes!)

Well, as it does fairly often, the Princess theme arose for a 6th birthday celebration this past weekend.  I was shooting for a tutu look and was using the ruffle on the cookies to mirror this idea.  The request was for mainly light pink, with a second shade of pink, and a girlie-girl Princess feel all the way.  They wanted to go with a small 3 tier, so we decided on an 8", 6", 4" mini tiered cake.  So, this is what I came up with:

(why does pink and purple always look distorted when photographed??? grrr)

This was not my first ride on the princess train...

This was a cake created for an actual Princes....err, Queen I suppose.  This cake was created for an event for Miss Baja California.  This was actually one of my first large cakes.  Though I was very proud of it at the time, I truly see how far I have come since then.

This was a super cute cupcake tower created for a little girl named Quincy who is nicknamed Queen-Cee.  How adorable is that?  So, quite fittingly, little tiara clad "Q"s were included in the design.

This one was for a princess tea party themed birthday complete with tea and hot pink tutus for all the princess guests!  How over the top cute is that?!?  The tiara and teacup cookies were favors for the guests.

So, each time the Princess theme rears it's head, it is a challenge to create something new, something different...a new spin on a common theme.  I hope I accomplished that this go 'round and the little Birthday Princess was happy with her Princess sweets.

Thanks for stopping by.

Flour Girl