Emily turned 5!!!!

I can't believe it has already been five years since I had my sweet Emily.  The doctor's office told me I was going to the hospital for some imaging studies on the baby to make sure everything was okay because I was having a lot of pain but they said it wasn't a big deal and I just had to go over sometime during the day.  When I got there the doctor yelled at me for taking so long to get there because apparently he had been waiting to do an emergency C-section on me because my uterus was about to rupture.  I think there was a slight mix up in communication somewhere along the way but at least she got to us safely.   She has always been such a sweet child and she has a very tender heart. 

She wanted a castle cake this year for her birthday so I made her the best one I could.  She absolutely loved it.  It took me a LONG time to put together but it was worth it in the end.  I used the Wilton Romantic Castle cake set that I bought at Michael's.  I started with making all the flowers a few days ahead of time so they had plenty of time to set up.  Then I covered the tops of the turrets and the roof with fondant and rolled them in sugar sprinkles.  I also decorated the turret windows with royal icing they day before so they had time to set up.   The night before I baked the cakes, frosted them, stacked them, and put the flowers around the top edges.  The morning of her party I put it all together and it turned out great except that I had to use hot glue to glue the dowels to the turrets instead of melted candy like the directions said, but it worked perfectly.  All in all it was a great cake!






 P.S.:  I FOUND SOME OF MY FAVORITE COMMERCIALS FROM WHEN I WAS A KID.  HILARIOUS!

Now that takes the cake!

I have been taking cake decorating classes for the last couple of months so I can make all of my yummy cakes and cupcakes looks as good as they taste.  I have completed my classes now!  YAY!  It was a lot of fun and it was surprisingly much easier than I thought it would be.  My instructor told me I should take the classes to become a Wilton teacher but I think I'm busy enough right now.  Here is the final cake for my first class:

I didn't mean for the roses to be such a fluorescent pink but that is apparently what the rose pink is...good to know.  Roses were the only thing I had to learn in the first class because I already knew most of the basics but I really wanted to learn roses so it turned out good.
And here is my final cake from my last class:

It was a lot of fun to learn how to make all of the different flowers and all the different decorating techniques.  I learned a lot more in the second class!  I worked with fondant, gum paste, royal icing and buttercream.  Now if I could just talk my hubby into letting me open a cakery I'd be set (but I don't think that will ever happen).  If you want me to make you a cake or want me to teach you how to do some of this just let me know!