Tasty Sunday Treats

A couple weeks ago, I got bored after church and started baking.  The first thing I made was butter bread.  I got the recipe from a good friend back home and it is delicious!

As implied by its name, butter bread has lots of butter!  Each segment is dipped in butter before it's baked.  I love eating it with strawberry jam. . . :)

I then continued my baking spree by making some cake.  This is a chocolate fudge cake with a dulce de leche filling and then frosted with home made chocolate buttercream frosting.  It was very tasty!

I was in a hurry to get to a gathering of friends, so I didn't spend a ton of time trying to make it look great, but I think the taste made up for it. : )



Anna's Baby Shower Cake!

This weekend we had a baby shower for Baby Will! There were lots of family in attendance which made for a really good time!

The bottom layer is two 9 inch funfetti cakes with a chocolate filling and chocolate buttercream frosting. I added some big, light green fondant polka dots to go with the baby boy theme.

The top layer is an oval funfetti cake with vanilla buttercream frosting. The back is made from half of an egg pan. Covered with light blue fondant, buttercream border, and small, light green polka dots to tie in with the polka dot theme on the rest of the cake. Needless to say we had some good times and delicious cake!

Camoflauge Hunter Cake

This cake was made as a birthday present for my brother-in-law whose birthday happens to land on the fourth of July. He loves hunting and such, so that is what inspired the camoflauge design.
The day of we went to Bear World and found these figurines that we thought would be great to finish off the cake.

This is a funfetti cake filled with chocolate buttercream and decorated with vanilla and chocolate buttercream frosting!

Flowers and Butterflies Cake

Here is my first cake using royal icing flowers and butterflies although the cake is actually frosten in buttercream!

The butterflies came out really neat! They were really fun to create and the cake was lots of fun to decorate.

The flowers all came out really well too. There are pansies, violets, apple blossoms, and rosses.

Raindrops and Roses Cake

This was my first fondant cake that I did in my cake decorating class. My design was inspired by the fact that I was missing the Washington rain, so I tried to make it look as though rain drops were falling on my cake. It was a chocolate cake with buttercream filling and a homemade fondant recipe.

The skills this cake features are fondant roses, inlays, and a twisted fondant rope.

Turtles and Flowered Cakes

In my BYU-Idaho cake decorating class, we were instructed to come up with our own designs for our first two cakes. This is what I came up with.

This was my very first cake where we were given specific requirements that needed to be included on our cake. I really like the way that I was able to get the icing nice and smooth and the border fairly even for a first attempt.


This was a practice cake that I made for my brother and sister-in-law who were pregnant. My brother always joked when we asked if it was a boy or a girl that it was going to be a turtle, so this was specially made for them. I thought the turtles came out really cute on this cake.