recent birthday cakes...

My kids are getting old enough that they want to help out and when I was trying to figure out my husband's birthday cake they suggested an "under the sea" cake with swedish gummi fish and gummi sharks. This is an easy and fun cake to make with your kids. All we needed was our cake (my kids picked the pan shape, I probably would have just gone with a cirlce or rectangle:), blue and green icing, big and little M & Ms, gummi fish and gummi sharks...

Cupcake cake for my daughter's birthday...

THE CAKE

I made Uno Card cakes for the party and then little Uno Card cakes for the babies, which ended up being smashed and tossed to the ground (see pic below, great shot Emily!)

I wanted the cakes to be relatively easy to make the night before the party so earlier in the week I made the cakes and froze them.

Also, earlier that week my friend Deanna showed me her fondant skills. She showed me how to make all of the "1"s out of fondant so they'd be ready to go when I iced the cake... this made icing the cake super easy. White icing layer, then marked the area I wanted to keep white with a pattern I had made, star tipped the rest of the top of the cake with the color of the card, piped a border, added the "1"s and there you have 'em... Uno Card cakes!