Little Monster First Birthday

 So I have been meaning to share this birthday party with everyone for a long time. This is my nephew Finn's first birthday. The theme was Little Monster because if you know Finn then you know that theme kind of fits him well. 

So for decor I made some simple decorations to tie in the theme. 

The dessert table featured Finn's little monster cake and build your own monster cupcakes.

All of the cupcakes had "fur" already on them and then the kids got to pick and choose their horns, eyes, teeth, and arms which were all made of chocolate.

The cake itself featured four different monster all causing mischief of some sort.

Since I had made Owen his own name plate for his second birthday I had to make Finn one as well. If you would like instructions on how to make your own name plate check out my tutorial. 

The kids had a blast making their own monsters.

And of course Finn had a blast smashing his cake. 

 My awesome friend Janice made little felt monsters for all of the kids to adopt at the end of the party. They were a hit with all of the kids. 

The birthday boy and I. Ha ha love his face in this photo!

I though this was a fun theme for a first birthday! Hope you enjoyed it. I will try to post more this coming year. We have a lot more going on now with the opening of the shop so I should have lots of parties to share with you. 

Top 13 in 2013!

Typically at the end of each year I like to reflect on my favorite cakes from the previous year and share them with you. This year I am going to mix it up a bit and share the most popular post from this year!

 

I had a lot of fun putting together these parties and tutorials to share with all of you. So I hope you have enjoyed them and they have given you some ideas for your own cakes and parties. Thanks for allowing me to share my crazy cake life with all of you and I hope that 2014 brings many many more cakes and parties to share.

 

Here are the 13 most popular posts from 2013!

 

How to Make an Elephant Tutorial

 

 

 

Finding Nemo/ Under The Sea Baby Shower

 

 

Construction Themed Cupcake Toppers Tutorial

Capital Area Cake Show 2013 Wedding Cakes

 

 

3-D Edible Teddy Bear Tutorial

 

 

 

Cole's Wild Safari Birthday

 

 

 

Dragons Love Tacos Birthday

Capital Are Cake Show 2013 Divisional Cakes

Easter Bunny Butt Tutorial

 

 

 

Realistic Coral Cupcake Tutorial

 

 

 

Haley and Erik Timberlake Farm Wedding

Wedding Cakes

 

 

Little Southern Gentleman Baby Shower

 

I hope you enjoyed a look back at some of your favorite posts! Please share your favorite cake or party from the past year!

 



Dragons Love Tacos Third Birthday

So this year for my nephew Owen's third birthday he decided he wanted a party based on his favorite book right now which is Dragons Love Tacos by Adam Rubin. This is a super cute book about dragons that love tacos, so if you want to lure dragons to your party better serve tacos, but better watch out for that spicy salsa. I decided to use the cover art dragon for the cake but made him green instead of red because that is Owen's favorite color. Of course as with every cake we make for Owen it has to be special so we decided to make this dragon smoke because he had to much spicy salsa at this party. The smoking dragon was a big hit with all the kids. I also included sugar cookie "chips" with fruit "salsa" and dragon feet cookies. Hope you enjoy the party this year. If you missed last years party be sure to check it out here.

 

 

We decided on less desserts this year and focused more on the dragon cake. I think it turned out really well and Owen loved it!

The tacos are made from Oreo cookies. I will be sharing a tutorial on how to make them in the near future.

Of course if we wanted to lure dragons to the party we had to have a taco bar!

Time to break open the dragon pinata!

This was a favorite activity!

Too much spicy salsa for this dragon!

 Making the dragon smoke was a little tricky to figure out but we managed to pull it off and have more knowledge moving forward for our next smoking cake! Happy Birthday Owen! I hope you loved your cake and had a blast at your party! You are turning out to be one awesome little dude and I love being here to see you grow up!

Here is a short video of the cake in action!

Gender Reveal Party

If you follow me on Facebook then you know a couple of weeks back I posted a gender reveal cake that I made for a special couple. This cake was special for me because one it was the baby gender reveal for my good friends Marty and Janice and because it was my first gender reveal cake. I was given free reign for the cake so I decided to make a two tier. One tier to represent a little man and one tier to represent a little lady. I can't decide which tier I like more! I think both turned out pretty cute! I of course attended this party and had to try to keep my big mouth shut until they cut the cake.

 

Everyone voted boy or girl. Clearly boy won the vote.

Time to find out finally!

 

It's a girl!!

Congratulations Marty and Janice! I can't wait to meet your little one and of course design cakes for all her birthdays to come!