Kacey's Shoes

Kacey's 2 year birthday.  She is obsessed with shoes so it was only fitting to make her birthday cake into a shoe!  Vanilla cake with buttercream frosting.

Easter

 More fun with cake pops!  The pink chocolate for the bunnies was a little darker than I would have liked but they still turned out pretty cute!  A little more time consuming than I would have liked but I am still learning the whole chocolate dipping technique.  There is definitely a science to it that I haven't quite mastered but I am getting there!  They seem to be very popular so I am getting lots of practice!! 

Pool Balls

 I couldn't find all the colors I needed for the sugar coating on top so I had to learn how to make my own.  A fun process that turned out some very cool results!  The numbers are written in food coloring ink on white chocolate melting wafers. 

Naughty!

 What started out as an innocent forward message, turned into a very fun gag gift for a friend's husband.  This is the end result of the naughty cookies!  I had so much fun designing them.

Baby shower

 My first attempt at cake pops!  The best experiment yet!  These I did as upside down 'truffles on a stick'  I was so excited and they turned out to be a huge success.

 This was a theme of firsts for me.  The cake was my first attempt at making something with tiers.  It was not very successful in structural soundness but it was a great learning experience for future cakes!  In the end, it still tasted good.  The babies are made of Starbursts, Tootsie rolls and Jolly Ranchers.

Purple!!!!!!

Lia loves purple and wanted a Barbie cake.  I try to stay away from the gimicky stuff but there are always exceptions!  The Barbie skirt is chocolate cake and the sheet cake I decorated with buttercreme icing and purple sugar sparkles. 

Snowmen cupcakes

My son had a homework assignment to make a snowman out of something.  It could be anything.  So of course he had the idea to make snowman cupcakes!  Wonder where he got that idea???  We made vanilla cupcakes and used mini chocolate chips, M&M's, orange Starbursts and chocolate drawn into hats to decorate.  They were a huge hit! 

Dylan's first birthday

The family is very basketball oriented and wanted that to be the center attention for a sports themed party.  So I made the basketball from a chocolate cake and the sheet cake is vanilla.  The green grass is coconut stained with green food coloring.  They also wanted a cake for the birthday boy to be able to dig his fingers into so another basketball was created just for him!  If you look closely, you can see that the basketball has the texture of a real one. 

Ashton's Scooby birthday

Scooby Doo!!!!  Ashton wanted a Scooby cake and this was really my first attempt at drawing with icing.  It took 2 tries....meaning I had to scrape the icing off and start over again but I got it the second time and realized that once I had the method down, drawing with icing wasn't so bad! 

Superman

This was an order from a mom at my daughter's school.  Her son wanted Superman and she needed a cake for the kid party and cupcakes for the family gathering later.  The cake I wound up running out of time with and so my husband was kind enough to paint Superman on fondant to help me get finished in time.  Superman was a separate cake.  The city scape was done in dark chocolate.  The cupcakes were chocolate with peanut butter frosting and the 'S' logo is a sugar cookie with icing to create the design.

First real job!

Back in October, a friend asked me to make 2 cakes and 75 cupcakes for her daughter and niece's combined birthday party.  I used fondant instead of frosting knowing that it would give me the painted look I wanted.  The bad part turned out to be that the 1 year old could not get messy from the icing.  So I decided that I was going to have to start getting comfortable with using icing to draw instead of fondant and painting with food coloring which to me was similar to painting a canvas.  The cupcakes were my experimental attempt to draw with chocolate.  Flames for the firetruck theme and Mickey Mouse silhouette for the Mickey theme.

The begining of something great!

I got the idea for the name 'Sugar Whipped' after realizing that sugar is something that I am very attached to when it comes to creativity.  I tend to bake something before I will cook.  I will reach for something sweet as a snack knowing I shouldn't.  So the idea of being whipped by sugar seemed logical.  My goal is to be able to bake for other people so that I can do what I love and not have to eat all of it!