Would we need pink or would we need blue?

"Would we need pink or would we need blue? 12 months ago none of us knew! It's hard to believe our little boy is turning 1! Staton is having a BLUE birthday-it will be lots of fun!"

These are the words on the birthday invitation for a sweet little boy I know. His name is Staton and he has the sweetest parents. You see, I taught school with his precious moma until she decided it was best for their family for her to stay home with this little ham! By reading the invitation, you can figure out that they didn't find out if they were having a boy or a girl when she was pregnant. All of thier baby showers were decked out in gender neutral colors due to this fact. So, when it came time for his 1st birthday, Summer and Drake wanted it to be "all boy"! She asked me long ago to do the cake and she knew then that whatever we did, she wanted it to have LOTS of blue. I went over to visit one afternoon and we brainstormed many blue ideas. Finally, we came up with the idea of making Staton's smash cake a 3D number 1 iced in blue buttercream icing with blue fondant dot details. The cake was homemade chocolate. Then we decided cupcakes would be fun. I baked a dozen vanilla cupcakes and a dozen chocolate cupcakes both decorated in white buttercream icing and blue fondant dots on the top. I hope he enjoys every bite!!!

I plead insanity!

On the first week of school, one of my teacher friends asked me to bake an "over the hill" cake for her sister's 50th surprise birthday party. At first I said I couldn't do it because I knew I'd be so busy, but then I got to thinking about how much she helped me with scheduling and I felt bad turning her down. So, I did this tombstone for her to take to Birmingham.

Help! There's a racetrack in my kitchen!

Lightnin' McQueen broke into my kitchen a couple of weeks ago and raced all around my kitchen. Powdered sugar, almond buttercream icing, and fondant were everywhere!!!!!!!!!!! I had so much fun making this cake for a sweet friend of mine- Parker Thames! His mom, Carrie, sent me a text a little while before the "family" party and asked if I'd like to do the cake for him. Would I like to? Of course, I would! Parker was to be the one to decide between Curious George, Cars, and Toy Story. During a conversation between Joel and Parker (Joel is Parker's dad), Parker made it very clear that he was having a Cars birthday! So, Cars it is. That Saturday morning I met up with Joel and Carrie along with the rest of the Sunday School gang for our church's annual Run for the Son 5k. Some of us ran while we walked this year. I sped home quickly to put the finishing touches on the race track and let Mater get in position in the pit.