Let them Eat Cake.

I seriously love cake.  Big ornate wedding cakes all the way down to cute mini cupcakes and petit fours (teeny tiny little iced and decorated beauties).  I love them.  As of late, I'm trying not to really eat them any more except for a few small bites here and there though, so I've taken to decorating them instead.  And then there's my newest creative obsession--making cake toppers.  Obsessed.  You should check 'em out on ETSY.  But for today, here's a peak at one of my other projects:

Max's Birthday cake.

 "Up" Cake for my dearest Brother Max Daniel.  I saw this sweet idea on a party planning blog--they obviously were a little more talented when it came to the execution of this idea, but I'd b willing to argue that I had more fun making it? Haha. Max couldn't decide how he wanted his cake decorated, so I picked for him.  He's a big Disney/Pixar fan.

I LOVE any chance I get to whip out my cake decorating supplies and use my kitchen aid.  I will probably blog about that beauty in the future.  For this cake, I colored the icing "cornflower blue", and I was really pleased with how the color ended up.  Used big, fat "confetti" sprinkles for the balloons, store-bought fondant for the clouds and balloon strings, and lazy-last-minute-style printed out pictures of the house and Carl and Russell on cardstock.  I didn't have to keep then on for too long which was good b/c they didn't have the chance to get any grease spots from the icing! 

Um, isn't he the cutest?  Seriously.  And he's 15.  Don't worry, he's that cool--he'll let me make him an "Up" cake for his 15th Birthday!  One of the many many reasons I love my little Maxy.

No go a-away... make some cake.

(Please read the above in Nacho-Libre-style voice)

Grateful for:
My artistic soul brother.


Quote of the day:  ‎
"No person is called because of what they are or what they have done, but by what they will become by doing it"   -Elder Bednar