We all have blonde moments....

....mine happened on Jared's birthday.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14QDKi1q9ME&feature=youtu.be

I'm ok. Just a few red spots that went away before the next day.

Mykael's Birthday Cake

She picked this out of a wedding cake and said, "just make the top layer and it'll be a birthday cake".

                                                              So I made two layers.

                                       Hand painted "bark". (it's supposed to look like tree bark.)

Tinted the leaves with gold dust and painted the centers as well. The scroll/branches/twigs were used with melted chocolate. It wasn't quite hardened yet. That's why it's so shiny.

She didn't want to cut it, so I had made these cupcakes instead. German chocolate with CoolWhip Chocolate filling. And a nilla wafer for good looks.

Words will have to do for now.

I'm so bugged with blogger right now because I can't post pictures or anything of the likes unless I buy more storage. I had wanted to share what happened to me.

For my birthday the other day:
 *I spent 5 hours with a childhood friend. Just the two of us.
*Mykael made me a cake.
*Jaden comandeered the 3 little boys and cleaned the 'whole' house;
*While my hub took me to be pampered with a facial, pedicure, and make-up done.
*Ashton even made up a song on the piano and when I asked him to play it again to record....Eli and then Dylan decided, quite instantly, that they made up a song as well and played them for me. OH how I wished I could post them!!!!
*I recieved a loaf of homemade delectable bread.
*Had an "edible basket" delivered with the most amazing chocolate covered/dipped fresh fruit!
*And phone calls spread throughout the whole day from people who love me. (or had been threatened by my mother to "don't forget to call Audrey"!)
*The gifts from the kids came from the dollar store with trinkets that ranged from a glass rooster to cookies to a porcelin horse box and CANDY!
*And had good company over for dinner and cake.
*as well as stuff that will happen this coming week.

It was such an awesome day. Now I'm going to go tell everyone that my birthday is really next weekend. And the weekend after that, then after that, and so on. :o)

And the cake Mykael made for me.......SO EXTREMELY proud!

ps....looks like only two people are going to get a free something something from me. I'll give you till wednesday at 3:36pm whatever time zone you're in. To tell me what you do with your socks. So, get on it, will ya?

Dylan's birthday

*Note: I'm going through Labeling all my posts. And I came across this post that never got posted....over TWO YEARS ago when I typed it. So I'm posting it now. It's got stuff I wanted to remember.*


I haven't really had any "creative juices" flowing lately and I was at a loss for what to do with his cake. I wanted to do a super cute one like the one found on this post....BUT...I didn't.  Simple, obvious, and kind of a perfect canidate for cake wrecks. (and to think i want to try and make a wedding cake.)

Anyways, it still turned out and tasted good. *That's all that matters anyways.

Dylan loved being sung to all day! When grandma and grandpa Lewis called to sing he would light right up. He'd look at me with the "I can't believe they're singing the same song as you mom." And then join in and sing along. He and 'Eli-stomach' (that's his name as of right thissecond) were in the tub. I was washing them and singin' to Dylan. After I finished Eli kept singin' to him. "Happy to you, happy to you...Dylan".

Later that night we went fishing at an (empty) fishing hole with Uncle Coley. It was still fun and seeing the ducks were the highlight.

Dylan got a singing flash light, blocks, and a hunting video game (NOT my idea!!!)

The next morning he asked me, "Haaah day?" And I sung to him again. Same results as were expressed above.

Some things shouldn't come to an end, but they do.

How I made a Lego Batman Cake......

I started with the people. Because of the thickness, the more days they had to dry, the better.

 Robbin

 Joker

 Batman

 Batgirl's head

 Ta-da

 Lemon juice and food coloring

 Painting the windows

 We're going for the "building-looks-on-fire" image....It'll come together later.

 One of my favorites, the gutter!

 My all time favorite...trash bag!

 Gluing a thingys that hold the gutter to the wall.

 Tiny details....or big fingers. (like the color on my fingers from coloring fondant?)

 Trash can

 Trash can lid! Hee hee

 :o)

 Most (not all) the embellishments for the cake.

 Ok, so I was messing around with the royal icing and I had seen this done once (on a much more professional and perfect level) and wanted to try it myself. You drape the frosting from an edge and the let it dry. Then do the next layer and so on. Once it drys, you're good but if bumped it shatters!

 The hard part!

 The yummy part

 Squaring it all up.

 Cheeser. Gotta have proof I DID in fact spend this ridiculous amount of time making the preps.

 I was having to freeze and refreeze this cake. It just kept thawing out too fast! So much so that by the time I got the fondant on it, it started drooping and sagging and looking distorted. BUT...it's Gotham..nothing's perfect in Gotham. Right?

 Rice Crispies weren't a problem at all!

 So I bought this "impression mat" for brick pattern. L.O.V.E IT!!!! Totally made the whole cake!

 When I first cooked the cake and "assembled" it, it was WAY too small, so I rushed to the store for rice crispy stuff. Bottom level is just that, while the top (and soon to be shown second layer) was the cake.

 Angelle came over today to see me mess with fondant and try it out for herself. I totally took advantage of her artist abilities and steady hands and had her paint the cracks! PERFECT-O!

 Loving it even more now! Even the droppiness!

 Close-up of Catwoman and my awesome kicked in trash can!

 Batgirl

 Perfect imperfections!

The End!

Dylan is Three!

My baby turned three last week but we didn't celebrate until Sunday. (I was still making his cake "preps" and it wasn't done.) Yes, it is now a joke that you're not allowed to have a brithday until the cake is ready, in my house.

Bonnie and Randy came over and this year we were surprised by Uncle Coley as he was passing through on his way to Germany. I had made a yummy lasagna dinner because that's exactly what Dylan.....didn't want. (He ended up eating a bowl of cereal. I didn't care. It WAS his birthday after all.) 

Dylan got a "couple of trucks/cars" (I use that term loosely)! A scooter, that his siblings have put to use more than he has. And a couple shirts/sweaters.

As for his cake...I wanted to do a jungle theme with lots of different animals but the few that I did make took WAY too long so I just kept it at that. It still turned out, so I'm not complaining. AND because it did take so long, I did not attatch them to the cake because they'll look great on a shelf somewhere. *and yes, they are made out of fondant too.

I guess the zebra is the only one I took pics of in the process. Oh well. The others were roughly built the same way. Just different colors. And shapes. And well, Ok, they weren't the same. But you know what I mean.

I estimated the zebra has over 120 tiny little stripes on. TOOK. F.O.R.E.V.E.R!!!!! But totally worth it! I wish this little fat guy was real.

The lion, was the easiest. For the mane, all I used was a mini 5 petal flower cutter. Holed out the middle and sliced it between two petals. Stretching it out to make a scalloped strip. Then glued it on. *When I say "glue", it's a mixture of pieces of gum paste (similar to fondant, just more stretchy) and water. Swirl around till disolved. Use a paint brush to apply. Little bit goes A LONG way. It's SUPER sticky and perfect for attaching "props" to your cakes and arms to fat little bodies, like this.

Butt shot! ahahahaha Actually It's the tails. Turned out cute as well.

To lay fondant over rice crispies, You need a generous amount of frosting to help hide the bumpyness of the crispies. And something for the fondant to stick to.

For the Griaff "spots", I rolled out the brown fondant and then took my knife and cut a squiggly line down and then across to make the misshaped squares. The zebra stripes.... alternating squiggly triangles. And pointy strips. All different thicknesses. Just make sure they don't touch. There is a little bit of white between each black piece.

The making of my palm tree. I wrapped wire with fondant and cut and shaped and dried leaves. Used royal icing to stick together.I did have to hold it for a minute till I was sure it wouldn't drop. I would apply a leaf, go work on something else, come back, stick another leaf on, go back to something else....and so on. I didn't want the weight of all the leaves to make it fall. So patience is neccessary!!!

I wanted to incorporate water in some way, but didn't have the creativity (my mind was pretty fried at this point after the chaotic week I just had). So I just rolled little blue balls and randomly placed them around the middle. I like the accent color it adds to the cake.

Removal of the animals for the demolition of the cake. I have a picture of the lights out and the candles lit, and the yellow cirlcles with his name, were glowing with the flames behind it. Cool effect that I didn't plan.

Fist bumps and elbow bumps sealing the deal wish.

Our cake hater was even FINALLY able to have some because of the rice crispies. Now I know what to make for Randy's birthday! As for the others, they had to have a little of both!

Happy Birthday to my Baby!