Lorraine's Birthday Cake

It was my little sisters birthday last week. She was turning 23. I always try to make a cake that shows her personality or her favorite hobby at the time. Two years ago I made her this Flip Flops cake since we live in south fl and she loves going to the beach.




She's in Cosmetology school right now, so this year I made her a 3D blow dryer.



It's Chocolate cake with Dulce De Leche filling. Iced in Swiss Meringue Buttercream.(My new favorite buttercream, it's not too sweet like most powdered sugar buttercreams.)And covered in Satin Ice black fondant. I always buy precolored black and red fondant. Its really hard to get a true black or red when you color it yourself.

I used my Cricut Cake to cut out the "Happy Birthday" (Did I mention my boyfriend surprised me with a new Cricut Cake ?! He's AWESOME!)

I used the Birthday Cakes cart. The Plain Phrase creative feature key on page 73.

I'm extremely happy with way it came out. She loved it and so did all of her friends.

Thomas the Train Cake

So I ended up making a simple chocolate cake for my birthday, I didn't even decorate it really. I just covered the cake in icing and chocolate ganache. I didn't have time to go all out.

My cousin called me last minute and she wanted a Thomas the Train cake for her son's 3rd birthday. Normally I would have said no since it was such short notice. But I felt bad, I'm such a wuss. I have a hard time saying no, especially to family. Her son is allergic to dairy and eggs so she needed a vegan cake. I knew if I didn't make the cake for him, he wasn't going to get any cake at his birthday party. And I couldn't let that happen.

I decided to try a new recipe I found here.

I wasn't able to taste the cake since I'm allergic to soy but my cousin said it was "Delicious!" :)

Anyway here's a picture of the cake.



It was vegan vanilla cake with guava fruit filling. I cut out Thomas with SCAL. I used the Plantin Schoolbook cartridge for the grass. For the lettering I used the FMM Funky Alphabet Tappits.

I think it came out cute, even though I didn't have that much time.

Jessica Rabbit

I made this practice cake this week, just because I wanted to play with my cricut machine.

At 1st it gave me a really hard time. I was fighting with the cricut all weekend. Everything I tried to cut kept ripping. It wasn't making the nice clean cuts it used to.

I was ready to pull my hair out and throw the machine against the wall.

When my boyfriend suggested I change the blade.

Why didn't I think of that?! As soon as I put in the replacement blades it cut perfectly. :)




I just love the way it turned out. Its sexy, but elegant.

Little Ballet Shoes

My little cousin was turning 11 this weekend so I made her a small birthday cake.

She's taking dance classes to I wanted to do something really girly.

I used the Cricut to cut out the ballet shoes, I love the way it came out.

It was chocolate cake, filled with strawberry swiss meringue buttercream, fresh strawberries and chocolate ganache. Soo Yummy!

She loved the cake so much she refused to let anyone cut it :)

Here's the cake




Since I've started useing the Cricut for cakes, I'm surprised at how fast and easy it is. I love my Cricut!