The Philadelphia 76ers

My cousin celebrated her wedding anniversary over the weekend. Her parents had a little get-together for the couple and I offered to make a cake. Her mom said "If you need a theme idea I'd say that Jesus and the Philadelphia 76ers are the glue that holds them together. hahaha" I went with a Sixers theme. lol

Laundry Day

The monthly birthday parties at the DWC haven't had themes for a few months now. It's made it a little hard to come up with a design for the cakes. I don't want to do just generic flowers, balloons, etc.

The ladies play games during the party. It's usually BINGO. The prizes have had themes, so I've taken inspiration from the prizes for the cakes. This month the prizes were laundry items.



The washer is way bigger than the person, but that's ok because it's a cake!

Arrr, Cakeys!

I don't know if I've said this before, but I am not a fan of half sheet cakes. They're big and heavy. My theory is that if you're having that many guests, get a smaller tiered cake and cupcakes. I think that looks better displayed than a big ol' cake. That being said, I won't turned down a half sheet cake order. haha I will turn down a full sheet cake order though. No way. TOO big!

Anyways, I got an order for a pirate-themed half sheet cake. The pirate theme made the half sheet not so bad.

HelloGiggles

Instead of taking a break during slow cake weeks, I usually end up baking for fun. My Jersey Shore cupcakes, Alice in Wonderland cupcakes and Nyan Cat cake all came from "baking for fun."

HelloGiggles is one of my favorite sites. During my recent baking fun, I made a cake just for them!

Minnie in Pink

Here's a small Minnie Mouse cake and cupcakes with pink bows.

Curious Little Monster

My customers are mostly repeat ones. I've made a few baby shower cakes that turned into future 1st and 2nd birthday cakes. It's pretty awesome. This is one of those cakes. I will forever remember doing the baby shower cake for this lady, because I delivered it on my birthday and the cake was huge. The baby shower was at a park, but I had to deliver it to her apartment because I had birthday plans. I didn't know the party was moving to a park though. The apartment didn't look like it was set up for a party, but I set up the cake anyways. After I found out, I just keep thinking "I have no idea how they're going to get this huge cake from the apartment to a park." haha I guess they pulled it off though!

Anyways, so now two years later I made her daughter's 2nd birthday cake. The party was Elmo themed. Surprisingly, I haven't done much Sesame Street cakes. The candles in Elmo's hands are real.

Our Lady of Guadalupe

My grandma turns 80 tomorrow. We celebrated her birthday over the weekend. She had asked me like three years ago to make the cake for this party. lol She LOVES Our Lady of Guadalupe, so it definitely had to be the theme for the cake.