Eli's Zebra Cake

When the call came in for a zebra cake all girled up with pink daisy flowers Eli was really excited. He told me that he always wanted to "do" a zebra cake.


He went right to work on his pink flowers.











He then told me he needed more boy themed cakes so he wouldn't always have pink or purple hands. HA HA HA!





With the cake being smaller I told him I didn't know where he could put the name Anna Belle and her age on the cake. There was just so much going on. While he worked I went on the hunt online for what to do. Thanks to one of our favorite youtube cake decorators I found the solution, a name plate. I set off to start it and Eli made the stripes. He then placed the stripes on the white gumpaste and rolled them in. He went back to flowers and I cut a rectangle out. It was set to dry for the end.





He also had me make his white fondant and I put it on. He just can't get the fondant picked up and placed on it by himself. Well, neither can I, we do it as a team, really. It makes me so stressed out.


He set to making the stripes for the cake. Those dark colors like black are a mess.





He got to work and I watched for a bit and then walked off to tend to Noah.








I came back to this.








Looking like a Zebra cake. :)


I then came back and placed my nifty name plate and piped the name. My contribution. Ha ha ha ha!


Then we laid flowers here and there, moved them here and there, took them off, put them there, and then we were happy and he started to "glue" them down.


Finishing touches...





...and voila!











I think this is one of the prettiest cakes yet.


Happy Birthday Anna Belle! :) Anna Belle's mother ended up going to get one of the pug puppies that we got Phoebe from. Ya think she had a great day? I do!

Dolphin Cake

I came across the photos for the dolphin cake Elijah and I made a while back.








My dolphin was on the top.





Eli's is on the first cake.





We thought it was so funny how they each took on their own little character.


Elijah made all of the shells, seaweed, and flowers.











I did the sign.





This was such a fun cake for such a sweet lady. :)

My Owl Birthday Cake

I had wanted to make my own owl cake for a whole year. I found this photo on Pinterest and had to have him on my very own cake!


Eli baked the cakes, made the icings, and cut out all the hearts for the owl. I did everything else, cause I wanted to! Hee hee... I had a blast, too. I would walk away and come back to catch Eli working on my owl! How dare he!


This is the only photo I have of the process.





Here is my cake!














Best cake ever!

Eli's Bratz Cake

Elijah was gifted a steamer from a sweet lady and promised her a cake in return one day. She called to make her order for a little girl in the family. The Bratz cake was born. :)


The little girl wanted a strawberry filling. I love Eli's face as he whips it up.





He baked and crumb coated his sheet cake.





He made his Bratz girl to place on his cake later.











He made flowers.





He put daddy to work when he was short on time. Matthew lined the words in black for him really quick.





And when he was done he and I stared at his latest masterpiece. He really enjoyed that cake. :)














We hope Karis had a great 8th birthday party with her family. :)

The ADT Security Company Cake

Elijah and I decided that we were going to make a cake that looked like the ADT sign that his daddy puts in the yard of the customers house. We wanted it to be the same size, color, etc. Our Daddy person did not believe in us.


We worked away...


...matching colors. I love this picture of Eli's hands in the fondant. :)





I don't have any photos because we were busy with so much during the making of this cake. But here is Eli finishing it up.





Here it is!





How do you think we did?





Breakdown:
Eli Did:
*Mixed the cakes, poured the batter, baked the cakes
*Iced middle of cake (layers)
*made fondant
*cut out our paper pattern daddy made
*Cut out the lines you see
*Iced whole cake
*made icing
*Helped cover the cake with fondant

I Did:
*tested for doneness and pulled them out of the oven
*shaved the cakes
*made fondant (this is a two person deal)
*cut out fondant letters (ADT)
*I made the small letters and numbers at the top and bottom
*Rolled out the fondant
*helped cover the cake (takes 2 person deal)
*placed letters and lines (Eli had to do something diabetes related, forget what)
*steamed cake before we ran out of the door


This is the fastest cake we have ever pulled off other than the space cake we made for Daddy on his birthday. We are getting fast and we work together so well. :) I love this time with him.


We took this to the company day at the pool and it was very yummy. ;)