A Party

Elijah and I were able to play cake together for this party. We think the birthday girl liked it. :)





Noey enjoyed the games so much. :)




















We happened to find Remy once during the party. Elijah we never did see until it was time to eat. :)





Noey fed me some of his cake. He is so thoughtful considering I hate CAKE!





He really enjoyed "paying" for his prizes at the end of the day with the tickets he had earned.

My Baker Has a New Stove

My little "Cake Boss" has a brand new convection oven!!! It was a great day in Eliman history. :)

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. :)

My Sweet Baker Son

One night I had a craving for cake. I mentioned it and Elijah quickly said he could make me one. In about an hour I had this. :) I don't think having a baker for a son is a great idea when trying to tone up from a baby.














I have so many cakes to share that he has made. They are on Matthew's camera. Soon, I promise.

Elijah's "Three Little Pig" Birthday Cake

Elijah had another order for a birthday cake. The theme was the three little pigs.





His cake was iced and the new marshmallow fondant he tried this time was ready to be dyed.





Working away...








Remy made a "bug" cake. He had alot of fun and said he understood why Eli loves to do cake some much. ;)





Working on his big bad wolf.





The finished cake!
Elijah says the story to this cake is the two pigs are running out of the stick house to the brick house. The third industrious pig is working away in his garden. :)










He has a pony cake order for March I think it is. :) Be on the lookout for it.


He earned enought to almost pay for his new DSi with all of his cakes. :) He was so proud!

Eli's Giraffe Cake

Elijah had his first paying order for one of his cakes. The order was a cake for an older friend of his Mrs. Elouise and she was turning 61 years old. :) He was told she loved giraffes and that was the number one cake they wanted him to make. So...he looked online ALOT...and decided he could do a smaller version of a cake he saw online.


I was nervous that he was biting off more than he could chew. I told him to first go and play with the playdoh and see if he could do the giraffe. I was surprised when just an hour later he presented this to me.





This proved he was capable and off he went!











I helped with:
*Pulling cakes from oven
*lifting and placing the big piece of fondant on the cake (this is tricky)
*and I helped him with the tail and mane of the giraffe


The birthday girl was very pleased and I was so proud!


Eli told me that day that he felt so good that he has found something that he excels at. His words...

Eli's Third Cake Class

He learned to make a shaggy mum.






AND a star flower thingy...








He has off this week, THANK GOODNESS! Look for all his practice runs until the last class of course one! I think he is looking into fondant.

Eli's First Cake After Cake Class One

First of all, Darlene taught him so well. Thankyou, GOD, for people who don't mind teaching our children the things they want to learn when we just don't have the energy or gumption to do so!!!!! What a blessing Darlene is to our family.


Elijah went to his first Wilton cake class last tuesday. Matthew and I were shocked with the amount of information that was given and how much he had picked up! He shared his star-tipped cookies with us when he came home with such joy and gusto. :)


Last night I let him do some "homework" to practice what he had learned. He needed to bake a little cake for tomorrow's class so we made two. He went over the lessons of making icing, tinting the icing, spreading the icing, getting the icing as smooth as possible (which is hard), and he revisited stars on his cake. The neat thing he did was make a trasfer with gel and a cross pattern he lifted off the internet. It was a very simple cake, but he really showed us how much he had learned. He is almost to the point that I could walk away and leave him be for the entire process! I really can't wait for that. ;) My biggest job right now is keeping him from licking the icing. HA HA!


Once or twice I would say that the book says to, "do whatever", and he would say, "NOPE, that isn't what Mrs. Darlene says!" HA HA!


Here is the cake!








Eli is so into this class. At one point last night Matthew lifted an eyebrow and said, "He really likes doing this." Yes, honey, yes he does. *snicker* And he better like it well after all these classes. We have spent a pretty penny so far on supplies. The kids doesn't play sports nor does he want to, so this will just be his "thing" for a while. Thank GOD for insulin pumps! HA HA

Just a normal day...

Two boys having school...

Remy making circle animals...

And Elijah deciding which cake he would like to tackle first in his new course books his Aunt Kyda (the master cake chef from Texas) sent to him. :)

Have I ever told you how much I LOVE my days?

Happy New Year ... CAKE!

Matthew and I gave Eli some cake decorating supplies for Christmas. He has really shown a desire for cake making and we made sure he had some things to see how far he would go with it.

He was really excited to open them on Christmas Day.

Last night he made his first cake for New Years.

I only helped with putting the cakes in the oven and out and helping with the smoothing of the icing on the cakes. :)

He was so pleased with the outcome. I wish you could have seen how much time and focus he put into this. :) I was very proud.

Now for a funny little tidbit. :)

I overheard this conversation that Elijah and Remy were having while he was decorating his cake. :)

Remy: Hey, Eli, you should get daddy to take a picture for the newspaper and everyone can know you make cakes. (Matthew does freelance work for the local paper)

Elijah: No, Remy, I would just put out some flyers or something like that.

Remy: Yea, Eli, you could have a cake business business right now! You would be like Doogie Howser!

Elijah: Yea, BUT I would still be in school at the same time! (Ya know, cause Doogie was out of school while he was a doctor LOL!)

Have a happy year everyone! Let's make this a neat year for us all!