Week of Cakes! Day 7

Here we are, at the end of the Week of Cakes! I hope you enjoyed my creations this past week. The next cake is definitely the hardest cake project I ever attempted! It took three days of baking and decorating! Want to see?

This was for my son's third birthday. He was (and still is) obsessed with Thomas Trains. He wanted the number 3 train, so we took his number 3 from his collection and tried to match it as close as possible.

Every train car was decorated differently and had a different cake flavor. We had a mail car, an animal car, a box car, and caboose. Under the cars, we made a track using black licorice and chocolate covered wafer cookies.

Week of Cakes! Day 6

As the day comes to a close, I will show you the two cakes that probably took me the longest to make. I have a very loving husband who helped me a lot! The first cake is from my daughter's 5th birthday. I used the idea on Wilton's website for the large cupcake pan.

Each house was a different flavor of cake. The top cake was hypo-allergenic with no eggs, chocolate, or dairy for a guest of the party. Most of the cake was devoured, thank goodness!

Week of Cakes! Day 3

This cake was for a really good friend. I wanted the cake to be simple. She loves Mickey Mouse, so made this cake for her. I free-handed the design onto the cake. Simple, yet perfect!

Birthday Cakes

I have two more cakes to show you, and then I'll get back with the paper crafting tomorrow! Promise! My daughter has started 1st grade this week, so I will have more time to be crafting and blogging!

The first cake is for my friend's son's 6th birthday. He likes Batman just a LITTLE! He was having a Classic Batman party, and I was asked to make the cake. I printed out the Batman symbol online, cut it out, and traced it onto the cake top.

I just bought the Wilton checkerboard cake set and really wanted to try it out! My husband and I had the cool idea to make the inside of the cake represent Joker. To make the batter, I made a simple lemon cake batter and divided it into two zip top bags. Then I added green coloring to one bag and purple to another. If you follow the directions on the Wilton Checkerboard Cake set, you will end up with this gorgeous cake that people are sure to be surprised with!

The next cake I want to show you is for my friend's birthday. He loves zombie movies, so I decided to make him a zombie cake! I found a lot of versions of this cake online. I don't know who the original idea comes from. I made homemade marzipan for the fingers, formed around lollipop sticks. Then I used frosting to put the almonds on as nails. The "dirt" is ground up Oreo cookies.

I hope you enjoyed some of the other types of crafts I like to create. Back to the cards tomorrow!