And there were baby clothes!

So, yes, it was over a week ago that we finished and dropped off the cake, but things have been busy! As I hope you all have seen our website...www.sweetbabycakesonline.com! It was so much fun to put together and I hope that you all like it.

Now for the cake...it was an experience that was excellent. Sister and I started the cake on Friday. We made the cakes on Friday and let them sit overnight. Then on Saturday we iced, filled and decorated them. In addition to doing all those things we had to make sure that the baby was fed, happy and playing nicely.

In the end it was a great time and we made it to bed by 10pm on Saturday night! Perfecto! Check it out...



Oh and we had extra time and supplies so sister made a birthday cake for her friend...yummy!

Attempt Numbero Dos!

Yesterday was not fun...why? Well, I started to make my list for my second assignment of the summer: a baby shower cake! It is very exciting that I am making my first three tiered cake. In the end it will probably be way too much cake for the shower but who doesn't love extra cake to eat forever. And really, flour and sugar is not that much money. So yesterday was day one of the prep work for the cake. I was to make ALL of the decorations for the cake. It is a three tiered cake that I found online that we are trying to recreate. The decorations I am making are all made out of gum paste. So, the fondant needed to be colored and then mixed with some gum tex to get it to be the right texture.

Well...baby boy did not want to nap in the afternoon until 5:25pm! That's right so not much got done yesterday. Then the hubby wanted me to head to bed with him around 10ish...get your minds out of the gutter we went right to bed after hubby shed some light on me with some useless tips from a book my mother bought him.

So up to today I had only made the 120 buttons I needed. At least I think that is how many I made. We shall see when we start to decorate on Saturday. Today, as the nap is about to finish (the monitor is right next to be and the baby is starting to cry), I was able to make all 100 of the cookie cutter images for the clothes line! WooHoooo!!!

The rest of today needs to be done with making the frosting, roughly 23 cups worth and some pastry cream!

Yumm...

Happy Birthday to you...Happy Birthday to you!

Happy Birthday Mom! As I am late posting pics of our birthday celebration. It was a tricky weekend as there were probably more lows than highs with the passing of my uncle, but we were still able to get together for a celebration for my mother's birthday. And of course it was her first birthday as a Nana!

The plan was to meet at this new restaurant in Hingham...Alma Nova I believe..run by a New Kids on the Block Brother. My sister wanted to wear our old NKOTB buttons and such. However, when I called to make a reservation 9:30pm was the earliest! Off the list! On to the Fours we went. It was a nice gather of my mothers friends, myself, the hubby, the baby and my sister. A six inch cake was perfect. Lemon was going to be the perfect tasting too!

Mother was surprise with the cake and with her friends coming. All in all it was a lovely celebration! And the cake was yummy!!!! Lemon butter cake with lemon curd filling frost with a Swiss merg butter cream. Decorated with crystallized lemons!