Hydrangea Cake

I have to admit, I'm kinda impressed with myself... I really like how this cake turned out and would like to make it again someday.  I also tried a new white cake recipe and it was very yummy.  I hope it made it safely all the way to TN!

This cake may have been the hardest I've done... emotionally.  It's a good thing that I had a child to tend to every so often while doing this cake or I probably would have shed a few tears... actually I probably could now too.  I'm really going to miss having Heather do cakes with me.  I enjoyed spending the time with her as much as, actually more than, doing the cakes. 

It's been too long...

So I need to post the last three cakes that we did... well two that we did together and one that I did by myself.  

Last baby shower cake at Heather's old school.

Katie and Clint's wedding rehearsal cake.  We had a ton of fun designing and decorating this.  This was also our last cake together as Classy Confections... but hopefully not our last cake together ever.  I will have a one year old to do a cake for next year and maybe Heather can come help me since it will be a very important cake!

At the rehearsal.

Our friend Erin's son, Luke, had his first birthday this June and it had a monkey theme.  This was his personal cake.

I will continue doing cakes so please, please ask me to do some for yall!!

I will be posting again soon as I have a bridal luncheon cake for this weekend!

Over The Hill

This past week we had a cake for a man turning 40.  He is a huge Gamecock fan, but the rest of his family is not... so we thought it would be funny to have Cocky about to go "over the hill" at Death Valley.  Heather did a fantastic job on Cocky!!

Cookie Monster Cake

This past weekend, I made a Cookie Monster cake for her nephew's 2nd birthday.  I tried out a new recipe for a chocolate chip cookie dough cake to go with the theme and it was really tasty!  Grayson seemed to enjoy this cake much more than last years!



Our 2 Latest Cakes

It's been a while since we've posted, but we have two new cakes to show you.

First, we had a request for a birthday cake for a little girl who wanted surfboard and a monkey both incorporated onto her cake!  So what's better than a surfing monkey?!

Second, a friend from my church is having a baby (due exactly 3 weeks before I am) and we hosted her first baby shower for her this past Sunday.  The bedding for the nursery is sooo cute, but very intricate.  Since I was doing this cake all by my lonesome, due to Heather's engagement lunch with their families, I had to simplify it just a bit!  Yes, if you didn't know Heather is engaged and I'm super excited for her... though her 1 1/2 hr commute to do cakes isnt' going to be much fun for her!!  haha, jk!  Anyways, to see the bedding go here.

Safari Baby Shower

Heather's coworker is having a baby and of course we did the cake for the school shower!  Her bedding is so cute with a safari theme.  We found a picture of the rug that belongs to the set and imitated it on the cake, changing a thing here and there!  Heather gets credit for everything but the border and smoothing?!  haha, I sat and stared much of the time, but I find it so cool to see her create animals out of icing!

Sweet 16

Our first creations for a sweet 16 party finally happened!  We made a large cupcake and 4 dozen cookies with the birthday girl's initials on them!  The colors were hot pink, turquoise, and lime green... which looked so cute together!  We went with royal icing on these cookies b/c we like the look and it was def. some trial and error for us, but they turned out rather cute, or so I think!

Spiderman Cupcakes

Last week we got to make some Spiderman cupcakes which was a first for us!  Heather gets all credit for the faces and buildings and then we both worked on the other cupcakes.

Princess Cake

A couple weeks ago we made a Pincess cake for a little girl turning 2 who is very much into all of the Disney princesses.  We all know I don't do the real artsy stuff and Heather didn't think she could do people with icing so we went with the Disney castle but in the colors of the party - green and pink.  I would wait until we were almost done to look in my bag of goodies a fellow teacher gave me last year to find I had a set of Disney princess sprinkles!  We were able to use the crowns on the sides and then pearl balls on the tops of the castle peaks.  There was a blue shoe and we were going to put just one outside the castle door, but it didn't really look like a shoe, so we didn't go that route.

Here is what we came up with.  We do give William credit for the writing!



Turtle, Turtle

A few weeks ago we got to create 5 dozen cupcakes for a baby shower based on the crib bedding.  The bedding is mostly blue and browns with turtles on it.  We imitated a few of the turtles and changed up some colors to get what you see below!!

Spider Webs Cookies

I made these cookies for a Halloween party this past weekend.  I found them online and wanted to try more cookies with royal icing... I really liked how they turned out!

Ducklings, Monkies, and Volleyball - Oh, My!

Two weeks ago, we did a cake for a my friend, Ellen's, sister who is expecting her third child.  Their last name is Hicks and they don't know what they are having this time.  Heather had the brilliant idea of having the baby duckling hatching from an egg! 

This past week we did some volleyball cupcakes for our friend Rachel who coaches and her team was wrapping up their season this year.  The pics are bit blurry so we apologize for that.  We did each girls' jersey with thier number and then a few extras. 

This past weekend, we did another 1st birthday party for Miss Riley!  We love first birthday cakes, they are always so fun to decorate!  The theme of this party was monkies with light pink, hot pink, and a bright green color scheme.  Once again, we have to brag on William for doing all of the writing... he even branched out to a new curly font for Riley's name!!

Isn't she just the cutest little girl!?!?!



Groom's Cake #1!!!

We can finally post our first ever groom's cake!  This was by far the most important cake we've done to date and was viewed by some 100+ people!  We even did a practice cake a few months ago to make sure that we knew exactly how we wanted things to go and we are very glad that we did so. 

Lisa and Taylor go to church with me and were married on Oct. 2nd at Larkin's in downtown Greenville.  So yes, not only was it our first groom's cake, but it was at Larkin's and if you are from around these parts you know it's a nice place!!  Taylor is an avid fish and Lisa wanted to surprise him with a large-mouthed bass cake.

Heather and I worked really well together on this cake, from combining ideas about how to make the wood look real to the colors on the fish.  We of course have to give credit to William who did all of the writing on this cake.  He hasn't been recruited in a good while, but this was so small and both of us were to the point of having carpal tunnel that we handed it over to him. :)  He did very well!!

Below is the orginal practice cake... we def. made some improvements on the second one!

We also did desserts for the rehearsal dinner the previous night.  We made 2 of "Nana Pat's Beach Cake" which is a favorite of Taylor's family and is pictured below.  We also made "chocolate banana pudding" which is a favorite of Lisa's family.  It was neat to make family recipes for them, but I didn't get a picture of the pudding.

Another 1st Birthday and a 60th Birthday

Here are three more cakes from last weekend.  We did another 1st birthday for a girl at my church and they wanted Minnie Mouse.  Heather did a fantastic job with Minnie... her talent never ceases to amaze me!!!  Glad she is my cake partner!!

The next cake we did was for a 60th birthday party.  We took the invitation that they sent out and copied the tree on it... it's kind of an "artsy" tree.  Then Heather tried to copy the font and did a pretty good job of it!

A girl loves her puppy!

So one of our cakes from last weekend was for a little girl's birthday.  She had recently received a puppy as an early gift and her mom thought that having the dog on the cake would be perfect.  I felt like this cake would have been perfect for one of the Hollywood stars who always has their dog with them.  It's girly and very cute!!

Logan Turns One!!

Last week, we made a cake for a friend of Bonnie's son, Logan, who turned one.  We love doing 1st birthday cakes and getting pictures of them digging in!  Check out the pics below of Logan's cake and him enjoying it!

Some more pics of the other cakes will come later this week as I receive more pictures of them!

Finally, an update!

Well, things have been a bit slower than usual during August and September, but they are really picking up.  We've done just a few cakes over the past month, some of which we cannot yet post because they were practice for an upcoming event.  The other week, Heather had to do a cake on her own because I was out of town.  This was for a baby shower and it turned out so cute... love the colors together!

We are currently working on 4, yes 4, cakes for this week... actually 5 b/c one is a 1st bday giant cupcake and a larger cake to go along.  Can't wait to post those later!!  Then next week, we have a rehearsal dinner and groom's cake which we are also really excited about!!  And it's fun just having girl time with Heather again after a little bit of a "dry spell"!  Take care!

Katie's Masters Cake!

My sister just graduated from Clemson with her masters in Agriculture Education.  For the celebration cake, we made a pink velvet with cream cheese/pecan filling and buttercream on the outside.  All of the items represent something about what Katie loves/does.

If you want to see pics from her graduation and celebration click here.