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.