Graduations, Babies, and Birthdays!!

It has been a while since I posted, but I wanted to share a few projects I completed in the past month.  Hope you enjoy:

These are cake balls made for a baby shower as well as a graduation party.

This giant chocolate cupcake was made for a 5 year old's hawaiian themed birthday party.  The hibiscus  were made from gumpaste so that everything is edible.

These are the smaller cupcakes I made for her to share with her friends :)

This cake for baby Austin was made to match his bedding.  It was a chocolate and white marble cake with chocolate buttercream and fondant decorations.

This cake was done for my mother-in-law's birthday.  Carnations are her favorite flowers, so I made them out of gumpaste and frosted the chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream.

Passionate Patriots

I had a lot of fun this week creating a cake for Goose Creek Memorial High School's Passionate Patriot fundraiser.  I made a red velvet cake with cream cheese icing.  I molded their school's logo out of rice crispy treats and covered it in fondant to top the cake.  I hope it was enjoyed by the winner of the auction!

 

Miscellaneous Projects

Easter Egg Cake Pops
Chocolate cake mixed with buttercream icing and strawberry cake mixed with chocolate buttercream 

Chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream icing and gum paste flowers

TURNING 30

It has been a while since I have made a post.  I have been on a little break in taking cake orders due to some exciting news that my husband and I were given.  We are expecting a baby in September!!  We are so excited, but the first stages of pregnancy left me pretty exhausted and postponed my cake decorating for a few weeks.  I am back in business and enjoying every minute of it.  This is the first cake I have done since taking my short break.  

This is a 30th birthday cake done for a coworker.  It is a strawberry cake with buttercream icing.    It is covered in fondant with flowers made out of gum paste.

Sesame Treats

These are Cookie Monsters, Elmos, and Oscar the Grouches for a 3 year old birthday party.  I used Oreo cookies and Chips Ahoy for the mouths, marshmallows for the eyes, and DOTS for Elmo's nose.

 This Abby Cadabby cake was also for the 3 year old's birthday party.  The Abby Cadabby figure is made out of gum paste and is all edible although I don't think she would taste that good :)

"Gotta catch 'em all"

Well, I had my first order for a cake this week.  It was lots of fun to make.  My friend from school asked me to do a cake for her son's 17th birthday.  She decided on a strawberry cake with vanilla icing and wanted it to have a Pokemon theme.  I really knew nothing about Pokemon so I had to do some research to come up with an idea.  I settled on doing a three tiered cake.  The bottom tier was done with two 10 in square cakes, the middle was three 8 in round cakes and the top was done with a ball cake pan.  Each layer was strawberry with a vanilla buttercream center.  I covered each tier in fondant, but I did something a little different.  I made some modeling chocolate and kneaded a 1/3 chocolate and 2/3 fondant.  This made the fondant taste a little better than it normally does.  I proceeded to cover the bottom two tiers with blue fondant and yellow starts.  The round ball cake on top was made into the Pokeman ball from the cartoon.  I had so much fun working on this cake and hope that Bryan (the birthday boy) really enjoyed it.  HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRYAN :)

Welcome to sweet sarah's

Hi! My name is Sarah and I am embarking on a journey to attempt to blog about one of my passions-baking.  I have enjoyed baking since I was little, but I just began baking and designing my own projects.  This past summer I took a couple of cake decorating classes and fell in love with creating fun cakes, cookies, and cupcakes. Although I have taken a couple of classes, I credit most of my decorating ability to my aunt.  Every Christmas my aunt, my sister, and I would spend an evening or two decorating cookies for our family Christmas.  This is where I first began learning how to pipe icing into beautiful designs.  My hope is to turn my passion into a little business on the side.  My husband and I are in the process of trying to fund a move to Scotland so that he can begin full time doctoral studies.  My goal is to use my passion to help fund our move.  I hope you enjoy reading about my journey and may even want me to design something for your upcoming event :)

Elegant Birthday Cake

Class Party Chocolate Filled Cupcakes

Turkey Pops

Fondant Birthday Cake

Royal Iced Christmas Cookies