Baby Einstein Cake

My one-year-old's always get their own little birthday cake to dig into. For little Clawson, I decided it was time to do a Baby Einstein cake since it seemed to be the only show he had any interest in.

For everyone else, I make some cupcakes. I decided on a simple design with the baby einstein logo and words...substituted with baby clawson, of course! I mean, he was the star of the show!

Winter Snowflake Cupcakes

Michelle made these delicious and oh so cute cupcakes to share on here. This is what she says about making them:

"I used the free font ww flakes and printed out the flakes the sizes I wanted. I put wax paper over the paper and used royal icing and piped the flakes. When they were set I used edible glitter and used a paintbrush to brush on the glitter. I used 1M swirl for the blue icing and that is all. "

Great idea, Michelle!

Under the Sea Cake and Cupcakes

This is Chase's first birthday cake that he got to mutilate. This was super fun to make, although I was up at 2:00 am trying to finish it Saturday night. I had to make way too many colors for this cake! This was a lot of work, but for those who have the right tips and know how to use them, this is definitely do-able!

For the cake, I used a 6" cake pan with two layers. Butter cream frosting, of course went on top. I covered it with blue loosely and tried to make it look like it had swirly waves on it, which is actually easier than trying to get it smooth anyway! Then I used graham cracker crumbs for the island. I also used just a little bit of white frosting on a knife and ran it lightly over some of the peaks of blue frosting to give it more of a wave look.

I used round and leaf tips for the sides of the cake for various things. For the seaweed, the leaf tip was used. For the coral, I used the round tip and piped circles, one on top of the other until it got as tall as I wanted it. I also used the round tips (various sizes) for all of the animals on the cake. Be careful as you try to pipe the turtles on the sand. They basically want to just come right up with the graham cracker crumbs.

And of course, I had to make cupcakes to go along with the cake for others to eat. I mostly just used the round tips for all of these as well. Only the shark used one other kind of tip (the rose petal) for the fin. Good luck!

Star Wars Birthday Cupcakes

Here's the cupcakes I made for JJ's 5th birthday party.  J.J. liked Chewy the best.  All you have to do for him is use the grass tip (you know with all the little holes in it) and do that all over the cupcake.  Then you pipe the eyes, nose, and mouth with a small round tip.  Basically these cupcakes are mostly done just with the round tip and decorated as artistically as you can (by that I mean that you do your best "drawing" the faces, stars, vader, etc).

For the large swirly cupcakes, I just used my largest star tips and went around in a circle with the frosting that I pushed out.  I also made a second circle on top of the first circle, just in the middle to give it some height.  Then, I immediately put on the sprinkles so they would stick to the frosting before the outside hardened.

Barnyard Cake with Animal Cupcakes

I made these little guys for my friend Trisha a few years back. We did a little trade and she gave me some amazing cards in return. The animals are just done in buttercream frosting. The cake was a 9x13 that I cut to look like a barn. If you are trying to make this and you want more specifics for how I made the animals (i.e. what tips etc), leave me a comment and I'd be happy to put that in for you!