LITTLE DELIGHTS CAKES

a little faith and a lot of frosting

Holiday Rose

This cake is one of my favorites. ANYONE can make it. Its not meant to be perfect, in fact that is what I love about it. Go here for STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS. You can free hand the roses or after you crumb coat the cake, use a circle cutter and gently mark the cake to help space your roses.For a fun Holiday cake I added red ribbon around the bottom of each tier. Happy Baking- or I guess I should say Happy Frosting! ... VIEW POST

Ty

Thats the pic we sent to family- Surprise! Baby #5. It was a better surprise for some than for others ;). I have been wanting to write about Ty's first months for awhile, I have started to work on it several times but for some reason I am really struggling! It's been making me really emotional to go back to the pictures of his birth and the following weeks. Maybe its because he is my last baby and I am still sad about the things we missed, while at the same time being extremely grateful that he ... VIEW POST

My best motivation.

(Written September 20th) I've been noticing I need to do a better job of seeing the good things in my life rather than focus on the not so good things- not the real struggles -I am talking about silly things, material things. Our house is slowly falling apart, our yard resembles the desert (just blame the California drought) my kitchen is too small, and how can I bear to walk in the living room if I don't get the banister repainted!?! The things that don't really matter one bit but can start a ... VIEW POST

More Eagle Scouts

Another Eagle Scout Cake! My hubby is the short one in the photo and has been scout master for all these cute boys! For this fun cake I used the Smooth Frosting Technique, then rolled long strips of fondant, gently tucking the edges in before pressing it on the cake. As I added each color I gently pressed it to the strip next to it with a thing film of water. I loved putting the Scout motto on it- but the Scout belt is always my favorite part. Here is the link to my other Eagle Cakes along ... VIEW POST

Rainbow Cake

Colorful cakes just make me happy. I got the request for a rainbow cake and I just thought of polka dots! I used homemade fondant for everything except the red. To get the perfect rainbow for the top I used a smaller cake pan to form it in, cutting the stripes with 2 circle cutters that were within 3 sizes of each other. I let it dry and then cut the ends straight. Bright and Fun! ... VIEW POST

P.O.O.

(This is from a Women's Conference that I was asked to speak at. We were focused on this talk about The Joys Of Motherhood. There were 3 moms, one with young children, one with children who had grown and me- in between and also a mom with "special" kids. I realize the P.O.O. acronym is super mature but my kids got a kick out of it ;).) I come from a family of 14, I am the 5th of 12 kids. I graduated from college but really I just always wanted to be a mom. When I had my 3rd child Jack I ... VIEW POST