Here is a cake I did last weekend for a Batman loving 2 year old. I also made cupcakes. 

Have you heard of the new game Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure? 

It's where characters are ‘brought to life’ in a adventure game where children can collect real-world toys and teleport them directly into the game using a mystical Portal of Power. And I got asked to make the Portal of Power into a cake for a boy celebrating his birthday. 

I had no idea what that way and had to do my research and luckily I got to see and handle the actual portal of power.

Here is the game's  Portal of Power

Now, here is my take on the magical Portal of Power that brings these characters to life along with some delicious cupcakes.

Cake is double chocolate with buttercream filling.

I showed you my cake toppers for the baby shower safari/jungle themed cake now for the whole picture.

A close up of my toppers. 

Some cupcakes with cupcake toppers that went with the cake. 

And the baby shower wouldn't be complete with out baby shower themed cake pops. 
Can you guess what gender the baby is going to be?
Flavors for the cake pops were red velvet, vanilla almond and carrot. Yumm.

For those of you guys who don't know, I recently got engaged in late October and last weekend I had my engagement party! 


He proposed by giving me a message in a bottle. With that being said I knew I wanted to incorporate that into my engagement party. So pictured below are the center pieces I made for the tables. These were based off of the message in a bottle he gave me. Each one had a different inspiring love letter in it.

I did my own invitations and without any thought ended up picking light blue and white. After Making my invitations I went to Party City to see what the heck I could find to go with my theme and my not-really-thought-out color scheme. I lucked out! I found this beautiful set which matched my colors perfectly and to top it off they were on sale! 

Now that I had something to base the the party off of I went to the drawing board for my engagement cake. Yes, I did make my own cake. I had planned on doing something simple but after falling in love with my plates, I had to incorporate them some how. 

Here is my engagement cake! 3 tiers of amazing vanilla cake with yummy raspberry filling. Ok, ok, 3 tiers is a lot of cake for a small engagement party of 60, so I cheated. The middle tier is a dummy. The stenciling on the cake was a first for me and was done 2 hours before the party started. I put it off until the end because I was intimidated by it and I knew if I messed up there would be no way of going back to fix it. Black on white is never forgiving!

Since I didn't make my cake fully 'cake,' I decided to do a mini dessert bar which was  something I had been wanting to do. 

I had brownie pops (first time making those) with and with out nuts.

I had coconut balls (first time making those as well).

I had a mini cupcake tower. White chocolate cupcakes with white chocolate cream cheese frosting adorned with black glitter. 

And my boyfriend . . . um I mean fiancé made tiramisu cups. 

Low and behold my mini dessert bar. I was missing some elements but for my first time I think I did an okay job.

To tell the truth this was hectic enough and I can only imagine how planning the wedding will go. Well, I better get started early then because time management will be my friend.

October isn't only Breast Cancer Awareness month but it is also Domestic Violence Awareness month which does seem to get overlooked. I am sure I have mentioned this many times but one more time won't hurt, my sister works as a children's counselor at the Family Place. I made Domestic Violence Awareness cupcakes just to make sure they knew they weren't being overlooked. Don't worry Breast Cancer Awareness your cupcake is coming up too! :)

These are chocolate cupcakes with buttercream frosting and fondant ribbon toppers. Enjoy!

Thanks to a wonderful tutorial I found online, I figured how to do cupcake cake pops. This was a cake pop bouquet paired with the cupcake rose bouquet just in case the birthday girl didn't want to share her beautiful cupcakes.

I finally learned how to do buttercream roses on cupcakes and wanted to do a rose bouquet with them. This was a bigger challenge then first anticipated anticipated. I filled the inside of the vase with rocks to make sure if it got top heavy it wouldn't tip over. I placed a round styrofoam inside my vase, this was going to hold my cupcakes. I started doweling my cupcakes to the styrofoam and they were way to heavy. The cupcakes started drooping and breaking off. I had to remove the cupcakes and adjust my styrofoam to make sure only half of it was sticking out of the vase. I placed the cupcakes back on the styrofoam and added green celophane in-between my cupcakes to cover the blank areas. This was not the sturdiest bouquet but it did hold. If I ever plan on doing this again I will assemble on site because the cupcakes were just to heavy.

Since fall is around the corner (even though it doesn't quite feel like it right now) I decided to try some apple cinnamon cupcakes topped with a honey buttercream. I took these cupcakes to work and overall got good feedback. The cake was good and had a texture similar to that of carrot cake, but the honey buttercream was too sweet for me. Looks like I need to go back to the drawing board and give it another go. 

Here are some vanilla cupcakes with vanilla buttercream topped with fondant designs. 

The vibrant colored designs were created for a co-worker's 26th birthday.