One of my favorite design sites, Lost at E Minor, has a fascinating post about cakes that look nothing like cakes. That's right, that delicious (?) looking, savory burrito you see? That is actually a sweet, sugary cake. That is kind of hard to wrap my taste buds around.

Sweet Girl First Birthday

This was my first adventure in making marshmallow fondant. Somehow these pictures were lost, but thankfully I had shared them on FB and I was able to download from there, then re-upload here. I'm not sure what that does to the image quality, but that can't be good. The bottom picture is Eloise with her birthday presents doing a little baking of her own.

Superheroes

This was Gabe's fourth birthday. We didn't get a picture of the cake, but all is well because this year, it was a holy disaster. I had ambitions of doing this but it ended up being a bunch of very unappetizing tilting gray blobs with some toys stuck on. But Spiderman came!

Little Miss Sunshine

This was Eloise's 2nd birthday. We decided to add a little brightness to the dreary Pacific Northwest winter with a sunshine theme. The ice castles were just fun. In some places, you could make those outside that time of year. But, we don't get enough cold, so we set a tub up in the kitchen.

Triceratops cake

Gabe turned three years old two weeks after we moved into a new house, after one night of homelessness at the Comfort Inn with everything we owned in the world parked outside in a u-haul. How to make this boring situation more interesting, you ask? Make a very ambitious cake and throw a huge party with a house full of toddlers, of course!

Farm Birthday

Hello Kitty