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

Valentine's Day Craft

Not a cake, but we used the oven, and they almost looks good enough to eat! We used our Ikea ice molds to melt old crayons to give our friends on Valentine's Day.

Note: these molds are NOT silicon, but as far as I can tell from my Google research, they are made from a plastic that is safe at the heat required to melt crayons. If you are concerned, I encourage you to do your own research.

Lego birthday

Gabe's fifth birthday. The cake is decorated with buttercream icing, the green plate is fondant the bricks are cake pops with a candy coating and the lego men are molded candy melts. I made the sign by downloading a lego font and drawing on fondant with edible markers.

Princess Castle cake

Star Wars Birthday

 Millennium Falcon cake for G's 6th birthday. Carrot cake with homemade marshmallow fondant. Please excuse the storm trooper trying to invade the ship. While we know it is not authentic to the story, it is what the birthday boy wanted.

Wedding cupcakes

Ugh! I didn't get a good picture of this. Chocolate cupcakes with vanilla buttercream icing and fondant flowers. I made these for my cousin's wedding.
Edited to add: Well, what do you know! The wedding photographer got my cupcakes in one of his shots here.