The thrills of fondant ghosts.

I know that this blog has turned into nothing more than a portfolio of baked goods but I just have so much fun sharing my creations! This little number won me the award for most fancy food at the Halloween party tonight. (Yes, our 2nd Halloween party!) A tiny fondant ghost set atop a mound of buttercream "grass." This was a last minute potluck idea. The kids went wild over it!

Halloween!

Tonight is the church Halloween party. Should be a lot of fun! I bought Lightning McQueen and Mater costumes from the Disney Store for Coleman and Cooper. Will and I are dressing up as mechanics to stick with the Cars theme. I bought some black costume make-up for us to smear on our faces like grease. I will post pics of the party later. I just wanted to post a pic of the Halloween cake that I made for the party now, before it gets eaten so here you go!The Haunted House was a frozen buttercream transfer and the ghosts were made of fondant. This was really fun to make and great to practice some new techniques!

Cakes...for Goodness Sakes!

Yep! That's the name of my new cake decorating business, Cakes...for Goodness Sakes! It totally suits me don't you think? I was actually browsing a cake decorating board and came across a post to help others think of names for their businesses and this one was on there. Nobody bit so now it's mine! When I first read it, it totally made me laugh so I read it out loud to Will and he loved it. I'm getting ready to have business cards made up as soon as I get a website up and running. My li'l bro, Chad, knows how to put up websites, so I'm going to ask for his help. Anyway, just thought I'd post the good news. Oh, and here's a pic of the cake I made for the neighbor today. Lemon poppyseed cake with raspberry jam filling and lemon whipped cream frosting. This one was a definite keeper. I didn't have much time to decorate it, so I just threw on a few dots and a border around the bottom.

Chocolate lattice cake. Uh, needs some work.

I was so excited to try this cake I had seen somewhere on the 'net, so I ran to Walmart tonight, bought everything that I needed, came home and got started right away. Well, to make a long story short- it didn't really turn out how I had hoped. I was going to give this to a neighbor but was too embarassed. A learning experience. I know what I did wrong and I will try it again. It was really yummy just not very pretty.