Cake Decorating Parties- All the new rage!

Back in March I began offering Cake decorating parties for those young decorators in training.
It has been fun to see the skill of young people and to share many of the tips, tricks and ideas with people who may want to do this someday!

The first party I did was my own daughter-- good practice since she is in Kindergarten, and if you can teach a bunch of wee little tykes something you should be able to teach anyone... right?!

I'm attaching a few pics from her party, because I forgot to way back when.

The girls really surprised me with how talented they were and how cute some of the cakes turned out!

Moving Day

It is with a heavy heart that I announce here that "Cake Affection- A Kansas Cakery" is soon to become a Michigan Cakery.

I have enjoyed sharing in all the sweet celebrations of my many clients in this area, and will miss the future celebrations. I do have a list of very talented bakers int he area on my website under the "info" tab- so give one of those ladies a call should you need an amazing cake for a special event.

My husband was offered a new job with an awesome company and a deal we cannot pass up! I plan to reopen in South West Michigan once I get everything in order there. Life here is becoming chaotic as I have last minute cakes to finish up, packing to do, and year end school events jam packing the schedule tight. Not to mention: playdates, dinners and good-byes to all of our wonderful friends here.

Today's cake has nothing to do with any of the above, but I wanted to share it as I think it is really cute! A ruffled cake,(made with a ruffle cutter). The flower on top was made with a leaf cutter in 2 sizes, and the broach for the bow was made with edible dragee's onto a piece of cutout fondant.

Yay for teachers!

Last week teacher's around the country were showered with extra love, gifts and goodies in celebration of the hard work they do. Yay for teachers! Who else can spend 8/9 hrs a day in a tiny room jam packed with little kids?!

In honor of one of our great teachers, I made this cake. Girly, springy, and totally cute- (hello... who doesn't love polka dots?!) A tiny chalkboard completes this cake.

Thanks to all our teachers everywhere, who in my opinion, should be paid more then our NFL football players.

Camping cake for my lil camper

You know how you hear older people talk as if their lives have just flown by? I've experienced that kind of a week as we celebrated my oldest child's birthday- he turned 12!

The realization that I nearly have a teenager already has made me want to freeze time and not allow any of them to grow one second older.

My 'lil man is an avid Boy Scout, who loves camping almost as much as he loves video games.

He decided this year that he wanted a party with some of his closest buds, and he wanted to camp out. I must say it was the easiest party I've done so far!

The cake was made to look like a camp out. The tent is made with a frame of popcicle sticks, and covered in carefully cut fondant pieces. The tree is chocolate clay for the trunk, and fondant covered in coconut shavings for the leaves.

What a day! Now we both have a whole year to decide what we do when he turns 13. His thoughts are all about the party and the cake, while mine are more along the lines of "what will I do with a teenager in the house?!"

Flowers and Stripes galore!

Yes, once again this poor blog has been neglected. It is a lot to keep up with! CakeAffection now has a Facebook page as well where we post new pics of our cakes as they are done- check us out!

This cake was done for a charity, and I wanted it to look like a Parisian hotel that I stayed in while in Paris a few years ago.. for those who have never been, Parisian style is somewhat mismatched, and floral, yet at the same time it works and comes across as stylish. They are geniuses in my book!

This cake, done with bold black stripes, is balanced with the two hot pink anemone flowers, I made these with a 3 petal rose cutter! I think they turned out pretty cute.

The "fringe" around the flower centers is a cut circle, then I sniped the edges with a tiny pair of scissors. Each flower took about 1 hr. to make.

This cake is finished with a spray of luster dust... how you you go wrong with it?!