Drawing by Melody Davila

I'm in love with this drawing! Thanks to my awesome & talented little cousin Melody for making it for me. She did such a great job! I definitely have to find a way to incorporate this into my blog's logo. All of her drawings are so amazing!

Chocolate covered football strawberry cupcakes

My little sister wanted me to help her make some chocolate dipped football strawberry cupcakes for a football friend of hers. I mostly just supervised this project. She mixed a box of vanilla cake mix and colored it 1/3 blue, 1/3 red and 1/3 white. The cake came out tie-dyish. We put a can of vanilla icing on top. She dipped the strawberries in chocolate coating and I piped the football laces on with vanilla icing. We placed the strawberries on top & there you have it! 

Bambi Cake 2.0

So...the other Bambi cake that my mom & I made together didn't turn out so well (it cracked in half after a few hours). My mom wanted to make a new Bambi cake for my brother's girlfriend, but this time she was busy and I had to do it all by myself! So this is Bambi cake 2.0! 

It's a strawberry round cake covered with homemade vanilla buttercream frosting colored green. The only things fondant are the flowers and deer. 

Monsters, Inc. Cupcakes!

 Today I made my niece Monsters, Inc cupcakes.
The cake is vanilla flavored and the frosting is vanilla buttercream.
The green cupcakes are Mike Wazowski's eye and the blue and purple are Sulley's fur. 

                          

Bambi cake! Mother-daughter collaboration.

This Sunday my mom asked me to help her make my brother Michael's girlfriend a birthday cake. She loves Bambi so mom wanted to do something with that theme. She doesn't know how to work with fondant or make homemade buttercream frosting so in lieu of that she bought Betty Crocker frosting to cover the cake with. Store bought frosting is harder to work with for me than homemade frosting, but thankfully it came out alright. She made two strawberry cakes in the shape of a heart and stacked them onto each other & we frosted it in vanilla frosting colored brown and green. She had me make two baby deer figurines out of fondant to place on top of the cake. 

Mom did a good job on the cake...it came out looking so cute!

Childhood Cancer Awareness Month!

Every day 46 kids are diagnosed with cancer. Every day 7 children will die from cancer. Pediatric cancer kills more children than Cystic Fibrosis, pediatric AIDS, and asthma combined! 1 in 330 children will develop cancer by age 20. Treatment side affects can last a lifetime for these kids. 

You are aware now. Spread the knowledge...September is childhood cancer awareness month! 

 

 Today makes 15 days since my sixteen year old cousin passed away from childhood cancer (Ewing Sarcoma). I miss her everyday! She had a beautiful soul. She was so full of faith and love. There is no doubt in my mind that she is wearing a crown fit for a princess right now. 

She was very wise for her age and had faith in God that could move mountains. We love you Karen!

"To all the young people,

I want to encourage you to keep on walking

ahead, working hard at what you want to

accomplish in life.

This is the beginning of your life.

But remember always we are not alone

-God is with us.

You must follow the rules and respect

your parents, grandparents, teachers,

and the teachings of the church and 

any person above yourself.

Because this is good in the eyes of our God Jesus."

-Karen Davila 


www.stjude.org
www.chop.edu
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"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future"
(Jeremiah 29:11) 

Smurf Cupcakes

My sister-in-law Renee is going to surprise my niece Angelina with cupcakes for being so awesome in Pre-K. She asked me to make six Smurf themed cupcakes for today. The cake is vanilla topped with vanilla frosting that I colored green. The Smurf faces and mushrooms are all made from fondant. 

I really hope she loves them!