Eyeball (halloween) & Pumpkin Cake Pops

I made some eyeball cake pops yesterday for a customer. The cake is vanilla cake with vanilla frosting. The pop is covered and decorated in candy melts. 

 I also made pumpkin cake pops for my family. The cake is vanilla and vanilla frosting. The cake pop is covered and decorated with candy melts...I  used brown pearl dust (yes, edible btw) to make the shading where the pumpkin grooves are so that it's more noticeable. 

Operation Christmas Child! - Samaritan's Purse

Since 1993, more than 100 million boys and girls in over 130 countries have experienced God’s love through the power of simple shoebox gifts from Operation Christmas Child. Samaritan’s Purse works with local churches and ministry partners to deliver the gifts and share the life-changing Good News of Jesus Christ.

http://www.samaritanspurse.org/what-we-do/operation-christmas-child/

For the Waco area you can pick up shoe boxes from The Family Christian Store (next to Wing Stop). Box drop off location Nov. 18-25: 

Highland Baptist Church- 3014 Maple Avenue Waco, Tx 76707

Here is a quick video featuring Bob & Larry from VeggieTales about Operation Christmas Child:

With all prayer and petition pray at all times in the Spirit, and with this in view, be on the alert with all perseverance and petition for all the saints. (Ephesians 6:18, NASB)

Gift-filled shoeboxes are a powerful way to introduce children to God’s greatest gift, salvation through Jesus Christ. Your prayers are essential to the work of Operation Christmas Child, so please join us during National Collection Week Nov. 18-25. Our goal this year is to collect 9.8 million shoebox gifts from the United States and nine other countries. During the week, we will pray for the people packing the boxes, the volunteers who will be collecting, processing, and delivering the gifts, and for the children receiving them.

How to pack the box:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx2BS3IL9kA

“Christ has no body on earth but yours, no hands but yours, no feet
but yours.Yours are the eyes through which Christ’s compassion for the
world is to look out; yours are the feet with which He is to go about
doing good; and yours are the hands with which He is to bless us now.”
~Saint Teresa of Avila 

Batman Minion Cake

This past weekend I made a Batman minion cake. The cake is chocolate fudge with vanilla buttercream frosting. It is five eight inch round cakes stacked on top of each other and I cut the top a bit to make the edges rounded out. I used fondant to cover the cake and decorated it to look like the minion is in a Batman costume.

Happy Boss's Day ,Dad & 24th Birthday ,Big Brother!

Today is my second oldest brother's 24th birthday! My sister-in-law got him a store bought chocolate cake with big chocolate flakes on the side with strawberry filling. I decorated the top with a muscular arm, dumbbell, and "Joe" made out of fondant.





Today is also Boss's Day! So for my dad I made him a vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream frosting. I layered it with fondant and made a hammer, screwdriver, & nails from fondant. I wish I had done more with the cake since I feel like it looks very simple, but my Dad liked it so i guess that's all that really matters.

Community Helper's Week at the primary school!

This is picture of my big sister's classroom (above). She is a bilingual kindergarten teacher at an elementary school. The teachers there asked me if I could come in and talk about what it's like to be a baker and about how I give back to the community for Community Helper's Week. So, I made a power point presentation and presented it today to my sister's kids & all of the students. It was a blast! I had so much fun telling my baking story and the kids loved getting to see the cakes. It was also really cool when most of the kids came up to hug me before they left! So sweet! 

Here is a picture of my presentation (left) & a picture of my big sister Veronica getting her kids to sit on the floor for the presentation (right): 

 

Rainy Day = Cake Pop Day!

The kids didn't have to go to school today and my niece didn't have to go to pre-k either. I've been wanting to make cake pops for the longest time now, so.... what better way to spend a  rainy Monday morning with my little side kick!  

We made a box of chocolate fudge cake with a can of vanilla frosting. Rolled them, stuck popsicle sticks into them, and dipped it into candy melts! I tried making some that look like regular ol' cake pops and some like carmel covered apples! 

Those are the cake balls Angelina made! She was so proud! (left picture)

(My nephew & niece posing with their cake pops.)

              

Baby Shower Basket Cake

Here is the baby shower cake I just finished up this morning. It's for a baby girl! The cake is vanilla and strawberry with vanilla buttercream frosting. I used a basket weave technique with the frosting on the outside of the cake to make it look like a white basket. The baby items on top of the cake (duck, pacifiers, bottle, rattle , bear, blanket, teethers, and onesie)  are made of fondant and so are the two handles.

Here's the cake when it was a blank canvas:

Angelina's 4th birthday party!

My favorite little mermaid turns four today! My niece loves The Little Mermaid so my big brother & sister-in-law threw her a mermaid party. I was asked to make her a three tier sea themed cake. The bottom tier is vanilla, the middle is chocolate, and the top is a mix of chocolate and vanilla cake. It's filled and frosted with teal colored vanilla buttercream & covered with fondant. I air brushed the faded blue onto the teal fondant to give it a deep sea look. The topper is a candle of Ariel from The Little Mermaid.

My niece had such a good time at her birthday party. 

& I'm so happy that everyone loved the cake!