Hello my dear and patient followers!!  I have been busy lately, and hence not much fancy cooking going on, just some of the usual standbys.  Well, so today, I decided that I would share two of the cakes I have made for a niece and a nephew since I have been married.  Having never done anything like this before, it has been very exciting to do!!!  So I will post pics today and maybe explain them a little bit.  I will also add the cupcakes that I made for another niece's birthday.  Hope you all have a great day!!  Besides me, who else has been thinking about Thanksgiving baking and Christmas baking?

This cake was three cake mixes, one being a funetti cake mix and the other two were chocolate. As you can see, the top part was pieced together - but hey - it worked.

Justyn was into big monster trucks, and that was his theme of his party, so this is how his cake turned out. Covered in chocolate icing - sorry - this was the first cake, so it was the tubs of frosting - I know, shame on me - lol.  The gravel is made of the boughten chocolate chip cookies and I put them in a Ziplock bag and crushed them with a rolling pin.

 

 This is the tub of homemade buttercream icing for my niece's 10th birthday cake.  It took 4 batches of icing for this cake, as well as 4 boxes of cake mix and 4 boxes of pudding.  I always add a box of pudding to my cake, even if the cake mix has pudding in it.

 Yes, my 10 year old niece insisted she wanted a 3 tier cak for her birthday!!! lol.  Her theme was Hollywood, so hence we did the stars!! 

The thick stars, are made of white chocolate chips and a teaspoon of vegetable shortening, poured into a silicon ice tray and put into the freezer to harden.  These were a big hit!!  In the middle of each little yellow/gold flower, an edible pearl seed was put.  Then I sprayed the cake with edible mist by Wilton that pearlized the cake, and then she and her cousin threw edible gold glitter by Wilton onto the cake!!  She was very happy with her cake, and the little girls were all in awe!!!  So another success was made.

Long stemmed candles were used on the cake and it seemed to make the cake glow!!!

Another niece had a birthday, but she wanted cupcakes, and her theme was Hello Kitty!!  Here are her cupcakes!!

Triple Chocolate Cake Mix with Chocolate Pudding in them!!!  Then homemade buttercream icing on the top.  Then I used edible Pink Mist and then edible Pink Glitter, both by Wilton, and then inserted the candy Hello Kitty faces.  She was a very happy girl with these!!

Well, that is all for my fancy cakes.  But as time goes on, I am sure I will have more chances to do more!!  Hope you enjoyed these!!  Have a great day my friends!!