Monster High

Since I have two boys who are into sports, cars and playfighting, I am rarely exposed to dolls, princesses or for that matter, anything pink.  I have learned to love and embrace all those boyisms, but I find it fun when I get to delve into the world of little girls.  I secretly get excited when I know my hands will turn pink instead of blue from making my Marshmallow Fondant.

I was recently asked to make a Monster High Themed Cake for one of Carter's friends at school.
Time to educate myself on all things 'Monster High', I'll be honest and say I had never heard of it before.

I quickly found out they are a line of fashion dolls that are related to or are offspring of famous monsters such as Dracula, Frankenstein, Medusa and Zombies. 

While researching I saw a lot of pink, white and black; lots of plaid; the logos; and because of the monster theme I thought of bats and fangs. 

Off to the drawing board...I was excited to come up with a plan for a sweet little 7 year old girl.  

THE PLAN

The fondant toppers usually need a few weeks to dry so that they will retain their shape and be stiff enough to pick up.

 THE CAKE

This particular cake was a 3 layer Double Chocolate cake with Pink Vanilla Buttercream Frosting and a Chocolate Pudding Center.   Everything was edible except for the 2 wires holding up the fangs and the bat, as well as the straws the wires were sitting in.

Carter's 7th - Angry Birds Party (2012)

This was Carter's first year to have a party with School Friends.  We had 17 kids at our house for an afternoon party.  Thankfully we had a lot of activities and planned to keep them busy.
The party was a huge success, and after everyone left it was time to clean up and get ready for Round 2.  The following day we hosted a family party.

I couldn't have been happier with how this cake turned out.  A lot of late nights went into making the birds and the pigs. Everything on the cake is 100% edible except for the wires holding up the Blue birds

The cupcakes were for the Friends party and the cake was saved for Day2

We served a lot of themed appetizers such as Chocolate Bird nests, Angry Bird  Food (Gummy  Worms), Angry Bird Poop (Peanut M&M's). Fried Egg Gummies, Bird Seed (Sunflower Seeds), and Pigs in Blankets.

We had a ton of activities, but the favourite by far was the Life Sized Angry Birds Game.  I made a Slingshot using a Water Balloon Launcher.  The kids (and adults) used foam balls to try and knock down the box and pig structure further out in the yard.

When they weren't in line to use the Slingshot, the kids had fun  building and re-building the box structure

The kids were split up into teams to play most of the games

We also had painting, bowling, bean bag toss, and a few other games using  Angry Bird Balls

Cakes, Cakes and More Cakes!

May until July of 2012 were extremely busy in cake world.  It started with an order from the Halton Childcare Association, for their Providers Appreciation Night.  Then word got around my son's school that I make cakes, and I received a bunch of orders through there.  Add in a Baby Shower for my close friend Vicky, my nieces 5th Birthday, my nephews 7th Birthday, and to top it all off...Carter's 7th Birthday -  it made for a busy few months.

Screaming baby Cupcake Toppers

 Pinkalicious Cake

Edible Poker Cards made out of Gumpaste and Food Colouring 

Sonic

Mermaid Cake

Elmo Cake

Wrestling Cake with John Cena

Nathan's 5th - Star Wars Party (2012)

 I began working on this Star Wars cake a few months before the party.  I had never made any type of person before out of fondant.  Since they were supposed to be Lego people I had a little bit of leeway in how the finished product looked.  Each figure took me approx 1 hr to construct. There are a few that I would have liked to re-do, but time is precious.  Overall, the cake was a huge hit as were all the activites planned for the kids.

The house was decorated with star wars cut outs, balloons, and any other Star Wars items I could make or find

The kids made R2-D2 cups

All the food and drink were Star Wars related from C3P0 Water, Darth Vaderade, Princess Leia Cinnamon Buns, Wookie Cookies and Pretzel Lightsabers 

All the kids received Jedi Robes and Pool Noodle Lightsabers.  They had
to go through a series of tasks in order to become Jedi Knights.
In the end Darth Vader and Darth Maul made an appearance and the Jedi's had to defeat them.