So much backlog...so Little time.

So I have found that I have so many pics of baking projects that I have yet to blog about.  I promise to try and find my notes from these projects and post pictures soon.

For now, here are two pictures from an all out bake-a-thon weekend I had over winter break.  Yes, I do realize that it is April and I made these cakes the weekend of Jan. 1st.  Get over it.  I'm a little less timely than most! :)

First up, a spontaneous cake for a good friend who had a baby shower!  I wanted to make a ducky cake for her cute little boy who is due next month!  So, I decided to make it easy on myself, I would purchase the 3-D duck shaped pan and just cover it with icing stars.

For this cake, I made a simple round cake, covered it with blue frosting (to represent water, I waved the top) and then stacked the duck on top.  Then I went to town making stars all over the duck until it was covered.  I recommend investing in a wrist guard, or you may wind up with carpal tunnel syndrome!  I added white icing dots at the bottom to represent soap and to make them shinny, I took airbrush paint in a pearl color and a regular paintbrush and went to town.  Not too hard! 

Now, what was hard was these little devils:

Miniature Wedding Cakes made for a dear friends Bridal Shower held just a day or two after the Baby Shower--yes I know I am crazy!

I should mention that I ordered mini 2-tier cake pans to bake these things in that I thought would make this so much easier!  And maybe it did, who am I to judge?  I will say that icing these cakes was SOOOOOOOO hard.  :(  I truly almost gave up, if the wedding shower hadn't been for a dear friend who I love, I might have gone into hiding and quit.  But, with help from my mom, I managed to semi-smoothly ice these cakes, added ribbon and icing roses and a light dusting of edible glitter to make it sparkle.  (And--hopefully to distract from the crummy icing!)

If we are lucky, and I get bored this week, there may be more late posts added!  Stay tuned...