Salsa kitty

Gracie seems very proud of her jars of salsa. It's hard work for a kitty to can that much stuff.

Cupcake

I learned a new technique for frosting cupcakes, instead of the usual swirl of frosting. I think this one looks kind of like a rose. This was my first try at it. I could use a little practice.

Happy birthday!

One of my favorite ladies at my church turned 80 this week, and her daughters asked me to bake a cake for her. I had so much fun making it!



Jeanne often wears pretty pastel colors, and always has a bright, sunny smile, so I wanted a cake with pastel decorations that would look happy and cheerful. It's a carrot cake with cream cheese frosting, decorated with fun little fondant flowers. I brushed the flowers with a tiny bit of pearl powder to make them shimmer. They aren't so glittery in person as they are in the pictures.



Here's the cake:

And some details of the flowers:

Wedding cake

A couple of weeks ago, I got to help with a wedding cake at my church. The flower committee did all the flowers for the wedding, but they were a little apprehensive about the fresh flowers that the bride wanted on the wedding cake, so I agreed to help.



Disclaimer: I did not bake the cake, or ice it, and I had a lady from the flower committee giving me moral support and helping choose flowers. Still, I am proud of how pretty the cake looked.



The flowers around the base look a little more blue in the picture, but they were the exact same shade of purple as the tablecloths.