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Peyton's Pappy's Pumpkin :)

Bring It On

Jill is having a game night pajama party tonight for New Year's Eve. None of us were really interested in getting dressed up and going out. So of course, we needed a game themed New Year's cake. Ta Da! 2009, here we come!

Christmas Cakes

I made two cakes for our various family Christmas celebrations. I made a coconut cake for Christmas day. Sorry no picture. It wasn't very exciting. I made a chocolate/chocolate cake for our second Christmas on Saturday. This cake will forever more be known as the crack cake. YUM! It was pretty much devoured. It was pretty boring looking after I put the icing on, so I grated a Special Dark Hershey's Kiss over the top. =) That's how I roll...

911, What is your emergency?

These two were for one of my most favorite people to make cakes for. She sort of forgot that she needed two cakes until about 1:00 yesterday. I had them ready for her by 5:30. Obviously they're not my most beautiful cakes (it's difficult to make anything pretty on chocolate icing), but I think I should get an A for speed!

Number Eight-Frank

Frank is my favorite. He's just cool. Seriously...he has bolts in his neck. And his head is square. What's up with that? Ridiculously fun.

And so the cake maker has survived her traumatic cake week. She even survived it with only a few minor mishaps. Like running out of black food coloring when she only had an hour to finish 3 huge cakes. And sitting down to take a phone call and waking up in the chair 3 hours later to the sudden realization that she had not finished the cakes that needed to be finished and she was going to have to do some major speed decorating to get them finished after work the next day.

Ah, the perils of cake...

Number Seven-Bride Of Frankenstein

I had a hard time deciding which monsters to use. But I dig the Frank's Bride. She has fun hair. And I can never see a Bride of Frankenstein without thinking of Madeline Kahn in Young Frankenstein. Love that movie. If you haven't seen it, go get it right now! Wait a minute. Finish looking at my fun cakes first, then go get it!

Anyway, here she is.

Number Six-Dracula

The final three cakes were for the Arts Ball at Winthrop University. My friend Jill was in charge of the Arts Ball, so Speppy Cake was a requirement. They needed three half-sheet cakes and didn't care what they looked like, as long as they were Halloween-y. I wanted them to kinda match so that they looked like a set. It's hard to do pumpkins or ghosts or cats on cake without it looking like it was made for little kids, so I had to put on my thinking cap. I decided classic monsters would be fun. So here they come...

Classic Monster Number One: DRACULA! (Apparently, he wants to suck your blood.)

Number Four-Jacob's Candy Corn

My friend Jacob's birthday was in July. He didn't get a cake. Slack cake maker. =(

I should probably be fired as a friend.

At any rate, this is his replacement birthday cake. I don't remember how he decided on candy corn. I think it came as the result of one of our very random conversations. Perhaps he'll leave a comment on the blog to shed some light on the subject.

This one was fun. It's a good thing he wanted candy corn and not a thousand angels dancing on the head of a pin (as we used to say at Pat-A-Cakes). The cake maker is tired.

Cakes 5-8 tomorrow. Oy.

Number Two-Halloween Party

This one is for a friend's daughter to take to school for their Halloween party. The kids are very young, so I thought a cake based on "Five Little Pumpkins" would be fun. You know...

Five little pumpkins, sitting on a gate.

The first one said, "Oh my, it's getting late!"

The second one said, "There are witches in the air."

The third one said, "But we don't care."

The fourth one said, "Let's run and run and run."

The fifth one said, "I'm ready for some fun."

Woooo went the wind and OUT went the light,

And the five little pumpkins rolled out of sight.

See what happens when elementary music teachers are allowed to play with cake...

And please don't ask me how pumpkins run. I have absolutely no idea.