Construction Themed Birthday

We threw Arlo a construction themed birthday party when he turned 2 and I just realized I never shared the pictures!  It was such a fun party and he really loved all the trucks and construction themed things.  

I hung up construction signs through the house and a little board that summarized Arlo's favorite things.  We had just taken pictures for his birthday so it worked out great to print a few and hang them up as well.

Here is a spread of the food and main decorations.  I found a truck table cloth that I knew Arlo would love to tie it all together.  I made the signs with big stickers that I got on amazon and mounted them onto yellow and black paper to look like traffic/construction signs.  I also got CAUTION tape and made a few decorations with that as well.

I bought little construction toys for the cake decorations.  My son was really excited about these and wanted them the moment he saw them on the cake.

I made a chocolate cake and topped it with crushed chocolate cake to look like dirt.  The little cupcakes were piped with a "grass" tip to look like landscaping around the site.

I made half of the little cupcake toppers with stickers and I wrote on the other half.

Custom Cake Orders

Now that my mini-me is a little older and taking great long naps, I have decided to start taking custom cake orders.  I have had a few orders already and have been enjoying baking again as a profession.

I love staying home with Arlo, but I do miss the constant array of sweets to choose from.  Breakfast was chocolate cake, cookies, and truffles for quite a few years.  Now I usually eat a granola bar or some yogurt and fruit.  Definitely not as exciting, but my pants are a lot easier to pull on...

Here are a few of the cakes I have done recently.  Everything is made from scratch.

I have worked out the kinks in my high altitude kitchen and have some great cake recipes to show for it.

The icing is my usual favorite: swiss buttercream.

This is a smash cake I did for a one year old birthday party a few months ago.

Chocolate Flourless Cake for the gluten free and chocolate loving.

Pumpkin spice cupcakes with cream cheese frosting for Thanksgiving this year. Love me some cupcakes.

Go to my baking website for info on how to place an order!

Baby Play Date and Cupcakes

Before the baby was born, we took a class on birth and babies.  We met a few other couples in the class that were all having boys, the biggest gap between babies being a month.  Last weekend we all got together to have a baby play date.  FUN!

Here is a shot of all the babies lined up on the couch.  The one on the far left is 4 months, the next one is 5 months, our babe is 4 months 2 weeks, and the one on the far right is 4 months 3 weeks.  They are all pretty big kids.  Loving this shot of the four of them.

It was fun to see them all checking each other out.  Plus it made me feel a little better about the constant drool and shoving things in his mouth.  Totally normal.

I made some cupcakes for the occasion.  The frosting was a last minute choice of colors.  For some reason I was digging lime green.  Huh.  Probably could have gone with something a little more appetizing, but when you have a baby yelling for you to hurry up, this is what you get.  They were vanilla cupcakes filled with a coconut pineapple cream cheese filling and topped with cream cheese icing and coconut flakes. 

It was a good day for babies and food.  Fun fun fun.