weekend cakes...

it was a fudge chip kinda weekend...Saturday actually...all 3 were due Saturday...& each cake was fudge chip!

i started out with a Dan Marino jersey cake for a surprise 40th birthday party...of course, fudge chip...iced in buttercream & decorated with fondant numbers & stripes

next, came this English cottage...for another surprise party! this birthday girls loves murder mysteries...so her family hosted one - complete with a murder mystery cake

fudge chip again...iced in buttercream & topped with a rice krispie treat cottage (covered in fondant & decorated with buttercream vines)...see the murder victim in the hedges?

last, came this fun cake for 14yo Valerie...not a surprise party this time - but her cake was a surprise!

Valerie's mom ordered fudge chip because Valerie is a chocolate fiend! she loves bright blue & zebra stripes too...i'm not sure what the pickle symbolized - but it sounded like it was something perfectly fitting for the birthday girl...the white is buttercream - everything else is fondant...the #14 topper is not completely edible

here's an email i got from Valerie's mom right after the party...
"Your cake was a HIT!! My daughter is STILL talking about it. All her friends took photos of it and posted it on their Facebook. I had just about every woman in the party room ask who made it! Thank you, I am forever grateful to you."

thx for looking!