Sue’s Cakes June 8, 2007

One of the things that I love doing on occasion is making creative cakes. I most enjoy thinking of a theme and figuring out how to make the theme into a cake. A few friends asked me to post some pictures of them – so here they are. As you can see, I am far from professional, but enjoy staying up late once in a while and being creative. Eric is also great at assisting- he usually does the cutting and helps me with the design.

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For Eric’s recent birthday, we had a “backwards birthday party.” In addition to everyone coming dressed backwards, we had dessert first, and then dinner.  Dessert turned out to be a meatloaf cake with mashed potato topping:

Then, dinner was — spaghetti and meatball cupcakes.  (The meatballs are frerer rocher chocolates;  the tomato sauce is strawberry jam).  Both of these “cakes” were great fun to make- they would also be fun as an April Fool’s surprise.

Olivia loves dogs – big ones, small ones, mean ones, nice ones.  So for her 3rd birthday I made doggie cupcakes.  None of the pictures came out really well, but you can get the general idea…

We celebrated Eric’s brother Mark’s birthday while he was visiting us over Thanksgiving.  Although he uses pcs at work, we think he didn’t mind us making it an Apple computer cake:

This was a sepia photo cake that I made (with help from my sister Allison) for our friend Lyn.

The first cake I could make for my niece Isabella at her dedication:

Here is Annie’s 4 year old Cinderella cake:

A going-away cake for our friend Laura leaving for Rwanda for a year. (We miss you!)

The rest of these cakes I’ve made the last few years in Japan:

This was for Olivia’s 2nd birthday (see party photos). Her favorite character these days is Scrat from Ice Age, so we had to make a Scrat cake. I made 2 oblong cakes and put them together…Eric trimmed down the height of the blue part between the white ice mountains to make it a bit 3-dimensional. A truffle helped create the acorn.

Our friend Y’s birthday – she has a Boston Terrier who is her joy, so it was natural to make her a doggy cake!

Owen’s fifth birthday cake: a Japanese power ranger called “Power Chopper” (trust me- this was his request, not mine. I’m still trying to figure out what a power ranger is!)

Here are the latest Christmas cupcakes I’ve made for children’s events:

a Christmas tree cake (you can make these into individual cupcakes). See blog entry for details on making these)

Snowmen cupcakes:

A few from other recent celebrations:

Our pastor and his wife were celebrating their 20th anniversary, as well as our senior pastor and wife, when we were all going away overnight for a retreat. So, I made an anniversary-type cake:

The youngest member of the team that we just hosted from Cerritos, CA, last summer is Rachel Kohara. She turned one at English camp. Because her parents are HUGE Disney fans, we thought it only right to make her first birthday a Minnie one…

Annie’s 3rd birthday party – Totoro and Dust Bunnies, from the classic Japanese anime “Tonari no Totoro” – one of Annie’s favorite things in the world!

A Macaroni and Cheese Cake (see entry What they Have in Common)

Olivia’s first birthday with an “Olivia the piglet” cake (we figured we can’t do a pig when she gets a little older so we better do it now when she doesn’t know better~)

Owen’s fourth birthday – he’s really been into Disney’s Cars:

We had an Asian theme 40th birthday party for our friend Wendi. She got a sushi cake!

Annie’s second birthday cake:

Owen’s third birthday cake: (with his friend Toby blowing out the candles)

A swimming pool birthday cake for a combined birthday party for Annie’s first birthday and our friend Peter (except Annie was sick and couldn’t attend her own birthday party)

Here’s Peter’s family celebrating:

Owen’s 2nd birthday was an Elmo one:

A car I made for a Korean friend here who passed his Japanese driving test after the 14th (FOURTEENTH!) try:

An Easter cake for a church celebration:

A swan cake for one of our Asian Access leaders, Kawasaki Sensei. Several years ago he dressed up as a swan for a skit night that we had at a retreat, so we had to help him remember it at a recent birthday when he was visiting:

A sun cake for my friend Kazumi’s birthday:

A ruler cake I made for our pastor friend, Makio Sensei…who discovered that he had grown a centimeter the past year:

A pizza (fruit) cake made for two of my English lady students:

Our friend Yasuko LOVES the Target store (not to be found in Japan). So this was her last birthday cake:

Our friend Michelle’s engagement (ring) cake):

A wedding cake I made for our friends’ wedding in Sendai:

A wedding cake I made for a “pretend” wedding that we did up in Sendai:

A Christmas cake for our church Christmas celebration last year:

Eric’s Birthday cakes:

Eric’s 40th birthday cake:

Eric’s basketball birthday party:

Eric’s most creative birthday cake — a cat litter cake — and the one that caused the biggest “stink” among guests: (it’s not really cat poo-poo, I promise!)