Cakes by Combs Blog

Sunday, May 11, 2008

5/10/08

Yahoo for wedding season! I did this cake for my friend Carrie. Two tiers white cake and chocolate cake with raspberry filling, and one tier strawberry cake. Decorated with cornelli lace and matching blue tops with fresh roses and hydrangea. I also did two grooms cakes for them, a firefighter helmet and bunker boots but I forgot to take pics. Duh!

This was a cake for Angela and Steven. It was two tiers carrot cake and two tiers white and chocolate cake with raspberry filling, all iced with cream cheese...yum! Their wedding was at a really cool place...which I think is going to be one of my new favorite venues.

http://www.dunnslanding.com/

This was for a second reception...the couple got married somewhere else, had a reception there and then had another reception here! Three tiers, all white cake with satin ribbon and fresh roses.

This cake was for Don Harman's birthday. He's my favorite person on the morning news and I kinda think his wife is like, the cutest thing EVER! Chocolate cake with almond buttercream.

Did this for a baby shower. Do you know how much I love it when past brides call me to make baby shower cakes? :)

Graduation from UCM...although, it's still hard for me to not call it CMSU.

See you next week!

Sunday, May 4, 2008

Kauffman Memorial Gardens

Yesterday, I took my mom to the Kauffman Memorial Gardens because she had never been there...how pretty is this place?

fountains in the middle of the garden...

Notice they painted the tree trunks blue for the Royals (since this is the KAUFFMANS!)

Here' smy beautiful model for the day, my daughter, Molly Lou :)

What a cheese...she's a natural!

Stopping to smell the ranunculus...awww

Hi Momma!

Practicing for her big ballet debut

Josh...I almost wanna go here instead!

Saturday, May 3, 2008

5/3/08

Just one wedding this weekend...every tier had a layer of white cake and a layer of chocolate cake but each tier had different fillings...one with raspberry, one with bavarian cream, and one with chocolate ganache...and the top was to save.

And just for fun, here's one of me adding fresh floral...I brought my mom along and she snapped some pics...blech

Monday, April 28, 2008

4/26/08

Soooooo...didn't do any cake this weekend. Every now and then I don't have any weddings so I go ahead and block the weekend off for "family stuff." This weekend we went camping! Yahoo, one of my favorite things to do. :)

Dorian was a bit peeved at me when I only brought small marshmallows for the banana boats...

Dorian doin' a little fishing....well, actually, Dorian doin' a whole lot a casting and reeling in....not a lot of fishing.

Luke really did leave his bobber in the water and try to get something...

Molly Lou had a great time with her Dora pole (practice fish still attached)...

We caught a frog, a snail, almost a snake, saw a woodpecker, Cardinals, Bluejays, Finches, turtles, geese, a coyote (by the sewage lagoon..Steven said he was down there getting sh*t faced), squirrels, rabbits, and a beaver...we tried really hard to find some morels but they escaped us except for one about the size of a button...

Momma made one MEAN beef stew in the dutch oven...not bad, eh? I also made a pineapple upside-down cake in my dutch oven...

Dorian gives his approval of the stew...

The whole fam chowing down...

Ms. Lou snuck a drink of my frosty, adult beverage...

and then found a stick that was just her size!

Dad broke down and went to buy big marshmallows although i thought it was kind of fun roasting tiny ones! For whatever reason, Luke still is scowling, he did a lot of that this weekend. I think he is closing in on the "teen-age years"...Lord, help us.

Dorian pointing at his flaming marshmeller...he points in pics a lot...

MMMMMMMM....Banana boats roasting...

Chocolatey, marshmallowy, banana-y goodness...no wait, GREATNESS. We all wanted seconds of this little gift from heaven but alas, Molly had eaten all the other b-nannies. :(

Monday, April 21, 2008

4/19/08

So, this weekend I totally forgot to take any pictures but thankfully Evan's mom was on the ball and emailed me some pics!

White cake for the birthday boy...

Chocolate cake with bavarian cream for everyone else...

And a great big mess for Mommy! How cute! Let's go Royals!!!

Sunday, April 13, 2008

4/12/08

only one wedding this week, i did a dogwood cake...

and the groom owns a used car lot so i did a "Crappy" car complete with a flat tire, busted window, bent antenna, dented door, rust, and 0% down on the windshield...