Little Monster Cake

This cake was made for a very special young lady that is having a baby.  Her theme was little monsters.  I enjoyed making this cake for her. 

 

 

Special Delivery Baby Shower Cake

When this client approached me to make her baby shower cake I immediately got excited.  I totally enjoy making sweets for her special events because she has the most exquisite taste and knows exactly what she wants. I've had the privilege of making several things for her, Little Monster dessert table elements for her son's first birthday, her son's second birthday, Monkey Cake and Goodies, and now this super exciting theme, Special Delivery.

The bottom cake was vanilla bean with chocolate cream filling and the top cake was dark chocolate fudge cake with vanilla buttercream frosting.  Both cakes were covered in buttercream, then covered in MMF (marshmallow fondant) that was tinted to resemble packing paper.  The words "Fragile" and "Delivery" were done with a stencil and food coloring and the rest I wrote with my own handwriting. The cookies are butter sugar cookies decorated with vanilla flavored MMF and decorated with rubber stamps that were dabbed in food coloring (not an easy task) and the border of each cookie was hand painted using a brush with blue and red food coloring.

I was so happy to read what the client texted me:

"Thank you so much Leelee! Everything is beautiful like always and better than I expected!..."

Monkey Cake and Goodies

Well, before I start telling you about the cake stuff, I just  wanted to share that I had a really hard week. There were things that simply pulled me in every direction.  It truly was an emotionally exhausting week for me.  The stress wasn't about cakes and cookies, but everything else; work, time, emotions, people, sleeplessness, and health.  The only thing I could do which should have been the first was crying out to God to help me with the madness and mayhem, and He did. All this to say that the only thing besides depending on God to grant me peace and serenity was actually looking forward to baking and decorating for this client.  Decorating the banana cookies and the monkey cookie faces were truly therapeutic, but even more so was making the monkey pops. It may not seem so, but each and every single pop had several steps and components that kept my mind occupied for several hours.  Oh how I love to do this!  I thank God for this creative outlet that not only blesses me in many ways, but it also blesses the lives of others.

Ok, now to what this blog is truly about, edible art!  To me it is such a delight to work for clients that know what they want.  Last year I had the pleasure of making this client son's Little Monster 1st birthday cake and goodies. Now he was turning two and although she was doing something small in comparison to the previous year, she still wanted nice looking elements and a specific cake design to make her little boy's day special, and I was happy to oblige. She sent me pictures of what she wanted and a cake that if I'm not mistaken is a  Martha Stewart design that I replicated. The cake was Chocolate with banana cream filling, frosted in milk chocolate buttercream. Cookies were vanilla flavor.  The cake pops were brownie with chocolate fudge cream and covered in milk chocolate.

How she set up the table.  Love the simplicity and colors!

Happy chocolate and banana cream Monkey cake

Vanilla flavor banana sugar cookies

Adorable monkey sugar cookies that were given as party favors

Brownie Monkey cake pops

Thank you for looking!!!!

Little Monster Dessert Table Elements

This is the most beautiful kids party I have ever had to make things for.  This client really knows what she wants.  Her eye for detail, color, and decor "takes the cake".  I was extremely impressed.  Her party should be showcased in a magazine or party blog!  I had the privilege of making most of her dessert table elements.

Dessert Table

Chocolate covere Oreos, yum!

Chocolate covered pretzels covered in sugar crystals

Red Velvet pops, To die for!

Marshmallow pops dipped in Chocolate with tiny pearls

Vanilla Merenguitos/Suspiritos

The cake/Cupcake and Cookie Table!  Beautiful!

 Vanilla Bean Cake with a surprise inside!

Aqua and Red cake, beautiful and so much fun!

Lil' Monster Cookies!

Other views of this amazing party!