Yellow, Green and Brown Baby Shower

This cake was near and dear to my heart because we made it for our cousin's baby shower in August.

 

 

 

Though they were having a girl, they wanted to keep the colors of the shower neutral.

We worked with browns, yellows and soft greens.

 

On top of the cake are a pair of baby booties made out of gumpaste.

The cake flavors were red velvet and french vanilla with vanilla swiss meringue buttercream :)

 

Congratulations to the new parents!

Butterflies and ladybugs! :o)

Back in August, we were asked by Kim to make a 2-tier cake for her daughter Kayla's 1st birthday. The theme was butterflies and ladybugs :) She sent us an inspiration picture to work from.

We loved making this cake because we got to add little fun, playful butterflies, ladybugs and flowers around the cake!

One of my favorite parts of this cake was the smiling butterfly fondant topper!

The bottom tier of this cake was red velvet with cream cheese filling and the top tier was a chocolate cake with raspberry filling.

We were also asked to make a small butterfly-shaped smash cake for Kayla.

The flavor of the smash cake was pink velvet with banana cream and white chocolate ganache.

Happy Birthday Kayla!

Sleeping Beauty Princess cake

Natasha reached out to us to create a Sleeping Beauty cake for her daughter Sam's princess birthday party! One of our favorite things to do are princess cakes because, secretly, we get to be kids again! :o) 

Natasha provided us with  a few pictures for inspiration as well as a picture of Sam's Sleeping Beauty doll and naturally we immediately decided to make a cake inspired by her doll!

Sam's doll

                                                       

The cake was a pink velvet cake.

 We also created cupcakes for the party. Cupcake flavors were chocolate with pink vanilla swiss meringue buttercream icing. The cupcakes were topped with edible princess hearts and crowns.

 The look on Sam's face when she saw the cake was priceless! I mean priceless! It's moments like these that warm our hearts! 

Natasha blogged about Sam's party here. We were honored to receive an amazing review from Natasha! Check out her blog here!

Happy Birthday Sam!

Lady Bug!

This past weekend we had the pleasure of making a lady bug themed 1st birthday cake for a beautiful girl named Lani.

We really enjoyed making this cake because we love love love working with bright, playful colors!

The cake was accompanied by a small smiling lady bug.:)

The lady bugs were carved out of vanilla cake.

Flavors included a pink and green marble vanilla cake, red velvet cake as well as a nigerian-style pink vanilla cake- all with vanilla swiss meringue buttercream. 

Happy Birthday Lady Lani!

Ivory and Coral Wedding

Happy New Year everyone!!!! Bims Cakes has been really busy and enjoying every minute of it! This past summer we had the opportunity to make a beautiful cake for a beautiful bride! Here are some pics:

Flavors included vanilla cake with vanilla swiss meringue buttercream, marble cake with striped vanilla and chocolate ganache butter cream, and red velvet with vanilla swiss meringue buttercream.

 

I especially loved the wedding colors: ivory and coral (good choice Ebere!)

This cake is topped with a bouquet of sugar roses.

Congratulations to the new couple!

Eiffel Tower

A few weeks ago we got the chance to make Naomi's 1st birthday cake for her Eiffel Tower/Paris-themed party!

We also made some red and pink velvet cupcakes to match the cake!

The cake topper was a white chocolate eiffel tower. yummy!

The board was also decorated with chocolate Eiffel towers.

The flavors included a pink velvet cake, red velvet cake and a vanilla cake- all with vanilla swiss meringue buttercream

Happy Birthday Naomi!

Lavendar and yellow baby shower

Baby shower cakes are always so much fun to make! Why? Because they give you a chance to work with really cute, soft colors :)

The flavors of this lavender and yellow baby shower cake were vanilla and coconut with vanilla swiss meringue buttercream.

The cake was topped with yellow, lavender and white fondant baby booties.