tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52354158500950938362024-03-18T14:47:59.275-05:00Sweet StirringsCustom Cakes, Cookies, and DessertsLaura-Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00575561544120526054noreply@blogger.comBlogger84125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235415850095093836.post-78749063821810816322020-08-09T10:51:00.002-05:002020-08-09T10:55:17.583-05:00Bulldog Groom's Cake<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="text-align: center;"> </span><span style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">Photography by </span></span><a href="http://www.brandononealphotography.com/" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Brandon O'Neal</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">First, I get as MANY pictures as possible from the client of their dog in every sitting, standing, and laying position! Once we've decided how they will be positioned in cake form, I use a picture of the pet in that actual pose to map out the cake structure! I'm not super technical on this part, (sorry!), so I do a lot of lose sketching and "eyeballing", haha!! Once I decide on the tools needed for structure, I head to Home Depot to get what I think will be needed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> I decided that I needed the main structure base points to be where his booty would be sitting and where his two front feet would rest. I screwed floor flanges into a masonite board and then used cardboard to </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">make a flat surface on top and a more sturdy base for handling/transporting on the bottom. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then I start building!! I play around with the length of the legs and the slant of the body until I think it looks right. I know there's a much more mathematical way to go about this, but my brain doesn't work like that!! I'm an "eyeballer" with most things, sorry!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The foam core is what will be the base of the body (i.e. cake). In the above picture, I placed the cake layers to make sure the slant wasn't too much....I can always cut the pipe a little more if needed. Once it looked good, I filled the cake layers with the client's choice of filling! This doggie was filled with Grand Marnier Mousse and Raspberry Chiffon (yum!!). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Once the cake/filling layers are chilled, I covered the cake in buttercream. The head and arms were filled in and formed with Rice Krispie Treats! I use coating chocolate to smooth and solidify the Rice Krispies. Then the fun, very time consuming part of covering the puppy in Fondant and Modeling Chocolate is next! I loved that he was wearing a tux...it actually made it a little easier to cover him in sections and not have to worry about getting seamless lines from back, to tummy, to arms. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I used several layers of fondant to create the saggy jaw lines. Powder and gel colors were used to paint all of the coloring and marks on his body! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I was obsessed with his booty rolls... and that little tail....oh my goodness!!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And, Voila!! Meet Waffles :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sweet fact about this precious boy, Waffles.....he was the first baby of the couple and had passed away before the wedding. His two doggie siblings were actually a part of the ceremony, so Waffles made his appearance at the reception :) </span></div>
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<br />Laura-Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00575561544120526054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235415850095093836.post-80935474237545062762020-04-26T22:50:00.001-05:002020-04-26T22:53:26.212-05:00Cars Movie 3rd Birthday Party! <br />
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Jackson literally ONLY watched the Cars movies when he was a little boy. We never watched Mickey or Sesame Street or any of the other things little boys watched. We all had Cars memorized from start to finish, lol!! So, when we planned his 3rd birthday party this was truly the only option, haha! Thankfully there were so many ideas on Pinterest and lots of supplies in the party stores and on Etsy. It was a super easy party to plan! In fact, I had to reign my ideas in because there were just </div>
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I tied these balloons together to mimic the colors of a traffic light! </div>
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We came up with all of our favorite quotes from the movies and then printed and framed them for decorations! The centerpieces were made from clipart printouts, flags, and plastic favor cups from WalMart! Y'all, I told you, this was the easiest party to find decorations for! </div>
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Dessert Table!! My favorite part of any party :) </div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I get asked ALL THE TIME, "how'd you do that?!" So, here's a little tip on how I made this super cute 3d golf ball cake! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">After using the <a href="https://fatdaddios.com/catalog/hemisphere-pans">Fat Daddio's 8" ball pan</a> to make two separate half "spheres", I filled and iced the ball. This particular cake was chocolate fudge with Nutella Swiss Meringue Buttercream..yum! </span></div>
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<br />Laura-Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00575561544120526054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235415850095093836.post-72794184740286972602019-01-24T08:15:00.000-06:002019-01-24T08:15:09.990-06:00Bubble Guppies 1st Birthday! <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hi there! It has been a LONG time since I've made a blog post!! Lots of major "life events" have happened.....we moved from Austin, Texas to Zachary, Louisiana, had two babies, moved into a new house, built a cake studio, etc. etc. etc.....and I just left this blog behind! I've got all kinds of content saved and ready to share - details from parties I've planned, amazing weddings I've been a part of, how-to's in cake and </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">cookie decorating...and so much more!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">To start off, I'm going to let you in on all the details of my son Jackson's 1st birthday (yes, this was almost 6 years ago, eek!!!)! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This was the first birthday party I had ever planned, and boy did Pinterest take over me, my brain, my house, and my life! Haha!! Has anyone else had this happen to them?? There were just SO many ideas and I wanted to DO THEM ALL!!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So, Jackson was obsessed with the Nickelodeon tv show Bubble Guppies when he was a baby.....I had always said I was NEVER doing a character party...but he just loved it so much and it made him so excited - so I did it. Problem was, the tv show was fairly new, so there was NOTHING in the party stores and I had to get really creative! And, thankfully, some amazing vendors on Etsy also helped save the day! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Of course, my main focus was the sweets table!! I made a "backdrop" using PVC pipes, like <a href="http://www.jennadesigns.net/diy-photo-backdrop-stand-10-10-minutes/">this</a>. And then just wrapped those cheap plastic table clothes around and around and around! </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I had several white balloons on there to be "bubbles", but the wind was insane </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> I was able to find a great vendor on Etsy to make these wood cutouts of the characters! They are no longer a shop, but I will sell mine if you want them (lol!). I just added some colorful wire decor found in the wreath section of Hobby Lobby to look </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I searched the world over for a Jenny Lind high chair before Jackson was born. I finally found one through Craig's List and painted it with Duck Egg Blue <a href="https://www.anniesloan.com/">Annie Sloan</a> chalk paint (if you've never used that, it's amazingly easy! If you are local, I get mine <a href="https://www.ldlinensanddecor.com/">here</a>). Jackson was super tired by the time we got to the smash cake, so he wasn't very happy about it, ha!! But, his adorable outfit came from <a href="https://www.etsy.com/people/freshsqueezedbaby">here</a>! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">All of my super cute paper products were designed by <a href="http://www.penandparcel.com/">Pen & Parcel </a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was so excited to be a part of this beautiful wedding. The cake design the bride wanted was so perfect, and I think it turned out beautifully! Sugar rose petals are cascading down an ivory buttercream cake. Some of the petal edges were painted with gold luster, which gives this cake a little bit of glam!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The groom's cake was a traditional chocolate cake, filled with chocolate mousse and raspberry chiffon. The Saints football team logo adorned the top of the cake. All along the sides were chocolate dipped strawberries.......and chocolate dipped bacon. That's right, bacon!! What guy wouldn't love chocolate and bacon together?!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For those of you who know me, know that I am a </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">little</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> obsessed with princess and fairy tale stories...so, you can only guess how much fun I had making this </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This cake design was inspired by <a href="http://www.carriescakes.com/">Carrie's Cakes</a> Cinderella cake. The top three tiers were sculpted to have slanted sides and curvy top edges. The cake was covered in white and various shades of pink fondant. I used royal icing to pipe the bead borders and all of the filigree and scroll work. There are fondant drapes, swags, and flowers on the bottom tier. A beautiful glass slipper was placed on top of the cake, which was such a gorgeous final touch! I do believe this is my favorite cake I've made so far....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Alongside the beautiful bridal cake was an awesome Harry Potter cake! The groom is a big HP fan, so the bride thought it would be fun to surprise him with this cake. The Sorting hat and Snitch were made out of rice krispie treats and covered in modeling chocolate. The glasses, train platform sign, and wand were all made out of fondant. The spell book was made out of chocolate cake with chocolate mousse, covered in fondant and airbrushed. It was finished off with the spell "expelliarmus", which is the <i>disarming </i>charm. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know I've said it lots of times before, but I just LOVE first birthday parties!! It's a great celebration for the parents...who just made it through an entire year with a baby. It's also so much fun to see the baby tear into their smash cake! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was thrilled to make this birthday cake for the daughter of a long time friend of mine. The party was Pinkalicious themed, which is a super cute series of books for little girls. The little girl, named Pinkalicious, loves the color pink and especially loves pink cupcakes. Her parents warn her not to eat too many pink cupcakes, but she does anyway...and, she turns pink! I made a really (really) big cupcake cake for this special celebration. And a smaller version for the birthday girls' smash cake. The top part of the cupcake cake was made out of white almond cake and white chocolate buttercream and the bottom part of the cupcake cake was made out of strawberry cake and white chocolate buttercream. Happy happy birthday, Lyla!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Birthday cakes are always so much fun to make for kids! They love to help pick out a cake design. They always have input on the flavor of the cake. And, they are always super excited to see what their cake looks like! I love love love to see the expression on the child's face when I show up with their special cake for their special day :) </span></div>
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This is the time of year when you go to lots of holiday gatherings...which means you need lots of yummy desserts to take with you! Sweet Stirrings' <em>homestyle </em>cakes are perfect for just that. These cakes are just the right size to take along to your family dinner or holiday party. There are lots of flavors to choose from, including chocolate pecan turtle, raspberry lemon cielo, pumpkin spice, and rocky road. Inscriptions and decorations can be added to your homestyle cake for special occasions.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am a little late posting pictures from this wedding....an entire year late, to be exact! Tomorrow marks one year since this fabulous couple got married. I had so much fun working with this bride and groom. They were all about unique, fun wedding ideas and their wedding turned out absolutely awesome! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Because a lot of their guests were travelling to Austin from out of town and state, they decided to do an Austin-themed bridal cake. Inspired from a cake design found on The Knot, the cake displays famous Austin landmarks and buildings, such as the Frost Bank skyscraper, the Capitol building, Stevie Ray Vaughn statue, ACL sign, the Congress bat bridge, and an ACL guitar. One of the wedding colors was a peacock blue, so we added that color on the cake with the border on each tier. The black outlines really make the buildings/landmarks pop!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This cake was a surprise for the groom from the bride. While the couple was dating, the groom (a comic buff) wrote and drew a comic book for the bride that was the story of how they met...with a comic twist! The bride gave me a copy of this precious story, so I handdrew and painted the pages on to fondant panels. The top of the cake displays the comic characters - the bride, groom, and their sweet dog Roxy. The groom was SO surprised and SO excited :) I LOVE the pictures that the photographer got! (</span><a href="http://wildhousephoto.com/jeanine-scott-austin-wedding-photography-2/">http://wildhousephoto.com/jeanine-scott-austin-wedding-photography-2/</a>)</div>
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I LOVE pizza. I love it so much that I could eat it EVERY day for the rest of my life. My husband knows not to ask me what I'm "in the mood for" for dinner, because he knows I'll say pizza every time :) So, obviously, I was overjoyed to make this pizza cake for a little boy's birthday party! </div>
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The local pizza shop offers birthday parties where each kid gets to make their own pizza. How cool is that! This pizza cake fit perfectly into the theme of the party. But, even though it looks like a real pizza, it tasted like yummy chocolate cake and chocolate buttercream :)</div>
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All of the toppings are made out of fondant and hand painted and dusted to look like real meat and veggies! The pizza sauce is buttercream colored red. And, the cheese is buttercream...that I "melted" with a kitchen torch! (that part was so much fun!!) The crust is white fondant that was airbrushed with ivory and brown to look toasted.</div>
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<br />Laura-Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00575561544120526054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235415850095093836.post-39557487677441637322012-10-15T20:36:00.000-05:002012-10-15T20:36:55.659-05:00Nursery Rhyme Baby Shower<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For those of you who don't know, my husband and I had an adorable baby boy, named Jackson Eric, 6 weeks ago. We are so in love with this little guy! Even though we've had many sleepless nights, we are having so much fun taking care of him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> A couple of months before little Jackson arrived, my sister and husband's aunts threw me an AMAZING baby shower. The theme of Jackson's nursery is Nursery Rhymes, so they used that as the theme for the shower. I love the theme so much, that I begged for them to let me make the dessert table! All of the food items were made to match a nursery rhyme...so cute!! They also had pictures and ceramic figurines of nursery rhymes all over the room. Here are the pictures!!</span></div>
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Little Jack Horner...Plum Thumbprint Cookies</div>
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Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater....Pumpkin Cheesecakes with Caramel Sauce</div>
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Bonny Lass, Pretty Lass....Strawberry Shortcake Cups</div>
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Turtle Cake and Petit Fours....the only food that didn't have a matching nursery rhyme :)</div>
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Little Miss Muffet....Peaches and Cottage Cheese (curds and whey)</div>
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Three Blind Mice.....Cheese and Crackers</div>
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Mary Mary Quite Contrary....Fruit and Veggie platters</div>
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The party favors!!! Nursery Rhyme cookies</div>
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And this little piggy cried "Feed Me"....piggy bank!</div>
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One of the games we played...Baa Baa Black Sheep, guess how many balls of wool...there was a jar full of cotton balls</div>
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The beautiful painting created by Jackson's Great Grandmother...The Cow Jumped Over the Moon</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This birthday party was all about Under the Sea! This cake design was borrowed from <i>Pinterest </i>and it's absolutely adorable! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Brides' cake was 4 square tiers covered in white fondant and decorated with sugar flowers in salmon and pale yellow. I love the sweet and simple look of this cake design! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The gift box was made of banana cake, caramel, and chocolate ganache filling. The shoe was made of coconut cake, lemon mascarpone filling, and fresh raspberries. </span></span></div>Laura-Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00575561544120526054noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235415850095093836.post-76479073144337276612012-06-23T23:03:00.000-05:002012-06-23T23:03:02.083-05:00I'm Still Here!!<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wow, I can't believe it has been so long since I've written a post!! Well, May was super busy with weddings and graduations, and then we moved at the beginning of June. Sweet Stirrings is now located in Zachary, Louisiana, serving the Baton Rouge area! I am going to miss all of my customers in Austin, Texas so much! I thank all of you for your continued support over the past few years. For those of you who love my decorated sugar cookies, those are available for shipping, so just let me know when you need some!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Because summer is just getting started good, I thought I would share some adorable anchor and swim suit cookies I made for a bachelorette party. They were made to match a white, navy, and gold nautical themed party. I just love the anchor detail on the bikinis! And, don't you think the gold rope tied to the bags adds such a cute touch?!?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of the best things about my job is getting to help make someone's birthday extra special with an awesome birthday cake! Over the last couple of weeks, I got to do just that with these three fun cakes. Each one was over-the-top and very personalized for the birthday boy or girl. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This first one was for a surprise 50th birthday party. The daughter of the birthday girl said to make something colorful and whimsical with flair, because her mom has such a fun personality!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This next cake was for a guy who's a comic book fan <i>and </i>a pin ball fan! His birthday party was at a pin ball arcade, so the cake fit in perfectly. I used Iron Man, Spider Man, Captain America, and The Hulk superheros to decorate the machine. There are even little twinkling lights on the cake!! The playing board of the pin ball machine was made out of German Chocolate cake and the score board of the machine was made of Rice Krispy treats and milk chocolate</span>.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had the chance to make an 18th birthday cake for my husband's sweet cousin, Jessica, last month. She's a super fun, sweet, beautiful girl...so I had to make the cake all those things! It's a topsy turvy cake that includes animal print on Tiffany blue, stripes, and polka dots. The bottom tier says Happy 18th Birthday all around the cake and there's a big gold 18 on top of the cake!</span></div>
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