Something for Everyone

This week at Polkadots, we were hard at work on a diverse selection of cakes and cookies. With graduation coming up this weekend, we fulfilled a number of orders intended to suit the occasion. Since UT has such a major presence here, graduation is almost like a biannual holiday to us! Breaking out the special cookie cutters and jazzing up the traditional Longhorn decorations with mortarboards is a fun twist on an always-popular concept. Some of the highlights included "special edition" Longhorn cookies, a funky "hook 'em" cake, and some cupcakes featuring mini diploma fondant decorations!  Congratulations to all graduates!

 

There was also a batch of Beatles sugar cookies that turned out really well. I thought that the ones with colorful album artwork looked particularly groovy.

A very dreamy winter snowflake birthday cake for Lettie's 9th birthday - our decided favorite - along with matching silver and white snowflake cookies.

Pop culture baked goods took a turn for the nerdier with the creation of a Star Wars cake covered with chocolate buttercream and fondant decorations from a galaxy far, far away!

 
There were several music-themed orders this week, but sorry, no Justin Bieber this time : ( We made a sugar free two-tiered white birthday cake decorated with black musical notes, and an orange Longhorns cake with a fondant Bevo and some guitars.

Last but not least was our fun pig cookie project - the character "Hamm " from Disney/Pixar's Toy Story:

Thanks for stopping by!

Kindergarten graduation cake

Hailey's mom came last week and wanted to get a special graduation cake for her. As I sat down with her and took notes for the things that she wanted to incorporate on the cake design: must be girly, colorful, bow, dots, pink, green, coins, books, crayons, pencil, scissors, ruler, black board, and etc....

I was so excited to do her cake! Both cakes were red velvet with chocolate buttercream. Since Hailey got an excellence grade on counting money, I also made quarters, dimes, nickle, and pennies scatter next to her on top of the cake.  Here is what I come up with the cake design:

Congratulations Hailey!

Fridge can get sick too you know..

Sorry for the lack of posting these couple days, the fridge at our kitchen acting wierd on Thursday night. It was cold, very cold ... fridge, but there was so much moist inside the fridge, and it was raining and soooo.. humid!! All the fondant decorations are melted!!! Luckly, we got enough time to rescue all the cakes that were supposed to be picked up on Friday morning.  I am so thankful for my hubby and the girls at work!!!

The first cake that we rescued from the fridge disaster was a two tiered bridal shower cake. The color are lavender, purple, and silver. It took about 20 min to redo this dots and bow. By the time we put in the box, the lady came in and pick up the cake. So glad that she loved it! 

We re-decorated the Fairy cake for the afternoon delivery for an eightieth birthday party! I managed to save the cake and the buttercream. I got to redo all the butterflies, sunflowers, white flower, dots, and the writing. We got it done and delivered on time !

They said three time is a charmed! This vintage cake,.. we re-print the sugar paper four times. Yes, Thrusday was so humid, the edible sugar paper got so soft, melted, and ripped off as I cut it. At the end,... it's a lovely 70th birthday cake.

Of course some vintage sugar cookie party favor:

Now onto children birthday cakes, one of my favorite from last week was the Animal Farm theme, we includes tractor, pig, chicken, cow, barn, and the windmill.

Another animal 1st birthday party theme, a 6" round cake with simple pink elephant decoration all around for the birthday girl and a matching animal face cupcakes for the guests.

Summer is around the corner... one little girl had a Hula Birthday Party this past weekend. It was a chocolate cake layered with strawberry buttercream.

A small 6" baby shower cake.. multicolored polkadots theme:

 

Thanks for looking and have a great week!