Birthday Cakes

Bridgette: The log cabin cake my mom, Wanda, made was modeled after the cabin my late father, Bill built.

We stuck it out in the snow and liked how well it just blended.

Bridgette: I remember my mom being excited about this one. Maybe it was because it was so much easier than tending to our own huge garden!

The tree cake was made in the theme of the birthday girl, Kelly’s, favorite story book. Wanda’s sister, Gennie, and daughter, Bridgette helped a lot.

Wanda and Bridgette also made the party favors with the help of Gennie Macpherson. She drew all the coloring pages and was a teen at the time but now she is a professional graphic designer in the Pacific Northwest.

The trees are made of ice cream cones. The bonfire has candles stuck in it to make the fire really light.

Bridgette: For my grandfather’s 80th birthday, my mom made him a stump cake with 80 carefully piped rings. Grandpa used to cut trees with a crosscut saw and also helped skid all the logs for our home out of a forest with horses.

Bridgette: For my dad’s fish themed birthday, I made him a fish hat and my mom got him a real creel and made him a matching cake!

The cake was kind of a hit so mom made another one. The fish in both are made of milk jello and painted with food coloring.

The Lamborghini cake was no afternoon adventure. Wanda sculpted the cake from the axels up and made all the party decorations too.

The Axels for the Lamborghini cake were of candy sticks and hand-made candy wheels. It was made for Chet, her cousin’s son.

This Buzz Lightyear cake was fun. The only non-edible piece is his helmet made of a coin machine toy plastic container.

This cake was for Wanda’s cousin’s sons for graduation from Kooskie. Their school mascot was a ram and for the cake it was made of marzipan. The rocks are cut marshmallows with grey coloring.

Bridgette: My dad raised honey bees so a hive cake was bound to happen.

This is kind of like what it looks like in Idaho where the forests give way to farmland.

This was one of Wanda’s first major commercial theme birthdays. Bridgette helped with some design elements too.

The tableware is from Oriental Trading Company.

Home-made candy berries on a basket weave cake.

Bridgette: My second cousin, Travis, was really into basketball and Wanda make this cake with marzipan players, royal icing basket and the maple flooring is painted with maple flavoring.

Cake and decor including a hollow pumpkin inked like a basketball.

The birthday woman who got this cake liked to shop. It was commissioned by her sister. The boxes are made of cookie.

A stick of gum was used for the hat box.

This cake was made for Lailoni. The skirt is cake. The carriage wheels are cloths hanger and the body is a cut ball.

A rolled fondant cake. All the fondant you see in this site is made from scratch by Wanda.

Bridgette: Grandma Clara Schnider liked pretty things and birds. Mom made a number of these birdhouse cakes over the years.

A party for five children turning one. The letters are the first letters of the childrens’ names.

A commissioned cake with candy coins and licorice.

Casino cake.

Twins don’t always like the same things as this cake for two twins showcasing their interests proves.

A castle cake for a little girl. The spires are plastic pillars.

The little girl that got the tree cake also got the bear-themed cake when she was younger. The roof tiles are fruit leather.

Another castle cake.

The chest is edible but the tree isn’t. Wanda’s half-sister, Ginnie made the edible bones.

Bridgette: For this theme party we made a pin-the-dino-on-the-landscape scene, a volcano game and a dinosaur cake.

Red colored butter surrounds the mouth of the volcano cake which has candles inside so that when lit, the lava butter will roll down the mountain.

Bridgette: We were probably a little crazy making these sweet sixteen box of chocolate cakes.

This sweet sixteen cake was made for Bridgette’s classmate Jennifer.

Bridgette: I probably ate a few chocolates by convincing my mom they wouldn’t fit inside the cake. In this picture you can see how these cakes were constructed with cake, chocolates and royal icing.

This cake was for Bridgette’s birthday. The rainbow is made of colored clear hard candy.