Dad's 50!

Assembling the cake

April 17th marked my dad's 50th birthday. Wow, Dad, can't believe it. You are all growed up!

It was a surprise party (the only way we could do something for him), and was he ever surprised!

 Celina and I adding the final touches to our oyster macarons.

Look at those cute little pearls!! Macarons have a way of making me smile.

^^ The few pics I have of the dessert table. Hi Celine!! (She asked when she'd be on here)^^

Please admire the double-matted brown frame and manually-blurred background.

Unfortunately, In all the craziness, there were not many pictures taken of the cake. Therefore I had to *ahem* rely on friends for this department... even though after several minutes of editing, the picture is still off-centered. *coughing*

Happy Birthday, Dad.

Much Love,

Steph

Autumn Naked Cakes

    I hope y'all had a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend. I am ashamed to tell you this, but 

I didn't take one picture of anything I made, besides a few phone snapshots. Terrible, right? Let me tell ya though, it was a crazy couple days in the kitchen--and I was only making the desserts and some of the sides. 

I do, however, have some beautiful fall cakes to share with you.
Let's talk about the naked cake.

They're beautiful (did I already say that?), they're simple, and they are all the rage! 

This first one I did back in October. It was just a simple, one layer chocolate cake with stacked pumpkins on top.

So festive and fun for a small gathering. This cake size feeds eight happy people.

Gold sprinkles are the best sprinkles!

 The second I did just last weekend. 

I love the contrast of these two naked cakes showing just how much variety you can get with them.

That is a fuyu persimmon, NOT a tomato...

 (for the couple of people that thought that. :-/ )

...and those are cranberries, blackberries, cinnamon sticks, and olive branches.

(Just so we are clear that there is no vegetables on this cake. Ha.)

~Steph