Ryan's 1st Birthday Cake

This was his first birthday cake (we did a jungle theme) - October 2007. I got the idea from a Wilton magazine - used the pre-made fondant to make the loops for the mane and tail. I used red and orange fondant - though the colors look a bit off in these pics.

ketchup - Train cookies

I made these for Ryan's 3rd birthday - as a treat for him to bring into preschool. This was my first attempt using corn syrup and a paintbrush (food only) to decorate a cookie. It's SO EASY to do (after cookies are baked and cooled) - you just paint with the corn syrup (next time I want to try watering it down a bit) and sprinkle with sugar or sprinkles. It's a great technique that I learned in Cookie Craft. Many thanks to Bakerella for suggesting the book - it is amazing! The cookie recipe is from there too!

ketchup - Ryan's 3rd birthday cake

A "catch up" post. When I don't have new stuff to post, I'll post some previous things I've baked just to get it on here - as ideas and reminders for myself :-) I'm trying to tag things so that I can go back and look at cookies, cakes, etc.


I used this awesome Nordic Ware train cake pan - it bakes 9 individual train cars - it also works really well for muffins and other everyday baking! They are really cute without even decorating them. I also used some real matchbox cars and GeoTrax RR crossing signs and gates - Marc cut the bottoms off (of the signs) to make them sit on the cake better, and then I carefully washed everything before using them! Everything else is edible - I used lots of candies including realistic rock candies as cargo :-)