Sweet Cakes by Rebecca: June 2011

When our good friend Stephanie from Stephanie J Designs told us the theme for her son's birthday was going to be green army men we were super excited. We created a 3-D green army men jeep cake, chocolate cake pops, chocolate chip cupcakes, vanilla medallion sugar cookies, and we found green army men gummies and green apple jelly beans to top it off. Stephanie with the use of star medallion tags, fun names for the treats, coordinating place settings and burlap table cloths pulled the whole party together. The treats were placed down the center of the table, instead of on a separate dessert table, it made for an impressive party table for the kids to eat and play at.

camo canteen invitations-stephanie j designs

Super cool personalized camo canteens

invitations like no other by Stephanie J Designs

Stephanie came up with fun names for the treats, so chocolate cake pops became chocolate cake grenades.

treat bags customized with tags and more clever army references

bags filled with caramel popcorn were labeled cracker bullets

my favorite snack were the star medallion sugar cookies we made. They were labeled "atomic sugar cookies"

instead of the traditional candy bags, we filled large glass mason jars with green army men gummies labeled "infantry" and green apple jelly beans labels "shrapnel"

The centerpiece to the party was the green army jeep cake (yes that is cake!) It was placed on a cake drum covered in raw sugar sand

another angle of the jeep cake, it was over an inch of the stand, which is a custom made stand decorated with ribbon and paper. The sugar cookie were created to match all of the amazing papery created by Stephanie J Designs.

a picture of the table with all the snacks down the center and place settings complete with camo plates and a set of dog tags

another view of the full table design with camo cupcakes being guarded by green army men. We had placed several green army men along the table.

one last pic of the cake with the star candles lit.

The party was also featured on
Hostess with the Mostess
Kara's Party Ideas
Green Wedding Planner
Glam Canada
Stephanie J Designs

The tags, invites and treat bags can be purchased at Stephanie J Design's Esty store

I have to start by saying 2010 has been an amazing year for cakes. So after careful review of all the sculpted (3-D cakes, cakes you have to look at twice to know are cakes!) we created this year we selected what we feel are the best 10 of 2010. We had so many to choose from and the decision process was tough. We had to choose from a group that included a standing beer mug, a Lamborghini, guitar cakes, purse cakes, and even a 2 foot tall Hennessy bottle. We decided to choose cakes that not only are amazing to look at, but that we had never made before and challenged us in some way. So here they are.....

1. A top secret spy cake