Laptop Cake

Happy typing! I LOVE this cake.. love love love it! The top part of the screen did not come out exactly as planned and was made out of construction paper. It had a Dell symbol on the back but I forgot to get a picture. If anyone else orders a laptop cake, I will try my best to put an edible back on it. This one fed 15-20 people, was half chocolate and half yellow, and cost $60.00. Every piece is handcrafted, including each key from the keyboard.

Cheerleading Cake

This was a white cake with buttercream frosting and a fondant cover. The Megaphone on top is rice crispy treats covered in fondant. This cake will feed approximately 25-30 people and costs $65.00.

Football Cake

This cake was so much fun to make! It is a yellow and chocolate layer cake with chocolate filling. The cake is covered in buttercream icing with a smooth fondant finish. It feeds approximately 25-30 people and costs approximately $65.00. The price varies with what you want on the football. A plain brown and white football with some lettering on it would only be around $55.00.

I do know that these colors are not quite the Colts colors. The client showed me a picture to use, and since I am not Colts fan I did not know that the colors in the picture were not the right colors!

Cats in the Garden

I will admit, when a client asked me to make a "cats in the garden" theme, I was a little stumped! But after she showed me a picture of the napkins she purchased, I knew exactly what I wanted to do.

This cake feeds about 50 people and comes with a small "smash cake" for the birthday child (if needed). It costs $80.00 and has a chocolate layer and a sweet yellow cake layer, but you can, of course, choose your cake flavors.

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Delivery starts at $10.00 for the first 15 miles and then an additional $0.50 a mile after that.

We now sell sugar cookies!

(This one is a little smooshed as a certain child *coughminecough* got to it before I could take a picture!)




Maybe you do not need a cake but you do need something sweet. You're in luck! Bake Me A Cake bakery now sells sugar cookies in addition to beautiful cakes.



Sugar cookies start at $10.00 per dozen. Intricate designs or large cookies will have additional costs. Bulk orders will receive a discount.



Cookies are great favors for baby showers (see the above duck!), weddings, and bridal showers. These make the perfect gift for neighbors and friends for holidays, and they are great to have arounf the house!



Sugar cookies are available in dozens of different shapes and sizes. We have Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas available as well as sports, baby, spring, animals, ketters, numbers, and so many more!



Contact bake.meacake@hotmail.com for more information or to place an order.

Baby Shower Cake

Here's a cake I made for a baby shower. It is two tiers and can feed approximately 25-30 people. The bottom tier was sweet yellow cake and the top was traditional chocolate. It has a layer of buttercream frosting underneath the marshmallow based fondant. The baby on top is made out of fondant. This exact cake costs $55.00 but can be adjusted for size and intricacy.

Excuse the poor quality cell phone pictures; our digital camera is not yet fixed! I will have better pictures up shortly once a friend emails some to me.

I also need to remember to take pictures before I'm actually at the event without a nice place to put the cake.

September is just about full!

Dates Booked:

September 4-6, 11-13, 18-20

The last weekend in September is open, and I can take one more cake for the first weekend in October.

Please book in advance to make sure that the date you want is available!


Now accepting all holiday orders.

Thanksgiving cakes will be available for pick-up or delivery from November 20-24 ONLY.

Book Now!

Dates are filling up quickly! The next two weekends are filled, but I can squeeze one cake in the weekend of the 19th and the following weekend is completely open.

If you want a Halloween cake or any other holiday cake, it is best to book as soon as possible. Please email me at bake.meacake@hotmail.com with the date you need your cake!

Sleep Over Party

This is a cake for a sleep over party. I really like it, but unfortunately my camera is broken and I have to take pictures on my phone right now. It was a fun cake to make though and I was able to find a wonderfully delicious recipe for sweet yellow cake for it. YUM! (eta a few better quality pictures)

This cake feeds 25-30 people and would sell for around 50.00. The bear can also be made into a 3-D bear (like the animals on the farm cake) for an additional charge.

Chocolate Candy Cane Cake

I adapted this recipe from the Kraft website. The original version had candy canes in the cake itself. I was worried about the cake ending up crunchy. They also suggested using cool whip for the icing. I used buttercream icing with peppermint extract.

The cake was made to celebrate a special occasion at work, so I didn't add the crushed candy cane decorations until it was time to serve it. Unfortunately, I forgot my camera, so the only photo I have is one of the last piece that was left and I was able to take home. (Update: a co-worker has sent me a photo she took with her phone--I've added it to the end.)

Chocolate Candy Cane Cake

Ingredients for cake:
1 Devil's Food cake mix
1 instant chocolate pudding packet
8 oz. sour cream
4 eggs
1/2 cup oil
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup chocolate chips

Ingredients for icing and decorating:
1/2 cup solid vegetable shortening (e.g. Crisco)
1/2 cup margarine
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 teaspoon peppermint extract
2 tablespoons water
4 cups powdered sugar
about eight small candy canes, crushed

To make the cake, preheat the oven to 350 degrees and spray cake pans with cooking spray. In a mixer, beat the first six ingredients until thoroughly blended. Stir in the chocolate chips. Pour into prepared cake pans and bake for 35-40 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.

Cool for 10 minutes before inverting onto wire racks.

Once cake has cooled completely, make the icing by beating together the vegetable shortening, margarine, vanilla, peppermint extract, and water. Gradually add powdered sugar and beat until smooth.

To decorate the cake, I first iced the bottom layer and sprinkled a few crushed candy canes on top. Then I placed the second layer on top and iced the entire cake. The final candy cane decorations were not added until just before serving because I didn't want them to bleed into the icing.

Apricot Pinwheels

I wanted to use up some apricot preserves so I used a recipe for "Sweet Jam Swirls" (which you can find here) as the basis for this recipe.

The cookies turned out pretty well, but I think they'd work better with a very thin layer of jelly as opposed to the preserves I used. Still tasty, though!

Apricot Pinwheels

Ingredients:
1 package (18 ounces) refrigerated sugar cookie dough
8 ounces cream cheese
3/4 cup flour
8 rounded teaspoons apricot preserves
2 tablespoons sugar

Soften cream cheese (an hour at room temperature or 15-20 seconds in microwave). Let cookie dough set out at room temperature for 15 minutes.

In large mixer bowl, beat together cream cheese, cookie dough, and flour until well blended. Divide dough into four equal pieces. Wrap each in plastic wrap and freeze for an hour.

Removing one piece at a time from the freezer, roll into a square about 5 or 6 inches wide. The dough should be about 1/4 inch thick.

Spread two rounded teaspoons of preserves on the square. Leave a half inch bare at the end you will roll toward since the preserves tend to ooze.
Roll into logs, wrap in plastic wrap, and freeze for 3 hours.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray cookie sheets with baking spray. Cut logs into 1/4-inch slices. Place on greased sheets and bake for 10-12 minutes. Cool on sheet for one minute before removing to cooling rack.

Yields: about 4 dozen.

Homemade Butterfinger Bars with Only Three Ingredients

A friend told me about this recipe, so of course I looked it up online and it's all over the web. In case you haven't seen this yet, here's how to make your own Butterfinger Bars with only three ingredients.

This recipe is so good it literally got a round of applause at work.

Homemade Butterfinger Bars

Ingredients:
1 lb. bag of candy corn (about 2-1/2 cups)
1 small jar (16 oz.) of peanut butter
about 12 oz. of chocolate for melting (I used 12 1-oz. squares of Baker's semi-sweet chocolate, but you could also use chocolate chips or Wilton candy melts)

Line an 8x8 pan with parchment paper or waxed paper. (You can also use a 9 x 9 pan; your pieces will just end up thinner.)

In a medium-sized bowl, microwave the candy corn for one minute on high. Stir. Microwave another 30 seconds and stir again. Continue microwaving and stirring at 30 second intervals until thoroughly melted. (This should take a total of 2-3 minutes.)
Immediately add the peanut butter and stir until smooth. Turn into prepared pan and press smooth with rubber spatula. (Do this quickly because it hardens fairly fast. Do not be tempted to lick the bowl--it's hot!)
Let cool for an hour or two. Remove from pan and set on cutting board. Cut into small pieces.

In a small bowl, microwave the chocolate until melted. Use the same technique as you used for the candy corn (one minute on high; stir; 30 seconds; stir). Use a fork to dip the candy corn/peanut butter pieces into the melted chocolate.
Let harden on sheet lined with parchment paper or waxed paper. Once chocolate cools and hardens, store in airtight container.

Kahlua Orange Fudge

This fudge recipe is extremely sweet! A small bite is all you need. My recommendation is to make it only when you are having many people over for dinner. :)

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Kahlua Orange Fudge

Ingredients:
2-1/2 cups sugar
3/4 cup sour cream
1/2 cup butter
2 tablespoons Kahlua
1 package (12 oz.) white chocolate chips
1 jar (7 oz.) marshmallow fluff
1 tablespoon grated orange peel

Line a 13x9 inch pan with foil, leaving some extra foil over the edge. Lightly butter the foil.

Lightly butter large microwavable bowl. Combine sugar, sour cream, butter, and Kahlua in prepared bowl. Microwave on high for 10-12 minutes, stirring every 2-3 minutes. Continue microwaving until mixture reaches 240 degrees on a candy thermometer.

Add white chocolate chips, marshmallow fluff, and grated orange peel. Stir until smooth. Pour into greased and lined pan. Use a buttered spatula to smooth it into corners.

While the fudge is still warm, score it into small pieces. When it has fully cooled, lifted it out of the pan using the excess foil on the sides. Place it on a cutting board and slice it along the scored lines.

Store in airtight container.

Yields: about 80 small squares

Mudslide Cookies

A friend gave me a recipe box called Chocolate Bliss (Music Cooks) as a gift. Inside are ten recipe cards and a music CD to play while you are making or enjoying the recipes.

I made only one minor change to this recipe. I used milk chocolate chips instead of the semisweet ones in the original recipe. If you are a huge chocolate fan, you will love these cookies because they are what the name implies: a whole mudslide full of chocolate.

P.S. If you want more recipes like this, you can buy the Chocolate Bliss recipe box online at Barnes and Noble or Amazon.

Mudslide Cookies

Ingredients:
1/2 cup flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
4 tablespoons unsalted butter
3 ounces unsweetened chocolate
4 ounces bittersweet chocolate
3 eggs
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup chopped walnuts
3/4 cup milk chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

In a small bowl, mix together the flour, baking powder, and salt.

In a microwave-safe bowl, melt the butter, the unsweetened chocolate, and the bittersweet chocolate. It is best to cut the chocolate into smaller pieces (I cut the 1-ounce squares in half) and then melt them on high for 30 seconds. Stir and melt again for another 30 seconds. Stir again. If they are still some unmelted chocolate pieces, continue cooking and stirring every 30 seconds.

In a large bowl, beat the eggs and the sugar on high for 3 minutes. The mixture should become pale and somewhat fluffy. Add the chocolate mixture and the vanilla. Beat on medium speed for one minute. Gradually add flour mixture and beat until just blended. Stir in walnuts and chocolate chips.

Use a small cookie scooper to drop batter onto prepared cookie sheet. The batter will be rather runny so don't expect perfectly rounded scoops of dough.

Bake for 12-14 minutes. Let cool on pan for 5 minutes, then transfer to wire rack.

Yields: about 36 cookies.

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How to Stripe Your Icing

Ever wonder how bakeries get more than one color in their icing decorations? The trick is called "striping," and it's actually pretty easy to do. All you need are decorating bags, clean paintbrushes, icing, and gel icing colors.

These cupcakes were for a birthday party for two of my nephews. The theme of the party was Cars. I couldn't find any good Cars muffin cups or cupcake decorations, so I just used these generic car and truck muffin cups I found at JoAnn's and then striped the icing. The older boys said they looked cool. :)

How to Stripe Your Icing

What You'll Need:
1) decorating bag(s)
2) gel icing colors
3) icing
4) clean paintbrushes (ones that you've never actually used with paint!)

There are two ways you can do this. If you've got good quality gel icing colors, dip your paintbrush in the color you want to strip your icing. Run your paintbrush up the inside of your decorating bag. You can repeat this process on the opposite side of the bag with the same color or a different color. Then fill the bag with white icing. As you push the icing through the bag, the color you striped along the inside of the bag will transfer to your icing.

If you have the liquid kind of food coloring instead of gel colors, you can still create the same effect with a slightly different procedure. In small bowls, mix some icing with the color you want. Then use a small spatula or knife to spread some of the icing along the inside edge of the decorating bag. Repeat again on the opposite side. Fill the rest of the bag with white icing.

For the above cupcakes, I didn't have the right kind of gel icing color, so I used this last method with small amounts of blue and green icing.