Graduation Cupcakes

For a 2012 graduate of Providence Senior High School.

To a wonderful mother and teacher!

This special cake bite tree was for a friend whose mother was retiring from teaching.  She decided to do a cake bite tree not only as a special treat but for table decor as well.  

Congratulations!

Nursing School Graduation

This cake was for a nursing school graduate, Frances graduated from Queens University in Charlotte with her Bachelors of Science in Nursing.

Congratulations Frances!

APA Manual....?....

This cake was for my husband who officially finished his grad school work this past week.

I made him and his classmates this particular cake.

You might be thinking, "What is this?"

The APA Manual is a guide for research writing and for those have written papers using this, you know all about it!

Even I used it in college when I wrote my music therapy papers!

And for those who are wondering, we're not done yet. He still has to finish his thesis in order to graduate but no more classes and no more weekends away from the family.

Congratulations "MAAA" Class of 2011!

Graduation Time

For a young man who was graduating from

Sun Valley High School.

Congratulations Thomas!

Congrats Grad!

Tis the season for graduation, whether from high school or preschool June is busy month for this! This cake was for a young girl graduating from Charlotte Catholic High School.

Congratulations Katelin!

Graduation Cake Contest!

All Cakes By Angela Fans!

I need your help! I've entered a graduation cake contest online at www.CakesWeBake.com

Click on the link, and go to page 4 then vote for my graduation cakes. My name will appear under the ones I've done, Angela Barton, I believe you'll find my three on page 4. To vote scroll down at the bottom of the picture, click on the heart with the word Favorite, you can vote for each one only once, but one vote from each of you will help! Contest Ends Friday, June 25, 2010

Thank you!!!

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Congratulations Class of 2010!!

It's that time of year again, graduation! To the Class of 2010, congratulations!! I wish each and everyone of you much success as you venture into another chapter of your life.

This week began with many different little projects each night to prepare for the weekend of cakes! I'm glad it is all over, now I can get some rest and enjoy our start to summer with the kids!

Here are the pictures of several graduation cakes with a birthday and anniversary cake in there too!

This is for a young man who is graduating from Butler High School and heading to Juilliard in the fall to study Opera.

The bottom layer, the piano, is not cake, but styrofoam!

This is for a young woman who graduated from Providence High School.

Her favorite colors are hot pink and lime green!

I painted 2010 on each star with a little food coloring gel.

This senior was graduating from Butler high school as well and off to NC State in the fall.

A yummy almond cake with chocolate icing for a 40th Birthday!

My first attempt (in a long time) to create fondant roses...not bad, right?

Happy Anniversary!

Here I made 3 dozen almond cupcake bites decorated for a graduating senior in her school colors of black and gold.

Baseball theme bites for a little boys birthday party.

Baby Shower and Graduation Cakes

I made another adorable baby shower cake with the bird theme that I've done once before. I have to admit, this came out pretty darn CUTE!

What do you think?

I also made a small graduation cake for a young girl graduating from Parkwood High School in Monroe, NC.

EJS were her initials.

Congratulations Class of 2010!

Another school year has ended....

Tis the season for graduations and farewells. Seniors off to college and students graduating and entering the real world! My busy cake season of graduation cakes has begun! Here are a few things that I finished right before we left on our family vacation to Disney World last week.

Not the greatest lighting, my apologies, but I finished a graduation cake for a young teacher who was finishing her masters at UNC Charlotte, so the colors here are green and gold.

Here I made 50 almond cupcake bites for the French Honor Society at my alma mater - Providence Senior High School.

A "We'll Miss You" cake for a friend's coworker who was retiring.

My favorite creation all week! And one of those last minute ideas too!

I made cupcakes for the teachers at preschool and decorated them with chocolate butterflies. Kind of symbolic in that they helped my little guys grow and develop so much this year, just like butterflies grow and change.

I also gave them SteinMart gift certificates with this neat butterfly logo on them! To cool and a neat tie in with the edible gift! And Olivia's teacher taught her class about butterflies and they got to watch the caterpillars grow and change into butterflies before releasing them on the playground!

More to come next week!

Where did 2009 go???

ok....I know I promised at the beginning of 2009 that I would get better with my blogging and I did stay with it for the most part. But I hate to admit it, after the first of October, I don't know what happened? One minute it's 2009 and the next it's 2010....but I haven't been sitting doing nothing. I've been a busy, busy baker and decorator the last few months.

To hit a few highlights...

Here is a Triathlon Birthday cake

So it has to happen at some point, one of my beautiful cakes did not make it to it's destination. I can not even say that I left my small town of Matthews before it slid off the platform in the back of the car. To say the least I was a bit distraught over the cake, but thank goodness the person I was delivering it to was a close friend and she understood.

I did make an emergency trip to Costco for a substitute cake.

The before picture

The after picture

I know what went wrong in the trunk, it was my fault. I wasn't even going fast nor did I hit a bump or brake hard, just good old physics played into this disaster!

Even the best I'm sure have days like this.

Then on to a favorite cake of 2009.

Our best friend who I did his wedding cake back in July was turning 30 this year.

So I challenged myself to create an AWESOME cake for him.

He was giving a recital at St. John Neumann Catholic church

and I made him a giant piano cake!

The cake is completely covered in Satin Ice Fondant and I have to admit

I modify the design a bit from Anne Heap at Pink Cake Box, but it turned out really neat!

Baby Shower Cake

Here is my table at the Rock Hill Chocolate Festival.

I set up a table with a few samples and my new banner!

Then I did a few dozen or so cookies and cupcake bites for Matthews Dental Care

Than Turkey Day, I was in charge of my daughters' Thanksgiving party.

Here are the cutest Turkey Cupcakes I've ever seen!

Gobble Gobble!

Then my Birthday in the mix of things!

Happy Birthday Me!

I covered this small cake in Chocolate Satin Ice Fondant

Yummy!

Here is another Birthday Cake

(*singing*)

M I C K E Y M O U S E

Here is an adorable little girls Birthday Cake

I even made a little gumpaste Mickey Mouse hat on top!

Then I entered myself in a cookie & cupcake challenge at the Ballantyne Hotel.

I didn't win, but I enjoyed participating.

I made my favorite Hooty Creek Cranberry Cookies

and a new recipe for S'Mores Cupcakes

Yum!

Another Birthday cake for a mom who was turning 90!

And in all of the Birthdays, I made a graduation cake.

Kajal graduated from University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Now here is my pride and joy of the holiday season!

A close family friend who LOVES my cakes asked me

to create a 3D cupcake bite Christmas tree.

Yes, I said 3D.

So...I made 52 cupcake bites,

and stuck them on a styrofoam cone,

with a few extra flowers and such to fill in the gaps.

Ta Da!

Here is my favorite part.

I made tiny presents and such out of fondant & gumpaste

Oh, yeah...a few cookies too!

Check out the video of the tree!!

My favorite part!