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Pretty Pedestals

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Take a look at these beautiful cake stands. That is if you can see past the skyline of sweets. I absolutely love this photo. Love it. I wish I could enlarge it and wallpaper my kitchen with it. This photo and the rest in this post (taken by Ashley Rose Photography) are photos of cakes from my friend Melody’s shop, My Sweet & Saucy. We’ve been internet buds from way back when I had a blogspot.com address. And since then, she’s gone from blogger herself, to superstar baker, making the most gorgeous cakes and working with the likes of Tori Spelling, Miley Cyrus and more. I just wish she wasn’t all the way in California. Actually, it’s a good thing I’m not in driving distance. For my waistline anyway.

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Oh dear. I need a pink ruffle cake in my life.

Pronto.

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Look at all these cakes. I mean pedestals. Big ones. Little ones. Tall ones. Short ones.

Melody also has an online store where you can find them all in one place.


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Yes, pedestals. Like this pretty little pink one. Perfect for a petite little cake.

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Or stack two and you can fill it with sweet little treats.

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Wait, you mean you don’t have a large and small pink glass pedestal or a sweet glass dome?

That’s terrible. Unthinkable.

Would you like one? I mean all three pieces in the photo above?

I thought you might.

Melody is giving them away to one of my readers. Yippee! Thanks Melody!

Enter for a chance to win this dome and two pretty pink pedestals.

  • Just leave a comment on this post and tell me the last occasion you celebrated with cake. Easy!
  • Deadline to enter is Wednesday, March 30 at 8 pm ET. Sorry, Time’s Up! Winner announced below.
  • One winner will be chosen at random* and announced sometime Wednesday evening on this post.

Good Luck!

Satisfy your sweet tooth and check out Melody’s stuff.

My Sweet & Saucy Supply – cake stands, and platters and bow;s, oh my!
My Sweet & Saucy Shop – the bakery
My Sweet & Saucy Blog – filled with tons of beautiful event and dessert table photos.

Other Credits: Ashley Rose – photography, The Loveliest Day – event design & styling, Found – vintage rentals, and Olive Hue – paper goods.

YAY! I picked a winner.

Duh, dah, dah… and the new owner of beautiful new pink pedestals and a glass done to top it off is… Comment #4838!

pedestal-winner

Congratulations Gloria!


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9,947 comments on “Pretty Pedestals”

  1. It’s been a while… I guess it was my husband’s birthday last September… Now that I think, it has been too long! I need to bake a cake right now! Keeping you in my prayers.

  2. I love everything you come up with! You r such an inspiration…
    last celebration we had was the birth of our new nephew:) perfect little bundle.

  3. My daughter’s birthday in February!

  4. Those are so beautiful! The last cake I made was a AT-AT cake for my sons birthday party in Dec.

  5. A friend’s birthday and I made him a cinnamon roll cake. He has been begging me for it for 10 months! I made him wait! And making a cake now for my niece’s baby shower this weekend.

  6. The last time I celebrated with cake was for Valentine’s day!

  7. My engagement to my best friend and love of my life :-)

  8. The last time I celebrated with cake was at my son’s wedding, May of 2010! I think it’s time to celebrate again. I turn 50 this year, maybe that will be a good reason to make a cake. Such cute plates…and cakes!

  9. My boyfriend’s grandmother’s 86th Birthday. Red velvet that I practiced about 8 times….

  10. ohhh would love these! last time we celebrated with cake? ….i think new year’s!

  11. My sister -in- laws birthday. It was delish!

  12. For a family get together – yummy lemon cake!

  13. A coworker from New Orleans brought in King Cake on Fat Tuesday. His parents ship him one every Mardi Gras, all the way from his favorite bakery in NO to California!

  14. The last time we celebrated with cake was my 29th (yikes) birthday last month. Even though all 6 kids in my family are grown up my parents still have cake and ice cream for each of us on our birthday. Add the 6 grandkids to the birthday mix and we have cake pretty often!

  15. The Superbowl. I had an orange and blue with “Go Broncos!” written on it. It was hilarious and delicious.

  16. 2 weeks ago the e ntire family was in town. We celebrated everybody’s everything all at once with a lemon bluberry yummy cake! It was beautiful!

  17. My sweet neices 5th birthday party!

  18. St. Paddy’s Day!

  19. Hello! The last occasion I celebrated with cake was the Super Bowl…nothing like green and yellow cupcakes to cheer on your team!

  20. Celebrated at a baby shower on Sunday!

  21. My birthday party…I baked red velvet cupcakes piped with cream cheese frosting and topped with metallic red sprinkles!

  22. Sunday when my daughter was released from the hospital after her surgery. Strawberry cake with lemon frosting :)

  23. I created a mario cake for my brother’s birthday just the other week! And now in my head I am coming up with sweet feminine designs that I would love to feature on these precious pink pedestals!

  24. My last cake celebration was at my dear friend’s baby shower a few weeks ago!!! :)

  25. My sister’s 40th birthday party earlier this month.

  26. my daughter’s 2nd birthday on March 6th.

  27. Does a cupcake for my birthday last week count?

  28. I am actually celebrating right now! Baking the martha stewart maple layer cake! Wish me luck!

  29. A 3-year-old’s birthday party a couple of weekends ago. My those plates are pretty!

  30. I celebrate cake every day!! What would the world be without a little cake in your life!

  31. 1 month and 10 days ago for my baby boy’s first birthday! It was an adorable two tier Mickey Mouse cake with the 3rd top tier as Mickey Mouse ears and a party hat :)

  32. These pedestals are GORGEOUS!

    My family loves cake but not just any cake, homemade cake! We celebrated my mom’s 65th birthday with a homemade vanilla cake & chocolate frosting. Yummy!

  33. My birthday last Friday. My dad surprised me by dropping off a chocolate cake with ganache frosting for me to share with my children before we headed out to play games and paint faces at our local Boys and Girl’s Club. He didn’t think to put it on a pretty cake plate though!

  34. There needs to be an occasion??? That’s news to me… I made 2 kinds of cupcakes for a friend’s birthday last month. The kitchen is calling my name to do it again!

  35. My daughter-in-laws birthday! Pineapple upside down cake from scratch! My cakes would look so lovely on a pedestal!

  36. I made mocha cupcakes for my best friend’s oldest daughter’s birthday!

  37. my birthday in December

  38. Just a few days ago, for my 40th birthday… oops, forgot my name, I’m not anonymous… LOL

  39. 2 weeks ago the e ntire family was in town. We celebrated everybody’s everything all at once with a lemon bluberry yummy cake! It was fun!

  40. As an excuse to socialize more (or maybe just slack off) at work, my co-workers and I have a themed potluck every Friday. Last Friday, I brought a lemon-blueberry cake with cream cheese filling for our brunch theme. It was scrumptious!

  41. Just because….no reason what’s so ever. The kids wanted cake and I’m not one to say no to sweets:)

  42. Just a few days ago… for my 40th birthday!!!!

  43. made your apple cake for my grandson a few days ago it’s delish

  44. beautiful!!! we celebrated my nephews batism this past sunday!! and next will be my other nephews birthday!!

  45. I celebrated with cupcakes of all different flavors when I went home this last weekend to see my family back in Nebraska!

  46. Celebrated my nieces 19th bday!

  47. My BFF’s little brother returned from a one year deployment yesterday! and of course we celebrated!!

  48. We had a cake on St. Patrick’s Day! I love cake stands!

  49. Don’t really need a special occasion in our house to have cake – we had some last Staurday ‘just because’!

  50. A batch of St. Patrick’s Day Cupcakes for my son’s preschool class and a second batch for our St. Patrick’s Day dinner with family. :o)

  51. My cousin’s son just celebrated his 2nd birthday on Sunday! But really, any day is an excuse to have cake!

  52. My birthday, on Saturday.

  53. ohh my… today i’m celebrating my husband’s birthday!!!

  54. I would love that for entertaining. I am starting to buy a lot of cute serving dishes and cake stands for parties. They are just stunning on your table.

  55. Wow, it has been a while since I have had a cake… I think that it was in January that I last celebrated with a full cake… Do pieces or cupcakes count?! Heehee!

  56. My son’s 16th birthday last week!

  57. My husband’s birthday in December. It’s time for some cake in my life!

  58. I love how elegant the pedestals make the table look….perfect for spring parties :)

  59. a wedding last saturday night! it was chocolate cake…yum!

  60. I really do love cake stands, I have several clear ones, but not one pink one, they are adorable. I made a cake last week for my Daughters school, they were celebrating Italian Day, so I made them a Italian Creme Cake, My Daughter called to say it was a big hit and not one speck was left. That is what it is all about. People enjoying something that you have baked at home.

  61. I just had my birthday last week with yummy cake! These are too cute! :)

  62. The last time I used a cake stand, for the pizza! I do this all the time and LOVE it! Otherwise, the last celebratory cake was a baby shower, eclair cake, yum!

  63. Wedding shower for a dear, sweet friend last Saturday :)

  64. I made a chocolate peanut butter cake on Sunday afternoon. Because I”m pregnant and was craving it ;)

  65. i made a homemade lemon curd cake from alice water’s 1234 recipe. it was for our first knit night with our neighborhood friends. love the stands!

  66. My son’s first birthday. My husband and I spent alot of time slaving over that cake :)

  67. My husband’s birthday back in March.

  68. my godson’s bday last month!

  69. I last made cupcakes for a special dinner with my family and my brother’s fiancee. I made chocolate cupcakes with a cream cheese filling. They were delicious.

  70. My father-in-law’s birthday and making cute little cupcakes for a friend’s baby shower all week! Can’t wait to eat them!

  71. The last time I celebrated with a cake was last week at a friend’s birthday party! It was chocolate and delicious.

  72. My birthday – divine amaretto cake!

  73. TODAY!! Because it’s my birthday, NO birthday would be complete without cake. :)

  74. Valentine’s Day!

  75. my sister´s in law 50th birthday!

  76. I just threw a bday party for my hubby and 3 of our friends! We had 2 cakes and they were fabulous, but would have been better with these cake stands! :)

  77. The last occasion we celebrated with cake was on my birthday with my family. We had a yummy lemon cake with a sweet/tangy frosting. It was awesome!!

  78. Valentines Day!

  79. The last ocassion that I celebrated with cake was . . . the fact that it was Thursday???? I just thought angelfood cake sounded delicious, so I popped one in the oven last week!

  80. Friday – because it was the end of the week and I had time to bake!

    Gorgeous pedestals!

  81. My baby turned one last month <3 The whole family enjoyed devouring cake along with her :)

  82. The last cake celebration was my brother’s birthday… he loves Texas sheet cake! :)

  83. Cake and cupcakes are my fav! I make them every chance I get. The last time I made cupcakes was on Sunday. My husbands family came over, and I made vanilla cupcakes with chocolate buttercream frosting, and chocolate fudge cupcakes with cream cheese frosting. Yum! They were devoured by everyone.

  84. My friend’s birthday last Friday – with ice cream cake!

  85. My co-workers brought me yummy cake to celebrate my birthday last week.

  86. Mmmmm my mom’s birthday i think…

  87. Pot luck at work – I made two different kinds of cupcakes!

  88. this is awesome!! soooo beautiful!! and I am now starting to plan for my wedding and live in CALI!! perhaps Melody will be an option for cakes and sweets?!! hahahah I’m getting my brain rollin’ on ideas now :D

  89. We celebrated a friends 9 year old daughters birthday with a fabulous cake and ice cream cake. Fabulous!

  90. My niece’s 4th birthday.

  91. Yesterday, for a deceased friend’s life celebration. Oreo Cookie Cake.

  92. Beautiful!! I had cake for a work event last week.

  93. My brother-in-law’s birthday…banana cake with cream cheese frosting!

  94. Last time I had cake was a week ago at a friends birthday party and I am looking forward to some more this weekend as I am making one for my mom’s birthday!!

  95. My daughter’s three year birthday party- I made Red Velvet cupcakes with a homemade cream cheese frosting with lady bugs made from red m&m’s (made the lady bug spots with black food markers) Also made more cupcakes to celebrate with her preschool class- cupcakes with cream cheese frosting (left over) and topped it with a slice of strawberry! The two kinds of cupcakes were a hit with the kiddies and adults!!

  96. My son’s 1st birthday! I made a deliciously moist chocolate cake with homemade peanut butter frosting. It ranks in the top 10 cakes I’ve ever eaten in my whole life! Thank goodness for 1 year old’s who don’t have any requests for birthday cakes yet :)

  97. I had cupcakes yesterday for the birthday of my friend’s oldest son. These stands would be absolutely perfect for my August wedding!

  98. Those are the most beautiful cake stands I’ve ever seen! Wow! The last time I made cake was for dinner at a friend’s house – so fun!

  99. My inlaws birthdays. I made black and white cupcakes with black and white decorations. Everyone loved them!

  100. Our last cake celebration was for my husband and son’s birthdays in February, but our daughter has a Sweet 16 coming up next week, so we’ll be celebrating with cake again really soon.

  101. nephew’s birthday two weeks ago!

  102. Our school secretary’s birthday! Chocolate layers filled with White Chocolate Mousse & covered in rich, chocolately ganache!! YUM!!!

  103. I just shared a Kahlua laced marble cake with an old friend from out of town – the friend who bought me my first ever cake pedestal many years ago!

  104. Um…Pretty sure the last occasion I celebrated with cake was pregnancy cravings. : )

  105. I made a mile high coconut cake with mounds of gooey cream cheese frosting and shamrocks for my husband’s (almost) St. Patty’s Day bday!!

  106. An 8th birthday party!

  107. Last celebrated this morning with some ladies in my bible study group who had a birthday in the month of March. Cake is always great in the morning!

  108. Last cake-worthy celebration: Thursday – because we were one day closer to the weekend! I’ll find any reason to bake! :o)

  109. I just helped my mother celebrate her 50th birthday with a great big chocolate cake made with real chocolate and covered in more heart-shaped chocolates!!

  110. We got cake to celebrate the recent sucessful move to our remodelled workspace.

  111. bought a chocolate cake a few weeks ago just for fun. yum!

  112. Last month with my friend just because we like cake.

  113. The last celebration? March is a birthday month in my house, and we had Hello Kitty cake, Hello Kitty cupcakes and Hello Kitty cakepops! It was a busy decorating night, but so much fun!

  114. well, if mini cupcakes count as cake. I threw a dinner party for 7 of my closest friends last November. For dessert I made miniature banana splits & miniature lemon filled cupcakes so they wouldn’t have to chose between the two. it was fabulous!

  115. It was yesterday! My husband’s birthday !!!!

  116. A General Manager’s meeting! I pretty much look for any excuse…

  117. My boyfriend’s sister’s wedding. Lithuanian wedding cake is my new favorite food. So delish.

  118. It was no special occasion – I think it was a random Tuesday night!! :)

  119. We celebrated our son’s 2nd birthday last weekend with a Toy Story cake and Mr. Potato Head and Hammie cake pops!

  120. St Patty’s Day/my bro-in-law’s bday. i made a green & white shamrock cake. Yum!

  121. The last time I celebrated with cake was a couple of weeks ago when I made my mother’s signature orange mandarine cake for a friends anniversary. I love that cake…my mouth is watering as I type.

  122. I celebrated….. it being a Saturday and wanting to try a new recipe for cake! :)

  123. I just made a cake for my co-workers daughter. She turned 17 and I was honored to make her cake for her special day. The cake was a hit!

  124. I celebrate with a cake everytime I get with my family for lunch, and that is every weekend. I’m realize that my bikini is not going to fit me this summer, oppss.

  125. My mother’s birthday! These awesome pink pedestals would be perfect for our family’s Easter celebration.

  126. I own quite a few pedestals. I love them so much, but rarely get to use them. I made a pie of cookies about a month ago and used my Fostoria pedestal just to be able to use it.

    The cakes and pedestals are all just gorgeous!

  127. The last thing I celebrated with Cake?

    My very best girlfriend coming back to visit Atlanta for the first time in a year since moving to D.C. She’s a sucker for Irish Car Bombs (the cocktail), so we made Guinness & Bailey’s cupcakes. It was an awesome time to bond and eating the cupcakes afterward felt like a celebration of our friendship!

  128. Just because is my favorite reason, but it was last month for a co-worker’s birthday.

  129. I made a cake for Valentine’s Day. Yum!

  130. St. Patrick’s Day – a lovely guiness and Baileys cake :)
    Love the colors of the cake stand/dome!

  131. I LOVE THESE!!!!

  132. The birth of my son Sullivan. My mama made me cupcakes. Those things were great at 3am feedings! Not so great for my waistline however :)

  133. I just celebrated with Pig Cake for fun last week! So yummmy.

  134. Most occassions for us involve cake!! St. Patty’s was our last :)

  135. The last time I had a cake we were celebrating the fact that it was wednesday! Any excuse to have cake mmm.

  136. Eeee! Those are so cute :) The last occasion I celebrated with a cake was my boyfriend’s birthday – it was Super Mario themed (and even though it was video game themed, it was still pretty cute!)

  137. Yesterday, because well…. I guess you can say I was celebrating a big beautiful cake sitting in front of me .

  138. My son’s 1st Birthday party! I had to make him extra treats because he fell and bumped his head really hard and the only thing I could think to do was make him lots of treats!

  139. My 21st birthday was Sunday and my mom made me the cutest pink butterfly cake to celebrate

  140. March 6, we celebrated my nephews 15 th birthday!

  141. A local shop made cake pops with red velvet cake for St. Patrick’s Day. They were really cute. Oh, and tasty too!

  142. The birth of my son! My mom made me cupcakes. Those things were great at 3 am feedings!

  143. Unfortunately I can’t remember the last time I had cake! :( I need to change that and soon! Cute cake stands :)

  144. My daughter’s 1st birthday. I love to host parties and I need cute pedestals so my desserts have that finishing touch. Thanks!

  145. I flew to Ohio (from Ca) to visit relatives 3 weeks ago, and we celebrated all the March babies. :) There were 5 birthdays!

  146. About a month ago at a birthday party. That’s way too long…

  147. They are so pretty! Last cake was for the birthday of a very good friend.

  148. My sweet momma welcomed me home with a warm, freshly-baked pound cake at the start of my Spring Break a few weeks ago. What I would give to have a piece of that now…

  149. We celebrated Tuesday.

  150. I am not a cake person, BUT I adore cheesepie & cupcakes. So, my future-sister-in-law (yes, that’s a mouthful!) came to visit just 2 weekends ago I made my Grandma’s (or you know Eagle Brands) cheesepie recipe with cherries on top. Then, we went to my FAV little cupcake place (Sweet Reasons Cupcakes) and got a dozen wonderfully flavored gems like red velvet, not-so-plain vanilla, salted caramel & I melted & fattened up all weekend long! I love it!

  151. I love cake. I could eat cake every day. If I had pretty stands, I would have cake every day! But the last time I made cake – was actually stout/bailey’s cupcakes for a friend’s St. Patty’s day birthday.

  152. I’m pretty sure comment 6045 is the charm ;)

  153. A church function last thursday. Ice cream cake. It’s warm here in LA. :)

  154. For my brothers birthday this week! I love cake I have it about once a week anyway………. shhhh don’t tell my trainer!

  155. This past December is the last time I made a cake for my sister-in-law’s baby shower. It was super cute….and I made other desserts to match the cake!

  156. My twins’ birthday in February!!

  157. Last time I baked a cake was because I had a sweet tooth craving so i tried the 14 layer cake! It was fun to make and so delicious!!!!

  158. i don’t need an occasion to celebrate with cake… especially when it’s on a pretty pedestal. :)

  159. Oh. My. Goodness. I am in love!! I want to start a cake stand collection so so badly! And I would so frame that pic to go in my dining room. Think she would be up for selling prints? haha :) The last occasion I made a cake for was when my husband got back in town. He was gone for a week on a mission trip (we’ve been married 9 months-scary, enough time to have a baby! ha. so that’s the longest we’ve been apart) so I surprised him with a homemade King Cake :) I baked all day and he loved it. And there’s my life story for you-so long! sorry. cake just excites me. Thanks for the giveaway! Crossing my fingers!

  160. A baby shower two weeks ago! A 14 inch double layer chocolate cake with buttercream frosting from my favorite bakery!

  161. We celebrated just this last weekend. . .my best friend’s son’s birthday, my mom’s birthday and my cousin’s wedding. It was a lot of cake, but we did it! :)

  162. A St. Patty’s Day celebration a couple of weeks ago!

  163. My daughter-in-law’s birthday!

  164. I had cake on Saturday for my sister’s birthday! Yumm!

  165. I think the last cake I made was for my son’s birthday. They requested the 12/14-layer cake that I first saw here on your site. They still talk about it :)

  166. The last event I celebrated with cake was my youngest sister’s first visit to California. We made an orange yogurt cake, and it was fab!

  167. my wedding cake. 3 tier home made cake out of sweet rice.

  168. …sorry i forgot to add my occasion in my first comment:) i ate cake this morning after breakfast ! cause i’m traying to open my own bakery and i bake everday for exercise:)

  169. Last month – my twins birthday was celebrated with a target cake for the nerf gun party and a pretty white ruffly cake for the hotel overnight party. Love those pedestals!!

  170. I made pretty blue cupcakes for a neighbor’s baby shower last Friday! Vanilla cupcakes with raspberry filling….yummm!!

  171. Last weekend I celebrated the weekend with PW’s chocolate sheet cake. Yum!
    These cakestands look awesome! So cute!

  172. This past Friday for my son’s 8th birthday!

  173. My mother-in-law’s bday!

  174. I made a 12 layer cake…found on your blog!! Loved it!!

  175. I want it! ME! ME!

  176. The last time we had cake was for my daughter’s 1st birthday party in January.

  177. The last event I celebrated with cake was my husband’s birthday on the 18th.

  178. My birthday…March 3rd.

  179. We’ve been enjoying cake all week that we bought at an auction at church to raise funds for a mission trip. Super yummy!

  180. I celebrated a wedding for a wonderful friend with a yummy cake this month!

  181. i baked a cake to celebrate that it was a sunday! ;)

    we try to come up with things to celebrate so we can bake.

  182. Today! It’s my husband’s birthday and I have baked him the ‘perfect chocolate cake’ ! 3 layers of chocolate cake with whipped cream filling and rich, fudgy chocolate frosting.

  183. i try to celebrate with cake at least once a week.

    unfortunately my jeans won’t allow me to do that.

    the last cake was to celebrate me being home early from work, spending time with my dogs, and having the spare time to dig out my grandma’s peanut butter tandy cake recipe. yum.

  184. The last day we celebrated with cake was on my nephews 13th Birthday… i made him a basketball cake… with basketball pops

  185. JANUARY 30TH MY HUSBANDS B-DAY. I LOVE CAKE STANDS, CAN’T AFFORD THE FANCY ONES, I HAVE A FEW I HAVE PICKED UP AT YARD SALES, AND ONE OF MY MOMS. I WOULD SO LOVE TO DECORATE WITH THEM. I’M GOING TO THINK POSITIVE AND BELIEVE I HAVE WON THEM. I HAVE YOU BOOK ON MY COUNTER, AND I’M STILL PRAYING FOR YOU, HOPE YOUR MOM IS A DONOR FOR YOU~BLESSINGS

  186. We celebrated my sweet niece Caley’s birthday on Saturday!!

  187. My boyfriend’s birthday a few weeks ago. And tomorrow I am making a cake for my roommate’s birthday.

  188. My son’s 6th birthday on March 15th!

  189. My mom recently visited from out of town and I made the Easy Apple Cake from this site (which was DELISH by the way)!

  190. Would you just look at how beautiful those are! I can just picture my grandmother’s red velvet displayed proudly on a cake stand quite similar to those! Lovely!

  191. I hope you are feeling better! I just celebrated a co-worker’s birthday today with cake! What a coincidence :)

  192. We last celebrated my daughter’s b-day with 4 different flavors of cupcakes and a pineapple upside down cake. Yum!

  193. We celebrated St. Patrick’s day with rainbow layers of cake!

  194. The last time I made a cake was last friday with my mother-in-law and it was just because we wanted to. We made a chocolate cake and dropped balls of raw chocolate chip cookie dough into the batter before baking it…..Yummy! We were making it for my husband and needless to say, he LOVED it! I’m also fixing to bake a cake for some friends who are moving away in a couple weeks :(. We all need something sweet to cheer us up, right?

  195. Granddaughter’s birthday!!

  196. Wow! These are awesome! Last cake make was for my co-workers. I like to spoil them occasionally.

  197. My nephew’s 4th birthday this past Saturday!

  198. We had cake this past saturday for my sister in laws baby shower.

  199. Hi Bakerella and Melody!
    I last celebrated with a cake yesterday, when I made an extra special white chocolate mud cake for my best friend’s husband – as a garden! He loves his digging…so it had a teeny tiny veg patch ;) Hope to win…xx

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