Holiday Cupcakes

Challenge: Girl Scouts were going carolling and needed a sweet treat to celebrate the season and their generosity of time and talents entertaining community members.




Kayla's Solution: Kayla used the Internet to research fun & cute holiday cupcake ideas and created Funfetti cupcakes with reindeer and snowmen wearing Santa's hats. Of course, m&ms make everyone happy, so she used m&ms & pretzels to adorn her designs.

3-D Sports Ball Cakes

3-D Sports Ball Cakes

Challenge: Sports-themed birthday party. Birthday Boy Lucas wanted a cake depicting his three favorite sports: baseball, soccer and basketball. The cakes also needed to be nut-free.

Kayla's Solution: three 3-D sphere layer cakes decorated as a soccer ball, a baseball, and a basketball. Each nut-free and a different flavor: chocolate, yellow & Funfetti.

Client's Response: "Lucas's cakes were fabulous, and added a nice touch to his birthday. They looked amazing and tasted great!! I would not hesitate to order from Kayla's Cookies and Crumbs in the future!"

Tinkerbell Chocolate Chip Cookie Cakes

Challenge: Kayla's client was having a Tinkerbell Birthday party with a lot of enthusiastic 8 & 9 year olds. Birthday girl (with the great first name of Kayla!) wanted a chocolate chip cookie cake with lots & lots of frosting.

Kayla's solution: A layered chocolate chip cookie cake with milk chocolate frosting sandwiched between the layers and an image of Tinkerbell on top + a second cake to be sure there was enough for everybody including Birthday Girl Kayla's family!

Client's response: Birthday Girl Kayla was so excited and LOVED her cakes!!!

Follow-up: Yumminess factor lead to another order of a Chocolate Chip Cookie cake from a neighbor who saw the baker in action.

50th Anniversary Cake for Mr. & Mrs. Marshall

Challenge: Create a cake for a small & intimate 50th anniversary luncheon. The couples loves the mountains and their favorite color is blue. Be creative - make it like a wedding cake or whatever she wants.

Kayla's Solution: Kayla worked with the couple's granddaughter to determine the design. She baked a 2-layer marble cake with "wedding white" frosting. Snow-tipped mountains appear around the edges of the cake. The top is adorned with "50" in blue with pretty white & blue hand made roses.

Client's Reaction: Their granddaugther Katelyn reports that "Wow! Kayla the cake is great. They love it."

Turkey Pumpkin Pies

Kayla found these in a magazine and decided right away they'd be part of our Thanksgiving

2008 meals. Homemade individual-sized pumpkin pies with Nutter Butters, walnuts & icing. Cute & yummy!

Go, Diego, Go! Cake
















White cake with Diego graphic for Zofia's 4th birthday -- happy birthday Zofia!!!


Kayla located the graphic on the Internet, transferred the image to the cake using piping gel, and decorated with character colors.

The Review: "We had a great party and Zofia loved the cake! [Her big sister] loved it even more and snuck three pieces!!! Thanks to Kayla again! I am sharing her website with others!! I thought everything was spot on. I thought the design was great - cake was moist - icing wasn't too sweet...it was great!"

Peanut Butter Chocolate Fudge Cake

Customer's Challenge: "The flavor is what is important. A regular round layer cake would be great. He loves chocolate combined with peanut butter. "

Kayla's Solution: Peanut Butter layer cake with crunchy peanut butter & chocolate filling, milk chocolate frosting topped with chocolate chips, crushed peanut butter cups and drizzled with chocolate peanut butter.

The Review: "The cake was fabulous. It was the perfect blend of peanut butter and chocolate, and the perfect amount of sweetness!! Our neighbor also had a piece and she called me to say how wonderful it was. Thanks so much! "

"Bubbles, Bears & Books"

These two quarter-sheet cakes were made for an annual Girl Scout event in honor of Juliette Gordon Lowe's birthday (the founder of GS.) The activity is called "Bubbles, Bears & Books;" hence the bubbles and bears!

One cake is chocolate, the other is yellow, and both were nut-free.

The event coordinator said: "it was definitely the hit of the day. Everyone was talking about how adorable and professional it was and of course it was mighty tasty."

Beach Sunset Cake

Nov 8 I made this for one of my Mom's friends birthday. Here's what she had to say:

The Review: "The cake was AWESOME!!! Everyone loves it!!! It is a very big hit and I am sure she will have lots of new customers!! It was beautiful and tasted absolutely great!!! Thank you so much for the personal touch!!"

It's an image of a sunset on the beach. It is a double layer Devil's Food cake Duncan Hines mix with chocolate icing in the middle. The sand was made out of graham cracker crumbs.

Sock Hop


"Polka Dots & Music Notes" for middle school sock hop, November 2008.

1/4-sheet marble cake (yellow cake with cocoa swirl)

Assorted cupcakes for class party, October 2008. Pumpkins, spider webs w/candy spiders, and autumn-themed decorations.

Castle cake decorated for Knights & Princesses Birthday party, October 2008.

Drama Masks Cake / Comedy & Tragedy

Quarter-sheet marble cake with black icing & comedy / tragedy drama masks. Happy birthday Tori!

The Review: A TV reporter at the event was so impressed that he mentioned the cake and Kayla in a news report! One of the party-goers had several pieces because he thought it was so good -- and he doesn't normally eat cake (even for his own birthday!!!)

Octopus cake, created August 2008 using a Williams-Sonoma cake pan and lots of creativity!

"Kayla in the Kitchen." Kayla making homemade pizzas for everyone while on vacation at Bethany Beach, DE, summer 2008.

"Rainbow Cake" made at Wilton class complete with flower rainbow, puffy clouds and a blue (yes...blue) penguin. Cake is confetti yellow layer cake.

Large (and yummy) chocolate chip cookie with sea life motif decorations.

First cake decorating class. French vanilla cake with basketweave & flowers.