Baking Inspiration: Disney/Pixar Toy Story Cakes

The hubby and I were watching The Pixar Story on Netflix the other night and I began to thinker with the idea of making another Pixar inspired cake like the one I did here.  One of my favorite movies from the Disney/Pixar collaboration is Toy Story. Just in case you were wondering I love all of three movies equally.  I don't have plans on making a cake any time soon since its so hot right now but how cool would it be to make one for a little boy or girl.

Here's the list I came up with so far...

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My attempt at a Disney/Pixar Car's Cake

Without further ado here is my first attempt at a themed cake.  I am really pleased with how it turned out and more importantly the birthday boy loved it.  I completely forgot to take a better photo of the cake once it was assembled since I was rushing to make cupcakes right before we left.  Next time I'll take the time to put more effort into my photos. 

Brown Sugar Pound Cake...(Cake 2)

So I'm sure you realize that its the 2nd pound cake that I made.  When I made this cake my hubby exclaimed this is the best cake you've ever made and I just smiled.  This cake I decided to make this cake for my hubby and his co-workers.  I knew it was going to be a stressful week for them and since I try to bake for them something at least once every two months I figured it was about that time. 

Things new to me:

shortening

What I learned from this recipe:

Making Cream Cheese frosting is not that difficult

My oven temperature is on target

My mom has cooked or more liked baked with shortening but since I hadn't done that before I'll stick it under things new to me.

Since I had previously learned that being patient is a good thing when baking I put my new skill to the test.  Since I began my little adventure I haven't opened the oven once but I did set the timer for a shorter amount of time for some reason I thought it was faster.  This cake was a tad underdone but I'm glad that I now know the truth about my oven.

I made the Cream Cheese Frosting Melissa (okay so we are not on a first name basis but since I figure I'll probably never meet her its cool) and I'm glad I did because it was delicious. It gave the pound cake a little something it needed. 

So what did my hubby's co-workers think about this pound cake? Well, let's just say that people who normally don't have meeting around his desk were doing it that day. I personally didn't think it was as amazing as my hubby thought but maybe that's because I'm not really into brown sugar and he is. 

Let them have cake...?

We have decided to go the unconventional route of not having a cake for our wedding although I do not know how most our guest are going to react to this. Since I love sweets it does not make sense not to have cake but we have opted for cheesecake instead. If we were to have cake though these cakes would be what we would be looking for.

Pink Cake Box

Pink Cake Box

Martha Stewart Weddings

Pink Sugar Desserts

The Knot

Project Wedding

Project Wedding