Fuzzy Grey Mouse Cake DIY

Get your squeak on (Lyndsay? Is that even a saying at ALL?) with this cutie pie grey mouse cake DIY! I think this mouse cake would be best served with a sideboard of cheese. Yes, a sideboard. Not a stingy little wooden board, guys. We need mountains of cheese.

I wasn't born with an obsessive love of cheese like my husband was - my mom was a fan of slicing huge blocks of orange cheddar and placing those in our sandwiches along with lettuce and black forest ham. I knew cheddar, brie and havarti. Not until I married my cheese mongering husband did I learn how vast and truly WONDERFUL the world of cheese is! Gouda, gruyere, raclette - I love a good cheese party. So yes, I would highly recommend a mouse and cheese themed birthday party. It just seems right.

As for the dessert - scurry on over to Handmade Charlotte for how to make a fuzzy mouse cake!

xo Lyndsay

Eeks! Pink Heart Mouse Cake + Spell Your Cupcakes Love

I think my brain is programmed to see shapes as potential animal face cakes. I guess animal face cakes are kind of my delightful little cakey obsession. Not a terrible thing to be obsessed with - better than crystal meth or eating slugs, right? So when I finally bought myself one of those heart shaped cake pans in preparation for some Valentines heart-caked DIY insanity, I immediately saw two giant mouse ears and BLAMMO this kind of adorable pink heart mouse cake came to mind. Check out the whole squeaky clean DIY over at Handmade Charlotte!  

Feeling too absurdly lazy to want to procure a heart shaped cake pan and do all of that jazzy mousey piping? Here's a super simple heart-day idea: spell out some cute and non creepy greeting with delicious little mini cupcakes. If the apple of your eye doesn't think this is the cutest display of niceness and let's-get-to-know-each-other romance ever, then you should run the other way because only crazy people don't like cake! Also: old marrieds like myself can get a little jolt of romance from this kind of thing too. Everyone wins!

Ideas of things you can spell with mini cupcakes: 

1. YOU'RE MY LADY
2. HOPE YOU LIKE MINI CUPCAKES
3. HOW COOL AM I THAT I MADE YOU THIS NICE TREAT? LET'S GO OUT
4. YOU'RE ATTRACTIVE TO ME
5. HELLO, KITTY!
6. RAOWR! (this is if you're feeling extra feisty)
7. HI
8. LOVE YOU TO THE CORNER STORE AND BACK x INFINITY 
9. WE'VE BEEN MARRIED FOR 14 YEARS BUT YOU'RE STILL CUTE, BALD AND ALL
10. MON PETIT CHERI 

I chose "hi" because it's pleasantly innocuous and it let's the ruffly minis do the talking, ya know? But feel free to go wild. 

xo Lyndsay 

Where My Beret At?

Bonjour! Je m'apelle Lyndsay! Je suis une femme qui habite a Vancouver, Columbie Britanique. J'aime parler en Francais, mais malheureusement, je ne parle pas tres bien. Mais, j'essaye! Ici, il y'a une collection de petite souris. Attendez! Les petites souris sont CUPCAKES!!! 

Okay. That was hard, and if someone who actually reads and speaks French reads that, it would probably sound like this: "Hello! I am Lyndsay. I am a woman who live in Vancouver, British Columbia. I like speak in French, but unfortunately, I can't speak very well. But, I try! Here is a collection of little mouses. Wait! The little mouses are CUPCAKES!!!" 

Yes-- it's true! I did a "French Mouse" turquoise and orange colour-themed baby shower, with little Lemon Love (lemon cake with creamcheese frosting, and fondant) mouse cupcakes wearing berets in turquoise and orange, and a crazy blue fondant covered chocolate ganache dark chocolate cake featuring an artist mouse, a paint palette, and pretty roses. When I was putting the faces on my little Frenchie mouse friends I would give them names. "Your name is Jean Pierre. And you, you are my little friend Guy LaRoche. Et vous, vous etes Jean Jean! I love you, Jean Jean!!!" 

Mais oui! C'est belle! C'est formidable! Et moi, je suis tres, tres, tres fatiguee...!!

A bientot,

LKS