Here's some pictures of cakes we did for a cake auction (for Gospel Echoes Prison Ministry) earlier this month (just a little part of their benefit auction weekend). I helped each of the kids with their cakes (Darwin did most of his on his own), but i tried to give them the fun of doing as much of the decorating on their own as possible. I was very pleased with their work, and altogether their cakes brought in about $100 for the ministry (a bit over $100 i think).

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First one is Reagan with his snowman cake. This one was so easy to make for how nicely it turned out!

Janique was determined to do a "horse" cake. The day before doing the cakes, we still hadn't found exactly what we were looking for in toys, so we decided to build the fence with pretzels and royal icing (the stuff you use for gingerbread houses) and just go with toy horses. The fence totally "made" the cake... but it took a few attempts to get it holding together. I made a few extra fences to replace the ones that broke... and it all worked out ok.
Darwin's is pretty self-explanatory ~ smarties were the best candy we found with all the colors (well, for blue, indigo and violet we settled for blue and purple). Clouds are marshmallos. We hadn't thought ahead to make sure the frosting we bought was true WHITE so it was hard to get a "blue" sky (did you know when you add blue food color to "vanilla" frosting, it goes green?? lol).
Brenden's cake was fairly basic too, but the fruit/yogurt roll-up things (can't remember what they are called) were so soft and sticky that it was quite a chore making the bow. Otherwise it was easy to do. The candies are rainbow chocolate chips ~ they are great for smartie/monster cookies too (don't break up the cookies like the big smarties do).