Fall Wedding Cake

What an honour it was to get a request for a wedding cake from doing a bridal shower cake! I was so excited to work on this simple, but beautiful cake. The layers were marble with chocolate buttercream, red velvet with a cream cheese icing and white chocolate with a raspberry buttercream filling. I enjoyed doing this cake but found it a bit stressful as I know how important brides want every little detail to be on their wedding day. Overall, it turned out as I hoped it would, to God be the glory. Hope you enjoy it!

Christmas Decorating

Well since we are in the process of looking for a house, we have no Christmas decorations up yet :( Sooo I had to decorate something, and this blog is what gets it! Sorry to all of those who just can't get in the spirit this early. I just looooovvve Christmas time, and I want to enjoy it as much as possible this year! Love you all and Merry early Christmas! May the real reason for this season fill your hearts with joy "for unto us a child is born" - what a celebration that is!

Jungle Theme Shower

What a joy it was to do this cake! Again I was given free range to do whatever and I decided to follow the cute pattern that they had chosen for the theme of their nursery. It was a jungle themed crib set with the cutest little animals on it. I just had to re-create them!

So away we went. David also help with the assembling of the cake and cutting out MANY circles, of which I didn't use even a quarter of (thanks love!). Overall I was very pleased with the cake and heard already that it was a big hit at the shower!

Here was the final product!

A picture of the turtle, zebra (my favourite - I liked his mohawk!) and monkey.

The elephant and giraffe.

The giraffe and parrot.

Project of all projects!

This was quite the undertaking! We had an order from a bride for 170 caramel apples for her wedding favours. It took many hands, and many hours, but we all worked together to get this big order together on time! We used Empire apples, which were picked that week down the road from us. We did learn though, that you shouldn't cover your apples all the way to the stick, because air escapes from here and can cause bubbles in your caramel. We made extras and were able to taste them, and loved them! Caramel apples are one of my favourites, especially when they are drizzled in chocolate as well! mmmm!

Step 1: Get all of your supplies together and ready to go before starting. (this is key!)

Step 2: Wash, dry and prepare the apples. (Great job Mrs. C!)

Step 3: Caramelize! or Dunk your apples in the warm caramel, swirl and place on parchment paper to set. (My Mom's preferred job)

Step 4: Drizzle or decorate with your favourite toppings. (Thanks neighbour for helping decorate!)

Step 5: Eat and enjoy!

Birthday Cupcakes

I had an order for a sweet little girl's 4th birthday in October. I was given free range of what to do and decided to run with the girl theme and put pretty little butterflies on the cupcakes, as well as #4's. All, of course, done in pinks and purples. Even the insides of these cupcakes were swirled with colour. I hope she enjoyed them as much as I enjoyed making them.

Thanksgiving!

Well, it has been quite a while since I have been on here with any updates, so I'll post a few while I'm on here!

We were quite busy over the Thanksgiving weekend, with lots of treats to make and work and get togethers. Here was one of the orders that I worked on for the weekend - cake truffle turkeys! They ended up really cute, and oh so yummy. There is also a picture in here of pumpkin cake truffles. These were a bit more simple to make, but still gave every plate a fall feeling! Enjoy the pics!

These were a trial run of something to come!

Engagement!

Happy Engagement Nikki and Aaron!

Our little kindergarten sweethearts (that's where they met), are now engaged to be married next year! They were thrown a party this weekend and I was able to make a cake for them. It had cute little baby blocks on it (significant of the kindergarten sweethearts), and was a butter cream cake inside - except for the blocks, they were rice krispies!

I hope they had a wonderful time celebrating!

Love you guys!

Dad's Birthday!

It was my dad's birthday this past week and I took the opportunity to make a cheeseburger cake! (for one of his favourite artists' songs "Cheeseburger in Paradise" by Jimmy Buffet). It was very suiting to him. My son enjoyed eating the "french fries" once he heard us call them cookies! And the hamburger was just white and chocolate cake, decorated with a mixture of buttercream and fondant dressings. We also had to throw in some "sand" since the song is cheese burger in "paradise"! We really enjoyed making this cake, and also enjoyed eating one of our creations for once!

Christmas time 's a comin'!

We were super busy this weekend and one of our other late nights included these cute little reindeer! Oh they were a lot of fun to make, and so yummy to eat! They were made with chocolate cake truffles. I just wanted to put out a friendly reminder that Christmas time IS coming, only 12 weeks away (I can count it, that is when baby #2 is due!). I will be making orders up until the 12th of December, so if you want Christmas sweets, book now!
These cute little friends can be made in any variety of flavours that you like. I dreamt of candy cane flavoured cake last night, so that might be a festive option! Enjoy the pics! (oh and I can't take complete credit for these, Bakerella has the best ideas!) - Thanks Cutie Pie Bakery for filling me in on this!

Transformers, more than meets the eye

Birthday time again, and even though a transformers theme would seem fitting for my husband, it wasn't for his birthday (although it made for a good excuse to watch the movie...again)!

We made a transformers cake for a 4 year old's birthday party. Equipped with an Autobot and Decepticon symbol, and even some "pez robots" to finish off the cake.

It was fun to do, and I think my husband was impressed as well!

Piece of Cake!

I'm unsure if I posted a picture of my brother's girlfriend's "Martini" 19th Birthday cake earlier, but I never was able to put up a picture of the INSIDE of the cake.

This picture comes to you courtesy of her family who attended the birthday party!

Thanks guys! Anything that looks good, tastes that much better!

And I think her face says it all.

50th Birthday

I also had the opportunity to make a 50th birthday cake this weekend for a friend of our family. One number was a chocolate cake and the other was a vanilla cake. The colours were to match the napkins that they had. I hope they had a wonderful time celebrating this monumental birthday of his!

Cupcake Bouquet

This weekend I got the chance to try my hand at a cupcake bouquet!

I was very thankful for some helpful hints that I found online, like placing a gumdrop under the base of the cupcake for support!

Overall I was pretty happy with the way it turned out and I would definately do it again. Everyone loved it and I got my best compliment from my cousin who used to work in a floral shop saying "I thought you were carrying in a real bouquet of flowers!". Thanks for all of your compliments!

The first picture is of the future bride and her cupcakes!

Wedding!

I had my first wedding this weekend, and I think it was a success!

I had to call in some hired help, since I was working this week, and they did amazing.

This was not your traditional wedding cake, but she just wanted some cake to be served later in the night.

Motorcycles are something that they both enjoy so I made 2 more motorcycle cakes for their wedding. These were lemon poppyseed and a carrot cake, both with cream cheese frosting. The other sheet cakes were marble cake, with a vanilla custard filling, covered in buttercream, chocolate ganache and fresh fruit.

I think the chocolate ganache was my favourite part, although the vanilla custard was pretty good too,... good thing we have 10 pounds of it left! - we made a little too much.

Well enjoy this beautiful week! On to cookie class this week and a bridal shower cake for next weekend.

Birthday cakes

Here are the other 2 orders that I had this weekend. I had a birthday cake to make for our trustee travel agent Mike! So of course we made a world with an airplane on it. I had a lot of fun making this cake, including a pilot in the jet! (sorry I forgot to take a picture of this!). And Miss "Cutie Pie Bakery", your chocolate buttercream was a big hit, and I'm also addicted!

The other cake was a bit more difficult, as I needed height but didn't have a good base. It was difficult but we made the best of it and gave the Tim Horton's coffee cup a "spill" look. I think it still would have tasted good, regardless!

Engagement cake

I had 3 orders this weekend! Yea! And one of them was an engagement cake for good friends of ours. Her colours are aubergene and ivory, and she also likes calla lilies, so I got to try my hand at gumpaste lilies. It was fun. I hope they had a wonderful weekend getting to know the family.

Cupcakes

These were two separate orders of cupcakes. I made just a simple chocolate and vanilla cupcake for both orders. The top ones have a chocolate buttercream on the vanilla cupcakes and a vanilla buttercream on the chocolate cupcakes. The bottom ones were made for our family bar-b-q. Corn on the cob, straight out of the "Hello Cupcake" cookbook. They have so many cute and fun ideas! I just had to try making one.

Fall Bridal Shower

I had the opportunity to do another bridal shower.
This one included a sweet cake and some matching cookies.
I love doing the matching cookies and cupcakes!
Enjoy the shots!