Frills for Mom!

This year marked a milestone birthday for my Mom and so it was celebrated with one of her favourite things...chocolate!  A chocolate buffet was featured at her party and this cake was featured on the buffet table!  Surprisingly, this cake is not all chocolate!  The bottom tier is chocolate with chocolate buttercream filling, while the top is lemon with raspberry filling.  I've been wanting to try this frill technique for awhile and thought Mom's birthday party would be as good a time as any to experiment!  Since the colour theme of the party was pink and black, it made sense to do the cake in graduated shades of pink.  It was topped with a simple black flower!

The chocolate buffet!

Happy Birthday Mom!!!
xo

 

M.I.C.K.E.Y...M.O.U.S.E.!!!

 This was another cake which I was completely honoured to make!  A very special little fellow was celebrating his very first birthday and Mickey Mouse was the winner for choice of cake!!!  I found a clip art image of Mickey and used it as a stencil to hand cut the image out of fondant for the cake.

 I then added fondant letters with the birthday greeting, a fondant #1 and black and red fondant ball trim to finish it off!  The cake was half cookies and cream and half chocolate!

Joshua's Mommy and Daddy - thanks for giving me the honour of making his first birthday cake!

xoxoxo



Luau!!!

Wow, it's been far too long since I've posted anything; life's been a bit on the crazy side but it's time to bring this blog up to date!  This cake was made back in June for 10 year old Laura's Luau themed birthday party.  It was a fun little one to make, with it's vibrantly coloured flowers and cute little flip flops!  What a great way to kick off summer!!!

Wedding Sampler

This is a simple tasting sampler for a September wedding.  The bottom is chocolate with raspberry filling, the middle is vanilla buttermilk with toasted pecan and coconut filling and the top is a lemon with vanilla buttercream filling.  It looks like those are the flavours they'll be going for when they say "I do" in September!

Whimsical Cat!

I was happy to work with a favourite customer again to make this fun little cake for her daughter's 6th birthday!  I was asked to make a pink kitty with white polka dots.  Thought this was fun style but I couldn't believe the trouble I had with getting the head correct. It originally started out as a cake carved into the head but ended up as a large ball of fondant stuck very carefully onto the body!  I was happy to hear that the brother of the birthday girl is crazy about fondant and would have no trouble partaking in the fondant cat head!

A Birthday Girl's Favourite Things!

This was a fun cake to make and was one of those ones I love where I'm given several ideas about what the person of honour likes and I am given free reign to be creative!  This was made for the 80th birthday of a former nurse who loves to travel the world, enjoys a good cup of tea, a good book and, most importantly, the company of her family!

This cake was huge and was completely edible, from the buckles on the suitcase to the teacup sitting on top of the books.  Actually, the teacup was palatable but I wouldn't recommend eating it, as it was made from gum paste, rather than fondant, so that it would hold it's shape.  I managed to get the teacup quite thin so that it resembled china and I finished it off my painting gold around the rim, handle and base and a purple "80" on the front.  I was happy to hear that the guest of honour kept the teacup as a memento of her birthday celebration!

Vibrant Ladybugs!

What can I say, I love these!!!  I love polka dots, this green colour, and I've been wanting to incorporate lady bugs into something, so here it is!  These are mini cupcakes that I made to use up a little extra cake batter I had.  Once again, I was just playing around but wanted to make something that would really pop and thought a nice vibrant green topped with a little something red would work.  Rather than doing the typical flower (not that I have a problem with that, I happen to love making little flowers), I decided on these!  Love love love!!!