Somewhere over the rainbow

The same lady who ordered the flower cake, ordered this for her daughters. They wanted rainbows and flowers, basically something very fun, yet still girlie. This is my take on it, done with very little sleep, as the order came right in the middle of Folklorama week. They apparently loved it.

Flower Power!

Tonight I made a birthday cake for the daughter of a lady my mom works with. She was very easy going on what she wanted. Basically, chocolate and flowers. Easy peasy! This is what I came up with:


The 10" cake is devils' food, with chocolate buttercream icing, covered in fondant. The cupcakes are chocolate, with chocolate mousse filling, buttercream icing swirl and a royal icing flower on top.

Hope the birthday girl likes it!!

Happy 7th Birthday Erica!

Finally! We celebrated Erica's birthday last weekend, and her request was for a white & black zebra striped cake with orange polka dots. She loved it! The cake was vanilla with a vanilla pudding filling, then covered in fondant. It was pretty fun to make for such a simple design.



Happy Birthday Erica!! Have fun being 7!!

Canada Day & surprise cake

First came the surprise birthday cake. Little background on this; I absolutely HATE when people get let down on their bdays. I've had it happen numerous times, so I really know how it feels to have people either a)forget your bday or b) not show up to your party. In this case it was option A. My art booth buddy next to our cart at St Vital was pretty upset last week that no one, even her family remembered her bday (except for her most recent ex) and she was pretty upset about it. So the next day (cuz I didn't have a clue until 9 that night, and it was a little late to do an ything about it) I brought her a cake to cheer her up and hopefully redeem some portion of her bday.


Then, came the Canada Day cupcakes. Basically Kevin & I pigged out on the cupcakes cuz no one else showed up. Sorry you missed it!!

Mom's retirement cake

This cake is now known as "The Beast". It's the biggest cake I've ever made, and definatly the most time intensive one, for sure. When I was making it, Aryanna said to my mom, "You know, it doesn't matter how long it took Mommy to make, as long as it looks good and tastes good". Thanks kid, I'll remember that. Anyhoos, here is The Beast. Everything was iced with vanilla buttercream icing. The bottom tier is chocolate fudge cake, with chocolate buttercream filling. The middle tier is vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream filling. The top tier is lemon cake with vanilla buttercream filling. Hopefully we're going to have enough cake tomorrow!
I also tallied up a few things.
108 buttercream roses
161 buttercream swirl flowers (made, but not all used... they kept breaking)
5.5 kg icing sugar
11 batches of icing made (total 44 cups)
24 eggs
30 cups total of cake batter (16 chocolate, 10 vanilla, 4 lemon)
Total time worked on this cake: 10 hours

Happy 9th Birthday Aryanna!!

It's Aryanna's 9th birthday party today!! My gosh, time flies!! since she's getting (and has already received) paint supplies, brushes and canvas, I decided to make her a painter's palette cake. It turned out not too bad, except my paint pots aren't exactly how I hoped they'd turn out, but not too bad nonetheless. Also, I'm noticing now (after the fact) that my fondant writing needs huge amounts of practice. Not too bad for starting the cake shortly after midnight and finishing around 2:30 am. Am I insane or what?



Happy birthday kiddo!!

Happy Easter!!

I was asked to make a combination Easter, birthday & anniversary cake. I decided to go with pastel colors for easter, but it's still pretty elegant and nice for birthday and anniversary. It took a little while to get into the groove of making the roses, but in the end I got it all done, and I think it looks great!