Simple Anniversary cake

One of the new girls at the St Vital store asked me to make a simple cake for her parent's anniversary. It's a marble cake, filled with pudding, and covered only in buttercream.

Tara's Birthday cake

I will admit, I've gotten a lot of questionable looks when I told people who I was making this cake for. People are a little surprised that I kinda went all out for my ex-husband's girlfriend's birthday cake. They are having a pig roast out at their place tomorrow, and I was going to bring something anyways, and he asked me if I would make her a cake. Seeing as there might be like 50 people or more, I kinda went big. The bottom tier is vanilla pound cake (a new recipe), with chocolate fudge filling. The middle is devil's food cake with strawberry cream cheese filling (another new recipe). The top is lemon cake, with vanilla filling. It's all covered in fondant, with chocolate fondant branches, and royal icing flowers. So there's a little something for everyone!



Happy Birthday Tara!

Penguin Parade

I made this cake for Megan's birthday. She's a bit of a penguin addict, so I found an idea for the cake and went ahead and pretty much copied it. The penguins were actually pretty easy to make (compared to the last ones I'd attempted). I also didn't have very much time to decorate the cake, cuz I didn't have enough fondant to do it the night before, so basically I had to decorate it as soon as I got home from work, before and a little bit after supper. I still say it turned out pretty good!

Happy Birthday Megan

(even though it's a little early)

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!!