Welcome 2011

The holidays are now over and life has gone back to normal.  My family and I had a wonderful holiday season filled with lots of love and laughter!  We've been really getting into board games as all three of our children can play now.  Even though Aidan is only 3, he is quite good at Jenga or as he calls it Jinga! lol.  It's a great game that  doesn't last too long and kids loose the patience to finish, but can be played over and over again in whatever time frame we choose. 

I had one more cake from December I didn't post, I was waiting for the pics from the fabulous Heather Duperron of Pixel Pie Photography.  She ordered this cake as part of a surprise birthday celebration for her husband.  She surprised him with a 10day guided trip moose hunting in the Yukon!  What husband wouldn't love that!!  I was so pleased she chose me to help with her party.  The cake was fun to make...I am not a fan of making manly cakes, even though I am getting more and more orders for cakes for men lately.  I struggled getting the moose horns to stay on and am happy they stayed put even with the 2 hour drive to the city.  The cake was a chocolate cake with a caramel filling.  First time trying out caramel.

"The caramel was good! It actually tasted like a maple fudge more than a caramel but we really liked it. I think it was the texture or the thickness that made it 'fudge' like. But the cake was really delicious!! It never lasted long!"

"You rock! Seriously! Wowzers!!! I'll send you some pics soon but you amaze me. Glen was really impressed and so surprised! Thank you so much for making this extra special with your fantastic talents!! :)"

Toy Story 3 Cake.  I have got to watch this movie!!  It seems to be a favorite among many kids.  This little guy loved the aliens from the movie, so we focused on them.  The cake was french vanilla.  I am getting a bit better at my figurine creations, they are still a bit dry looking, but I am slowly figuring this out.  I really love the look of the cake even though my pics don't show that the top tier was much lighter than the bottom, oh well... one day I will learn some photography skills.

Steelers Cake. I am not really a sports fan, actually I am not a sports fan at all! When I got the e-mail to make this cake I had to google Steelers. I had not a clue who this team was or what kind of sport they played! lol  For some reason I can't get the other picture to post properly on here.  The side of the cake said Steelers in black fondant. 

"Holly loved the cake.Thank you for another job well done."

 

Stanley Cup cake for wonderful 9 year old twin girls.  They are such hockey fans and their mom thought this would be a great finish to the party!  The cake was made partly from rice krispies treats.  Alot of silver painting went into this one.  It was a fun and quite easy cake to make!

"The twins loved it so did I !!!!!!!!! Thank you! "

This cake came along when I was having a very difficult week!  Thank goodness it was for a friend of mine who understood what I was going though and we changed the look of the cake.  Initially I wanted the cake to look like the toy that is on top of this one.  Since last year I did his Buzz Lightyear car and it turned out great, I thought why not try again this year!   The Battle Force 5 cake with Captain Kalus' car on top was a success as he did not know what his cake was going to look like.  It was actually nice to make a buttercream only cake, but I did add fondant for the accents.

Spiderman Cake.  I love the look of this cake!!  The client just told me she wanted a white cake with a wed drawn on it and spiderman's face in the middle.  I thought having the face more of a 2D look instead of flat would make a bigger statement!  It was not a heck of a lot more work and just makes spiderman stand out more without the web taken over him.  I made this cake the morning of the party because my sister and I stayed up until 1:30 in the morning  scrapbooking...I just wasn't in the cakey mood! lol  I attended the party with my three kidlets and got alot of great comments.  I was also referred to as the cake lady by a few women introducing me!  lmao! 

It's Been AWHILE!!!

Well what can I say...life has been busy! I think I use that as my excuse all the time! lol. Not sure how else to explain myself. It's not that I haven't made cakes, I've made MANY!! I really need to get my butt in gear and post all of them. I am very proud of my accomplishments this summer with over ten weddings and numerous birthday and theme cakes, oh and some new adult cakes. I've learned new techniques and tried new tools. It's great to look back and reflect on where I started with cakes, not even having it in mind that I would ever create this many cakes in my life! It all started with my son's 1st birthday cake just under 2 years ago and now I have created over 100 cakes...I should count them one day! :D

I will post a few now and then when I get the chance, which hopefully will be soon, I will post the rest. Thanks for stopping by and checking out my cake creations!! :)

Some of 200 Canada Day Cupcakes made in red velvet and french vanilla for Tartan (an oil company to donate to the Canada Day Celebration up in Conklin.

The picture of this cake is unfinished!  The groom forgot the flowers and I could not make it there the next day to put on the flowers.  The flowers were suppose to be turquoise gerbera daisies, which would've looked awesome on this cake!!  But, the next day the flowers were forgotten about again and they improvised with some small white daisies out of the bride's flower bed.  They did not get a picture of the cake, so this is all I have.  A little disappointing, but whatever.  Anyways...the rubber boot and moccasin I thought were such a cute idea.  I molded these out of fondant.  The rubber boot was to symbolize the groom being from the East Coast and the moccasin to symbolize the bride being of Metis status. 

Unisex Baby Shower Cake.  The client designed the cake.  I have never had such detailed instructions before.  She was very thorough!  I love her ideas though!!

"thanks for the wonderful cake, it was yummy and everyone liked the design. Good job."

Seashell Cupcake Wedding.   Chocolate, Butter Yellow and Carrot Cupcakes with a Carrot Cutting Cake.   I absolutely love the cake topper.  It is so pretty!! :)

Not my design, but I found it on google and really loved it!  Not sure who to give credit to.  The whole cake was french vanilla and I really enjoyed making this one!

I made this Power Rangers cake the day after we got back from holidays.  To be honest, I actually forgot all about this cake and I had to really rush it.  IT was for a friend, which I am glad!  She still loved it and the birthday boy got a giggle out of it!

"Totally loved the cake!"

I LOVE Littlest Pet Shop!!  I wish they were around when I was 5!!  I made all the cupcake pics out of cardstock and dressed them up with a couple of flowers at the bottom.  A great idea for a kids birthday cake.  The kids can enjoy the cuppies and later on the family can have the cake.

"Zoey so loved her cake!!!! Thanks so much! "

My first experience with a square wedding cake.   I finally got my pans in just in time for this one.  It was a pleasure to make a cake for a friend I hadn't seen or talked to in probably 8 years.   Turns out she doesn't even live that far away either!  I had a chuckle when I saw the cake topper she picked out.  It reminds me of when we were in England together just over 10 years ago.  Fun Times...  The pedestals were a heirloom passed down from a few generations and I am glad we could fit them into the design she wanted.   I had never used pedestals before, so I was a bit iffy, but they make the cake look amazing!!

Well, thanks for being patient with me.  I will post some more later on.  Thanks!!