Flour, eggs, sugar and BUTTER!!

Sometimes looking back at my grocery list people who don't know I make alot of cakes, must wonder...  I purchase a lot of flour, eggs, sugar and butter.  I usually get someone to pick up the butter in the city where it is much cheaper and I get them to buy 30lbs at a time.  They must look pretty funny pushing that shopping cart around with all that butter.  lol.  Thanks Steph!!  A 10 lb bag of flour lasts less than a month sometimes and a 10 lb bag of sugar only a few weeks.  For the month of December, I took on only a few cakes at the beginning of the month and then it was break time for me.  I noticed my grocery bill drastically decrease!

Anyways here are the cakes from November and December. Thanks for checking my cakes out!!

Some quick french vanilla cupcakes

1st Birthday Cake with smash cake.  I love how the bow turned out on this one!! Sometimes  I don't make enough ribbons and then they break and I don't have a full enough bow!
"Its was awesome!!!! everyone really enjoyed it, and it didnt last us to long.. lol.. thanks again for making it.. you do an amazing job!!"

 

 The Cranberry Wedding cake belongs here, but I can't seem to get the pictures to stay! lol

Backyardigans Topsy Turvy Cake with fondant/gumpaste figurines.  I had a customer ask for a similar cake like the Toopy and Binoo cake...so I came up with this.  I still struggle with molding the figurines, but hopefully soon I can get them to stay together better and not look so dry.  Any suggestions??

"It looked amazing! thank you so much. I wanted to to call you the second i saw it but i had a million things to do. Everyone loved it. we spent about half an hour staring at the cake and taking pictures before actually cutting into it. Kadegeh really enjoyed the smash cake. She dug in with both hands i'll send you a pic when i transfer them onto the computer. I have to say the french vanilla flavor is unlike anything i've ever tasted... so good that was everyone's favorite. "

Thank you for adding such a special cake to my daughter's special day.

Lego Cake.  Yes, I know none of the blocks are straight, but in defence this was carrot cake with cream cheese icing.  The cream cheese kept softening and the fondant would just slide right off.  I kept putting it in the refrigerator, but this was the best I could do.

"It was perfect. He loved it. Thanks so much :)"

75th Birthday cake for a very deserving woman.  It was an honor to make this cake for Caroline.  She has done so much for so many people!!  She loved the cake and didn't want it cut, so she froze it! I think it's so funny when people do that, but she said she wanted to save it for Christmas!

Princess Cake for a friend of mine.  Check out Ashley's website here.  She is an amazing, accomplished photographer!! 

My baby boy's 3rd birthday.  *tear*  Where has the time gone!  He loves monster trucks, especially grave digger.  Most kids sleep with a teddy bear or doll...not Aidan, he sleeps with his grave digger! lol.  The cake isn't perfect or up to my expectations that's for sure.  I made it the morning of the party in only a few hours, because there was so much more to do.  He still loved it and recognized it as Grave Digger and that's all that matters.  Don't you just love his hat!! lmao! 

Here's the cake that won't co-operate!!  It's staying down here I guess.  This was a Christmas wedding in November.  The decos were very nice, not too Christmasy, but more classic looking.  She really wanted cranberries on the cake, so this worked and she also wanted Poinsettias, but it just made the cake look too crowded.

There are still two more cakes that need posted, but they won't work for me today...maybe I will try later on or tomorrow or knowing me, they will be posted in January! 

Anyways Thanks for looking, and come back in January, I have a busy month!!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

I am so glad I'm done!!

I've never had such a busy weekend for orders!!  It seems there is always one weekend out of every month that everyone seems to want to have their celebration of some sort.  For June it was on the 26th and 27th.  I had so many orders coming in, I had to decline about 4, which I really hate doing, but I'd already committed to far too much.  I had 6 cakes, 6!!  What was I thinking??  And to top everything off I had to go camping with Austin's class on Wednesday,  we brought home Alyvia's new pony and colt and my husband left for a 3 day fishing trip. It was one crazy week!

The weather was very humid which created a lot of problems in my house with the cakes.  Once I laid the fondant over the buttercream the cake instantly began to sweat.  Now, this has never happened to me before and I was very clueless on what to do.  Most of the cakes became super  sticky and gross.   I did eventually set up a fan in the house and it helped  a bit.  On one of the 2-tiers, it was so yucky, when I put the 2nd tier on, everything went down hill.  The bottom tier began to collapse and I had to quickly remove the top tier.  The bottom tier however had to be stripped of the fondant and re-iced (all the lettering was already done too!).  I was just about ready to cry!

All in all, the cakes did get finished with all the hurdles that I was forced to jump.  I've learned to never take on as many cakes as I did.  I became too overwhelmed and frustrated.

25th Anniversary Fishing Cake~french vanilla cake.

65th Birthday Pension Cheque~Red Velvet Cake

25th Anniversary Life Cake~Chocolate

This is the cake that gave me so much grief!  The final product still wasn't up to my expectations, but I couldn't fix it in any way with the time frame I was on.

1st Birthday Square Cake, Cupcakes and Baby Blocks ~ French Vanilla and Banana Chocolate

My first gumpaste rose on the square cake as well as my first time making the baby blocks.  They were really very time consuming!

Transformers 2-tier ~ French Vanilla with custard filling

Bridal Shower~ French Vanilla

not my design, but I loved it!  I made this Sunday morning!

Father's Day Chocolate Cherry Cupcakes

I had to post these!  This is Alyvia's design.  She just told me to ice the cupcakes with chocolate buttercream and she decorated the rest.  I love her design!

I hope you enjoyed looking at the pics, lots more coming.  I have any extremely busy summer booked with lots of weddings and birthdays!  Stay Tuned!!

Boobs and Quads

These novelty boob cakes are becoming popular!  Another was ordered for a 40th birthday party with specifications to make larger nipples! bahaha, I couldn't not laugh!! :)  So she didn't care what the bra top looked like and I wanted to try a zebra print bra and I used a very bright pink.  It looked awesome, until the next day that is.  I had left the cake on a counter locked in a room so I could shower without the kids or I mean Aidan attacking it.  When I got out of the shower and finished dressing, I needed to take pics of the cake and went to get it.  The entire bra top had faded!  It almost looked nude now.  So disappointing, but there was nothing I could do.  It was only about a 1/2 an hour before pickup and I couldn't recreate it in time, so I left it and apologized to Monette.  She didn't know what it was suppose to look like in the first place, so she wasn't upset, she loved it!  Looking at the pic now, I'm noticing an air bubble on the left boob, darn it! 

It was also her daughter's birthday.  She ordered cupcakes for the school kids party and a cake for the family party in the evening.  Great idea.  Jazbey loves her quad so I piped a quad with buttercream on the cake.  I love the pink, white and black!  The cake is french vanilla and the cupcakes are deep chocolate.

"cakes were awesome. moist and delicious. Thanks so much. The boob one was a hit."

2010! January

Twenty ten, two thousand and ten, whatever you want to call it...This was another busy month for me.  Wait  a minute, it seems every minute of every day of every month is busy for me.  I love it.  It keeps me on my toes and I can't really say I'm ever bored.  Whether it's playing with the kids or doing laundry or making cakes, I'm always doing something!  January brought in the new year with such beautiful weather.  I am used to it being -30 to -40 and it was so nice we could play outside almost everyday...which my full of energy kids need.  Here is what I made in January.

It started out with Alyvia's 5th birthday.  She loves to plan things and love to create.  We made all these treat boxes for her guests at the party.  They were so cute, we had to take a picture.  You can download the printable template from this really cool website.  http://www.simplynabiki.com/en/2009/12/cloud-treatbox-free-printable/ .  Check out the entire website, since she has such neat ideas for kids and everyone else. 

Alyvia palnned her party for months, probably six!  She really loves Halloween and wanted a halloween cake, but I convinced her to pick something different.  She chose a wedding cake!  Every five year old girl wants a wedding cake!  I did my best to make a wedding cake to here specifications.  She didn't want it covered in fondant only buttercream and she wanted butterflies.  Every wedding cake needs flowers, so we found this flower weath hidden away and it worked perfect.  All her friends loved her cake and she was so proud of it!  Isn't she beautiful?!

This 2-tier was for sweet, adorable little twin girls.  I've never done a cake for twins, so I was pretty excited.  There mom contacted me a few months prior and mailed me out the napkin she was using for the party, so I tried to match the cake to it.  She didn't really care what I did, she just wanted it girly, pink and sparkly.  This was my first time making fondant roses.  They do take  a while to get the hang of, but eventually I got a few to use.  With my follow-up e-mail she told me the cake was delicious!!  Always great to hear!

Super Mario Brothers...woohoo!   This was for Austin's first steps teacher.  She ordered it for her son who turned 8.  She found a little candy topper which I placed on top of the cake.  Cupcakes are always fun for kids and easy to take to parties that aren't at home.  I was told Tyler loved it!

My friend Sylvia has a cute little boy named Drayton.  He loves cake and gets so excited about it!  You'd have to know Drayton to get it! lol.  Anyways he already pre-ordered his cake about ten times prior to his party.  Eventually his mom took over and wanted this car that Buzz Lightyear drives created.  I was totally up for the challenge.  I knew seeing Drayton's face woud be worth all the effort and it was!  He was so happy and didn't notice the parts I left out.  I made this cake the night before and was up until 3am.  It was a long night.  It's not exactly like the toy, but pretty close! :)

Barn Cake #2.  A bit different from the last one, the customer told me exactly what she wanted down to the color of the cat, cow and coveralls!   I'm still learning to make people a bit better, they always seem to look fat and my cow has extra large legs, but I couldn't get him to stand without them! I think it turned out pretty cute!

Here's what most of January looked like.  The frost on the trees was so gorgeous, I usually don't get a chance to take pictures, but I took so many that month!  The first picture is the road infront of our place and I took that on the way to Drayton's party...it just looked so peaceful.

Here are my three little munchkins.  I LOVE this picture!!  I didn't pose them this way, I just told them all to look at me and smile.  They spent most of the month playing in the snow and enjoying the mild winter we had.

October Creations

October was busy for me with cake, here are my creations



Dora the Explorer is always fun! I wanted to recreate Dora's home as a birthday party, without using fondant only buttercream. I think it was a success!

My cousin Mike's 27th birthday. His wife called me and wanted something with a snowmobile since he is obsessed with it! I went on facebook and found a picture of him and his snowmobile and went to work. This was my first attempt at any sort of fondant figurine. I think he looks a little funny! :) I really love the cake though!

Dora AGAIN! This time a cake and mini cupcakes. This was a lot of work! I hand made all the little cupcake picks which took a while and I also made and decorated the stand. I made it about one day before pick-up which wasn't the best idea and had everything decorated about 20 minutes before pick-up. Nothing like last minute...the story of my life!

My sister, Whitney's 18th birthday. My family doesn't seem to be hugely into cake, so I thought this cute little toadstool cake would be perfect. It was small, but fed my large family wonderfully! I learned how small cakes are alot of work and are more of a pain than large ones!! She loved it! It was a new recipe I tried, lemon cake with lemon filling.

60th birthday cake for my other sister's father-in-law. Now I should just let you know I have a large family. 4 sisters and 3 brothers. This barn cake was a blast to make. My daughter, Alyvia helped make the little veggies and a chicken. She was really proud!

Andrew's 1st birthday!! I love making 1st birthday cakes, I feel they are really special and especially if the parent's are first time parents. They want everything to be perfect! This cake is not by any means my design. I don't remember where I saw it, but I fell in love with it! So different and each tier had a reason for being there. It took about 7 hours to decorate not including baking time or icing, just laying the fondant. That's more than some of the wedding cakes I did! The mom wanted matching cupcakes and by that time I was exhausted so my grass on the cupcakes didn't quite resemble grass, but it was all I could do at that point. The entire cake was done in red velvet as well as the cupcakes.

Here are some fun mini cupcakes the kids and I made for Halloween. Austin brought some to school, but ended up dropping the whole container before he got on the bus. He said they were still good, but just looked like a container of mess! Oh Well!