Hunting Cupcakes

These were interesting to make, I couldn't get the browning symbol on the hats small enough to fit a cupcake topper, I hand painted the gold ends of the shot gun shells and it was a last minute order.

Everything turned out pretty cute and I learned a few new techniques working on this order. It is always great when I get to learn something new.

The shot gun shell ends took forever to paint as it was a very slow process between coats of pain to get the gold colouring just right.

Shared Kitchen

A couple weeks ago I moved into a shared kitchen, no I didn't move everything I have so much baking stuff I could fill my own store, I do my fondant work and baking in the shared kitchen. I started out being there 6 days a week from 10am-6pm but I ran into a couple of issues that we are trying to work out. I didn't see the point of being there all day when no one comes in so I do my baking at night there and fondant work while cakes are baking.

I wish I was able to still do it from home I liked it much better when I could put a cake in the oven and go on with cleaning, working on fondant etc plus my house has central air so fondant or butter cream melting really wasn't an issue, where in the shared kitchen it is.

The guy who I share the kitchen with is pretty awesome, he is very funny and easy going which is great. He owns Philly Cheese Jakes here in town and his food is pretty good from the items I have tried so far.

With this big step of moving into a shared kitchen it is making me realize how badly I would love to be in my own kitchen. As for the business its not ready for that just yet but maybe in a year it will be.

With the cake business I am pretty lucky I have some pretty great clients!

In the shared kitchen Jake's youngest daughter is there a lot she seems to really enjoy being there and is a very nice girl, she knows her way around the kitchen that's fore sure. She always has lots of questions of fondant and such and really likes to try the cupcakes when them! So far she has tried a few flavours she was unsure about and turned out to really like them.

I am lucky to have found such amazing people to work around just miss doing it from home, people will say oh I know lots of people who make cakes and stuff from their homes well it depends where you live and your by-laws, Sarnia has strict health codes that make it very hard to do it from home, I know one other local baker who rents a kitchen to do her baking and has had an old car port turned into an add a room to be able to decorate her cakes at home. It is very rare in Sarnia-Lambton for a home to be approved to use their kitchen as a home bakery etc.

My first day in the kitchen I was a ball of nerves, I didn't know much about Jake and wasn't sure if our personalities would mix, one of my best friends came in early brought me flowers and bought a couple cupcakes. She made my day and I relaxed, Jake and I get along great, from what I can tell.

I changed my hours to only being there at night to bake and do fondant and such and I am only "open" on days I have deliveries or pick ups. I started out offering cupcake of the day, everyday a different cupcake never the same twice in a month, but now I am going to offer them when I am "open" So right now I will mainly be there on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays depending of course as more and more people are ordering cakes for during the week.

When I told Jake was wouldn't be in until Saturday his response was awesome! He said well now what am I going to do, he mainly works alone and he comes back and chats with me and such.

I just bought a bakers rack in order to display my baked goods when I there for people to see his daughter is going to paint it the colours to match the store for me, she is quite the artist so I am sure its going to look amazing.

I am in the process of looking for a cold display that will fit in a certain spot but right now its not an option they run $2,000.00 plus for a used one so I must wait. As of right now anything that has to be kept cold I keep in a stand up freezer that was given to me!

Hippo Cake

I was asked by my sister to make my moms birthday cake for a small get together of just us. It took a long time before my family started to ask me to make the cakes for their birthdays and such.

Of course my sister picks a super cute cake, and says make sure you can do the eye lashes on the hippo or I can pick a different cake, lol as if the eye lashes make or break a cake.


The little details is what I love about making fondant figures. The eye lashes were a lot simpler than I had originally thought they would be. I am pretty good at looking at an image and recreating.



Of course my family is great at last minute planning so I wasn't given much time to create this cake but it still turned out really cute and was a huge hit.

Vendor Events

I love doing vendor events with the cake business, it gets my name out there! Normally I make just enough to cover my table cost and nothing more, but these events always go to great causes and that's why I do them. I have done events for a little bit of everything, relay for life, Sarnia Humane Society, Optimist club etc etc. How vendor events work is I sign up, pay a table fee if I am lucky I don't have to drag my table with me or dig out a chair lol, I bake my butt off (about 20-30 hours), load the car up (some times I have to be there for 7:30am), set up my table at what I hope is an outside table and not a middle one, I have been very lucky and only had to be on the inside twice, then I wait for them to open the doors and hopefully for the sake of the event lots of people show up. Some charge $2.00 a person, plus the raffle table money and the money from the vendors it all adds up for the group putting it on. I normally donate a 15.00-20.00 gift cert for the raffle table.

This past winter, as I am sure all of you are aware I am an animal rights advocate, I was asked if I would have a booth at a vendor event supporting the Sarnia Humane Society, that's a silly questions and an easy answer YES!!! A very dear, sweet, heart of gold friend was hosting she is amazing she does a lot of work in the community as well and I am hoping to team up with her to host an event in the fall, anyway I was so excited it was the first of its kind for to go towards a cause that is dear to me.

Sadly I was unable to attend the event in the end, I have a serve allergy to latex one that causes my throat to close up and well that never ends well. A face painter (not the normal one who comes to the events I go to) was coming, face painters are amazing at events both children and adults love them, normally at the events I am at a wonderful lady named Cat is at them and normally she is in the other room or doesn't bring the balloon guy with her. Well My dear friend talked to the face painter and asked if it was possible that she not bring balloons because it a small hall, the face painter completely went off the handle on her, I couldn't believe it, when I do events that are at school and such I am asked to not bring any baked goods with peanuts in them, I of course I agree no questions ask, I know how serve allergies are and I would rather not make a student ill just by having my product there.


My dear friend was at a loss on what to do so I gracefully backed out, a little upset about it but some people are just uncompromisable. With that said, I made and donated all the baked goods for their bake table, I make a cake for the raffle table along with a gift cert. I sucked it up and moved on. I was very proud to be able to donate the baked goods, oh and of course my dog cookies were there which were a huge hit! They are nothing fancy by any means but they are loved by dogs and they are human grade, not that I would eat them.

The event did amazing!! It raised over $1,000.00 for the Sarnia Humane Society and I am so proud of my dear friend for going above and beyond like she always does!

The vendor events not only help local small businesses and home businesses get their names out there it helps local groups with funding, please go walk around a vendor event and support your local community!!

I am truly blessed with the ability to give back even if it is in small ways.

Pink and Brown Baby Shower Cake

I love when clients say to me I want a cake that has flowers on it and is pink and brown, gives me the ability to play and create.

Flowers are one of my favourite things to make out of fondant.

Everything on this cake is edible!!!

John Deere First Birthday Cake and Smash Cake

This cake was fun to make and everything on it is edible.

The hay bails are made out of rice crispie treats.

The main cake is 1/2 vanilla 1/2 chocolate and the smash is vanilla

I have another John Deere first birthday coming up and my tractor looks way better this time.

Zebra Print cupcakes with whipped icing

I hate this icing type its horrible, yes its a light icing but I am not a fan at all of how unworkable it is. This icing can not be left out for more than 15 minutes at a time, it can cause the fondant to dissolve and you can not put edible images on it.

These were a last minute order for 24 cupcakes 1/2 chocolate 1/2 vanilla with pink whipped icing and zebra striped.

Horse/golf cupcakes

Last minute orders seem to be the thing to do, I don't mind going out of my way for people, but when they get upset with me because it's not perfect it annoys me, giving me two days notice for this order, then changing the time for delivery the same to an earlier time sorta have made me in more of a rush. I like to ice the cupcakes for the order the day of.

I get asked on Thursday to have these cupcakes ready for 3pm on Saturday, no problem I say, I throw together the fondant pieces and the morning of while I am getting ready to ice them, she calls and says I need to pick them up in 30 mins. GREAT!!! Well I throw the icing on, load them into her car and get on to the other 6 orders that order in a normal time frame. That evening I get an email stating "I am very disappoint, I thought the gold cupcakes were going to look like grass" well they would have looked like grass if you picked them up at 3pm like you originally had said.

This order was for 48 cupcakes 1/4 horse themed and 1/2 golf themed. For the time frame I was given they look pretty okay to me.

Peacock themed cupcakes

This was a last minute order placed for cupcakes in a peacock theme. I had to play around with the fondant and I ended up not being able to do what I really wanted to do, I didn't have enough time, so I winged it and made peacock feathers.


Half the cupcakes are vanilla and half were chocolate.

Mickey Mouse Cupcakes

I love being able to help those who would normally not be able to have cake for their children. These cupcakes were made for a single mom who is just starting out on her own with her children.

They were a very last minute order, but I always try to come through. 1/2 chocolate 1/2 vanilla.

Super Hero/bowling cake

Now this cake was a challenge, the client wanted a Super Hero mixed with bowling and it was for twins.

I came up with this idea, the bowling lane is air brushed and the figures are toys. The bowling balls and pins are made out of fondant which is fully edible.

I added small edible images on the sides of the cakes in the theme of each super hero.

The family loved it!!!

Mario Cake

Who isn't a fan of the Mario brothers, when I was very young I remember when my mom brought home the regular Nintendo, it was the first of its kind, we had an Atari, but this was really exciting. The game came with two games on it, duck hunt and Mario. I still remember the dogs laugh from Duck Hunt it was awesome. We were not allowed to play it often but when we did we had these awesome green fuzzy square chairs to sit in. I used to tell my sister to jump down the holes because she would gain lives, I just wanted it to be my turn faster :).

My mom used to spend nights playing it with her good friend Marnie, they would even lay in green chairs to play, well not like the controller were long enough to reach the couch.

We had a "Tube TV" the one you had to put on channel three in order to get the game system to work :) same thing to make the VCR work too.


I had fun making this cake and all the little figures and such. I tired to find toy action figures for the top of the cake with no luck so I had to make fondant ones. They still turned out pretty well, I like to use toys for the little kids cakes as it gives them something to hold on to and kids tend to enjoy it more than the edible figures but its not always possible.

I made one mistake with this cake and that was I forgot to put the question marks on the yellow blocks.

OSPCA Cupcake Day 2013

The Sarnia Humane Society took part in the OSPCA National Cupcake Day this year!! It was an amazing turn out!

I was honored to be able to support them by donating a bunch of decorated cupcakes. I love being able to support where ever I can when it comes to animal rescue!

More and more people are becoming aware that adoption is the best option but at the same time there are still too many animals being dumped at shelters across the world.

I am not sure how many donations they were able to raise with this fundraiser but every little bit helps out and hopefully next year will be an even more popular success.

What's the fox say cake

I LOVE making fondant animals and such it is so much fun, I was asked by a client to make a cake for her daughter in the theme of "What's the fox say" at the time I had no idea what it was, I originally thought it was a kids TV show, after consulting "Dr.google" I come to find out What's the fox say is a song, a really, really, really annoying song. From what I understand it is a big hit with the kids personally I could do without ever listening to it again. I guess at the little girls school they play it during exercise time.


Each side of the cake has words from the song, the figures on top of the cake are animals from the song!

Under the sea themed cake and cupcakes

This was a fun one to make. All the cupcakes have fondant under the sea themed figures. The top of the cake has a big orca on it fully edible of course

Puppy Cake

I am proud to say I get to do the cakes for the Sarnia Humane Society Birthday Parties. These Parties bring awareness for children to animals in shelters. It also helps raise money for shelter needs.

Many children to the most selfless thing and ask for food, treats and supplies for the shelter instead of presents. I love parents that teach their children young!!!

AA Book cake

I love doing these cakes.

To me doing an AA cake represents how far a personal has come in personal growth, the life they left behind when they choose to get sober still has scares on them and the others they effected, but each birthday shows the healing that is slowly taking place for them.



This cake is 1/2 chocolate and 1/2 vanilla, I airbrushed the colour :)

50 Birthday Cake

This was an order for a simple birthday cake with 50 edible candles on it. The flame of the candles is made out of sour candy tears. The cake is half vanilla, half chocolate with vanilla buttercream and fondant candles.

I learned something very important doing this cake and I now do my half and half cakes completely different!

This cake cracked down the middle where the half and half met. I now make my half and half in the same pan so there is no more cracking.

Keira's 8th birthday

I LOVE hosting the kids parties they are so much fun. This year Keira decided she wanted to have her party at the YMCA. The kids had a blast, I wasn't overly happy with the rushed feeling in the party room. I felt like the whole time I was hurrying the kids along, but it was a lot better than her party at Hi-Way Bowl last year.

The employees who were in the gym with the kids were awesome even was playing and chasing them.

Keira had a great time other than he was upset she didn't get a treat bag, I tried explaining they were thank you bags for the guest for coming to her party and giving her gifts, she didn't get it.

She picked once again Hello Kitty, my first thought was great same theme as last year what on earth am I going to do for a cake. I came up with something very simple. The top tier was chocolate, bottom was vanilla with edible images and fondant decals. I wasn't a huge fan on the way the cake turned out but all the kids enjoyed it, well not Keira as she doesn't like cake and didn't try any lol.



We spent an hour in the gym and 45 mins in the party room. We had pizza, cake and opened presents.

Duck Dynasty Cake

When I was first asked to make this cake I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to make the people. I am not very good at making people let.


This cake has a lot of different features to it. The top tier is vanilla the bottom is chocolate. This cake has butter cream icing, fondant decals, chocolate decals and an edible image.

The people ended up turning out okay and it was loved by the birthday people!