Wedding Cake

This is my second wedding cake order, but my first formal wedding cake order. I was so nervous about this cake. About a week ago we did a taste testing at their home. I brought chocolate, vanilla, marble and coconut. They tried them all and out them they choice to go with vanilla, chocolate and coconut. They decided on heart shaped and fondant instead of icing.

The top tier is chocolate with chocolate ganache. The middle tier is coconut with coconut cream. The bottom tier is vanilla with vanilla butter cream.
The flowers and ribbon are not edible. 

Tractor Cupcakes

I got a message on our facebook page asking us to make 40 cupcakes with tractors on top of them. I thought it a little odd of a request for a little girls birthday. I have never made fondant tractors and neither had my business partner. We are both pretty good at bringing ideas to life using fondant and creativity.

With all the cakes order that we have been having lately my partner has been handling 90% of the fondant work and I have been doing the baking and the icing work. We make an awesome team and its great that we have been busy and the orders just keep rolling in.

These cupcakes were cherry chip with yellow and green butter cream icing. To top it off a little fondant tractor on the top of each cupcake.

The mom let us know tonight that "everyone loved them and there are some left over but that is okay because they were so delicious!" I love hearing comments like that makes me feel great about what we do. The main reason we love baking is because of the joy it brings others.

Blue TMNT Cake

I am taking a quick break in between working on cake stuff to have a bite to eat and to blog about the cake I made last night.
Yes I know it is 9:45pm and I am just eating, its been busy to say the least which is an awesome thing!!!

I had an order for a TMNT cake the blue guy. I loved the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as a child I remember when they first came out it was awesome. I had fun making this cake and it turned out very good if you ask me. You can see cake shadow but that is because they asked for very thin butter cream.

Top layer inside of the cake

Bottom layer inside of the cake

Tie Dye Cakes

I LOVE this technique!!! I tired it out last week for a Tinkerbell cake and it turned out "okay", this week I did it for a turtles cake and I am much happier with the way it turned out. Her favourite colours are Pink, Blue, Green and orange.

In the first layer I did pink, orange and blue in the order to prevent the pink and blue from combining and turning the cake purple.
The second layer I did pink, green and blue, again I did it in that order to prevent the pink and the blue making purple.

I think I did a good job at the trying to prevent that as you can see in the following pictures. This is a very simple technique, you just have to play with it a bit to get the pattern that you want.

Yes my cakes look like I could have banged them on the counter a couple more times lol.

DIY Fondant Sprinkles

I found this on Pinterest a while ago, but this is the first chance I have gotten to try it out.

I made 500 petals for a wedding cake and the flowers were not turning out right so the bride decided on just roses. I had all these petals and I didn't want the fondant to go to waste so I decided to try out making my own sprinkles. It was fun. Right now they are all the same colour because that is the colour I had done the petals for the orchids. I made dots using the icing tip #3. I made hearts using the small Wilton heart shape cutter. I made the leaves using the Wilton leaf cutter. I made the the tear/rain drops using the using tip #104. I made the flowers using the smallest Wilton flower cutter.

I think all the sprinkles turned out awesome!!! Can't wait to use them, no more using store bought sprinkles.

I am storing them in old washed icing containers that have lids.

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Wallaceburg PAWS adoption event April 2013

This year Wallaceburg Animal Shelter was invited to have an adoption weekend during the Pet Valu Paws event. We had a great time, we met a lot of people and got $160.00 in donations for the shelter.

We were there both Saturday and Sunday it was long days standing but worth it. Manny, Casi, Bossco and Annie were there both days and got a lot of attention. Not only did we get donations to help the shelter, the dogs had "facetime" and "PAP" from the shelter got adoption by a wonderful women. He is going to be spoiled and very well taken care of.

We can't wait to do our next event!

Some photos from the event:

Bossco

Casi

Manny

Annie

Pap

Garden/Jewellery cake

A few weeks ago I was asked if I could create a 50th birthday cake that had gardens, flowers, purses and jewellery on it. When I was originally asked I was not sure what I was going to do. I sat down with my business partner and she made a picture of where things should go on the cake. I made the garden, the bunny, the veggies, the flowers, the cake and the icing. Krista made the jewellery and the purses. Together we made the garden tools and the put the cake together.

The cake is a carrot cake with a cream cheese butter cream icing, which tasted AWESOME!

I like how the cake turned out and the family seemed really happy with it.
Things I would have done different with this cake are; I would have done the fence all around the base of the cake and the flowers along that fence.