Happy Birthday, Berry and Leah!

I had a great time designing the cake for Berry's first birthday and Leah's third birthday. Their mom, Melanie, had been at Kate and Luciano's birthday party and really like the boy/girl cake and asked if I could do one for her kids' party! No problem! 

This is a 9 x 15 chocolate fudge cake iced with vanilla buttercream and decorated with fondant cutouts. Berry's half was all about planes and trains, while Leah's half was all about flowers and butterflies.

When it came time to cut the cake, all the little girls at the party insisted on eating the pink cake, and the boys wanted the blue cake. Go figure...it all tastes the same!

I'm glad that everyone had a great time, we certainly did!

Happy Birthday, Loreena!

Happy Birthday, Loreena! I hope you enjoy this cake! I had a great time decorating it last night. This is a 6" chocolate fudge cake, torted and filled with dark chocolate buttercream. The cake is decorated with rolled fondant flowers in light pink. 

After a long week of work leading up to March Break, I hope you had a wonderful birthday party with Mo, Gianluca and Luciano!

Cheers!

My First Fondant Cake

My good friend Joan and I traded baking services. Her specialty is gingerbread cookies--they are so, so good! So in exchange for two birthday cakes, she decorated 50 of the most amazing gingerbread cookies for me for my daughter's first birthday party.

This is the first time I have ever attempted to cover a cake in rolled fondant. The piping is a little sketch, as the stability and pressure is different than piping on a cake iced in butter cream. A little more practice and I should have it down! The fondant was really easy to work with, and I'm really looking forward to trying it again!

This is a 6", french vanilla cake torted and filled with vanilla butter cream and raspberry jam. It was then covered in rolled fondant and decorated with lavender butter cream.

I hope Mary Lou, Joan and her parents really enjoy this birthday treat!

Happy Birthday, Luke!

My nephew, Luke, turned 4 last week and we all headed over to my sister-in-law's house to celebrate. After a really fun afternoon of bowling and bouncy castle jumping, we headed home for dinner and cake! The kids can't get enough of chocolate cake and butter cream icing! I, on the other hand, had had enough cake that weekend. By the time I finished Luke's cake, I had already done an Iggle Piggle cake for Allie and AJ's birthday, and 48 cupcakes for a bridal shower. 

So I stopped in at Loblaw's and picked up a cheesecake. I know. Bad baker. Bad baker!