Happy Birthday, Dylan

This was my first customer who randomly found my blog off the Internet! Yeah! Whoo Hoo! Laura found my craigslist posting and really liked what she saw on my cake blog, so she sent me a quick email on Thursday night asking for a peanut-free cake for her son, Dylan. Dylan loves playing hockey and is having his 12th birthday party today. 

After many emails back and forth, Laura decided on a French Vanilla 9 x 13 cake with vanilla butter cream icing. Dylan's favourite NHL team is the Toronto Maple Leafs, so we decided this logo was very fitting for his birthday cake. 

It was the very first time I had made a cake for a stranger with no guarantee that they would show up to pay for the cake. Thankfully, Laura and her daughter stopped by right on time and picked up the cake!

This cake cost $30. 

Now, let me tell you about the many many cupcakes I had to make the night before...

The Slideshow

My husband, Rob, is my personal tech support God. I've been trying for 2 days now to get the slideshow gadget to work. He got it working in 10 min. Grrr...

Anyways, the slideshow to the left shows some of the cakes that I've done of the past 2 years. Please, don't laugh at Spiderman. It was my first character cake, and I realize that his eyes are a little crooked. I'm much better now!

I love doing the character cakes from Wilton. If you think you would like to order a character cake for your next birthday, please check out the Wilton website for designs. The site is http://www.wilton.com/shapedpans/ . There are so many great character cakes, it is so hard to choose sometimes!  

Character Cakes I have done:

3D Cruiser Car in blue

Ariel, the Little Mermaid

Spiderman

Soccer Ball (which can also be a baseball, golf ball or basketball)

Lion

Santa with list

Barney ( I had purple icing everywhere!)

Cheers!

On a boring Saturday Night..

So I'm so excited at the possibility of creating more cakes, that I popped one in the oven this afternoon just so I could have something to decorate after the kids went to bed. 

This is the result of my 'nothing better to do' Saturday night. We ate it for dessert with tea.

I'll be posting more pictures of cakes that I have done, including some of my first ones. Please don't laugh at Spiderman.

My Favourite Cake

This is my favourite cake so far. I had just finished the Wilton Cake Decorating II class and my mother asked for a birthday cake for her party. Her birthday happens to be 5 days before Christmas, and she is adament that her birthday is NOT an extension of Christmas. So I thought this cake was as far from Christmas as possible.

This cake is an 8" chocolate marble cake with homemade buttercream icing (BC). The dark and light purple violets were made the week before in Royal Icing (RI).

Mmmmm....I love cakes.