Simple Blue

This was a fun, quick cake to make.  A co-worker of my aunt's ordered it for me for her daughter's bridal shower.  Her wedding colours are royal blue/white/silver.  From what I have heard, they enjoyed the cake! 

Double layer white cake with buttercream filling and icing.

A First-Timer

I was so excited about making this wedding cake ever since the happy couple asked me to do it!  Besides the awesome couple I made it for (they are really good friends of mine here in Regina), this cake was a first-timer for me.  4 levels of cake, a fun buttercream icing, plus 3 layers of flowers!  It's the biggest cake I've ever made!  I think it turned out great, and everyone loved it - I got tons of comments after we had the chance to devour it. 

I transported it in 2 layers, and I had another really good friend help me with that. 

Here are the flavours:

Top - Marble with peanut butter filling

Second - Lemon with lemon curd filling

Third - Chocolate with chocolate mousse filling

Bottom - White with strawberry filling

Congrats to the happy couple!

The cake as a whole

The beautiful flowers I got to work with!

Surprise Carrot Cake

This is a cake that I made for the people who I did my first wedding cake for.  For the wedding cake, the groom's only request was that there was a layer of carrot cake...which he never ended up getting a piece of.  The bride (though they have been married over a year now) asked for this cake for a surprise for her husband.  I thought it was a great idea!  This was the same carrot cake, with the same icing, and the same ribbon from their wedding.  I just added some of the mini fondant roses to it.  I heard it was quite yummy!

Second try

Here is the second wedding cake I did.  This couple are friends of the couple from my post yesterday.  They saw my cake in December and wanted something similar.  So that's what they got.  I had issues with the top layer, but I know why.  Let's just say I'm still working on mastering my white cake :)

So:

Top layer: white

Middle layer: carrot with pineapple

Bottom layer: chocolate

Everything covered with buttercream.  It's my fav.

As you can see, I don't have a wide range of cake flavours.  I'm working on that.  If you have any good recipes for me to try out, let me know.  Even if I don't have lots of cake flavours, filling flavours would be really fun to play with.

First Wedding Cake

Some cool friends of mine gave me the chance to make my first wedding cake last December.  They were pretty easy going about it (thank goodness!!), and really liked the end product.  It was all covered in buttercream, with buttercream between layers as well.  The couple provided the ribbon and flowers.  After this cake, I discovered that my car isn't always the best mode of transportation for cakes like this! :)

Now, if I remember correctly:

Top layer - white cake

Middle layer - chocolate cake

Bottom layer - carrot cake with pineapple

First Attempts

This first 'official' cake post will show you where I started. These pictures are from my first attempts two years ago. For those of you who have seen my recent work, I've come a looooong way! BUT! I still have a looooong way to go!


The Spiderman cake I made for my boss's son's birthday.


The Guitar Hero cake I made for a friend's birthday.


Just a practise cake! I took this one to bible study with me.