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!

Sneak Peak...kind of

Here's a little bit of a look at the cake I'm working on for a wedding reception this evening.  I have a lot of piping to do with this cake, so I decided to give my hands a break with this!  So far I have one side of the cake completely done.  All it took was 1 1/2 hours! Ha!

I'll post the final product tomorrow sometime - I don't want the bride to see the it all done before the big party!

Here's a look at my 'work station'.

Coffee and cake!  Need anything more??

And while I work, my puppy is here...

...or here!

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!

For you Trekkies...

I got this cake order for the beginning of January.  I'm not a Star Trek person, but was still looking forward to doing this cake.  (mostly because it was an easier design!! ha!)  It was for a 30th birthday, and was all an all white cake, with yummy buttercream.  You can't tell in the picture, but there is a shine to the cake from the edible silver lustre dust I used all over it. 

Tinkerbell

Here's the birthday cake I made for a co-worker's niece who was turning 2.  I was told the little girl really enjoyed it!  I had found a picture of another Tinkerbell cake, which I kind of based this cake off of.  I find I'm always looking at pictures of other cakes for ideas!

Cake:

Double layer white

Purple Wedding

This one was a wedding cake for good friends back at home.  I really like how this one turned out.  :)  Sometimes it still amazes me how heavy exactly cakes can get once you're all done with them!

I believe this is how the flavours went:

Top layer: White Cake

Middle layer: Red Velvet

Bottom layer: Chocolate

Practise Cake

This cake I made for my cousin to take to work with him.  One of his coworkers was leaving, so I figured it would be a good opportunity to practise another cake!  Even though this was a recent cake, I can't remember what kind it was.  Probably chocolate.  When in doubt - chocolate!

There's always next year!

I think this cake pretty much knocks the rest of my cakes out of the park right now.  However, I do say this as I am sitting here wearing my Rider bunnyhug :)  I may have a slightly biased opinion about this cake!

This cake I made for my cousin and his cool new wife.  It was lots of fun to make!  It's a single layer chocolate cake, with buttercream icing, and fondant on top.  I'm pretty sure everyone enjoyed it!

Go Riders!  We still love you!

Christmas Cake

Here's my first Christmas cake! :)  My coworkers got to enjoy this one.  I really enjoyed making this one - the snowmen turned out really well!  They're super cute!

This one was a double layer with chocolate ganache in the middle.  mmmmm...

Sneak Peak

Here's a sneak peak at the cake I did for my work Christmas party.  It was a double layer chocolate cake, covered with buttercream (then fondant), and with chocolate ganache in the middle. 

I think everyone like it!  Cake pictures tomorrow!

Pre-Nose

Post-Nose

All put together!

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 fondant experience worth sharing

This was my second time trying out fondant.  My first time wasn't the best thing ever, so I'm not showing that picture! :)  I'm pretty sure I made this cake for my aunt to take to work with her.  Any time I send a cake to work with her, there's nothing left of it!

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.

New road...and I crazy?

I've been thinking a lot and I think I really do want to try to start a cake business. Crazy? Maybe. It makes me nervous. I really don't like the word 'business' though. If you have suggestions for a name for this 'business' let me know! I want something new, fun, and original. Give me your ideas. Hopefully over the next couple of weeks I can get this blog changed over to mostly cake stuff!