Madigascar Penguins Birthday Cake

I was asked to make a birthday cake with the penguins from Madigascar. I wasn't sure how well they we're going to turn out but I love them. They are all hand made from fondant along with all the 'painting' accessories!

The cake is an 8" vanilla cake and filled with strawberry buttercream.

Ballerina Princess Cake

I'm pretty sure every little girl at some point in their life wanted to be either a princess or a ballerina or both.



This cake was made for such a little girl! The hand made teddy bear is a princess ballerina wearing a sweet little tutu. I wanted to show off the little teddy feet so I made a pair of ballet slippers to go on top of the cake as well. I dusted the ballet slippers in pearl luster dust to give them some simmery shine.



The 6" cake is a vanilla cake filled with a chocolatey mousse pudding. The cake is covered in a light purple buttercream and has a pearl boarder which I dusted with pearl luster dust.

City & Muskoka Birthday Cake

I was asked to make a birthday cake with a city and muskoka theme. What better way to represent the 'city' here than the CNtower and the Rogers center. The best part of Muskoka is summer so throw in a lake, a dock,sandals, & some beer and you're set!!






I actually had the biggest problem with getting grey fondant! What could be so hard about getting grey right, white and a bit of black and boom you have grey.....well not always so. To make black food gel the company mixes a whole lot of colors, epecially dark ones like green and purple, if they add more of one color...in my case green the fondant takes on a greenish tinge....add white and you get a greeny grey which was not what I wanted!! So after playing around a bit and yelling a bit I turned to Google! The solution...add PURPLE but just a bit and TADA grey!!

This 6" cake is vanilla and filled with chocolate buttercream filling. As a boarder I did a city skyline...not bad for a last minute cake!!

Happy Halloween!!

I've been neglecting my caking duties! Life has been very busy for us the last couple of months so 'playing with sugar' hasn't been at the top of my priority list...but I miss it!!




The kids asked if we could bake some Halloween cupcakes so of course I said yes :)
We baked chocolate cupcakes and iced them with buttercream. To keep with the Halloween theme we made them look like candy corn! We looked for candy corn candies to top the cupcakes with but this was all kind of last minute and we couldn't find any. The kids ended up decorating theirs with yellow and orange gummies...by the time I charged the battery for the camera they had eaten theirs LOL!!

I also did a chocolate buttercream topped with a caramilk and shaved chocolate! Yummy!

Princess Cake

This cake was made for a friends daughter's 5th birthday. Like most little girls she loves princess' so what better way then to celebrate with a cake fit for a princess!

The cake is a 6" vanilla and an 8" vanilla cake and filled with vanilla pudding mouse.

This was my first time making a tiara out of gumpaste and I have to say it's so much easier than royal icing...and it looks much better!! The tiara and the 'A' were painted with tinted luster dust.The roses are hand rolled fondant in various shades of pink.



I think this is my favorite cake to date. I love how everything came together and how it flows together. The only part of the cake I wasn't too happy with was the fondant swags, it was my first time doing those as well.
The very best part was seeing the birthday girls face when she saw the cake...PRICELESS!!

Baptism Cake

This 6" vanilla cake was made for a friends son's baptism. She wanted something very simple.



The cake is covered in blue buttercream, has a diamond pattern and has edible pearls where the diamonds meet.



The bottom boarder and the circle on top are made from white fondant and dusted with pearl dust. The letters on the top of the fondant circle are the baby's intials.

19th Birthday Martini Cake

This cake was made for my cousin's 19th birthday.

All she asked for for theme was martini glass and pink. So this is what I did.



The cake is an 8" chocolate cake filled with cookies and cream buttercream. All the accents are fondant. I think my favorite part is the curls on top!!



Happy 19th Birthday Melissa!!

Skull Cake

So one of my very best friends asked me to make a skull cake for her husband's birthday. She sent me a picture of one she found and asked me to make 'something along those lines'



I was going for the human skull look but the cake turned out to be more of a neanderthal look lol. The jaw juts out too far and the shape of the head is kind of off.

From the start I wasn't sure how I was going to accomplish this cake, I've made a few carved cakes but nothing like this. The cake I used was a really fluffy chocolate cake...my first mistake...I should have used a denser cake which would help hold the shape. Second mistake, which I have done before and will hopefully remember for next time, is to make all features more pronounced as once the fondant goes on the details get hidden. I should have made the eye sockets, epecially the bottoms, thicker.



For my first attempt it's not too bad, I'm happy with it. The teeth were a nightmare to do...but again a first. The cake is 2 6" square chocolate cakes and one 6" round chocolate cake...I probably carved away 1/2 of the cake. It is filled with cookies and cream buttercream.

Hope you like it Matty, alot of swearing went into this cake!
Happy Birthday LOL!!!!!!!!

3rd Birthday Cars Cake

This cake was made for our friends daughter Addison. She is in love with the movie Cars so what better way to celebrate than with a cake with Lightening McQueen!



8" chocolate cake with cookies and cream filling. All accents are fondant.

'Dream' Birthday Cake

8" Marble cake filled with cookies and cream filling. Cake is covered in fondant with fondant gerber daisy and fondant accents.

Muskoka Themed Birthday Cake

This cake was sooo much work but I had so much fun designing and creating all the characters.



The cake was made for two kids who were born in canada but raised in the states. I was asked to capture the 'Muskoka feel' to help remind the kids of their canadian roots.

All the characters are made from fondant and were all hand sculted...which took hours! I still need to work on my people but I'm happy with how they turned out...after remaking the heads 4 times!









The cake is a 10" vanilla and filled with vanilla buttercream.

Hunting 25th Birthday Cake

This two tiered cake was made for a friend's 25th birthday who loves to hunt. The 8" and 6" cakes are chocolate filled with cookies and cream buttercream.



The deer head was made from rice krispies and coated with milk chocolate to help keep it together. It was then covered in fondant. The antlers have wires in them to help with support and are covered in fondant. I was really hoping the deer would look real but it looks cartoonish. If I had my airbrusher up and running I could have layered colors to make it look real....maybe one day I'll have it working.



All the leaves are fondant and the acorns are shaped caramels with fondant tops. I was really happy with how the cake turned out.

Guess Wallet 30th Birthday Cake

The wallet on this cake was so much fun to make. I was sent a picture of a wallet and asked to replicate it. The colors for the party were white, black and a hint of hot pink. The cake also had to be girly and glamorous. This is the design I came up with. The wallet is made from rice kripy treats, covered in vanilla buttercream and then covered in hot pink fondant. All the decorations are edible.

This is the picture of the wallet I was sent.



This is my version of the wallet.



The 8" cake is chocolate and filled with a raspberry buttercream. The fondant was being rather difficult as it was so humid but I'm happy with how the cake turned out.

1st Birthday Cake

The weather has been so hot and humid the last week making cakes and covering them in fondant has been rather challenging! It took a lot of patience on my part and a few times rolling out the fondant to get results that looked okay. Fondant and humidity do not mix well!! I think some A/C may be in order!!

This 10" chocolate cake is filled with cookies and cream filling and covered in blue fondant.



All the decorations are made from fondant.

Tinkerbell 5th Birthday Party!!

My daughter just turned the big 5 so we had to celebrate in a big way. Trying to get a 4 year old to decide on a cake was very time consuming and very frustrating...to say the least. Hailey changed her mind at least 15 times. Finally she thought Tinkerbell would make the best birthday cake.



The cake is layered chocolate and vanilla and filled with vanilla and milk chocolate fudge.

The cake is covered in a layer of buttercream and then a layer of purple fondant.



All the decorations are fondant except the Tinkerbell candle on the top.



I also made purple cake pops and marshmallow pops as party favors.

Bridal Shower Cupcakes

I was asked to make some garden theme cupcakes for a friend's bridal shower.





The cupcakes are vanilla with vanilla buttercream tinted green and the flowers are fondant.

Ping Pong Table Cake

This cake was almost my undoing! We had some rather warm weather last week and fondant hates warm weather! It makes it very sticky and very had to work with.



I was asked to make a cake that looks like a ping pong table for a retirement party. The cake is vanilla and filled with vanilla buttercream and covered in fondant. I wanted to cover the cake in one piece of black fondant but after several attempts of rolling it out I finally decided that one piece just wasn't going to work. I ended up covering the cake with two piece of black fondant. I tried my best to blend the seam but with the weather being so hot and humid touching the fondant to blend just wasn't really an option.

The paddles, the net and the ball are all made of fondant. The net was another issue. I let it dry for a few days but due to the weather it wasn't a taught as I would have liked.

Car Cupcakes

These cupcakes were very last minute. I was asked to make something that a boy would like. These cars are not my best work, but for last minute they're not too bad. I took me about 20 minutes to whip them up as they has to dry a bit before they could go on the cupcakes.

Chocolate cupcakes filled with chocolate fudge and topped with vanilla buttercream.

Floral Birthday Cake

I was asked to make a simple birthday cake for a shared birthday. I was asked to make a vanilla cake with a mocha filling and covered in vanilla buttercream.
To keep things "simple" I made a pink gerber daisy with some vines and added a few littler daisy on top.



Daisy's and lettering are made from fondant.

CAKE DISASTER
I recieved a call from the lady who ordered this cake last night. She has had some of my cake at a friends party was so really looking forward to having it again. Unfortunately the cake turned out very dense and not as she remembered. I was at a loss as to what may have happened but the only possible answer was that my leveling agent wasn't activating properly. I had just bought new baking powder so I rechecked the expiry date and low and behold it says 12/10....Since it is no longer the year 2010, dumb me, it was no longer good. Lesson learned, check and recheck expiry dates and know what year it is. This is my first complaint since I started baking cakes, I was glad she told me but dissappointed in myself. I feel horrible this happened but how does the saying go, "Live and learn"!

Olivia's 2nd Birthday Cake

My baby just turned two....oh my! I still can't believe it. It feels like yesterday I was just looking into her little eyes and holding her little hands. It wasn't long before she became our little monkey :)

To go along with her nickname I decided to make a monkey cake for her.



The top tier is a dummy tier made from rice krispy treats and covered in fondant.
The bottom tier is a carved 8" square chocolate cake filled with two layers of vanilla buttercream and a layer of chocolate fudge. The cake is covered in fondant and decorated with fondant flowers and dots. The monkey was hand cut.

Since I carved the 8" square cake into a round I had scrape pieces of cake. I mixed those with some icing and made them into matching cake pops for the guests.