This was a cake I made earlier this year for a couple who were both retiring, and it reflects both careers. It was covered in fondant with fondant and sugarpaste decorations. The clipboard was melted chocolate.
Nurse and Police Officer Retirement
This was a cake I made earlier this year for a couple who were both retiring, and it reflects both careers. It was covered in fondant with fondant and sugarpaste decorations. The clipboard was melted chocolate.
Dessert Wine
So it's been so long since I've last posted I don't even know where to start. I think that's why I've been putting off adding anything new.
This birthday cake was ordered for a lover of wine (haha--no kidding).
Organic Carrot Bunny Cake
This organic carrot cake with organic vanilla buttercream frosting was for a spring-themed charity tea. It was one cake I actually wanted to eat after I had finished it! I love carrot cake, and it just smelled so good in the creamy caramel-y way that organic vanilla buttercream does! Unfortunately upon delivery, I discovered that organic white chocolate is much more fragile than white melting chocolate...good thing it is tastier!
Thankfully I was able to do emergency surgery and keep the design intact :)
Vanilla Chai Yoga Cake
This was a classic vanilla cake with vanilla chai buttercream...yum...a very popular flavour at the market. (I actually have a vanilla chai cupcake called Bollywood Dreams with lots of bright colored sugary bling. Come try it sometime!)
The branches and brown ribbon were chocolate; all the other decorations were made of sugarpaste.
VW Van Retirement
My kids' amazing primary teacher retired in January, and I got to do the cake for the party. It was last minute, but lots of fun! The cake was dark chocolate cake with chocolate filling, covered in smooth vanilla buttercream.
Nova Scotian Autumn Wedding Cupcake Tower
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Ooooh, I just realized that one of my favourite cupcake towers hasn't been posted yet!
Imagine my surprise when I met the bride-to-be for our tasting and consultation, and discovered that we had gone to school together! It was lovely to see her, and to get to be a part of her beautiful celebration.
The theme for the cupcakes was very Nova Scotian, with a mix of Sweetiecakes signature locally-inspired flavours including:
True Bluenose: vanilla cake with fresh blueberry buttercream
Annapolicious: moist apple cake with vanilla buttercream
Oak Island Booty(licious): red velvet cake with chocolate buttercream and gold dragees
Each cupcake was labelled so the guests could choose their flavour(s) easily! The top cake and cupcakes were adorned with sugarpaste fall-colored leaves that I created to match the paper leaves scattered in the centre of each table.
Skatepark, dude!
This vanilla birthday cake for one of my favourite four-year olds was frosted with vanilla buttercream, and the top was covered in fondant for the wood look of the half-pipe. Doing the graffiti on the sides was cool...I felt kind of rebellious and scribbled away with reckless abandon :)
Alex's mom added a grinding rail to the top and a couple of techdeck skateboards before serving. Right on!
Winnie the Pooh
A yumbly-in-your-tumbly birthday cake for a little girl who loves Pooh! I found a photo of a cake online that gave me this idea, and I had so much fun with the design...thanks to Jen who helped me get just the right hue for the icing "paint' for the shading. This was vanilla cake covered in smooth vanilla buttercream frosting.
I created this cake for a small, intimate wedding by the ocean near Peggy's Cove in October 2009. It was frosted in classic vanilla buttercream, and decorated with sugarpaste shells and fresh orchids and lilies.
The bride was truly a pleasure to work with--one of the delightful perks of making wedding cakes is meeting fantastic people :)
A cake for the pinkest wedding I have ever attended!
The wedding was beautiful, every detail meticulously planned. Although it poured during the ceremony in the church, the sky cleared and the sun gleamed in on us during the reception overlooking the Northwest Arm.
The cake was the bride's favourite, red velvet with cream cheese frosting; covered in white gumpaste flowers. The amount of pink color in the frosting gave it a slightly bitter taste--note to self when planning bright pink or red frosting!
Thanks, Joss, for the photo!
summer wedding
This one is from July--where did the summer go? This tower was for my wonderful brother-in-law and amazing new sister-in-law...200 carrot cupcakes smothered in cream cheese frosting and sprinkled with sparkly sugar.
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A sixteenth birthday cake for a girly girl who also received a car for this milestone birthday!
Both tiers were chocolate cake covered in vanilla buttercream and fondant.
Decorations were gumpaste and fondant, with some fabric ribbon added for texture. I made the LV pattern for the top using stamps that I made out of mini potatoes, dipped in a food color/vodka/lustre dust mix!
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My latest creation...for a wedding at Shining Waters Marina this past weekend. The top and bottom tiers were chocolate cake with chocolate filling and raspberry buttercream, and the middle tier was classic vanilla cake filled and covered with strawberry buttercream. The cake was wrapped in strips of sunset-colored fondant and painted with gold lustre dust.
It was large enough to serve 100+ people, and incredibly heavy to carry. Thanks for your help, Steve!
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It was large enough to serve 100+ people, and incredibly heavy to carry. Thanks for your help, Steve!
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