Carousel Cake... and Cookies!

I had the pleasure of designing a celebration cake for my friends' 10 month old twins.  They were visiting from out of town to celebrate their Christening.  I mentioned previously about having fun with fondant covered cookies and this design was perfect!!

 The cake was alternating layers of zesty lemon and chocolate sour cream cake with vanilla swiss meringue buttercream with that added bonus of sugar cookies.  I also displayed it on a lazy Susan so it was fun to spin it around.

Lavender Baptism Cake

A wonderful lavender cake for a little girls baptism.  I always find shades of purple and blue hard to get just right.  I loved how this lavender turned out!

The top tier was strawberry vanilla cake with cream cheese icing.  The bottom tier was banana sour cream cake with cream cheese icing.

Baptism Cake

This was a re-creation of one of my past Christening Cakes - similar, but a little bit different.  The top tier was strawberry vanilla cake and the bottom was chocolate sour cream cake.

Here is a picture of the front of the cake and I also decorated the back as this was for a special family dinner celebration with people sitting around the table.

 

I should also mention that Sienna's birth was also celebrated with a SweetThings baby shower cake earlier this year.  And Sienna's dad celebrated a birthday a few months back with SweetThings custom cake.  I look forward to continuing to make wonderful and creative cakes for this lovely family.

Baptism and Christening Cakes

Another very special occasion for a cake - a baptism or christening.  The terms are sometimes used interchangeably, but they do have different meanings for different faiths.

Here is a 2-tier cake that I made for a Christening.  There is a small 3rd tier that the client requested so they can save the topper.

And matching red butterfly cupcakes...

A 2-tier baptism cake.  Vanilla Butter Cake on the top tier and Chocolate Velvet cake on the bottom tier.

First Birthday or was it?

This past weekend, I made this wonderfully cute birthday cake for a little boy. The mother sent me a photo of her son so I could make a sugarpaste model of him for the top. This cake was chocolate velvet on the bottom tier and vanilla butter cake on the top tier. I was so happy with this cake, loved how the little boy turned out, the colours, the train and the clothesline. I can't take credit for the clothesline design - the client had found this on another website, I just added in my own flair with the rest of the cake.

I delivered the cake proudly. She opened the door holding her young son and when she saw the cake, she said "Wow.... but he is not 1. He is only 4 months" Ooops, I guess for some reason, I thought it was his first birthday, it was actually his first party. And somehow I didn't clue in with the photo that she sent - I felt terrible. Well, she was so very sweet and let me remove the 1 on the top and add in an extra toy that I made. I'm lucky she was so good about it.

And the next day, she sent me a lovely note that the cake was a hit and she looked forward to me making her sons 1st birthday cake. :-)

A Christening Cake with lots of animals

I made this cake this past weekend for a Christening. It is a 2-tier cake - bottom tier is 3-layers of chocolate velvet cake with swiss meringue buttercream and the top tier is 3-layers of vanilla butter cake with swiss meringue buttercream.

The cake is covered in fondant and the animals are all handmade with sugarpaste. My favorites were the giraffe and panda.


I made a sleeping baby in a tiny bed on the top. I actually guessed on the baby boy's haircolour when I was up late making the final details... somehow I lucked out as the boy did have blondish, red hair. Next time I will definitely ask my customer beforehand - I really could've messed that one up!