Wedding Cake Inspired by a Painting

I absolutely loved making this cake wedding cake, although there is a lot of extra pressure when the design is based off of a famous painting.  The couple wanted a cake which complemented the venue, had a fall-ish theme and was a little bit different, but not too crazy.

The couple were married at the McMichael Art Gallery in Kleinburg which exhibits wonderful Canadian Art.  My design was based off of this famous Tom Thomson painting called Pine Trees at Sunset which sold for $2 million in 2008.  I love how the cake turned out - I used fondant, a 3D tree effect on the top and used edible paint - I hope I did justice to the art piece.

The couple is very active, loves the outdoors and biking, so they wanted me to add this in.  I made sugarpaste characters of them and their bikes.

Star Trek Cake: Starship Enterprise Cake

Who doesn't love surprise cakes... especially at weddings!  This Starship Enterprise-D cake was a surprise groom's cake.   Although it was very challenging, I loved every second of creating it.

The cakes was Orange Dream cake with Vanilla Swiss Meringue Buttercream.  The couple and their pets were handmade out of sugarpaste and sit on-top of a mini-cake.

Sphere Mini-Cakes: A Holiday Wedding Reception

I had the pleasure of designing this magnificent cake tower filled with sphere cakes.  My client and I have been talking and dreaming about this cake for many months now.  Her son was married in late summer in London, England.  Their wedding cake was based off a wonderful design by the talented cake artist Makiko Searle of Maki's Cakes.  I have been a fan of hers for quite some time!

The Toronto reception was planned for a few days before Christmas with all the family and friends flying in - that is how the colorful ornament theme came about.

The event was took place last night at the Market Kitchen which is a wonderful space at St. Lawrence Market.  It is in the Upper Level and overlooks the market area.

Here is another angle of the cake and you can see that they have a open kitchen.  They use this space for all sorts of events and also cooking classes.

I have made sphere cakes before, but not this many in so many sizes.  There was enough to feed 100 people.  There were 3 different sizes and the 2 different flavors:  Zesty Lemon and Chocolate Sour Cream with Vanilla Swiss Meringue Buttercream.  There were also 2 special soccer ball cakes for the big fans - the groom and the bride's father.

I think sphere mini cakes will be a very popular trend for 2010!  Let's see if I am right!

Multicultural Wedding Cakes

Isn't this such a fun wedding cake? The couple wanted to incorporate their different cultural background into the cake. The bride is from Hong Kong which is the flag design on the bottom tier. The groom is Portuguese and Korean which is the flags design on the next two tiers. And a gumpaste Canadian Flag on top.

They also have a love for pandas which was the sugarpaste topper. I also made these panda cupcakes for her bridal shower a few months back.
Continuing on the theme of multicultural cakes - I made this cake for Korean and Scottish couple. The cake topper was my favourite which also matched a pattern on their takeaways. I made his Scottish Tartan out of gumpaste and also the Luckenbooth brooch which is a Scottish love token.

The last cultural cake is actually the first wedding cake I ever designed, sketched out and made. It was a few years back for my Cake Decorating III class at George Brown. I love looking back at my older cake photos. :-)

Not Your Typical Wedding Cakes - Movie Theme and Scrabble Cakes

Last week I had the pleasure of making 2 fun wedding cakes for a wonderful couple. They had a movie-themed wedding whereby they had wonderfully designed posters and invitations, caramel popcorn favours and of course, a movie-themed cake.

Here is the original design that I sketched out for them and the final cake. My favourite parts were making the sugarpaste popcorn and the movie reels.


And here is there movie poster - they called it "A Walk in the Park" because that is where the groom proposed to the bride.

For their second cake, the couple loves playing Scrabble. They asked me to recreate a previous Scrabble Cake and add sugar characters of them and their 2 dogs.

And I was also inspired and made some additional Scrabble cupcakes. Aren't they cute and also worth 8 points!

A Waterfall Wedding Cake

It's definitely not your typical wedding cake - but so fun and meaningful for the couple. The Canadian bride pretended that they were cutting out the wedding cake to save money - then surprised the Brazilian groom with this waterfall cake.

There were lots of little birds and the mico monkey which is found in Brazil. The bride told me that he loved the entire 3-tier lemon butter cake. He even ate that little monkey and they also ate each other's flags... I'm not going to touch that one... :-)

Looney Tunes Wedding Cake

What a fun cake that I was so happy to design - with a unique theme and very fun. The couple requested a looney tunes themed cake which was not overpowering, but elegant, yet fun. The love looney tunes and have always defined their relationship like the cake topper - Mark Anthony and Pussyfoot.


The main flower for their wedding was cala lillies so I was able to encorporate it into the cake. I made a large sugarpaste flower for the front and back and each character holding a mini-cala lilly. Each of the characters: Mark Anthony, PussyFoot, Tweety Bird, Yosemite Sam and Pippy LePew were all handmade out of sugarpaste. Challenging, but I was happy with the results!


Each tier was 4-layers of alternating Strawberry Vanilla cake and Lemon Sour Cream cake with Vanilla Swiss Meringue Buttercream

Central Park Cake

This was definitely one of my favourite cakes to design. The couple got engaged in Central Park last year, so they wanted to re-create that in a wedding cake.

They also gave me their grandmothers famous Double Chocolate Pudding Cake recipe. It was quite decadent!

The cake was quite large and had over 150 servings. I tried to fit in as many of the famous landmarks in and around central park including the lakes, Bethseda fountain, Bow Bridge, The Obelisk, Guggenheim, Belvedere Castle, Engineer's Gate, Bandshell, Turtle Pond, The Great Hill and many more. I even made taxicabs which lined the streets.


Here is a view from above.







I also attached a picture of the template I made which stuck on my table for the weeks leading up to the wedding day. It was great to see it all come together!