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.

Chic 1st Communion Cake

Spring is the time for the special occasion of first communions.  For this little girl, I decided to make a tall and elegant cake with a chic flower and sugarpaste rosary.

The cake was alternating layers of strawberry vanilla and chocolate sour cream cake.  The photos aren't very clear as I didn't have my regular camera, so these are from my iPhone.  Can you seem the matching pattern of the cakeboard and top of the cake?  Just a new thing that I've been playing around with.

And one last photo of the cake instagram-ized.

1st Communion Cake

This past weekend, I made another first communion cake.  I've made this design previously in a 3-tier blue version.

This time it was a 2-tier cake and in hot pink!  Chocolate velvet cake with chocolate swiss meringue buttercream on the top tier and vanilla butter cake with vanilla swiss meringue buttercream on the bottom.

 

The cross and rosary were made out of sugarpaste.  I also created a handmade sugarpaste model of the girl that matched her first communion dress.

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 Communion Cakes

One of the best parts of designing and making cakes is that you are part of the planning process for such special occasions. I love talking to my clients and seeing the excitement they have to create the most special, personlized and perfect event. Today I wanted to share a selection of cakes and cupcakes that I have done for First Communion celebrations.

The above cake is a 3-tier cake with sugarpaste rosary, cross and the little boy celebrating his first communion - the cakes were chocolate and vanilla. Below we have a bible shaped chocolate sour cream cake. And also chocolate and vanilla cupcakes with fondant doves.

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!