Simple and Elegant Wedding Cake

I haven't posted any recent wedding cakes in a while.  Here is a lovely, simple and elegant wedding cake I did in the spring in the wonderful Distillery District of Toronto.

The wedding had fresh tulips scattered everywhere  - I sure fell in love with tulips that day!  I didn't make the tulips on the cake, but when I get an opportunity, I will tackle handmade sugar tulips - they are just too lovely!

This cake had a wonderful, subtle texture that I added to the tiers - loved how it turned out!  And also happy I took so many different photos from different angles.

1st Birthday Cake: Toybox Cake

As a cake designer, there is always a theme or design that you hope someone will order soon or you try to make up an excuse to make it for a friend.  I was excited to get this order for a 1st birthday - I love the toybox design.

 Last year I created this couple's baby shower cake with the yellow booties.  Their daughter just turned 1 and I included some of her favorite toys handmade in sugarpaste.

 Here is the birthday girl reaching out for one of the sugar details - how cute!

Champagne Celebration Cake

A champagne celebration cake for a custom design software company, Jonah Group's, 10th Anniversary.  The bottom tier design was inspired by the design of their blog, A Series of Tubes, and their Twitter page.

This 2-tier cake was alternating layers of chocolate sour cream and vanilla butter cake.  The champagne bottle was made out of rice krispie.

A few years ago, I made a Big Blue Whale cake for their 7th Anniversary.  I look forward to creating their next big milestone cake!  Happy Anniversary Jonah Group!

Panda Cake

I just love pandas - this cute cake was for a girl who was celebrating her 22nd birthday!

This cake was layers of chocolate sour cream cake with vanilla swiss meringue buttercream covered in fondant.  The champagne bottle was made out of sugarpaste.

Louis Vuitton Purse Cake

I never tire of creating Louis Vuitton purse cakes, although I must admit, I always hope the logo gets easier to handpaint... but it doesn't.  It still takes longer than I plan but the result is so rewarding.

My client asked for a classic style LV purse similar to a cake design that I made up a couple years ago.  So, I chose the Louis Vuitton Beverly GM.

This cake was alternating layers of chocolate sour cream and vanilla butter cake filled with vanilla swiss meringue buttercream and covered with chocolate fondant.

 

Here is a view of the side and back of the purse cake - handpainted logos everywhere.  If you are interested in attempting a purse cake, you can refer to my purse cake tutorial.

Baby Shower Cakes n' Cupcakes n' Me

Is it me or does it seem like there are babies everywhere?  Here are some cute baby shower cakes I've made with a wonderful pram design.

 

I also have a wonderful announcement.... in 2 months, I will be a mom for the first time!  We don't know whether it will be a girl....

We don't know if it will be a boy....

You may be wondering why I took a picture of a cupcake with 4-inch heels...  I was shopping with my husband when I just passed the halfway point of my pregnancy.  I saw these heels and fell in love.  He looked at me in the shoe store and said "You are 5 months pregnant and want to buy 4-inch heels?"   I answered coyly, "Yes, is there a problem with that?"  He had a giant smile and laughingly said "No problem at all"

We are so excited and I am feeling great.  If you notice from my availability, I will be taking some time off from regular cake orders.  But, I will definitely continue to blog every Tuesday about cakes, do some tutorials and have some guest posts.  See you next Tuesday!

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.

4th Birthday: Princess Castle Cake

This past weekend, I created this wonderful princess castle cake for a 4th birthday.  Last year, the birthday girl was into all things Egypt and I made her a Sphinx Cake.  This year, her parents surprised her with a princess themed cake and a surprise trip to Disney!

The top and middle tier were chocolate sour cream cake with chocolate swiss meringue buttercream.  The bottom tier was vanilla butter cake with vanilla swiss merinuge buttercream.  I covered the castle with edible gold dust, added in some edible glitter on the rice krispie turrets and Cinderella was handmade out of sugarpaste.

1st Birthday Cake: Toy Story Cake

It has been a while since I created a cake based off of Disney's Toy Story:  here's a link to that post.  I find the characters very detailed and complex - but love all the different colors.  This time around, the characters were 2D, instead of 3D - I loved how they turned out.

The frog sugar topper is not a Toy Story character, but the birthday boy's favorite toy.  The top tier was Orange Dream cake and the bottom tier was chocolate sour cream cake.

Angry Birds Cake

Raise your iPhone or mobile device if you are addicted to this Angry Birds game?  Actually, I spend countless hours playing Scrabble on my iPhone, so for this cake - I had to do lots of research on this game.  I soon realized that it was all in the details and I had so much fun with it!

This was the first time I actually made a backdrop to a cake.  It started out as two cakes and then I ended up making the 3 birds and the TNT mini-cakes.   The 6 cakes were alternating layers of chocolate sour cream and strawberry vanilla cake.

Everything else is handmade out of fondant and the stacking bricks were Rice Krispie squares covered in fondant.

And yes, there is that golden egg hidden back there.