1st Birthday: Butterfly Cupcake Tower

Hope everyone is having a great start to their week.  Today I have some sweet butterflies and flowers decorating a cupcake tower to celebrate a 1st birthday.

The cake inspiration was from the party designs created by Barbara Neely designs who you'll find on Etsy.

Guest Post: Beth from Whimsical Wedding Cakes

Today's post is part of our bi-weekly Guest Post: 5 Pics Series. We feature multi-talented cake designers from all over the world that I have met online and also in person.

I met Beth Appleton last year at the cakelava class at Icing Inspirations in Kitchener.  Beth found her passion for cake design while planning her own wedding in 2002.  She found it difficult to find a designer with her sense of "whimsy" so she designed her own whimsical cake.

Since then, Beth taught herself the basics and took some classes with some amazing cake designers.  Beth is regularly featured online and in magazines like Wedding Bells, won the Cake Star challenge at Bonnie Gordon's Cake Show 2011 and was featured on the Canadian cake competition TV show Cake Walk.  I think you'll agree that her designs are just amazing!

1) So elegant and perfect

 2) Simple, clean and wintery

 3) Winning cake at The Cake Show 2011

 4) So Cute!

5) Whimsy and Happy!

Beth is located in Milton, Ontario and you can find her:

• Website at: whimsicalweddingcakes.com
• On Facebook

Happy Valentine's Day

A simple little heart shaped cake to wish you a Happy Valentine's Day.  Hope your day is filled with lots of sweet things. 

My daughter, Sidney, sure loved playing with the cake like it was a drum.  She is still not old enough to taste cake yet as she is just over 7 months.

The cake was 4 layers of chocolate sour cream cake with vanilla bean buttercream - it was a nice treat!  Hope you enjoy a treat today!

3rd Birthday: Dora Cupcake Tower

A very popular request for a 3 year old's birthday: Dora the Explorer.   There were 3 types of cupcakes: Chocolate Sour Cream, Vanilla Bean and Red Velvet cupcakes with cream cheese icing topped with handmade sugarpaste decorations.

Superbowl Sunday Cupcakes

Happy Superbowl Sunday everyone!  Whether you are a Patriots fan or Giants fan or bandwagon fan (like me) - enjoy the game!

I made some chocolate sour cream cupcakes topper with lemon cream cheese icing.

Guest Post: Coco Cake Cupcakes from Vancouver

Today's post is part of our bi-weekly Guest Post: 5 Pics Series. We feature multi-talented cake designers from all over the world that I have met online.

Today we feature Lyndsay from Coco Cake Cupcakes and Custom Cake in Vancouver, BC. Lyndsay is self taught and has been making cakes for three years. Her design style is clean, creative, unique and has a vintage/modern vibe to it. She loves to make kid's birthday party cakes especially the animal face cake.

She is pretty famous with the online community from her Very Hungry Caterpillar cupcake cake.  Beside caking, she also finds time to blog about ice cream and food

#1 - The Famous Hungry Caterpillar Cupcake Cake

#2 - Cute Animal Cakes

#3 - Angry Birds

#4 - Elmo

#5 - Cute duo of cakes

You can follow Lyndsay here:

• Website at: cococake.com/
• Blog at: cococakecupcakes.blogspot.com
• Facebook and Twitter
• Lots of cake photos  on Flikr

2nd Birthday Cake: Chuggington Cake

A Chuggington themed cake with handmade sugarpaste Koko and Wilson for a 2nd birthday.  The cake was chocolate sour cream cake with strawberry buttercream.

Have a great week!  See you next Tuesday!

Guest Post: Caroline's Cake Company from UK

It's back, our bi-weekly Guest Post: 5 Pics Series.  We feature multi-talented cake designers from all over the world that I have met online.

Today's Guest Post comes from Caroline Smith, owner and cake designer at Caroline's Cake Company based in Birmingham, UK.  Caroline started the business in August 2008 following 3 years of classes at the Birmingham College of Food and countless cake orders for family and friends.  Since then, the business has grown and developed beyond her wildest dreams.  She loves spending her time meeting amazing clients and creating delightful cakes for their weddings and celebrations.  Have a look at some of her wonderful creations:

#1 - Delicate and Sweet

#2 - Tea Anyone?

#3 - 3D Fun

#4 - Fun cakes for kids

 #5 - Always Creating - Stunning creation based off a company's logo, check out her blog post on this.

Caroline is also regular blogger of her wonderfully creative and clean creations, you can follow her at:

• Blog:  carolinescakecompany.blogspot.com/
• Website at carolinescakecompany.co.uk
• Facebook at facebook.com/CarolinesCakeCo
• Twitter at twitter.com/CarolinesCakeCo

40th Birthday Cake: Porsche Cake

I hope everyone is having a great week so far!  We've been having some warmer temperatures here in Toronto - it does not feel like winter at all.  In the peak afternoon - you really could drive a convertible, so I thought this cake would be appropriate.

It's a chocolate convertible porsche cake for a 40th birthday celebration with the personalized license plate of "OVERTHEHILL".

Have a great week!  I will be back here next week to feature another Guest Cake Designer's creations.

Superheroes Cake

Welcome 2012 and I hope everyone had a wonderful start.  I was out with some friends on New Years Eve and I was reminded of this very interesting fact.... In Back to the Future II, the future date they went to was 2015... that is only 3 years away!  Yikes - time sure flies!

And speaking of somethings that fly... a superhero cake with "cutish" characters made out of sugarpaste.  It was for a 25th birthday and I just loved how it turned out - so colorful and fun! 

 Have a great week - see you next Tuesday!