New cake again

The first cake was made for a two year old's birthday. I think it looks so sweet and pretty. It's the ever-popular lemon cake with raspberry preserve and vanilla buttercream. Fondant free! Although honestly, I would have preferred to do this cake in fondant and royal icing instead of buttercream. The piping would have been cleaner and sharper and the background would have been more even. Oh well! Maybe someone will hire me to do this in fondant for a wedding - those little birds would be perfect!

This next cake was a gift for a neighbour who just had a baby boy. Four layers of chocolate cake with two layers of macerated raspberries and chocolate ganache, one layer of butercream, and dusted with chocolate shavings. Topped with raspberries and hand-rolled truffles! And I got to peek at the baby for a few minutes when I delivered it! So welcome baby Emile, I know your mom will enjoy your birthday cake!

Some Cake...

It has been awhile since I posted any cake photos. Here's a couple new ones.

Castle Cake!

This is the first castle cake I've made, and I think it turned out rather well.  I wish I had taken in-progress photos.  There were several points when I felt like throwing in the towel, that there was no way I could make the castle presentable.  I had a temporary loss of faith.  At one time, I was positively despondent - I considered calling the customer to cancel.  The end result is pretty cool, though, if I get a chance to do another castle cake, there are A LOT of things I would do differently.  But that's the learning process, right? 

The green 'land' part is cake: vanilla with mango curd and strawberry buttercream.  The pink castle is Rice Krispie treats covered in fondant.  

This first photo is when most of the work was done, but before the final touches.

The back.
The little girl's name above the entranceway.
View from above right.
View from behind.
Right tower (this is before everything was touched up).
Left tower.
After touch-ups and additions.  Please ignore the bowls of oatmeal in the background.  Very professional, I know.

Eli and Jude's Cupcakes

A very good friend of mine had twin baby boys on the 27th of July!  I brought these cupcakes to the hospital when we visited.

Gumpaste decorations drying after I cut and painted them.

Probably my second favourite shirt combo.

My original plan for these was a onesie and a diaper on each of nine cupcakes.  However, when I sat down to decorate them, two had mysteriously gone missing! *cough* Ian *cough*.  So I decided to do six instead; two onesies on four, three diapers and a onesie on one, and six diapers on one.  I had a bunch of prepared miniature blue and white flowers that I used as filler....I'm wishing I'd come up with something more creative.  I don't like how they look.

This pair of baby shirts was my fave.

Hailey's Cake

This cake was for my little sister's 22nd birthday.  She seems eternally 19 to me - perhaps admitting that she is growing older means accepting that I am too.

Anyways, this cake was Red Velvet with Cream Cheese frosting and totally delicious if you ask me.  The flowers and decorations are all handmade out of gumpaste and fondant.

Mini Blossom Wedding-Gift Cake.

Another request for the painted swirls.  I think that might become my signature.  

  This cake is little....just four inches in diameter, but six inches tall (I thought that might be fun - in retrospect I would use less frosting and more cake for better stability) Neapolitan cake.  Vanilla butter cake, chocolate ganache, and strawberry cream cheese buttercream.  Yum!  This cake combo has passed every taste test with five stars.  

Thank you Hailey!

I make normal cakes too

Lemon with raspberry preserve and buttercream.  Sides are dusted with white chocolate shavings.  The raspberries and leaves are from my garden ;)

Eddie's Third Birthday Cupcakes

For Eddie's funky buggy party.  Lemon cupcake with vanilla buttercream.  Hand painted fondant leaves and gumpaste bugs.  The butterflies were my favourites ;)

And I added the 'labels' gadget, so you can find all my cakes in one category.

Thank you Melissa and Eddie!

Just a Taste...

Another order today.  Here's a quick pic of some of the hand painted gumpaste decorations for Eddie's bug party:

June's 50th

72 cupcakes; chocolate with white chocolate cream cheese frosting, fondant cap, and gumpaste decorations.  24 have real freesia. 

Setting up at the event.  They arranged the cupcakes into beautiful centerpieces on each table.  I thought it was a really clever idea!  They looked great.

Thank you for the pleasure Tara!

Bikram's Yoga Cake

My most recent job was for a community potluck at a local yoga studio. This cake features all 26 of the Bikram yoga style poses, and the topper is the studio's logo. 

The top tier (6 in) is vegan vanilla, the middle (8 in) is lemon, and the bottom (10 in) is chocolate.

All the decorations are made by hand.  All the figures are freehand.