sweet.

Since getting an iphone a couple months ago, I have become obsessed with playing on instagram. A photo editing and posting app that lets you easily make your pictures awesome. I'm loving it. The only problem is I can't adjust the light....

This cake was one of my favorites. I mention the lack of light because you can't really see the detailing of the second tier, just around the flowers you can.

Sweet and pretty to fit their vintage garden theme.

monkey's monkey's

Next to Lightening McQueen, I think the most requested thing we make are cakes with monkey's on them. Fortunate for us. They are cute and relatively simple.

Add in some other cutey jungle characters and you've got yourself a jungle party. Popular theme this year, we're done a number of cakes.

Heather & Paul!

Finally! One of my biggest events of the year for me has come and gone, and man, did we have a blast. My husbands sister Heather was married to her dear Paul last weekend. So many things to do! my girls were flowers girls, and quite frankly, the cutest ever. Great age for them to be involved in a wedding too, they had a great time. My dear hubby was the m.c., and naturally, I was in charge of sweets :)

Of what we could provide for a wedding, well, we did. From seat placing cookies, each custom iced with all of the guests names, to the wedding cake, the grooms cake (the Pug!) pics of him will follow, and a dessert buffet. Cupcakes, cakettes, brownies, lemon slice, and candy. great late night snacks!

We did up a four tier cake, the bottom half is not real, but I wanted to show off with a big cake :) Nice deep brown colour a little different from the traditional white, but was so fitting for this time of year and for their colour scheme. The day was gorgeous and we were able to have the appetizers and cocktails on the patio at Breezy Bend.

One of my favorite things to do for weddings is a dessert buffet. Candy buffets have popped up like crazy, and we added some candy to ours too but the sweets are where we excel. Four kinds of cakettes, four kinds of cupcakes, most gluten free, brownies, lemon slice. The guests were saited!

empty promises

Alright, back to the wordy blogging. I've veered away from chatting too much as we've been really swamped. My poor little blog has really taken a back seat and as I'm writing this, I know I've written that same line over and over. Time gets tight, the blog seems to be the first thing to go. Weeks later, I write an apology blog post and promise I'll do more, promise I'll do it weekly, promise I will stay on top of it. My game plan this time is to get help with it and have our shop girl, Jaime post pics too. I'll do the wordy thoughts-in-my-head posts, she can do the pics. Fair trade. I'll sprinkle in some cake pics too for you, as I can't imagine you're just here to read about the life of Pam....

Business has been booming like mad over here at the shop, and we are super thankful for that. It's also a nice problem to have when it comes to advertising and people wanting us to put ads out. I can simply say "no thanks", and that's not a usually easy thing for me to say. We did do a couple promo's though and I have to say there is nothing quite as satisfying as seeing your work in print. I'm making a scrapbook :)

And it's not just print. We've done a couple cakes for wedding planners, event coordinators and the like and seeing them on blogs and twitter feeds and websites is also super exciting. Just yesterday a wedding shoot was featured on a blog down in California. Fancy.

Signing off now, but we will chat soon! Thanks for following us!

cats and dogs and cats and dogs

I like making dog cakes. I really do. Fortunately I've never been invited to a birthday party where there has been a giant dog MADE from cake though, as I'm not sure that I'd be able to actually eat the poor thing...

This one I could probably eat. I wouldn't be jumping for the dog part, like I do for butter cream roses. Or cake corners, that one was heavily fought over at our house. Those heavily coated Jeanies cake corners....extra chocolate shavings...

Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think this thing is a dog. Come to think of it, I have no idea what it is.

Any of them.

I'm so out of touch....

This one is super sweet. I especially love the little terrier on her back waiting for a belly rub.

holy giant cupcake batman!

One gigantic cupcake, coming right up!

dedicated to Mr. Sheldon Cooper

I'm trying to make a book to help when it comes to ordering cakes at the shop. A nice little picture book; step by step questions, examples, photos. Have been wanting to do so for months. The problem is selecting pictures of cakes for the book, we've amassed quite a number of them, and sometimes I've even forgotten about them.

Not sure how I could forget this one.

Really.

I don't even know what it is. But I have seen it in the background of Big Bang Theory. So it's at least nerdy-cool.

I think.

Ever have the urge to eat your purse?

I haven't.

Often I've wished for better snacks to be IN my purse, but even that's a little risky with my kids :)

oh little princess

One of most requested themes.....princess's.

And who can blame you all? Our darling ladies in our lives are all princesses, no?

Some queens...

you know who you are...

Valentine's cookies!

Valentine's Day is certainly not for everyone. I know, by having little ones, that it can be fun, but for the most part, it can be tiring to hear about love, roses, chocolates, kissing, blah blah blah...

Sound like you or someone you know?

Then these are the perfect little treat for you. They make a great gift idea for friends, relatives and especially co-workers.

(so long as they have a smidge of a sense of humor about them...we're not taking the blame for workplace crying...)

Regardless!

Cookies are done by the dozens and are $13. We are taking orders for them up until Monday, February 7th for pick up on Friday (11th), Saturday (12) and Monday (14th).

Why not make them custom? Come up with your own words you'd like, any language! We can custom them for you and really piss off your friends....

Isn't that what Valentine's is all about?

Give us a call at

612-yumm (9866)

or email at

orders@cakeology.ca

some stuff we've been up to lately

We did some of these cakes so long ago I'm embarrassed to tell you how long.

I've been blessed with great staff and our new addition Jaime has gotten me so far ahead that I am actually able to sort and file pictures. There are literally hundreds!

So stay tuned, the updates will come sooner than the past month, for that I am sorry by the way. I know it's fun to pop in and see what's new and get ideas and it can be frustrating to not see anything fresh.

hello kitty!

short and sweet

Monkey's and banana's.

'Nuff said.... now back to work.

Thought it was pretty silly to post summer pictures, so to counteract it here are some seasonal favs. Hope you are all ready for the gathering of friends and family.

Take some time to enjoy it all!

out of context

I'm in the process of sorting pictures.

Sigh.

Digital photos to me means 15 shots of the same cake, one or two useful ones. Then hours of sorting and tweaking, labeling, tagging, filing.

As you can see we're working on a summer month...

A little out of context for three days before Christmas, but with this weather I like to think of warmer times.

And of course, random uploads to the net. These particular are for a fellow caker, who wanted to see some of the not so fancy cakes. The fun ones, like she does over here on her blog...Check it out, awesome cakes :)

variations on a theme

These guys aren't terribly exciting, but wanted to get them up as an example for a couple who would like something clean and modern, but pretty.

I love the whole theory of "less is more", and I love doing cakes that way.

My favorite one at the shop right now is similar, black and white, 1 large flower cluster.

Anyway, off to caking, we have one of our busiest weekends since the summer wedding fest.

Seems this is the weekend to have Christmas parties so have a safe and happy holiday weekend!

45 years

I get really nostalgic whenever I do cakes for anniversaries. I love making wedding cakes as well and I look forward to doing cakes 30, 40, 50 years down the road for them.

Wait...

That'll make me like 80...

Well shoot. That won't work at all. I plan on retiring soon.

Very soon.

Not going to happen, but hey, a girl can dream...

wordless friday anyone?....

Up to my ears in cake and fondant, but wanted to keep at the ole' blog.

Thanks for all the wonderful feedback, thanks for coming by!