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.

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!

destination weddings

Our good friend Jaime, over at My Way With Style, planned an afternoon of helping brides plan their destination wedding. She got us to do the treats :)

We have had a lot of requests for our cakettes to make appearances a weddings as favors for guests. How great is that?! No more stale mints or trinkets, why not give your guests a sweet little treat! Jaime has some great packaging ideas, as shown above, but they can even be as simple as cello wrapped with some pretty ribbon.

They are also showing up more and more often on dessert spreads and nestled into cupcake towers. Even plated as they are above, simple and so pretty.

We can do them in chocolate and white chocolate and the design on the tops have lots of options. Sprinkles, sparkling sugar, matching coloured chocolate, or even little flowers.

Here are some pretty shots care of Bond over at BLF Studios, one of Winnipeg's talented photographers. Man, we've got talent in this city, let me tell you...

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!

wordless wednesday

quicky

I have come to a realization. I find myself not blogging because I find I don't have the time to come up with a whole blurb about something clever. So I think what I shall do is something I've seen on other sites, blogs, facebooks and twitters; and start the ritual of

"Wordless Wednesday".

I've already ruined it. Said too much.

I'll just describe the cake for you, that part won't count.

4 lovely tiers, pumpkin cake and red velvet I believe.

Finished in chocolate brown fondant and fresh flowers.

Stunning fall wedding!

gettin famous

Oh my!

I follow this blog and let me tell you, so do like a million others.

So imagine my surprise to see little ole me carving my cupcake pumpkin.

Then, minutes later this pops up! our little ghosty's!

And then wormies here...

All thanks to tumblr. Which after spending a little time looking into, I still completely do NOT understand.

Whatsoever.

But seriously, with a blog, facebook, website, and twitter, do I really need another outlet? Me thinks no.

Well...for now.

I also think you want to see some pretty cakes. So here's one I did for one of my staff's parents who got married a couple of weekends back. Gave me free reign on the design :)

lace appliques, satin ribbon and bling.

Lovely.

wedding show!

This week will go by quickly, as they always do when there is LOTS to do!

Check it out here.

Come on by to see us and say hi!

the variety cake show

Here's a couple of cakes that were ordered for various parties, a wedding, a wedding shower...you get the idea. Nice sophisticated cakes suitable for any event really...

All three are very different as well. The first is finished in chocolate ganache. Ganache is some nice dark chocolate, melted and whisked with whip cream. You let it set up in the cooler then when you are ready to use it you whip it up.

So divine....

The second and third are both done in fondant, the first showing off some spectacular gum paste roses, the last showing off some lacy cutouts.

prettiness

Just a quick blog today, must get down to Toad Hall to get something for my darling daughters birthday (5!!). Wowza. Nothing like kids growing to make you feel old...

Anyway, nice party cake, swirls, flowers, I believe it was for a wedding shower. Very sophisticated :)

Snap, crackle pop I do!

How cute is this?
An entire wedding cake made from rice krispie cake.
When my delightful bride and groom asked me if I would consider doing this I jumped at the chance. I love rice krispies! And how fun to be a guest at this wedding...I could so easily bribe my kids to eat their dinners knowing this was for dessert.
We did one trial run with the bottom layer to work out the glitches and it was as easy as we hoped. We used a ten inch pan, the one we would have used for the cake layer, made three batches then stacked them up together. We put some weight on it and let them set, using the extra bits to fill in any holes or gaps. Repeat three times, stack them all up and voila!
A rice krispie wedding cake.
I want to mention as well the custom cake topper they had made, in the likeness of themselves and all their furry family. So sweet!

castles in the sky...no wait, sand?...no wait...

How's this for fancy pants...the castle LIGHTS UP. One step closer to that ever fateful day where we will be setting off explosives in cakes, lighting them on fire and using fireworks.
It will happen...trust me, in due time...

Here's a close up of the pretties.
Oodles of tiny little flowers, roses and leaves...
Crystal path leading to the castle...
Very pretty I think.
This cake came together so wonderfully, each flower and leaf we added seemed to make it better and better.
And the best part? The thank-you from the happy couple...

Hi Pam... wow was that the best cake I have ever eaten!!!!!! I just want to thank you for all your hard work, and to let you know that my caked looked great and tasted even better. Thank you for the amazing cake.
Melissa and Dan

Our pleasure!

my most wonderful time of the year....

Ahhh...weddings...
My most favorite time of the year. This year so far we've (personally) only had one wedding. Which is sad. I love weddings as a guest. I like to look at it as a custom date night, we dress up nice, dinner is already planned out for us, there's a bar, music, dancing and the best part is that there are friends and family there too. We have no other agenda but to take in the evening.
Love it.
And now with our girls getting bigger comes the fun of fancy shoes, pretty dresses and spinning with daddy on the dance floor <3 aww...

simplicity and lace

I have found a reoccurring theme this year in wedding cakes. Tone on tone (whites/champagnes/ivories) or complete contrast. Here is a nice example of a cake done in all ivory. So elegant and simple, I adore it. And she's tall enough, grand even, that she doesn't need more. This one is a set of 6"/8"/10"/12" round cakes, the 8" layer is doubled in height.

'bout damn time lady....

Well well well.
Look who it is....
That girl who used to blog her little heart out and then got all "big-shot" on ya....
Too busy for the little old blog eh?
Well, not anymore my dear blog-reading friends. I have folders chock full of beautiful pics that I need to share with you all!
And of course, I need to also offer up an apology for neglecting this poor little blog.
My sincerest of apologies.
Things seem to get done when they are part of a schedule, so this will become part of my schedule, make it routine. Make sure I'm keeping you coming back for more :)

As I am sure that the guests of this beautiful wedding must have been doing all night to the dessert table. Really, I mean I would. Who doesn't love candy hearts AND cupcakes AND gingham?

Such a beautifully cute, simple and charming wedding. Outdoors, beautiful weather, beautiful setting, awesome couple :)

happy spring!

I find it only fitting that as I post about the arrival of spring that I can hear on the radio in the kitchen that we are expecting snow tomorrow.
Lovely.
With a wind warning.
Glad my sign isn't up yet...

But so many other things are ready to go! I hope to be able to call the health inspector on Monday to come in and check us out.

In the mean time, here are some of my latest cakes. I chose some pretty ones as spring time makes me want to make pretty things. Speed up that whole "cleaning up winter" process.
Have a great long weekend!

my third baby

Good morning my dears :)
Hope this blasted hump day is treating you well. Tis a long day for me as it usually begins my weekend orders. Sorting out details, grocery lists, supply lists. Looks like this weekend is a little calmer than last. Gives me the opportunity to potentially see some friends. While I love my unconventional schedule, it does get hard to interact with the real world...

I'm really excited for the consistency that the shop will bring. Regular hours, having a "work day" instead of kind of working all the time. Very exciting. Granted, days will be long, but that's expected. To be able to have work at work and be me at home is very much needed.
We're planning on being open for business everyday except Sundays. Need a day of rest :)
Hours look like they'll be 10/11am until 5/6pm. With our area, I'm sure the foot traffic will increase and decrease based on the weather, the season and the day so we're planning on being flexible. Play it by ear.

Originally the plan was to open space that would be used for myself and my staff, not so much from the customers aspect. A place to work on my custom orders and some wholesale work. Now I find myself thinking about cupcake displays, door bells and take out bags. I've been working on a business plan that keeps getting pushed to the side. At first I was crediting this to my workload; must bake now, can write later. Now I'm realizing I'm not writing it because it's not done forming in my head. It's been two long years of evolving. Growing. Changing.
For lack of a better analogy, it's like being pregnant all over again. But I need to get this out of my head and be done with this stage. Move on to cuddling and coddling my newest addition to our family.
So this weekend of a few cakes instead of a dozen has come at the perfect time. Time to hanker-down and work on this birth plan...er...business plan...it is almost spring after all...

(the above cake was from a small wedding I did last month. Lovely house reception. It's a 6" and 9", finished in rolled fondant with gum paste roses, made by moi for a change :)