Sprinkle Cake

I've been wanting to try making a sprinkle cake for a while now ... our end of summer family get together was the perfect opportunity.  It was so fun!  (Sorry for the car in the background ... I just noticed that now.)

Shoes!!!

This 60th Birthday Cake was for a lady who loves chocolate and shoes.

Golf Cake

This golf themed cake was made for a 60th Birthday party.  It is a Chocolate Chip Mocha Baileys Cake filled with layers of Baileys Mousse and dark chocolate ... yummy!

Ocean Cottage Pre-Wedding Cake

This cake was for a pre-wedding party my Aunt hosted.  Since the bride and groom are sailors and the party was at their oceanfront cottage she asked me to go with a nautical/ocean theme.  The cake was inspired by two beautiful cakes, one by Jennifer Harrison at Layers Wedding Cakes and the other on Gateaux's Cake Log Blog.

Balloon Wedding Cake

I was thrilled to be asked to make my brother's Wedding Cake and even more excited when they choose this colourful balloon design.  I have seen pictures of several similar to this online so I'm not sure who to give the original credit to.  It was a combination of yummy chocolate cake with cookies and cream filling and yummy vanilla cake with salted caramel buttercream filling.

English Garden Birthday Cake

This English Garden themed Birthday cake was made for a family friend who is involved with the Philadelphia Flower Show.  I regret that I forgot to get a photo of the rose-covered lattice arch at the back of the cake, it was my favourite part.

Easter Cake

This cake is loaded with bunnies and easter eggs for our family Easter Dinner this year.  Now that there are some toddlers in the family it is fun to get cutsie with the cakes.  This one was inspired by a variety of Easter cakes I found online.

Messy Office Birthday Cake

Our birthday gift for my Brother-in-Law this year was this messy-office inspired cake, which we surprised him with at work.  He loved it so much it got paraded through the whole office so everyone could have a peak before it was cut.

Art Birthday

My cousin is an artist, so for her birthday I created a cake with an art theme.  Her paints and brushes are on the top of the cake with a half-finished canvas of one of her paintings.  On the side of the cake I recreated one of her paintings in buttercream.  She loves chocolate so this is a chocolate cake and each layer is filled with chocolate mousse on top of a thin layer of crunchy dark chocolate ... mmmm!

Farm Animal Second Birthday

For my son's second birthday, we hosted a farm-animal-themed birthday party for his grandparents and uncle.  Here are a few pictures from the morning.

Second Birthday Cake

I knew for my son's 2nd birthday I wanted to use a farm animal theme.  Drawing inspiration from a wide variety of similar farm themed cakes I found online, this is the cake I finally came up with.  He loved it and had a wonderful time making the animal noises when he saw the cake.  We let him play with the animals after the cake was cut and there wasn't much left of them after he pulled off all their heads and legs!

Looking Good Birthday

A yellow butter cake with chocolate mousse filling for a birthday girl who needs to spoil herself.

A Leopard and Pink Birthday

This girly red velvet cake was decorated for a leopard and pink joint birthday party.  The shoe, clutch purse and broach are all hand made from sugar paste.  The cake is covered in buttercream with a fondant ribbon hand painted with leopard spots.

Classic Wedding White

This classic white wedding cake is covered in all buttercream.  Lemon cake with lemon curd on the bottom layer and vanilla bean cake with vanilla bean buttercream on the bottom layer.  The cake looks a little crooked because the heirloom cake plate the bride wanted to use had a bit of a tilt to it.

Third Anniversary

A chocolate cake with peanut butter cup filling that my sister asked me to make for her third anniversary.

Family Sailing Weekend

A sailing themed cake for a family weekend get together by boat.  The top layer is lemon sour cream cake with lemon curd and the bottom layer is vanilla cake with blueberry mousse.

Miss U Already

A chocolate cake with cookies and cream filling for a small going away party.

Circus Second Birthday

A circus themed birthday cake for my littlest cousin's birthday cake.  Banana cake with chocolate ganache filling covered in swiss meringue buttercream with fondant accents.

Ivory and White Wedding

This wedding cake was for a family friend.  It is a lemon sour cream cake with lemon curd filling covered in marzipan and ivory fondant with hand-piped lace details.  It has been a very hot and humid weekend here and I had a few heart-pounding moments getting the cake to the venue.  I was relieved to hear the next morning that the cake survived the night.

Muppet Cupcakes

My brother never really grew up and he's been bugging his fiance about having muppet cupcakes at their wedding next summer. I made the cupcakes for them as an engagement present. We'll see if he finds something else to 'inspire' him for their wedding treats now. These were originally made by Cupcake Occasions in the UK, but I put my own twist on some of the characters.

Anne's Wedding Cake

My Cousin Anne asked me to make the cake for her wedding last weekend.  She was having a nautical themed wedding and wanted the blue and white ribbon around the base of each tier with a compass rose and their initials on the top.  The cake is a red velvet cake with a filling similar to whipped cream.  The cake is frosted and decorated all in Swiss Meringue Buttercream.  The compass rose is free-hand pipped on top.

Anne's Bridal Shower

My sisters and I threw a 'cocktails and desserts' bridal shower for our cousin Anne.  I tried my best not to micro-manage everything (I'm sure my sisters would tell you I failed miserably).  We used the floral teacups my grandmother has so many of as our inspiration and came up with a pink and green floral theme.  It was a lovely evening.

 The table.

Strawberry Mousse in cookie cups with a hidden white chocolate centre.

I love making French macarons - they're finicky but so pretty and yummy - well worth the effort.

 Cylindrical vases each held different varieties of pink flowers and my little sister made some scrumptious chocolate dipped strawberries, a specialty of hers.

White chocolate brownies had a pretty pink floral design piped on them.

Lemon mousse was served in teacups with a small chocolate heart garnish and bowls of fresh raspberries and blueberries to put on top.

Goldfish Babypool Party

I stumbled across a very cute idea for a little kids party - a blue and orange goldfish cracker theme!   Since we've been wanting to get to know a few more families with toddlers our son's age, I thought it would be a great fit.  Throw in a blue inflatable babypool to keep the tots entertained on a hot summer day and we had the makings of a fun afternoon.    

 The blue-and-orange buffet had blue streamers resembling waves in water as a background, a big fishbowl of blue gelatin with orange candy fish 'swimming' in it, a goldfish 'pinata', vases with four varieties of goldfish crackers, and water bottles of 'ocean water' (blue water and baby oil) for the babies to take home with them.

Goldfish cookies 

Blue and Orange chocolate dipped pretzel sticks. 

Goldfish cake pops

Blood Orange soda for the grown-ups and goldfish crackers for the toddlers.

The babies in (around?) the pool.