Car Cake V2.0

This weekend was fun: we made another car cake!

This is a chocolate cake with dark chocolate buttercream.

It's a 9" square cake covered in blue fondant with a street-like border. On top is a Nova Scotia license plate with the birthday boy's name and age and a couple toy versions of his favourite antique car.


We heard back from the client today and they've already asked about making another cake order. Great news!

Stencils!

During our trip to Ontario, this past July, we picked up some nifty stencils for cake decorating. Being mid-September, you can imagine how impatient Joanne has been to use them. Well, the opportunity finally came!

We received an order for an elegant cake for a client's birthday. The colour scheme was to be black and white with bright pink details.

Joanne decided to cover a cake in clean, white fondant and to use a scroll stencil with royal icing dyed black on the sides of the cake. This is was the result!

The top of the cake features the birthday girl's initials in a hand-painted monogram and the border is made of beads made of black fondant.

Then, we had to add the pink touches!


Joanne decided to go with some calla lilies and a rose. It was her first time making a fondant rose, but it was fun! Here is a close-up.

It was definitely fun to play around with flowers, so there will definitely be more of those in the future! And, given the chance, we definitely hope to be able to work with stencils again; they are so elegant, yet, kind of funky.

Channeling Hope

Tuesday, September 14th was a fantastic fundraiser for the Stephen Lewis Foundation who helps to raise money against HIV/AIDS in Africa. The event was held to celebrate Kristin Roe who bravely swam across the English Channel.

I was really touched and thrilled to be asked to put something together for the event. I wanted to incorporate water, because of the swim, and the red ribbon, in support of a cure for HIV/AIDS.

The event was held at Pier 21, in Halifax.

This was the result!The cake is vanilla with vanilla icing while the three dozen cupcakes are one in vanilla and two in moist chocolate, both topped with blue swirls of vanilla buttercream and a red fondant ribbon.

You can still make a donation, go to their website!

Harry Potter Cake

Last week, Joanne was given the chance to make a cake she'd wanted to do for a while: she got to make a Harry Potter cake! Having read all of the books and watched all of the movies multiple times, it was actually difficult to choose which elements of the Harry Potter world to incorporate into the cake.

In the end, she decided it would be fun to make a couple of Hogwarts textbooks and add a couple of little details for fun. The clients were francophone, so we went with two topics which had "transparent" titles; words that are the same in French and English. So, potions and dragons it was!


It was a fun day of firsts for us: first time using our new four inch deep square pans - which were cut into rectangles - and Joanne's first time using food dyes and water to hand paint on a cake.


The books are accompanied by a small sorting hat, a golden snitch and a wand made from chocolate fondant.


Joanne added the birthday girl's initials on one of the books, as the author, which she promptly noticed and excitedly ran to tell her mother about. We later heard it was a hit with the other kids at the party.

The cakes were both moist chocolate with a dark chocolate buttercream.

From the Vault - Father's Day!

Ok, so this cake was made for Joanne's papa on Father's Day.

The pictures have been sitting in a folder for months and only now did we come across them and decide to post.

Joanne likes to joke that she saves her husband tonnes of money... by never missing a sale!

On one of her trips to the clearance portion of Winner's Home Sense, she found this little cake stand and was instantly inspired to make her dad a small and simple cake to match.

The cake is a 6" vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream and inside is a deliciously light and fresh raspberry mousse filling. Yum!