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.