Foodie Food

We all know someone who loves to cook! We were asked to make a cake for someone's 40th birthday. When we asked what theme to go with, they said he loved to cook and cycle. He is also French.

So, how do you incorporate food and cycling into a cake? We decided to make it with lots of food and an apron on top, along with some recipe books and a cycling book ("Vélo" is French for bicycle).

The cake was three layers of cake, chocolate, vanilla and chocolate, all pulled together with our yummi chocolate hazelnut buttercream (Joanne's favourite).

The cake was a HUGE hit. This is how it turned out:

And Sachin sculpted most of the toppers.

Winter Wonderland!

It is winter, and everyone living in Halifax knows it; how many snow days have we had these past few weeks?

So, Joanne got some new cutters in the shapes of snowflakes and boy are they cute!

Here are a few cupcakes we've made, so far.

This first batch was for a fundraising bake sale at Dalhousie University for the INDISA student society. They are chocolate cupcakes with vanilla icing. The snowflakes are fondant with some sprinkled on non-pareils.


The second batch was brought to class as a Happy Friday treat. They are chocolate cupcakes topped with fondant.


And this final batch is two dozen cupcakes, in a cupcake tree (which we rent out for $5 with an order) that we donated to the Camerata Xara Young Women's Choir, for their Sweet On You fundraiser, held at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. These are chocolate cupcakes with some chocolate mousse filling and topped with vanilla buttercream. The snowflakes are fondant and they are also sprinkled with the snow-like non-pareils.

Nothing like some yummi cupcakes to warm up any chilly winter day!

New Year's Eve Wedding

Ok, ok, so it's been way too long since we've updated the blog. It's been a busy winter, so far, with Joanne going back to school full-time to finish off her degree at Dalhousie.

It doesn't mean we haven't been making cakes, though! We had an exciting order for New Year's Eve: a wedding!

They wanted 10 dozen cupcakes (yup, that's 120 cupcakes) with a small cake on top with a topper. The wedding was hosted at a local hotel, in downtown Halifax.

The cupcakes were: a few dozen red velvet with vanilla cream cheese icing, a few dozen white chocolate cupcakes with vanilla buttercream and a few dozen chocolate cupcakes also with minty buttercream.

The topper cake was a chocolate cake with chocolate mousse filling and vanilla buttercream. Yum! They provided us with the cute little couple cake topper, too.

This is the cake:

The whole tower with the cupcakes looked like this:

Some cupcakes were topped with flowers that had pearl centres, others had just two differently-sized pearls on them and finally some had some tiny little snow-like non-pareils sprinkled on. As you can see, the colours were white and red.

The cupcake tower itself is ours and with an order, we will rent it for $25. It's modular and can have up to 7 levels!

Congratulations to the happy couple and happy New Year to everyone!