Cottage House Warming

Joanne's Aunt Petra and Uncle Marc have just completed the construction of an oceanside cottage, in Gilbert's Cove, Nova Scotia. To celebrate summer, the cottage and Petra's 50th, they invited scores of people to the cove for a big party.

Uncle Marc is an avid sailor who loves anything with a nautical theme, so we decided to make some cupcakes.

We made some vanilla cupcakes and chocolate cupcakes, all topped with an almond buttercream. Then, after searching online (thank you, Google) and some lengthy arranging of letters and colours, we create a message from nautical flags.

They spell out: "Welcome" "Bienvenue" and "Comeau" and are accompanied by a couple of Canadian and Acadian flags.

*Note, this picture was taken after someone had already swiped an "M" flag!

Happy Canada Day!

Ok, ok, so we're a little late updating the blog, but it's been a really busy couple of weeks.

Joanne's little sister, Quésha, graduated from high school and so we were busy with getting her ready for prom! Then, we travelled to Fredericton for Joanne's cousin, Karoleen, who was also graduating from high school! Both received scholarships and looked stunning at the grad ceremonies.

Then, all of a sudden, it was July 1st!

Sachin decided to make some cupcakes for us to bring to the office, as a treat. The cupcakes were a yummi maple cake and they were topped with maple buttercream. Sachin then rolled out some fondant and finished them off with a fondant maple leaf and some maple leaf sugar sprinkles.

He had been looking for these maple sprinkles earlier, this year, during the Olympics, but they didn't get onto the shelves until June.

Colleagues from both of our offices loved them!

Paisley Party!

This cake was fun to make. It's a two tiered cake with paisley all over!

The bottom tier is Sachin's delicious, moist chocolate cake (three layers of cake with marzipan and almond buttercream between each layer) and the top tier is a white, vanilla pound cake (also three layers with the marzipan and almond buttercream).

Each little paisley has texture on it and the silver balls add a little pizazz.

Bachelorette Cake

We got a call for a bachelorette cake! The bride-to-be's favourite colour is purple, so we went with a fun and funky little 8" cake with flowers and silver accents.

The cake is a moist chocolate cake with marzipan between the layers and almond buttercream throughout.

We hope the girls have a good time and keep things a little tamer than Joanne's bachelorette.. ahem, I mean, Joanne had a tea party with her girlfriends, that's all. Really.

World Cup Soccer Fever

It's that time, again! If any of you know Joanne, you know she's cheering for France, but this week, we got an order for some Italia cupcakes!

The only guideline we were given was that they be "cutesy" so we went with it :)

The cupcakes are double chocolate with a vanilla icing. The toppers are made with fondant.

(Allez les bleus!)

Baby Shower

This cake was for one of Joanne's coworkers who is expecting a little girl. They've named her Blake and the theme for Blake's nursery is purple with butterflies and a flower garden.

It was Joanne's first time making the little baby booties, which we tied with a light pink satin ribbon. The calla lilies were also a first, which were a treat to make, since those were the flowers used on our wedding day.

The cake was delicious and perfect for the start of summer; it had four thin layers of white cake with a fresh raspberry mousse between the layers. The whole thing was then iced with a nice buttercream with a hint of almond and covered in fondant.

Hannah Montana

This is a chocolate cake with three layers of cake and marzipan in each tier with almond buttercream.

Maria, the birthday girl, was turning 8. She's a big Hannah Montana fan, so this design seemed ideal.

Her mother dropped off some little sugar stars and guitars as well as a funky Hannah Montana candle for the top. To add a little pizazz, we made a microphone from fondant for the topper.

We can't wait to hear from back from them to see how all of the kids liked it!