First Communion Cake

This order came in for a little girl's First Communion.

She wanted pink with flowers, so this is what we pulled together:

The cake is moist chocolate cake with almond buttercream.

Congratulations, Maria!

For the rocker you know: A drum cake!

We got a call from a client who wanted to get a special cake for her boyfriend's 30th birthday. He's a drummer in a band and she wanted to get him a cake that looked like his drum. She sent us a photo of the drum and we got to work!

The cake was one layer of vanilla cake, one layer moist chocolate cake and another layer of vanilla cake. All of the layers were pulled together with delicious chocolate-hazelnut buttercream.

Mmmmmm.....

Then, I covered it in white fondant and got to work on its sides. The drum was blue with sparkles, so I brushed blue sparkle shimmer powder on the blue and painted the metallic accents with silver shimmer.

We heard back from the client and it was a hit!

"I just wanted to let you know that your cake was a smash hit with drew and his family! everyone was impressed with the look and the delicious taste of the cake :)"

Glad he liked it!

It's Spring... time for Cherry Blossom Cupcakes!

Finally, the cold seems to have gone away!

It hasn't been exactly sunny, but at least, it isn't snowing. So, to celebrate, we made this cute little cherry blossom cupcakes.

They are chocolate with a small layer of almond buttercream and topped with fondant decorations.


Note to self: Next year, put a cherry inside each cupcake.

Spring flowers.. in a hurry!

Ok, so we try to stay on top of all of our orders. But, despite all of our best efforts, sometimes, we get really busy and something slips. In this case, it was good family friends whose daughter was turning 7. They had called Joanne on her cell the week prior, and her scribbled notes ended up staying in her pocket and never making it onto our kitchen's white board and calendar.

So, Saturday morning, the day the cake was due, the phone rang at 11:45 a.m. They wanted to know what time the cake would be delivered.

WHAT???

So, we had a bit of time to work with, the party was from 2-4 p.m. and the cake wouldn't be cut into until around 3:00 p.m.

We jumped into action and got to work. It was a two-tiered cake, chocolate with vanilla buttercream. The theme was flowers.

In three hours, we managed to bake, ice, decorate and deliver this cake. It was likely the quickest turn around we've ever done, and despite the mix-up, they were really pleased. In fact, they've ordered two more cakes, since! Those are both already on the white board, and the calendar in the kitchen, as well as on Joanne's electronic calendar on her phone, as will every future order!

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!