Hot pink and bright blue!

Hello again!

Well folks, this is the last post until August as Valley Girl Cakes is taking a vacation! (Whoot!)
I have spent the last day and a bit making very pretty cupcakes for a very pretty bride to be and her man. They are having a joint party this weekend to celebrate their up coming marriage.  One of the bridesmaids is a good friend of mine (and more often than not our go-to-gal to watch our kids at night!) and she asked me if I could make some cupcakes for the bridal shower BBQ. Happy to be part of the fun I said I would love to. We found some super fun animal print cupcake wrappers in hot pink, which more or less sums up the bride's fun loving personality and a colour scheme was born! Hot pink and bright turquoise blue! 

I also have it on good authority that she likes daisies...

For some reason my perfect fondant that I made the night before was really temperamental when I went to make the flowers today. They were cracking and splitting and falling apart. Took AGES to get enough of both colour assembled and on the cupcakes.

There are two different kinds of cupcake in this order, a vanilla cupcake and a vanilla coconut cupcake.

Normally I would use cream cheese icing on coconut cupcakes but cream cheese icing doesn't seem to like to hold colour as well as regular buttercream. And I wasn't about to sacrifice that gorgeous colour in the name of cream cheese icing... no matter how yummy it is!

I hope that the bride and groom have a great party this weekend and a wonderful wedding! I wish them a lifetime of love and happiness together. Hugs MK and Jason!

That's the last of the orders until I am back from holidays!! Hope y'all have a good few weeks and get to take time off to spend with your loved ones. I know I am really really really looking forward to the next few weeks of uninterrupted time with my smalls.

Take care!

Sandy

Flowers, lots and lots of flowers!

Well hello there!
This week is thankfully quieter here at Valley Girl Cakes. Or at least quiet on the order side of things. Being at home 24/7 with two small things is never actually quiet! That being said the girls have been great at playing and letting me bake in relative peace...
Which is great since this week one of my besties is having her birthday. I've been recruited to bake her birthday cake and am thrilled to be creating something for her. Knowing her favorite flavours are coconut and vanilla, and that her favorite colour is purple (noted from being in the wedding party a few years ago!) I came up with what I hope is a girly enough cake for her...

I openly admit to being in love with this current trend of colours. It is called 'ombre' and gradually fades from one colour to another. Sigh... I love.

I chose to fade from dark violet to a pale pale pink, almost white. And since the cake isn't meant to feed an army I had to think of a way to put all my flowers on it with out entirely covering the cake.

So I came up with a swirl pattern that wraps around the cake from the bottom to the middle on the top.

The cake itself is a layer of vanilla cake sandwiched between two layers of coconut cake. The icing is coconut cream cheese (which runs a close second to the caramel icing as a fav!) I swirled the icing on the cake to run with the swirled flowered effect.

A bit about the birthday girl... Ashley is wonderful, kind and caring. She is extremely smart and funny. I love her with my whole heart and wish her oodles of happiness for this year. Happy birthday Ashley! I hope you enjoy your party and your cake.

Lots of love!
Sandy