Sorry for the long break between posts. I was out of my province of Alberta for 3 weeks camping with my smalls. It was a wonderful break from work and the usual routine. While I was gone my biggest small turned 5. And since we were camping and she had already had her birthday party I improvised the best I could.... I made her a cake out of a box, covered it with a can of icing and then loaded the whole thing with sprinkles.
Once I was back I had a few cake orders to make, but was without my camera so didn't get a whole bunch of photos using the old cell phone camera. In fact for Amber and Trent's wedding cake I didn't get a decent photo to post!
The first cake back from holidays was for one of my most treasured people in the whole world, Lindy. It was Lindy's birthday and her hubby Brent wanted to throw her a party. I called dibs on the cake!
Lindy loves pretty girly things. She is also AMAZING at sewing (and one of the best mom's out there!). Since she started her own business creating headbands this year I knew I had to do something along the lines of fabric. And then make it pretty colours.
This was my first attempt at making a ruffle cake. I may or may not do one again.... It took me hours longer than I thought it would to make all the ruffles and it was super hot in my little kitchen so I had a hard time getting the ruffles to do what I wanted them to. However in the end it looked pretty to me and Lindy loved it.
The cake itself was vanilla (my personal favorite since Lindy doesn't have a favorite) with pink fresh raspberry butter cream icing. It was three layers and giant!
The next cake on was for Amber and Trent's wedding. This awesome couple had beautiful colours of green, purple and orange. The request was for cupcakes and a 2 tiered cake. The cupcakes were chocolate and vanilla, half purple with orange daisies and half orange with purple daisies. The cake was 2 tiers, one chocolate, one vanilla iced with white butter cream. On the tiers were cookies that said: JUST MARRIED and hearts. The cookies were my homemade oreo recipe!
Here is one of the orange cupcake with purple flower.
And the purple cupcake with orange flower.
Did I mention that they asked for 100 cupcakes? I loved the tower of cupcakes and the fact that for 3 days Amber and Trent's wedding took over my kitchen, both of my fridges, my dinning room and even part of my sewing room in the basement! It was wedding madness and I loved every minute. Even when the cookies broke when I was assembling the cake and I had to rush to make new ones. My only frustration is once icing sets you can't get it to go back if you mess with it. So sadly the cake had cookie crumbs from the broken cookies on it. SIGH. You can't win them all!
I have a number of orders coming up that I will post as they come along. First up is Benson's 3rd birthday!
Hope everyone is having an amazing summer!
Take care!
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