Cake Endeavours

One thing that I love about getting cake requests is that I never know what theme I'm going to be doing.  I love that it takes the decision making away from me.  I do love when I get a theme and can run with it.  For this cake it was 90s theme with an emphasis on the movie Clueless.  It hurts a little that the 90s is considered retro now.  Ha!  The cake itself reminds me of Saved by The Bell's intro which I watched every Saturday morning.  I had many troll dolls and I think I finally tossed my blockbuster card.  The cake topper I made using my printer and Cricut machine.   Cake: 8 3-layer vanilla with salted caramel filling.

 Celebrated my mom's birthday this weekend along with celebrating Father's Day with my dad.   Cake: 6 2-layer chocolate cake with whipped cream filling and chocolate ganache icing

 The weekend of celebrations continued!  Every few years our mothers' birthdays (same day) fall on Father's Day so it is a big weekend of celebrating crammed in.  Today we celebrate Mr. T's mom's birthday and Father's Day with his dad.  Version 2 of the cake! Cake: 6" 2-layer chocolate cake with whipped cream filling and chocolate ganache

Tonight we got to celebrate Michael's milestone birthday at the bowling alley and I was asked to do the cake.  Michael is a major Bluejays fan so of course that was going to be the theme of the cake.  I pulled out my Cricut machine to make all the decorations.  It was a surprise party and I really think he was surprised.  Sadly, I did not beat Mr. T in the bowling game we played. Cake: 8" 3-layer chocolate cake with strawberry cream filling (not my normal combination as I am not a fan of chocolate combined with fruit, but the birthday boy and guests thought it was great).

Miss E asked me to make cupcakes for Pride Week at school for students to decorate.  I was all over that! I made 3 dozen chocolate and 3 dozen vanilla flavoured cupcakes.  For the icing, I made two batches and divided into six bowls then dyed into rainbow colours.  E wanted more pastel colours which was fine by me as the vibrant colours can be tricky!  I had some extras that I decorated for inspiration with some rainbow sprinkles added.   Cupcakes: 3 dozen chocolate                       3 dozen vanilla        

I can't believe Mattie's one already.  I feel like it was just yesterday that I was delivering her baby shower cake.  Happy to have a part in her first birthday celebration. Cake topper and decorations are a combination of Cricut and printer cut outs.  For the rainbow, number one and lettering I cut out on white paper and coloured with my Copic markers to get the exact colours that I wanted.   Cake: 8" 3-layer lemon cake with cream cheese filling covered in fondant

A fun Moana themed cake with Encanto cupcakes.  Emma's mom was able to order the figurines on Amazon and have them shipped directly to me.  I still marvel that it's that simple these days! I picked up the flowers and greenery from Michael's and made some shells out of fondant.  The sand is from some crushed graham crackers.  Cake: 6" 3-layer strawberry cake with one layer of lemon curd filling and one layer of strawberry filling with buttercream icing Cupcakes: chocolate with buttercream icing