Cake Endeavours

Michelle and John renewed their vows today!  It was such beautiful ceremony.  To help celebrate I was asked to make cupcakes for the guests to take when leaving the church.     Purple icing continues to elude me.  One day I will master this colour and get the vibrancy and shade I want.  Until then, I will compensate with paper decorations!  6" 2-layer chocolate cake with buttercream icing Cupcakes: chocolate, carrot, vanilla and lemon Congratulations Michelle and John!

The wedding theme was Great Gatsby.  I found this headpiece on Amazon that would work perfectly for the theme.  I did a very simple white fondant covered cake with some art deco lines. Cake: 6" 3-layer cookies n' cream cake with buttercream filling.  Cupcake Tower: Black Velvet with cream cheese icing Lemon with cream cheese icing Chocolate with vanilla icing Cookies n' Cream with vanilla icing All topped with some gold dragees and dust Congratulation Courtney & Jordon! 

This was a super fun cake to make for one of my favourite people!  His theme requests are always the best.  I made the McDonald's sign using my cricut machine and I love how it came out.  For the rest of the decorations Mr T kindly went to the drive-through for me to get a happy meal.  Miss E ate the chicken nuggets so the box was empty as was the drink container.  However, the fries were the real deal.  I wasn't worried about them spoiling since they last forever in the wild.  The most challenging part of this cake was getting the icing to the vibrant red it needed, but I succeeded.  Woohoo!  Cake: 6" 3-layer carrot cake with cream cheese filling

I was asked to make some muffins for my cousin Courtney's bridal shower. Of course I had to go extra with the flavours I chose and made them extra large.   Here are the recipes I used: 1.  Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins 2.  Cheddar and Bacon Cornbread Muffins 3.  Caramel Apple Buttermilk Muffins I will be making these all again! Yes, I even made a savoury muffin.  I know Miranda Hart frowns upon this, ha! But I do enjoy a savoury muffin!  Especially cornbread.  

A big cake for a big milestone.  This one was two 9" x 13" cakes put together.  I rarely pipe on writing as I really need to practice more to be confident.  The 100 came out too wobbly for my liking so I added some embellishments to make it look like vines to make it look like that was on purpose.   Cake:   9" x 13" two-layer chocolate cake with buttercream filling               9" x 13" two-layer vanilla cake with buttercream filling

Victor's request for his birthday theme was tree-top trekking which included a giraffe and a monkey.  It is so humid in our place that I wasn't going to mess with a lot of fondant.  I ended up making this fun cake topper on my Cricut and I love how it turned out. I covered the cake in blue fondant.  It's so shiny because of how humid it is!  Trees I painted on with food colouring mixed with a bit of vodka to help them dry faster.  The alcohol evaporates as it dries.  Cake: 10" 2-layer cookies n' cream cake with vanilla buttercream filling.

Alexia's request was for a flamingo themed cake.  I knew right away that I was going to make 8 flamingos on my Cricut machine to represent Alexia turning 8.  They would each be decorated with a bright pink feather.  Little did I know that finding pink feathers would become a wild goose chase for Mr T and Miss E.  They did not realize what they were signing up for when they went out to buy them for me.  After at least 6 different stores they were able to find pink feathers on cat toys.  At least our cats got some new toys out of it, minus any pink feathers of course!  Cake: 8" two-layer vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream icing