First Wedding Cake for an actual Wedding!

So very recently, one of my best friends got married.  I was lucky enough to be asked to do the cake.  The catch was that I was not only in the wedding and had other duties to fulfill but the wedding was the day after my last day of school for the year.  Yes this was very time pressing for me.  I managed to get 2 tiers done before hand, marking the first time that I have ever fondanted fake tiers.   The third and final tier was done the night before.  It wasn't even put together until the day of the wedding by the grooms father (long story) and I must admit, I am very happy by the way it turned out!

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Jenna's Graduation Cake

Can you tell what course she graduated from???

Payton's First Birthday cake

My first ORDER!!!! Oh my wow! I feel soo professional! This cake was more work than I had thought seeing how I had to make the crown an excess of 5 times... Fondant is sooo delicate i've noticed!!!! I also have not been able to use the cricut cake since christmas... I wish I had more time to play around!!!!

Anyways here is the latest cake!

Christmas 2010

Here are some things I had time to do during my Christmas holidays!

Cake for my mom's family. Made for the first time with the cricut cake. Not as easy to use as I had thought!

Cards for the year. Did not get to send most of my cards as I ran out of time.. If you didnt get one. Please don't be hurt!

A cake for my dad's family

For my little students

Its been awhile!

Hey everyone,

Sorry ive taken soo long to update. Who knew that first year teaching was soo time consuming! Here are a couple cakes which Ive made since the last post! Hope you enjoy them!

I made this for a friend of mine's babyshower this summer!

BBQ Cake 2010

My favourite cake by far!

Flower Cake I made for my Girl Guides on the last meeting in May

Life's been busy!

I totally forgot to post all my cakes since Mother's Day! Besides being busy, I have been baking tons but just not keeping you up to date with them all!

Here are a couple of the ones which I have done lately!

Guitar cake

Just a simple guitar cake I made for Bryan's birthday. This, while not one of my most professional ones, was hell to make. Bryan wanted a carrot cake with cream cheese icing and carrot cake is hard to carve without it falling into pieces! It tasted awesome tho which is all that matters right?!

Easter Cakes (Finally!)

Four Cakes, Two days.. Voilà! It was time consuming let me tell you!

Hot Chocolate cake
Vanilla cake with Buttercream icing (which melted in the car!)

Vanilla cakes with fondant and buttercream decorations for an easter motif!

Cake for Amanda!

So it was my cousin's bday on Monday and she loves music. I had a thought about making a musical cake and it turned out way better than these pics show im afraid... Cell phone camera quality I guess!
The letters were stencil cut outs and it being my first time, i had lots of trouble with the fondant being too soft and not holding its shape well enough.

The big musical note as well as the treble clefs were chocolate which I had melted and we shaped into the musical molds which I got a creative cutters (richmond hill).

Hand piped "Happy Birthday" song piano notes

Ashlie's first wedding cake!

Taking orders now! Hehe ok Im getting ahead of myself here but Im really liking this decorating course and as much as it is time consuming (It took me from 3pm-11pm yesterday to make the cakes, buttercream ice them, then fondant ice them) In class today I assembled the 40 roses and leaves, and made the borders.. all together, this cake may have takent 15 hours to make... Im sure as I get better at this, my prep time will be lower but NO WONDER these cakes are expensive! Anyways here they are!

The finished result!

Valentines day Cake!

Not completely done but what I was able to finish in class! Not too shabby! More pics to come once its done!

Finale Cake for Course 2!

So after 4 weeks of class, I managed to put this cake together with the help of my instructor, Barb. Let me tell you it wasnt easy. I shouldnt tell you this but I will just to explain how muc trouble this cake has caused me! The first 3 classes were the classes where we made the flowers and the colour flow piece (which in my case was the Innukshuk for the Olympics). I felt quite proud of my flowers except the daisys which I need to practise working on and the colourflow piece is nice but I would do it a little differently next time but both of these were simple compared to when I had to start the cake.

For those of you who know me, I am a baker. I consider myself a pretty good baker having never had something come out horrible. This all changed when I made this cake. There were a couple things that I did differently as I was trying new products.

1st: I used these cake baking strips where you soak them in water and then put them on the outside of the pan and while the cake bakes, it helps the cake settle so that the top is not higher than the sides. I must admit this cake worked out wonderful in that it seemed to have a nice shape, however it was dense and heavy.. dunno why?

2nd: I used oval deep pans which Ive never used before

3rd: instead of putting icing in the middle of the cake, i decided to get fancy and put lemon gelatin in the middle.

Well... i managed to make a dam around the cake to make sure the lemon didnt run, but i think the pudding was still too hot, therefore it melted the icing which I had already iced on the cake, and started oozing down the sides. With that being said, a normal 1 hour icing job became 3 hours to fix the lemoney goooo coming out and to ice the cake semi professional.

I wish that my problems stopped there but they didnt...

I left the cake overnight to harden, and when i was on my way to class, i thought i could handle all my bags: my tool caddy, my other icings which i needed to do the basket weave etc., my cake carrier and the tupperware with the dried flowers which I needed to put on the cake in class.

Needless to say, i didnt have a good grip on things and when I put my cake on the car hood for a moment, it fell off the hood and exploded....

Luckily it was still in the carrier so it was still sanitary!

I arrived at class royally pissed off and ready to cry "why meeee!" when i ran into my instructor who said there is always a plan B.

I was skeptical being that the lemon was on the outside and the cake looked like it was in pieces, but the picture below is the end result. I dunno about you but if you had of seen this disaster, you would be quite amazed at the final piece.... I should have taken a photo in hindsight but i was too devestated to do so at the time.

The weave technique!

Mine in the forground with what it was supposed to look like in the back!