Pretty Cakes

Vintage Bird Cage - Theatre, Hamilton

This cake was designed for a beautiful vintage wedding.  The bronzed bars were finished with strings of white glistening pearls with hand made red roses and leaves. We added some little feathered birds for a close up shot (optional).

Red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting.

Little Birds - Art Gallery of Hamilton, AGH

What a cute little cake!  This cake was super high, the bottom tier was 8" high (double the height of a normal cake tier) to give a beautiful wide palette to paint on.  The top tier was 4" high.
The hand made sugar birds were made by Louise Howling, our sugar sculpter.
We hand painted this cake with vibrant greens and deep brown and added deep purple blossoms with even deeper centres and yellow dots in the middle to brighten the tone.
This cake was set on a burlap cloth with a slice of log as a cake stand, perfect!

Quick Peek

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A quick peek into our new showroom.  We have started to set up and to create new cake designs to tempt you with as well as working on some new flavours and textures to delight you.

You can't miss us on James Street South with our huge pink sign at the front (which is being put up as I write).

Just in case I've not said it often enough, our opening hours are 10.30am to 6pm daily, other times by appointment (evenings and Saturday mornings available).  You may pop in with no prior arrangement, but if you would like a consultation and a tasting then it's usually best to let us know you're coming.

For those interested in seeing inside our preparation room, here are a couple of shots of when we were setting up.

The picture on the right shows just a fraction of the edible colours that we use and the picture on the left shows the number of spools of ribbon that we have to carry to cover everyone's colour scheme!  Next time we'll show you inside the area where all the baking and preparation goes on.

Bonnie Gordon School Cake Show

The Bonnie Gordon School is Canada's most prestigious cake design school and is situated in Toronto.  Once a year the school has a competition and exhibition for all it's students and alumni.

This year over 900 people visited the show!  Here is a picture of the vast table of entries (this was only one side of the room).  

Below is our show entry, a small bird cage with sugar work, lace work, pearls, hand painting and piping work.

Romantic Doves

It's been a hectic year here at Let Them Eat Cakes and it's only April!  Notoriously the winter months are quite calm, there are far less weddings in the January to April window.  This year we were heavily involved in the administration of the Canadian Cake Decorators Guild which, although it has been running for more than two years now, saw an upsurge in members taking it from 25 or so active members to 400 in the space of three months!

To take a look into the guild please visit www.canadiancakedecorators.com where you will see some of the worlds most renown cake decorators as members as well as sponsorships from some of the most prestigious cake decorating equipment suppliers and schools.

So this has kept me, and everyone else here at Let Them Eat Cakes, very busy indeed.

Of course, we have continued with our monthly cake tasting events and networking with other local wedding vendors to provide our clients with regular mini bridal shows, an opportunity to taste our cakes, see them close up and chat with the other vendors and benefit from special prices and services offered.

Meanwhile, we've been training hard and gearing up for the 2010 wedding season which hit relatively early this year with quite a few weddings and a filming for Rich Bride Poor Bride and three newspaper articles about us.

Now, when I say "we've been busy" I really mean busy!

Bird Cages

These bird cage cakes can be used as the top tier of a wedding cake or as a small celebration or wedding cake.  Each cake is at least 8" high and serves approximately 20 slices.  Exquisitely finished to match your colours and specifications.

Perfect in white for a summer garden wedding, or simply as something a little more unusual for a romantic feel, or how about ice blue or deep red and gold for a Christmas feel?

Whatever your taste we can find a bird cage just for you!

Bird Spotters - At Home Wedding

This wedding cake was designed for some very 'outdoorsy' bird spotters who shared their passion for birds.

The bride requested that the cake looked like wood, so we used a marbled effect fondant and added daisies to continue the outdoor theme.

I made a chocolate birds nest and nestled inside were two robins.

This cake was all chocolate!

Doves and Feathers

This dummy cake (or fake cake) was available for hire only.  We do not recommend using real feathers (as in this case) on food products.  This made a wonderful white winter centrepiece.

Some couples decide that they don't need the extra dessert for their wedding, but they still would like to have the wedding cake for the traditional wedding photos.  Renting a dummy cake is an economical way of "having your cake and eat it".  We have many different styles available.  You can even hire a cake and add a real tier or two to it.  Please call us or e-mail for details.