Four Celebrations and a Wedding

Birthday cakes for men always pose a problem, we want to make them exciting and creative, but sometimes it`s not as easy as it sounds!  This time we were asked to make a country/guitar themed cake for an out door birthday party.  We came up with this guitar cake which we are told was a huge hit at the party. 

For an intimate wedding often not very much cake is required but it's still fun to have a cake that fulfills all the criteria for an elegant and stylish wedding cake that fits in with the theme of the day.  This bride chose blush and gold for this timeless cake and we added the couples initials "S" and a little pink heart which appeared on their wedding invitation. 

We don't often make cakes with a Disney theme (for copyright reasons which we have blogged about in the past).  What we are allowed to do is to take ready made copyrighted items and put them onto a matching cake.  Above is an example of that.  Dressed up with dots and bows, this makes such a cute cake for a little girl or even a grown up princess!

A hand painted cake for Mother's Day.  Imagine this Mom's surprise when she walked in to our tea room on Mother's Day to find this cake waiting for her along with a delicious high tea.

Miniature cakes are often ideal for a small celebration of less than 4 people, or something at the last minute when there isn't time to order a fully custom designed cake.  This little cake was made for a little boys first birthday when he was going to be dressed as a strawberry for a photo shoot because his favourite food is strawberries!

Pictures From Our Workbench

Sometimes we don't get a chance to take pictures of our cakes in the usual way but generally we get a shot of them somehow.  Here are a few that "got away" but were photographed while they were being worked on:

Spider Man

We make cakes for little boys too!  Paolo is a Spider Man fan and since his mummy always buys her cakes from us we had to come up with a cool design for this 4th Birthday cake.

The client brought us the Spider Man figurine (we are unable to recreate these in sugar for copyright reasons) and we built the cake around him.  Red velvet cake of course!

Poppy Day - 11.11.11

Who could get married on 11.11.11 without having poppies on their cake?  Not this bride!

We took the pattern from the wedding stationery and transferred it into sugar for the main wedding cake design and added red poppies and red glitter for the finishing touches.

Obviously, this cake was red velvet.

Cute Wedding Cake

A wedding cake to the bride's design with black, deep purple and red as the wedding colours.  The table linens at the banquet hall matched perfectly with this perky little wedding cake.

Celebration Cakes

For a sweet sixteen.

 For a birthday.

 Little girls birthday.

Engagement cake.

Euchre Cake For Myrna

Myrna is a euchre fan, so it was easy to design a cake around this theme, with the best euchre hand (or so I'm told) and lots of black and red details.  We added red roses for a feminine touch and a birthday banner to mark the occasion.

The cards were printed on to edible paper for a realistic look in standard playing card size.

Red velvet cake inside.

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.

Love Is Like A Red Red Rose

This wedding cake was booked entirely over the phone with the groom.  He knew exactly what his bride wanted and booked the cake sight unseen, without even tasting the cake first.

After the wedding the couple wrote a glowing thank you note:

"Dear Lynne:

Please accept our grateful thanks for the outstanding job you did on our wedding cake, as well as your kind gift of the cake stand! The cake tasted better than we ever could have hoped for, and the same, unsolicited comments were universal from all our guests!

Lynne, please be assured that we will recommend your firm to anyone we know needing a special cake for a special occasion!

Yours truly;"

Scarlet

This pretty little cake was a wedding cake for a very small wedding.  The skirt of the dress was embellished with roses that were made of fabric and stitched very closely together (just like the cake).  The bridesmaids wore red dresses with lots of diamonte detail.

Red velvet cake, of course.

Style Me Pretty! - Ancaster Old Mill

My cake in Style Me Pretty.....I'm so flattered!  Check it out  CLICK HERE

Oriental Flair - Dragon Restaurant, Westdale

This couple chose an oriental themed cake for their Chinese wedding and red kimono buttons were added as this decorative detail.

The bride made her own cake topper, so pretty, great job!

Garden Wedding - Scottish Rite, Hamilton

This wasn't a wedding in a garden, but it was a wedding with a garden theme.  The bride and groom had chosen all their favourite flowers and colours and used them all!  The over all effect was of being in a garden - quite pretty.

Funny story of how the couple met, but it was the bride's dog who had introduced them, in a garden of course.  Because they obviously couldn't have the bulldog at the wedding, they chose to have him made of sugar and used as part of the cake decoration.

Models by Louise Howling

Red Fifty

This cake was made using the invitations as inspiration which looked rather like the cushion opposite but with green stems and in a more watermelon type red (this was the nearest I could find).

The background was given a vintage, linen feel with an ivory dust.

Red Roses, Pearls and Lace

For Lora a layered vanilla and red velvet cake with vanilla raspberry buttercream filling.  Lace pieces were added and finished with red roses (a request from her husband in recognition of the Kentucky Derby).

Black and Red - Oakville Conference Centre

This tall elegant rather retro black gold and red wedding cake was filled with red velvet and cream cheese frosting.  The groom came a couple of days prior to the wedding to order his own little all chocolate fudge mini wedding cake to match the main cake.

Wedding Cake - Royal Botanical Gardens

A mixture of retro and modern resulted in this striking wedding cake just perfect for a spring wedding.

A quilted fondant, with champagne pearls and champagne bow which was satinized with edible medium.

Red velvet cake with vanilla buttercream and raspberry drizzle.

CBC Mommy Bloggers Cake

This cake was ordered by CBC (as well as plates of our delicious sandwiches of course) for their Mommy Bloggers event.  Links and more pictures to follow.

Matching cupcakes were made...picture to follow.

Bobbi Loves Jim

Custom order from Bobbi to Jim in black and red.  Inside, devil's food cake with vanilla buttercream.

All Wrapped Up

Litttle cakes all wrapped up as a Christmas gifts.  Hand painted motifs and miniature flowers finish the wrapping papers.