Archive for 'Specialty Cakes' Category
Jan 11th, 2013 by Gemma |
This is the Groom’s cake that went along with yesterday’s Wedding cake. A chocolate cake with chocolate fudge filling it’s technically lots of small cakes. Each segment of the body was individually shaped and covered and then assembled on site. Congratulations to Nikki and John!
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Aug 14th, 2012 by Gemma |
Could I make a motocross bike in cake? I was fairly sure yes, as long as I had plenty of pictures to use as a reference! The cake was chocolate, with a mint chocolate chip icing. I started with a quarter sheet since it didn’t need to be a big cake, and went from there. [...]
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Jul 18th, 2012 by Gemma |
A 42nd birthday? That calls for a Hitchikers Guide themed party. After tossing a few ideas about we settled on the bowl of petunias – it was accompanied by a whale pinata for full effect. Chocolate cake with peanut butter icing and covered in fondant it was finished with some cookie dirt and gumpaste flowers, [...]
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Jul 16th, 2012 by Gemma |
A beautiful red velvet cake with cream cheese icing, with fondant dinosaurs. Welcome to the world Kash!
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Jun 18th, 2012 by Gemma |
The family that ordered this cake have a knack for coming up with themes that get me so excited. A hungry caterpillar first birthday cake, why yes, yes indeed. I fondly recall loving that book, so very much! I may have used this cake as an excuse to buy a copy.. for research purposes of [...]
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Apr 24th, 2012 by Gemma |
With a recipient moving to Georgia the theme of the party was of course “Leaving On A Midnight Train To Georgia” and what better cake fits that theme than the Soul Train. We started off with a quarter sheet amaretto cake (a relatively new flavour we’ve developed that seems to be gaining in popularity) filled [...]
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Apr 22nd, 2012 by Gemma |
This cake stood at 13″ tall, that’s pretty hefty for it’s 8″ diameter even though it still wasn’t completely in proportion to perfectly match the 16oz can we were replicating. Any taller though and it would have been dying to teeter over during transportation. It was a little scary carrying this one about due to [...]
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Apr 5th, 2012 by Gemma |
No, the zombies aren’t here yet, but this brain is definitely the tastiest I’ve come across! It’s a butter cake with raspberry jam between the layers (perfect for that gory look). We covered the cake with a base layer of black fondant and then built up the brain design on top with coils of fondant. [...]
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Mar 28th, 2012 by Gemma |
Remember yesterday’s Wedding cake? This is the utterly awesome Groom’s cake that went with it. Red velvet with cream cheese icing he is what we’re calling a “character cake” mostly flat with some shape and relief built up, out of both cake and fondant.
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