Breast Cancer Awareness

I was asked to donate a cake to a women's cancer fundraiser this weekend. I thought it would be a great opportunity to not only give back, but to display my business. Win-win situation! I believe the idea is to auction the cake off, I hope it is successful and helps this wonderful cause.

Cake Details:

• White almond cake
  
• Milk chocolate whipped ganache filling
  
• Covered in almond buttercream
  
• Marshmallow fondant embellishments - ribbons.

YUMMY!

I Heart Cherry Blossoms

I have been waiting for an excuse to make a cherry blossom inspired cake and FINALLY! This order was last minute and the spectrum of decoration was completely left to me. (Customer - "Do whatever, nothing too fancy." - YES!) So I thought I would try a few things. This was the first cake I covered in buttercream to attempt to do in smooth finish instead of marshmallow fondant. I think it turned out great! I do need much more practise but I am happy with the results. The stems were made from modelling chocolate and I really REALLY like using it. It is like fondant but hardens much quicker. I am going to start working with it to make flowers again. The flowers are fondant with sugar pearls as centers. I will definitely use this motif again, I love the way it turned out.

Cake Details:

• Cake was a classic white/vanilla cake

• Filling was lemon buttercream

• Covered with classic buttercream

• Embellishments are modelling chocolate (stems) marshmallow fondant (flowers)

ROAR! Dinosaur Cake

This dinosaur was quite hilarious and fun to make. The intention was for it to be a scary dinosaur but it turned out to be more cartoon-like.

I have been experimenting with carving cakes a lot more lately and this cake was a hit. I also used rice cereal for the first time to aid in the carving. I tried to imprint a scale-like look on the fondant but the batch I made must have been too elastic as the impression of the scales stretched and mostly disappeared once placed on the cake. I tried to imprint again while on the cake - but that started to look worse. So I stopped while I was still ahead!

The imprint mat I used on the fondant was a cobblestone print from Chef Duff - I really liked it and will definitely use it again! What can I say - I have a bit of a crush on Chef Duff - what cake decorator doesn't?!?!

Cake Details:

• Cake was a vanilla cake - I made the cake into a rainbow cake on the inside

• Filling was classic butter cream

• Head and tail were made from rice cereal

• Entire project covered in marshmallow fondant

• All embellishments were fondant

**I have been asked what brand of fondant I use. I don't. I make everything from scratch - cake, butter cream, fondant, fillings, etc.**