Love is in the air this week, as Valentine’s Day will soon be upon us. That air may be a bit chilly at the moment, but the love I’m currently thinking of reminds me of warmer days of summer. Specifically, I’m thinking back to this cake I made for a sweet couple who got married on… Read More
I made this cake for a wedding couple who had both Canadian and British ties. Since my husband is a “Britnadian” himself (born and raised British, in Canada over a decade now), we actually did some Canadian and British touches at our own wedding, but we didn’t have it featured in the cake. We’ve been… Read More
I made this lovely rustic wedding cake this weekend. The couple was debating between lemon or chai for the flavour, but knew they wanted a rustic style. After tasting some samples, the chai won out, so the end result was this chai latte cake with a complementary chai buttercream. The spices in the icing gave… Read More
Congratulations to Carolyn and Dave! Here is a look at their fall-themed wedding cake. This was my first big cake with a buttercream finish (no fondant!), so the smoothing took some time, but I think it turned out well. Dark chocolate cake, white chocolate mousse filling, white chocolate buttercream frosting. Gumpaste leaves.
How often do you get to make a cake like this? In my last post about the polka-dot birthday cake, I mentioned that I’d had a busy weekend because I was working on two projects at once. This is the other one I was talking about! My sister, Sherry, got married this summer to a… Read More
Yes, you heard/read correctly: a wedding cake inspired by the novel “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” by Roald Dahl. Fun, huh?? Katy and I know each other through work, and last year she was planning her wedding. She’d already arranged for me to take her photos (I also do photography as another side endeavor –… Read More
Well, I sure have a lot of catch-up to do in order to get this blog up to date! Since I thought I’d go more-or-less sequentially, what better place to start than with the cake that started it all! My brother was getting married a few summers ago, so I thought I’d make them a… Read More
