Jack O'Lantern Cookies

For those of you interested in a cute cookie favour for your children or co-workers for Halloween, I will have Jack O'Lantern or Spooky Ghost sugar cookies available for order with pick-ups on October 30th. Please contact me with your orders no later than Friday October 24th. They will be $2.50 each packaged in cellophane bags with Halloween ribbon.

Michelle's birthday girls

My friend Michelle has the cutest girls, and their birthdays are close together (mine are too, and I feel her pain!) so she was brave enough to have 2 birthday parties on the same day...brave is the operative word here!! Her oldest, Avery, had a "Wizard of Oz" themed party, and Meredith had a "Penguin Beach Party" theme. She asked if I could make cookies to give as party favours, and we did Ruby Slippers for Avery's friends, and Penguin Hula Girls for Meredith's. How fun!! You are so creative, Michelle. And did I mention brave???

April and Mike's Wedding

How heavenly does a wedding on a vineyard in Niagara-on-the-Lake sound?? April and Mike celebrated their wedding in June, and I created a pink and chocolate brown mini-cake for them to enjoy. We also decided that wine bottle-shaped cookies would be appropriate favours for their guests. Congratulations to the both of you, with many more wonderful years ahead! Oh, and did I mention that Jason Priestley was in attendance?!? How cool.

Fairy Princess

Sydney is a fairy princess herself, and needed a fairy princess cake to match her personality! I created a "princess cushion" cake with a lovely little fairy in Sydney's image to rest sweetly on top, almost as if she had landed there to take a brief rest from her fairy duties. Hope your birthday was magical, Sydney!

60 Years Together

Our beloved Nana and Papa celebrated their 60th Anniversary on May 18th...can you imagine? I can only hope that Joel and I see our 60th one day (mind you we'll be A LOT older than they are!!). Joel and I are celebrating our 10th this year, so this really puts things into perspective for me. They had a fantastic party held at my father-in-law's home, and it was all about family, friends, memories and food. We all pitched in to help, and our cousin Melisa and her husband Javier the Chef made the AMAZING food, and if you've ever seen our family eat, you'll know that we don't use plates- we just stand at the buffet table and stuff our faces. So, we were like pigs at the trough just feeding ourselves, not a care for any of the bewildered friends who just wanted to fill their plates before all the food was gone! I exaggerate, sort of. Anyway, I volunteered to make the cake, not only because I love my Nana and Papa, but because I also wanted to experiment a little. I came up with this creation, which I absolutely LOVE, and would SO love to make for someone's wedding...any takers?? We had a wonderful time celebrating with you, Nana and Papa, and we wish you all the love in the world, now and always. XOXO

Connie's Movin' On Up!

Well, she's movin' on up...movin' on up, to the East side, erm, I mean Edmonton! Hee, hee! I've been part of a weekly playgroup for about 6 years now, and I have to say that it's my favourite day of the week because I get to spend some time with some really wonderful and inspiring women. I've formed many a bond with these girls, and we've shed many a tear and had a million laughs as well together. Well, one of our founding members, Connie is moving to Edmonton next month, and she will be sorely missed. She's been a great friend and fellow mom, and we'll miss her humour, her warmth and her willingness to open up her home to 10-odd hopped-up-on-chocolate-chip-cookies children who will surely make a hurricane-like mess out of her attic and subsequent main floor! We had a gathering a couple of weeks ago to say farewell to our friend at Arlene's house, and had munchies and photos on a purple velvet couch on Arlene's dirt road out front of her house(sounds weird, but looks awesome!). I made her a farewell Stilletto shoe and shoebox cake-so cool!! I've been dying to try this, but it took the right occasion. We wish you the best, Connie, and hope that someday you'll pop into playgroup when you're in town. (photo courtesy of Click Photography!)

My Beautiful Big Girl's First Communion

Our oldest daughter celebrated her First Communion early in May, and she was so beautiful in her little white dress and her fancy tiara and up-do. We had a lovely party with family and close friends after the service, and we had to have cake, of course! She chose the flavour, chocolate of course, and we put pretty purple roses on top of the cross-shaped cake. She wanted the first rose off the top, and how could I not indulge my beautiful growing-up-too-fast sweetheart?!

Come to Camelot

My apologies go out to Jodi for taking FOREVER in putting this up...SORRY!! Brothers Jack and Dylan are born two years and 1 day apart, so Jodi had a joint "Medieval" themed birthday party for their family and friends. Jodi asked me to create a cake for their special occasion, and I chose a Medieval Castle to fit the bill. This was so much fun to put together, and since it was really the first "boy cake" I'd done, I wanted to do it even more! I think Jodi accessorized the final product with some Playmobil knights and princes-apparently her son Jack wasn't sure if it was an edible cake, and kept asking "how did she do that?!" I understand it was a hit, and I'm grateful to be able to have done this for you, Jack and Dylan. I hope Dave didn't mind the "some assembly required" too much!!

Travelling Bride

Travel was the theme for this bridal shower cake, with two suitcases stacked on top of one another. The bride-to-be met her future husband on a trip to Australia, and the two have travelled to some other exciting locations together as well. Reagan, her sister-in-law, had her own bridal shower cake done by me last summer, and apparently it was a big hit! I've been super excited to do this one for some time now, as I knew it would be a challenge, as well as being something far from the ordinary. Can't wait to hear how it went over, Reagan-please let me know!!

Happy Easter!

Hockey Girl

Madison is a young lady with a passion for hockey. Apparently, she "lives, eats and breathes hockey" according to her mom, Kelly. So, for her 9th birthday, Kelly asked me to make her a hockey rink cake, complete with hockey player, stick, nets and puck. Okay, the nets are a little on the small side (as in mini-stick size!), but this was definitely my first attempt at a hockey rink! I hope it helped to make Maddie's birthday special. It was a lot of fun to make!

My New Favourite Cookie

All that needs to be said is "AWWWW!!!"

topsy turvy

I told you I'd be using that lime and pink scheme again, didn't I? Well, here it is again, on a topsy turvy cake for a 30th birthday. If you aren't sure what a topsy turvy cake is, it's one which looks like it's about to take a nosedive onto the table, but somehow manages to stay upright! It's a tricky little bugger too, but a lot of fun to manipulate the angles to give it that very top-heavy look.

On another note, this week (March Break) happens to be one of my busiest weeks so far, thanks to all of you who have been kind enough to ask me to whip something up for you! I appreciate all of your business, and it's been so much fun to really spread my wings creatively. I look forward to all of my future jobs and working with people who have such amazing ideas that get to be cake-ified!

Candy Stripes and Polka Dots

Lilly with two "L"'s turned 2 last week, and her mom asked me to create a cake for her. This was inspired by a wonderful book I turn to often for ideas, called Pretty Party Cakes by Peggy Porschen. She is a fabulous cake designer in the UK, and I find her cakes to be very much "my style". The top tier is a candy striped two-tone pink and white cake, while inside it is dark chocolate with rich chocolate ganache filling. The bottom tier is a bit whimsical, using polka dots in the pink and lime scheme, with tiny dots surrounding the bigger polka dots. It is a banana cake filled with chocolate buttercream-yum! I also did some cookie favors in the shape of birthday presents-two tone pink for the girls, and blue and lime green for the boys. I think it is so fresh and pretty for a little girl's birthday, and I loved it! I think it's one of my favourite colour combos, and I know it's going to get used again...

Fairies, Butterflies and all things Girly

What 4 year-old little girl isn't obsessed with all things magical? When my girls saw the birthday cake and the cute little cookies I made for my friend Anne's daughter Britt, they couldn't stop talking about their own birthdays. I have a feeling it will be a fairy birthday theme for my girls this year! Fairies must represent all things mysterious and enchanted in little girls' imaginations, and I was happy to create something really cute and special for Britt's birthday. I have an inkling this won't be the last fairy cake that will magically appear in our house(and magically disappear too!)!

Playmobil for Luke

My nephew Luke turned 5 on Valentine's Day, and his parents threw him a "theatre-style" birthday. They had rented out an old church that had been converted to a theatre, and invited lots of kids to come and play on stage. The kids brought their dress-up stuff and had a blast dressing up and dancing on stage to fun kiddie music-I even found myself singing along to "Wonder Pets"! Nadine and I had planned to make him a theatre-themed cake, perhaps some tickets with the name of his play on them, but a few weeks ago Luke called me to ask if he could have a Playmobil cake instead. Apparently, he's addicted to Playmobil, as are so many other kids his age, mine included. So, how could I resist the opportunity to indulge his birthday fantasy? I used our own Playmobil animals to decorate this safari-themed cake, and the kids could hardly contain themselves while waiting for him to blow out his candles-hands were reaching for animals, and I feared it may not stay a safari for long!

Seafood

I had fun with another cookie experiment the other day, and came up with my version of "seafood". How fun are these?! The kids from playgroup loved these yesterday. My favourite? The purple octopus. How about you?

Mavis and Jim Renew their Vows

A couple of weeks ago I had the honor of creating a cake for Mavis and Jim's Vow Renewal. Mavis found my blog online and liked the simplicity and elegance of a wedding cake that I'd done for another bride and groom. We created this cake for them incorporating the clean lines and the simplistic beauty of the calla lily. I loved the end result, and my friend Christine at Click Photography captured it beautifully. Congratulations, Mavis and Jim. I know this will be just one of many wonderful milestones for the two of you!

For the Fashionista

As much as I love cake, I am also CRAZY for cookies. So much so, in fact, that I had wedding cake cookie favors at each place setting at our wedding. They were so "Martha", and everyone loved them! I thought I'd experiment a little with cookies, and here are my newest creations- Stiletto and Handbag cookies. How cute are these?! What a great idea for a bridal shower favor, or a Girl's Day Out with your girlfriends...or in my case, my favourite day of the week, Tuesday, for playgroup with my favourite ladies! Get ready, ladies, for a real treat tomorrow! And by the way, I can do pretty much any shape, including wedding cakes. So, you can have mini cakes to match your wedding cake...too adorable for words.