This week, the project was a Tiffany themed wedding shower for a friend-of-a-friend (who apparently is quite the Diva!).  My Mother's beautiful silver tray set was front and centre again displaying an 8" topper cake and vanilla cupcakes.  The topper cake is red velvet with cream cheese covered in blue fondant and accented with an imported edible jumbo diamond.  Cookies make great favours and give a-ways!  The cookies in the white organza bags are going to be attached to some of the gifts while the cookies in the plain plastic are going to the kids at the party.  I hope the Diva likes it!  The best part was the delivery, when I got to have breakfast with my friend!

This week I had lots of little projects to keep me busy.  The first was a cake for my clients who hate fondant.  It was a simple chocolate cake covered in my yummy vanilla buttercream and decorated with a basic (boring) border and writing.  A picture didn't quite make it to the blog... not sure how that happened.  I also made some simple buttercream swirl cupcakes for a baby shower for the same crowd.  Apparently everyone loved them and was trying to figure out what the secrete in my icing was.  Butter.  I only put butter in my buttercream.  After those were complete, I set to work on some cookies for another baby shower.

Last weekend I received a call from a friend asking for some cookies for her sister's upcoming bridal shower.  She wanted to give them away as favours for the guests, which I think is such a great idea.  She requested 80 weddings dresses with a simple "Thank You" written on them then wrapped in cello and tied with a gold twist tie.  I got started as soon as possible since these cookies are a three to four day process (day 1: baking, day 2: flooding, day 3/4: decorating and packaging), and I had a lot to make!  I had to break out all 6 of my stacking cooling wracks and I still ran out of space.  Once Thursday hit, I was faced with 80+ little white blank canvases.  Now, I know I was supposed to write thank you on them, but instead I just went to town with the royal icing and created 80+ different wedding gowns.  I couldn't help myself!  It was too much fun seeing how the next gown would turn out, because I never really knew when I started a cookie.  Here are a couple of pictures of my favourites.

About a month ago, I bribed my Mom's bosses with a couple of  cupcakes to let her leave work early to take me to lunch.  Apparently my sneaky ploy worked because the big boss lady had been dreaming about my cupcakes for weeks, and to spite working for one of the major food distributors in the city, wanted them for her daughter's birthday.  She requested a white daisy shaped cupcake cake, which I had never attempted before, as well as some daisy flowers.  I also talked her into my first smash cake.  I had to break out all six of my stacking cooling racks for this job!

Kind of on a whim, Jenny decided she wanted a cake and cookies for her son's 14th birthday.  Now, never having been a 14 year old boy myself, but thinking I know a bit about them, I figured making a cake for one wasn't going to be the easiest thing in the world.  Initially Jenny had asked for 'blue cookies with thanks on them'.   Easy enough, I could work with that, but I asked if her son has any interests or hobbies, or anything he was in to.  I knew that flowers and butterflies wasn't going to cut it this time.  'Basketball' was all Jenny gave me, so I ran with it!  I think she was really happy with it, because that was one of the best reactions I've seen in a while.  She hugged me and said it was so much more than she expected.  For those of you who don't know, the reaction is why we cake decsigners do what we do.  It's not the money, or the fame, it's the look on your face when you see what we've crated, just for you.
P.s. That's a massive cakeball on top - Delish!

About a month and a half ago, I received my first quote request from this very website.  I was very excited, especially since the client was looking for not only just a cake, but cupcakes and cookies to go with it.  After meeting with Sandra and her family to give them a sample of my work, she decided that she wanted to include my peanut butter poppers as well!  All of the flowers on the cake, cupcakes and cookies are hand painted, and the poppers are covered in gold foil to match.  This was a lot of fun to make, and I think it came out perfectly!