Meg's Birthday Cake

This most recent cake was made for my beautiful big sister :) She loves paris so I tried to tie in a bit of a Parisian feel to it. It's a devil's food cake with chocolate fudge icing which I whipped to get a better consistency. The bottom layer is a cushion with an old fashioned hat box on top with a bow and a 'price tag' that says 'happy 27'.

A&A's Wedding Cake and Cupcakes

Hello again! 

 This cake was created for a dear friend of mine as her and her husband's wedding present. Their wedding took place at Swan E Set golf course in Pitt Meadows which is an absolutely gorgeous location. It was an incredible August day with clear blue skies and it was hot hot hot! I was making the cake and cupcakes during a heatwave which was NOT enjoyable with an oven going full blast. The fan did next to nothing to keep my kitchen cool! But alas, the cake was made! 

Since my girlfriend has some dietary restrictions, I made the cupcakes and cake with the gluten and wheat free cake mix which I have used for previous cupcakes posted on March 6th. The cake mix is excellent and can be ordered bulk from Well.ca which is an excellent health food and product website. The cake mix itself is called Pamela's gluten free vanilla cake mix. It can be found on their site http://pamelasproducts.com. 

Back to the baking; I quickly realized how little room I had in my freezer when I needed to store the cupcakes! 100 large and 150 mini cupcakes in total... Lots of frozen pasta sauces and buns were thrown out that day. I got creative with the stacking using shot glasses between cake pans as makeshift shelves and even stacked change when I ran out of shot glasses! I'll post a picture of it. One day I will get a deep freeze! 

Anyways, here are some picture of the cake making process starting with the flowers.

Mini rose

Bases of some roses, beginnings of the large ivory carnations and finished mauve flowers

Large mauve roses

Small mauve carnation

Finished flowers :)

Starting to pack up the cupcakes before the icing. I wanted the icing to be fresh so I made the cupcakes the day before the wedding and iced them that morning.

Creative stacking complete with shot glasses, loose change, baking sheets and cooling racks!

Beginning to dirty ice the cakes

Hand rolled, individually mother of pearl dusted pearl border 

Finished cake!

Cake set up at Swan E Set

Cupcakes ready to be eaten after the cake cutting :D

Just because it was gorgeous: The view from the terrace just off the Ballroom!