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Minecraft Cake

Once again, I have another cake for your enjoyment!

This most recent one was done for a former nursing instructor's son's 13th birthday! He was really into a game called Minecraft which I also have played (yes I am a slight geek). My brother introduced me to last summer and it was awesome! Anyways, I looked up a bunch of screen shots to get some inspiration and came up with this beauty. It was 100% gluten free using brown rice Rice Krispies treats for the sculptures, Pamela's gluten free chocolate cake mix, my marshmallow fondant, and fresh raspberry icing.

The game is an RPG where you're in this land and can chop down trees for wood and mine rocks for stone and tools and you can farm animals or just explore or even hunt zombies. In this cake I have the main character Steve who has a pickaxe and the green character is called a Creeper which is this monster that can attack you. Everything is all pixel-y thus the boxy cake. It was a lot of fun making this cake! I'll hopefully get another photo soon of the entire cake.

BINGO! 95 years young

Hello again! 

 My most recent cake was for my boyfriend's grandma's 95th birthday. I had asked what some of her favourite things were and was told she had always loved to play Bingo. So with that, I made a Bingo card cake with Bingo ball cupcakes!

She told me a story during her birthday party saying how she won the final blackout bingo on a cruise a few years before and won $800! That's incredible! 


 I used my strawberry icing for the cupcakes and cake. The cake and cupcakes were french vanilla and the fondant was my marshmallow fondant. The Bingo balls for the cupcakes were white chocolate Lindt balls with numbers piped on them.

Anyways, here are some picture of the cake :)

The finished cake

The set up!

Minnie Mouse

This past weekend was my niece's 2nd birthday. She loves Minnie Mouse, or as she likes to call her, "MeMo"! So it only makes sense that her birthday was Minnie Mouse themed!
Her cake and cupcakes were cherry chip with a vanilla frosting dyed pink. The ears for the cupcakes were made with fondant cut out with a melon baller (my circle cutters were either too big or too small so I had to get creative!) and the bows were made with a fondant/gumpaste blend to make them more solid. They were pretty tedious but so worth it.
I bought a half sphere cake pan for the Minnie Mouse hat part of the cake and that cake pan is seriously awesome! It is going to come in handy for so many cakes! 
Here are a few pictures of the process:

Yay cupcakes!

24 hand made bows... tiny but awesome haha!

Finished cupcake!

It's like an army of Minnies!

Super awesome round cake! So happy with the way it turned out and SUPER easy to cover with fondant!

Completed cake and cupcakes! 

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!

Mortgage Burning Cake

My manager at the hospital and I were talking about cakes and she asked if I would make a cake for her mortgage burning party that she was having in a few weeks. We talked about what she wanted and came up with a general idea of a two tiered cake with a house on top with a sign that says "mortgage" that would be on fire. 

I made the house out of Rice Krispie squares, dirty iced it and covered it in fondant. The cake itself was like the engagement party cake I did a while ago which was a lemon cake with a raspberry compote filling and cream cheese icing. My marshmallow fondant was used and coloured by hand (holy, I now have killer forearms from colouring that cake!) Total hours: 8. 

This is what I ended up creating.

Rice Kripie house :) Had to get shaved down a little on the sides because it wouldn't fit on the top tier! Oops haha!

:)