In October 2013, I found myself considering the number of cooking and baking shows I watch and thinking "I can do that". Keep in mind, I've never had any formal cake decorating lessons, what you see here is all self taught and a matter of trial and error. Drop me an email if you would like a recipe or are interested in knowing how I achieved a certain effect.
I don't use box mix cakes or pre-packaged icing in most cases, and icing varies between butter cream, cream cheese butter cream and fondant.
I found baking and decorating the cakes here to be somewhat therapeutic. Working on the intricate details took away some of the focus from the pain in my head. My eyesight did create some challenges while working on these , but I don't think it created any major issues. If something exceedingly intricate was needed, I would call in my daughter Krystal. The cow is a perfect example of a time when she was truly needed.
2013
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| October My first custom cake Pumpkin Cake with cream cheese butter cream |
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| October Rachel's 4th Birthday Blueberry lemon cake, cream cheese butter cream marbled fondant and butter cream Dora
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| November Bon Jovi Bear with sugar disk and rose Butter Pecan cake with cream cheese butter cream frosting
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| December Krystal's birthday Cake Jack Skellington - Egg Nog pound cake with fondant Black square - Butter Pecan cake covered in fondant modelling chocolate poinsettia |
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December
Family Christmas cake
Green cake is butter pecan, red/green marbled
Poinsettia is made from modelling chocolate
Santa's list is made from fondant with food colouring markers
Blue cake is Gluten free Chocolate with Peanut butter butter cream inside the blue fondant.
Snowman is chocolate cake with cream cheese butter cream frosting
coal is mini rice crispy pieces dyed black
carrot nose and hat are both made of moulded/shaped fondant.
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| Christmas Cake for Mother-in-Law's workplace LeBaron specializes in equipment for Hunting camping and fishing Fishing penguin plus one sleeping in the blue tent. Trees are green tinted rice krispy, pond is gel icing over blue fondant, fire by tents is pulled sugar 100% edible cake - white cake tinted red and green for holidays, cream cheese butter cream |
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| Christmas Day 5 layers of carrot cake with pineapple, cranberry and walnuts top layer - Gluten Free Chocolate Cream cheese butter cream, green fondant light strand and candy decorations topped with pulled and blown sugar angel made by Krystal |
2014
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| January Niece Catelynn's first birthday confetti cake with yellow butter cream mash cake - butter cream and fondant bunny to look like her favourite stuffed bunny |
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| February German chocolate Humidor Cake for my brother in law St Remy's and cigars only non edible part, even ashtray made with modelling chocolate |
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| March Chocolate and vanilla marble cream cheese pound cake blue butter cream frosting with edible silver spray figures, instruments and sound equipment fondant, modelling chocolate and rice krispy square silver painted smarties and silver dragees for decorations some toothpicks for structure |
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| Rear view of the Rockin' Birthday Cake |
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| May Mother's day cake black and white sheet cake adapted with blueberry instead of chocolate layer of blueberry lemon sauce between layers instead of frosting only fondant on this one is the flowers |
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| Cake for father in law to bring to grand opening for House of Concepts Black and white marble sheet cake with chocolate butter cream frosting fondant made to appear as hardwood flooring, finished with a light brushing of vodka for shine black stand up sign made with modelling chocolate and piped butter cream |
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| Same as mother's day cake, black and white sheet adapted to a blueberry lemon marble tree is made with modelling chocolate and fondant flowers green cream cheese butter cream |
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| Vanilla cheese cake with chocolate cookie crust Topped with fresh fruit and glazed 50 created using moulded chocolate |
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| June Birthday/Graduation cake for my sister Mandee Purple and black zebra cake Zebra print on sides using sugar sheets caps are modelling chocolate and fondant |
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| Interior of Zebra cake |
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| September Nephew Kurtlan's 14th Birthday Skull cake adapted to severed head chocolate cake with fondant and modelling chocolate hidden inside was a chocolate shell with cherry filling to give a "crack" when cut black licorice for hair |
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| Front view of severed head cake before finishing board and adding cherries |
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| 2nd cake for Kurtlan's birthday for the more squeamish |
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| September Sister in law's birthday cake chocolate cake with rice krispy crossbones cake skulls were stacked, and dusted with edible glitter |
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| Inspiration for the above cake |
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| October Mother in Law's birthday cake butter pecan cake with stabilized whipped cream frosting modelling chocolate "pumpkin tea pot and cup" moulded white chocolate "cake" fondant Mom card modelling chocolate and fondant e-reader
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| October Like most girls, Rachel had to have a Frozen theme cake Confetti cake with stabilized whipped cream frosting green rice krispy trees dusted with icing sugar snow purple and blue tinted sugar formed into sheets then broken for jagged ice appearance plastic Elsa and Anna figures |
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| Christmas rice krispy tree with lights and powdered sugar cream cheese filled strawberry Santas basic white cake with stabilized whipped cream frosting |
2015
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| February Peanut butter cup cake |
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| March 6th Birthday for my nephew Ethan chocolate and vanilla 3 layer cake cream cheese butter cream icing sugar sheets used for Habs logo |
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| June Carrot cake with Cream Cheese butter cream cupcake shape pan |
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| July Butter Pecan (box mix) Cream cheese buttercream Marshmallow fondant - first time trying this recipe Sailor Mercury symbol made with chocolate edible silver glitter and silver dragees edible food writer for the "belated" tag :) |
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| August Pumpkin spice cake with Cream cheese buttercream Cheetah print marshmallow fondant Blocks - Rice Crispy Squares covered with fondant Partnered with Cheetah Print Mini Cheesecakes White background with original crust Orange background used a chocolate crust Shoes were not edible |
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| Baby due October 2015 Pumpkin on first block for October Lamb on last block for 2015 "Year of the Sheep" |
September
Kurtlan's 15th birthday at East Side Mario's!
Cake is a minecraft inspired block made with chocolate fudge and devil's food cake.
Boxed mix was used this time due to limited time.
Icing used was chocolate fudge and vanilla
Green tinted coconut for the grass.
Robert made the minecraft axe for me that is cutting into the block
October
Cupcake - Butter pecan with cream cheese butter cream for Mother in Law
Skull - Peanut butter with PB Glaze for Sister in Law
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| Pumpkin Sheet cake for family gathering to celebrate my in-laws 70th birthdays |
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| Pumpkin Sheet cake with cream cheese buttercream chocolate rocks to form path pretzel fence, door and window frames pumpkins, bats ghosts and hand in the grave non-edible |
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| Monster cupcakes for Rachel's 6th birthday party Chocolate and vanilla with cream cheese buttercream |
2016 |
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| February "Irish Car bomb" cake Chocolate cake with Guinness Beer Jamison's Irish Whiskey Glaze Irish Cream buttercream frosting Image on this cake was a laminated print removed before cutting the cake |
