Pretty yellow pops

 Sometimes the prettiest pops are the simple ones :)

Happy Monday!

The show!!!

 As some of you may know, I participated in my first ever bridal show this year!!! Back in September (Yikes! I know!) I was asked if I would like to have a table in the Sass bridal event on September 8th. Uh..YES!!!!

It was fairly short notice so i got right to work!!!! I made 500 of these mini cake pops to give away as samples to all the brides. The pink were chocolate raspberry, turquoise: butter pecan, yellow : vanilla, and purple was chocolate. :) They were a huge hit at the show!!

 To fill my table I made three dummy cakes. For those who don't know, they are styrofoam cakes decorated to look like real ones :) The order of the photos is A) the order they were made, and B) my least to most favorite.

First up, is just a plain cake with black ribbons...I think before I do the next show (In February!!!!) I'm going to change the ribbon to make it a little thicker.

 Second is this pretty little thing! Just in time for the show one of my online orders came in!! A pearl mould in 3 sizes!!! I was so so excited for its arrival I wasted no time getting started making pretty pink pearls! :) and carnations!(I ordered a few things on line that week haha)

 And third, my most favorite!!!! It's so pretty. I could NOT for the life of my think of what to do for a third cake. I tried to make a super tall silver cake...it looked rather spacey and it had to be destroyed... haha that was fun. It was 2 nights before the big day and I still had zero thoughts, and a very white styrofoam dummy looking me in the face. My wonderful fiance, being the wise man he is started throwing ideas my way and googling cakes for me. This is the beautiful flower we found!!! I had never made it before, and had no cutters, no stemens...but I pulled it off! And just in time! :) I am so proud of this little cake! I can't wait to have it on display again!

 Then the day arrived!!! This was my table!(Me on the right and Ginny[my best friend and huge supporter of MMB on the left]) This shot was just before the show...waiting for the crowds. And they did come! We were busy all day! Fortunately we didn't run out of anything! Except business cards!!!! All gone!!! It was a huge success! I cannot wait until February for the next one!

I have so many new ideas and plans for the next show!!! :D

Man cake

 Wow. Hi everyone! I am a slacker when it comes to posting! Yeesh!  I'm off today and tomorrow, from work, and from MMB work, so that means I have a bit of time to do some updating!! :) Here goes!         

This cake...was..detailed! (As you can see)

The Brock Badgers are the Brock University sports teams! This cake was for a lad on the wrestling team on his 21st birthday :)

Hahah I called it a man cake because unlike the cakes I usually do this one screams that it is  NOT for a girl! (It's a wee bit scary actually lol)

 This cake was very detail oriented, right down to the custom hand cut lettering that I did!!

Winter is coming...

 UGH! I am not a cold weather person!!! Being born and raised in Canada it doesn't really make sense! Right?! I should love the snow! The cold! Baah, it's horrible! The only thing that gets me through the winter season is the fact that Christmas is in the middle! I <3 Christmas!!

I realize that I've completely skipped over Halloween this year. There..isn't very much to say about it...I just missed it..lol sorry Halloween fans.  (I.. started a little Christmas baking today - for an order- but Christmas baking on October 30 I LOVE IT!)


Anyway, to get ready for the change in temperature...here are some curling rock cake pops I made. (In August- sorry for the crazy delay) I've personally never played the sport (it's probably cold..) but I've watched a couple of games from the heated stands. It's...I..well I don't get it. But theses were for a birthday boy who plays! And he loved them! :)

 Haha, kinda fun eh? ;)

Party Animals

 I love a challenge! LOVE. So when Justins cousin asked if I could make farm animal cake pops....I said of course!! :) and I did it!! :D

They were so fun to make. Fun to watch them come alive! :D And then...we took them camping! haha

 This is the birthday girl Carolyn with her favorite treats!! She was so disappointed when I told her they were for another birthday and that I had delivered them the previous night! Hahah just kidding!!

 These were cake pops in the wild. They were packed into a box and placed in the cooler in the boat we brought with us camping. ...through and extremely back way bumpy forest road! Only one of them didn't make it! Yay

YUM!

 

And for funsies we took these photos of them post first bites....the pig sort of looks like a zombie pig..with brains coming out. Haha love it.

Happy Sunday Funday!

Dirty Piggies!!

 Hahah naked piggies takin a dip! :)

I love this cake and it was a huge success! :) Pigs in the mud!

 Oink oink!

Happy Monday...oh wait

 I had Monday off this week so this feels like Monday to me! Why are they so hard?! haha Anyway I do like to try to kick off my work week with a quick morning post before headin to the grind..so here is a cake I made a while back for the sweetest little boy!! He was so excited when he saw it!!! :)







This is the second sort of vehicle cake that I've done, and I like to think that I've learned a lot since the last one. Which was the dump truck cake from last Christmas. (Which...I was not 100% happy with) I love this truck!!! I made sure the cake was raised off the board so the wheels could fit in there, and I have a new found attention to detail.

 Since I am a self taught cake decorator it's been somewhat of a slow process. There are certain structural elements that I didn't understand when I started. After a few near disaster cakes I've realized that cake cannot and will not support itself..haha

I have so many new things that I'm working on these days!! I cannot wait to share them with you!!

If today is your Monday, or your Tuesday..have a great day!!

Baby shoe trial #2

 So after the success of the cake topper baby shoe, I thought : What about a cake pop?!?

Here it is. They're a little big ...and chubby....but babies I kinda chubby...so it works...haha :)

Baby shoe trial #1

 Wow! Hello everyone. Its been....almost a lifetime since I posted... I have been busy! And all my social media, except facebook, has been left behind!!!  I'm still here though!! And I have so many things to show you!! :)


First, I found a baby shoe tutorial, http://cakejournal.com/tutorials/how-to-make-baby-shoes/ And thought I'd give it a go.




They took quite a bit of time this first time. But they are REALLY cute!! And inspiring. I really enjoy tutorials!! :) so there will be more to come!!

 Of course I had to make a cake to put these little cake toppers on! ...I'm not a fan of the cake part...but the shoes!!! :D

Pokemon cupcakes

 You probably don't know that I was a pokenerd when I was young....Aaaand sometimes I still play (It's addicting and they're just so cute!!! You gotta catch 'em all!! ;) )

Anyway... They were a birthday surprise for someones grandson on his birthday. When I asked her what his favorite Pokemon were she became a little baffled, unaware of just how many there are. I told her to just leave it to me!!! Haha that I know my way around Pokemon! (Such a dork!)

 Though they were for her grandson, when I dropped them off for her at work her office also loved them!! Especially her boss! So she ordered more for the following week!  Pokemon take 2! I did the same Pokemon over, but as with everything else practice makes perfect...so I like these ones a little better. :)

Happy Wednesday folks!!! It is mid week!!!! :D

Let your nerd out! ;)