Wedding season...Part 2

As promised! I am home from our girls weekend in Niagara Falls, exhausted, and ready to post some wedding cakes for your viewing pleasure :) Wedding cakes are very stressful... they need to be perfection! I wasn't entirely sure I was ready for the wonderful world of weddings, but when I was asked... I dove right in. And I'm glad I did!!! While stress levels run high, the end result is well worth the late nights and the stress of delivery!! Watching a wedding cake come together perfectly on any big day is just the bees knees! Next year I have 3 weddings booked, and 2 possibles so far! I will also be present at the Sass Bridal Event in February! (I missed the last show because it was 2 weeks before my wedding, and I realized at the very last minute that that was a very VERY bad idea! So I cancelled my table... :( BUT I signed on for the next show! I can't wait to share my new ideas with the future brides at the event!)

So here are the other wedding cakes I did this year....The first one was for the very sweet wedding of friends of ours. They had a small affair with a Victorian steam punk theme! It was very much their wedding. :) I am so happy that they came to me for their special cake request. They asked for a brushed steal look, with robot owls and red butterflies. So this is what I made! I was so excited while setting this cake, knowing they were going to love it! And I think the photo of them speaks for itself! A big congratulations to my friends, Dan & Amber! It was a wonderful day for everyone who was present!  These cake photos are from Josh Mahoney Photography

 The second cake is a simple, yet lovely, cake with real flowers on top. I loved this cake, and at the time thought I might do the same for my own cake - their wedding was very similar to ours...the same(ish) pink theme, the same decorating style, the exact same harpist!! It was so beautiful!  Sadly, I haven't had opportunity to see any photographer photos...so these are the photos I took :)

I hope you have all had great weekends! It's always sad when they come to a close on Sunday evenings. This week I have a few orders to keep me busy, including some spooky Halloween cookies...I'll keep you posted ;) 

Wedding season...Part 1

Wedding season, for me, has ended for the year! If you recall, the summer before last I did my first wedding. It was a very simple 1 tier cake and cupcakes. This summer I was able to do 4.5 weddings!! (The .5 wedding, I made the wedding favours) I am very excited to share these wedding cakes with all of you. The best part, in my opinion, are the professional photographers that ALWAYS attend such events! I have had the pleasure of seeing my work through the lenses of a professional camera! It makes me melt inside! I currently snap photos of my work with my iPhone.... while the photos aren't horrible...I am somewhat limited. Anyway... on to sharing! Here are a couple of the wedding cakes from this summer...

The first cake is a small 'cut cake' only. It was for my besties cousin on her big day. Her venue provided a cake, but she also wanted a little cake from me, for photos. The photo on the left is from Hilary Spencer Creative Photography. 

 The second cake is one of my favourites from the summer (I'm slightly biased, but my favourite cake happens to be the one I made for my own wedding... hehe) It was a very simple cake, with gold chevrons and real flowers. These photos are from Marianne Rothbauer Photography.

There are more wedding photos to come!! So stay tuned!

Today is the last day of my work week!! Myself and my girlfriends are heading to Niagra Falls this evening for our annual birthday celebration weekend!  So I will post more wedding photos Sunday night when I get home!  Have a great weekend! 

Blogging and things...

Good morning! It's been a little while since I've visited this little blog of mine.. This year has been a whirl wind! Seriously..I cannot believe we're heading into November soon! Where on earth has the time gone?  Yesterday I watched the movie 'Julie & Julia', not for the first time, and it reminded me why I started doing this whole blog. I wanted to be like her! About 4, almost 5, years ago I was in desperate need of something to do, a hobby of sorts..this girl was bored! After watching Julie & Julia, the first time, I was completely in love with the idea of being a blogger! But what on earth could I blog about?!? I had started bringing baked goods to work for co-workers to enjoy, and it was about that time that I was approached for a cake order! My very first paid cake order.  MMB blog was born... Since then I have been constantly challenged by different wants and needs, and I feel like I am always able to rise to the challenge. I am so proud of myself. Having never taken a baking/decorating class in my life, I set sail on an incredible journey, where I ended up finding my one true passion!

So let me tell you about this year past! As you know, I was engaged last February, to my absolute best friend! The only person who truly understands me and is incredibly patient with me..(Aside from my best gal pal! - She too knows me very very well! haha)

 Wedding planning was...interesting... We set a budget and we really worked hard to stay within it. Not exactly the easiest task, but 100% manageable! I am happy to sit here and tell you that we did it! We stayed within our budget, maybe $100-$200 over, the whole ordeal took place in September and it was a beautiful day! I could not have asked for better Saturday ;) (Photos to come - once I receive them...I imagine in my next post! They're in the mail!) Due to the enormous task of planning a wedding, I took a few months off from baking to make sure I was as relaxed as a bride could be (truth be told, I was still stressed! ) but I'm glad I took the time! Sometimes you need a break. And I believed I've learned from that, and will not always push myself to the very edge of sanity with orders! :) This being said, I am back! I am in full swing taking orders again! And so excited to be getting right back into it!

 With the changing seasons and the holidays approaching (and already past)  I thought I would post a little something that comes with the changing leaves....PUMPKINS! These were pumpkin spiced roll out cookies that of course needed to be decorated like pumpkins!  They were the treats I made this year for Thanksgiving! Of course its not pumpkin pie, but still delish!! And super adorable!

Wiggle wiggles!

This was my first cake of 2014!! As you should all know by now, making people shapes is SO not my thing!! But I sure do try hard! haha and these little guys have wavy arms!!!

I love this cake because its pink and so fun! :)

Minions Assemble!!!!

I've had a couple opportunities to make Minion cakes this year! Which is fantastic because I love  those movies!! Here are the two little guys I made! :D I really like the second one a lot better - I found that I paid more attention to details; like the detailing on the goggles, and the Gru logo on his overalls(That doesn't appear to be present in any of the photos!lol). BUT I'm very happy with both minions!

Happy Sunday Funday!!

Camo cake

First, let me say, I couldn't believe that I pulled off the camo look - first try!! I had far more trouble making piglet, though he's not bad :)

When I was young I LOVED Winnie the Pooh and friends ! I was so excited when asked for Pooh themed cakes - this is the first of 2 so far ( spoiler alert* I like, no, LOVE the second one WAY more!!! I would say - hands down - my best cake to date!) ...stay tuned :)

Happy Friday everyone! I hope your weekend gets kicked off right! ;) I'll be making  a steampunk theme wedding cake today and some cake pops to go with it :)

BTB

 This Bob The Builder cake was one of the first cakes of this year, for the cutest little guy! It was a fun little cake! :)

Mondays..

Good morning everyone. I know I didn't get a chance to post yesterday, I had myself a table at the Ajax Waterfront Festival and I was exhausted by the time we got home. (I'll post photos of that tomorrow :) )  For today lets get this week started with a good ol game of ball ;) The cute baseball pops we for a classic baseball themed 1st birthday party. :)

Have a great Monday!

Baby shower

This is the last post from my 2013 folder!!! Yay!!! I made it!!!  I think with this baby shower I got just a little too ambitious in a very short amount of time... I took on a little too many shapes, and didn't give myself the time needed to perfect them, and as a result I didn't really like them all that much. But it was a long time ago and I'd like to think that I learn from every order!

I liked the idea of a baby shoe cake pop, but it turned out to be WAY more difficult than I thought. I haven't had a chance to try again... I may take this time to retire the baby shoe cake pops, they sort of take away from the cake pop experience. There is just sop much fondant on them.

I've got lots going on these days so stay tuned for plenty of current posts!!

Angry birds

I don't want to jinx it, but I haven't had any angry bird requests in quite some time! Hooray! While they always turn out super cute - they're sort of a pain to do. Hahah it would be easier (and boring) if they were all the same colour! Hahah

 I really love that every time I make them they're a little different/better than the last. Happy Saturday! (This is my yesterday post...that I missed...)