For the Love of Cake

Great ideas for kid’s birthday cakes

June 23rd, 2011

As all of our cakes are custom made to order we can create just about anything. Whether you have a pink frilly cake in mind for your daughter’s first birthday or a Ninja Turtle cake for your son’s 5th birthday, we can help. As custom cakes take time to create and the more detail on the cake means more time spent, the cost of the cake will reflect this. So, if you initially are quoted for a full 3D cake and it doesn’t work into your budget we can always make recommendations for alternated designs that may work for you and your budget. Below are some great kid’s birthday cakes that we have pulled from our galleries. If you don’t see the cake you’re looking for, just email us a photo and we can design a cake just for you! Even if you don’t have a specific design in mind, let us know what your child likes and how old they’ll be and we can create something just for you.

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Double Wedding

June 15th, 2010

Back in the fall of 2009 I had the pleasure of working with Tia and Tamera Mowry on the set of the Lifetime movie “Double Wedding”. Not only was I the on set cake consultant, but I created the “shoe cake” which is featured in the movie’s trailer and I was asked by the director to be an extra in the “cake competition” scene. Here are a few photos from the set as well as the “shoe cake”. I do have to say that it was a delight working with both Tia and Tamara. They are so nice! The movie will air on the Lifetime network in the US Sunday, June 20th 2010. You can view the trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujk_YPCX7gI

: Double Wedding wrap party cake

: Me and Tamara Mowry on the set of Double Wedding

: Tarama (left), Me (Genevieve) and Tia (right)

: Shoe cake for Double Wedding

: Shoe pile cake for Double Wedding

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Our first live cake competition

April 27th, 2010

This past Sunday, April 25th I entered my very first, not only cake competition, but live cake competition. It was held at Bonnie Gordon School Annual Cake Show. I was up against Bonnie’s own cake designer Isabelle.

I went into this competition knowing that I was up against 2 people with way more experience than me but was completely up for the challenge. Was I nervous? Yes. As Patricia and I rolled, covered, cut and draped fondant and gum paste over our blank cake forms with a bit of sweat building up on our faces our competitors took their time delicately painting the trim and detail work previously done on their cake. It did stressed me out every time I looked to my left and saw what seemed to be, yet another, finished tier having appeared mysteriously from somewhere under their table. That didn’t stop Patricia and I though. We worked our tails off and through the stress, pressure, sweat, sore backs, arms and feet we accomplished what we set out to do. In 5 hours we produced the cake we had designed and although we worked down to the very last second and some elements were quite rushed and rough towards the end I really think that we did a heck of a job. I really would have liked to have seen what our competitors would have been able to do in the 5 hours having started from scratch like we did. Was it fun? Looking back on it, yes, but in the moment, not so much! Will I do another live challenge? Sure, but not right away. I really do think that the crowd enjoyed it too, as they were crammed around our table non-stop and couldn’t keep their eyes off what we were doing.

Did I win, maybe not but in my mind and of those in attendance the real winners were Patricia and I for having been able to pull off our cake in only 5 hours with our level of experience. Below are some photos from the competition of Patricia and I hard at work. Thank you to all of our supporters and those of you who stood by us and watched up work and gave us words of encouragement.

: Patricia works feverishly to finish the fringe on the bottom tier

: I make the lace for the top tier

: I make and place the ribbon and bow on the top tier

: Patricia and I work together to drape the swag on the bottom tier

: Patricia makes the rose border for the middle tier

: Patricia making the bows for the bottom tier

: I place the bows on the bottom tier

: Patricia touches up the cameos

: I delicately paint the broach I just made with metallic silver

: adding the frill to my Marie Antoinette shoes

: adding the finishing touches to my Marie Antoinette shoes

: my finished shoes ready to go on the cake

: the cake starts to take form

: putting the top tier on the cake

: I struggle to put a support dowel in the cake

: Patricia dusts our flowers to finish them off

: carefully placing our flowers on the cake

: putting a few last flowers in place

: I finish a lily at the very last minute

: only a few minutes left before the competition’s over

: just before the competition wrapped up

: the bottom tier of our finished cake

: the middle tier of our finished cake

: Our finished cake!

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Live design challenge at The Cake Show

April 21st, 2010

So it’s spring again which means it’s time for the Bonnie Gordon School’s ‘The Cake Show’ and this year I’ve had the honour of being asked to participate in the Live Cake Design Challenge. This means my assistant, Patricia, and I have 5 hours to complete a magnificent cake taking into account the theme – A wedding at Versailles. We are up against Bonnie Gordon’s own cake designer Isabelle Loiacono. This event is open to the public and takes place this coming Sunday, April 25th 12-5pm at the Artscape Wychwood Barns on Christie just south of St Claire. For more info please visit http://www.thecakeshow.com/

Come out and support us in our live design challenge. Hope to see you there.

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