Themed Cake

Love it or Bid On It!

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Love it or Bid On It!

Back in February I met Todd & Rebecca Talbot when I took them (& their two adorbs kids!) cupcakes to the Empress Hotel.

Any Love It Or List It Vancouver fans out there? I started following Todd & the hilarious Jillian Harris as a result of their entertaining repartee on LIOLIV. As I told Todd, their Insta stories have given me life in the entertainment department as I ploughed through many-a-late-night-wedding-cake-session. 

(Side note – Todd is AS lovely as he appears on TV, and his wife Rebecca is delightful!!!)

Buuuuuuut back to my post – I also brought this cake with me, which featured the logo for the upcoming B.C. Children’s Hospital Shine Fundrasier/Afternoon Tea/Fashion Show that Todd & Rebecca were M.C.’ing. I have more than one friend who has benefitted from the amazing work done at the BCCF so the hope was that maybe, somehow, someone would benefit from this cake. Even if it was just to feed volunteers, helpers, hosts of the event.

Fortunately the Talbots were able to include this cake in the Live Auction held at The Empress and this cake raised $300 for the BCCF! AWESOME!

The cake itself was a simple fondant covered one tiered cake with a gumpaste replica of the gorgeous drawing created for this special event.

Do you volunteer for a local or international charity? I just personally want to say thank you. I have seen firsthand how both local and international organizations benefit from the countless people who simply ‘show up’. Whether it’s centre stage M.C.’ing a special event, or on the ground in the dirt meeting with people who seem to lack all hope. You are the reason so many important organizations manage to keep going. Thank you for serving.

 

A Birthday, A Bike and a Blank Space

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A Birthday, A Bike and a Blank Space

I’m so far behind on blogging that I won’t even TRY to catch up. So I’m going to jump to a concept that I thought was so cool. Sometimes my mind is full of ideas of cake designs, hoping that a client with no idea what they want will jump onto my crazy design-train. And SOMEtimes clients come to me with the coolest ideas that I embrace them with open arms.

THIS was one of those clients with one of those ideas.

A Blank Slate!

The idea that makes you think “Why have I NEVER thought of this?????” The idea was to include a bike (a love of the birthday-boy) but basically leave the rest of the cake white. A blank slate. The client had purchased edible markers so that all of the party guests could sign the cake as an ‘Edible-Birthday-Card.’

WHAAAAAT?

Crunchy spaghetti spokes 🙂

I know.

Genius.

London, Rainbows & Unicorns!

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London, Rainbows & Unicorns!

My friend Laura, is inspirational.

She is a blogger, a preacher, an encourager of women and a great party-planner.

She is also, possibly singlehandedly, my most prolific client 🙂

So when her daughter London was about to turn 1, we set about planning what kind of cake to make for her birthday.  In fact I think we had barely just finished her son’s birthday cake when we started chatting!

In addition to her unicorn cake, Laura also had various other Pinterest-worthy ideas for the rest of her food table.  You can see all of the amazing details here.

Exciting for me was the fact that she was collaborating with Focal Photography to shoot the party so I knew she was going to get amazing photos from Marlboro Wang Photo who got the shots of the day!

How To Build A Car When Your Husband’s Not Looking

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How To Build A Car When Your Husband’s Not Looking

18 MONTHS IN THE MAKING !

June 3, 2017

My husband is a genius. Other than being really smart, he can build stuff.  And I mean HARD stuff.  He has been working on building a 1930 Model A Ford for the past 8 years or so and this month it will finally be finished.  Talk about a lesson in patience…….. (which you MIGHT need to make it to the end of this post, but I personally feel it’s worth it 😉 )

So 18 months ago, when it occurred to me he wasn’t too far away from his 50th birthday ……..

(OK, let me take a minute here.  I’m sorry but that DOES make me feel old.  I mean, HOW can I be married to a 50 year old man when I’m only 25 myself? Ok, 25 myself ‘in-my-head’.  But still, YOUNG??

Ok. Over it)

….. I knew exactly what his cake was going to be for his 50th birthday.  A replica of the car he had poured his heart and soul into.  But, this presented a few problems.

  1. How does one prepare a surprise cake, for a surprise birthday party, in the home of the surprisee? (is that a word? it should be a word)
  2. When preparing said cake, how does one react when surprisee (I’m going with it) suddenly comes home when you’re not expecting him?
  3. And finally, how does one learn about electricity enough to have working headlights in the cake once surprisee arrives at his surprise party?

Well, here’s the answers.

  1. You tell surprisee that you have two cake orders that week, and they’re big so you need to start on them VERY early in the week.
  2. When surprisee arrives home and you’ve already cut said cake into the OBVIOUS shape of a car, you hurl a 10×14 inch cake board on top of your carving, and let it ‘hang’ there as it swings to and fro.  That’s right.  A cake board. On TOP of a cake. That is smaller than the cake.  Making the board act like a see-saw. And THEN acting like this is completely normal (it’s not!)
  3. Lastly, you go to the local lighting store, have them set you up with lights, wires and a 6volt battery (that sucker’s huge!) and have them tell you about positives and negatives and that you ‘probably won’t have a fire’ with this setup. Probably? Like I probably won’t eat this whole bowl of leftover ganache by myself and call it ‘research’? NEWSFLASH – I’m eating the ganache. It’s ‘research’.

The bad news is, the battery didn’t last long enough for the surprisee/husband to see it.  The good news is, all of the guests did.

Wait a second.  All of the guests DID LAST LONG ENOUGH in order for the husband to see them, but they ALSO got to see the working headlights. Note to self, sentence structure is important…..

The other bad news is I wasn’t able to hide the battery inside the cake like I was hoping to, but the good news is I learned plenty about car cakes for the next one.  (Did I REALLY just say ‘next one’? Like I’m planning to DO a ‘next one’? Re-evaluating……..)

Anyways, you’ve been very patient reading. So here’s the visual of this whole ordeal.  Happy 50th Birthday to my best friend, car-building extraordinaire, my husband xoxo