On Friday it was my friends birthday and I was super stoked to be able to make her birthday cake for her. Since she is turning 21, I thought a Vegas themed birthday cake would be appropriate.
The big bottom layer was a white cake with maraschino cherries and white chocolate chips. It was frosted with my favourite Italian buttercream, flavoured with vanilla bean and white chocolate.
The dice were both a devil’s food cake layered with a delicious chocolate cocoa fudge icing, and chocolate ganache.
I woke up the next morning with …

Several months ago my cousin asked me if I would be interested in making the cake for their wedding, along with some cupcakes- of course I jumped at the chance! I had never made a wedding cake before and was looking forward to figuring it out, and hopefully building something beautiful! It was a huge undertaking, and much of the last couple weeks have been spent deciding on flavours, baking, baking, baking, cutting out fondant flowers and of course, decorating. They really gave me free reign to do whatever I …

Sorry for the lack of posting in the past few days! It’s been a couple of stressful, not-so-fun weeks, but I’m back for a special post on…birthday cake! Birthday cake is an occasional indulgence, and more often than not I don’t even end up eating birthday cake, but I do love to make them. Today is my good friend Erika’s 20th birthday, and I will be turning 20 in exactly two weeks. Erika, myself, and a few of our friends are going to be celebrating our birthdays in Whistler for …

In September it was my boyfriend’s birthday, so I really wanted to make a special cake. I decided it was time to try out rolling fondant. For this cake, I decided to cover it in white fondant and then ice the logo of the BC Lions football team in coloured buttercream. My boyfriend has seasons tickets for the lions so we had been to a few games together and watched the rest on TV. I was really proud of how it turned out, as it was my first time using …