E`s birthday

Our little safari lion is sure getting a lot of attention lately. This week we were asked to do little E`s first birthday, and the lion was asked to make an appearence again. He sure is popular.

E`s mom contacted me about the 1st birthday special, she wanted the lion, a blue cake with white icing and 18 vanilla and 18 chocolate cupcakes. Woot woot. For E`s smash cake, cause really that is what they do with their first birthday cake, we made a vanilla cake filled with strawberry preserve and fresh strawberries all iced in a fluffy blue vanilla buttercream. Toot Sweet Cupcakes is also a bit taken with the bunting flags and has started to add them to the cakes. They just look so cute and we think they add to the cake.

As part of the birthday special, a 6 in. smash cake, you recieve one dozen cupcakes, flavour of your choice, you can also add extra dozens for $15. We created 3 dozen vanilla and chocolate cupcakes with blue and white swirls of buttercream. A feast fit for the king of the jungle.

Happy 1st birthday E, I hope you had a great day sharing it with family and friends.

Pink cakes and a busy week

This week has been awesomely busy for orders. I love when I can create so many cakes/ cupcakes in a week. And too boot, two pink cakes. I never thought I would have so much fun making pink cakes, but I did.

Our first order was for a sweet little girl`s first birthday. Her mom contacted me asking for the 1st birthday special. She wanted a pretty, girly cake. As soon as she said that, I knew exactly what cake to create, the ruffle cake, in pink and to complete the girly part, lets top it with a tiara. It turned out so well. I fell in love with the cake. The lil` cupcake may be getting this cake for her 2nd birthday.

I think the cake turned out lovely. The cake itself was a Chocolate cake filled with a yumy strawberry preserve and iced with fuffly ruffles of pink buttercream. I initially started out with strawberry buttercream, but with the humidity the icing wouldn`t stick. Boo-urns. And I dislike using artificial flavours so to the pink tinted buttcream I went.

The second cake, I did this week. Bahhh, I forgot to take a picture. Not very smart, but I am told that the birthday girl will send photos, when she does I will put them up and add them to the blog.

Birthday girl A, contacted me on Monday asking if I was able to do a cake for her. Turns out she had another baker lined up and due to some unforeseen circumstance was no longer able to create A`s 23rd birthday cake. I couldn`t say no, and after the brief consultation, Toot Sweet Cupcakes was making the cake. A Red Velvet two tiered pink and black creation. But we added a twist to the cakes. On the bottom layer, I stipped some of the cake down and added a chocolate cake filling. What is a Chocolate cake filling you ask. A chocolate cake filling was sandwiched between two red velvet cakes and buttercream. I also added a cream cheese filling to the top red velvet tier. Cake was covered in tinted vanilla buttercream to add a polished finished.

Just before pick-up, I returned home from work to see all the fondant bows topping the cake, destroyed. Apparently the heat of the day made the bows crack, fall and break. OMG, I was devastated. I couldn`t send this cake to A, after what she endured, and on her birthday. So I improvised. Earlier that week, I was at the farmers market and came across a vendor selling pretty little flower clips for little girls. I saw the pretty black and pink with a crystal in the middle and figured one day that would be the inspiration for a cake, and wrap the cake in a fondant ribbon with the fondant flower on top. Well, due to time constraint, my newly acquired flower and a black ribbon I had became the topper of the cake. I wrapped the ribbon around the cake like a present and secured the ribbon with the flower. It actually turned out really pretty as well. So there you have it, disaster averted and A had a happy birthday with a pretty cake.

A texted me that evening thanking and left a message on my facebook wall saying that the red velvet recieved rave reviews and that the cake was adored. I was tickled pink. I love hearing reviews of cakes I make, and even best seeing little ones smash the cakes I make them.

As for the third cake, little man E gets a whole post to himself.

Fluffy white ruffles

I've had the same best friend for over 25 years. We met in kindergarten, went through brownies together, same elementary school, high school and everything in between and after. If I was to sum up our friendship I would have to say lasting. No matter the miles, distance or circumstance, we always seem to find our way back to each other. When ever we are together we pick up right where we left off.

We are such good friends that we call each others parents by first names, because we've known them for so long, I feel they've had a helping hand with my parents in raising me. So when Mer called me and asked me to make a suprise cake for her mom's birthday, I couldn't say no. Mer's mom loves lemon and vanilla, so I created a vanilla bean cake filled with tangy lemon curd. I am also a sucker for lemon curd and sit and eat it with a spoon.

I've been dying to create this ruffle cake and top it with pretty-ness since I saw in on a blog. I also love plumeria and decided that I would top the cake with some pretty tropical flowers, seen as Edmonton has had rainy weather lately, tropical flowers may be a nice reminder that it is in fact summer here.

Happy Birthday to Mer and S, as they both celebrated their birthday's the same week. Mer however hit the big 3-0. Where has the time gone. Love ya Mer, here's to our next 25 year's as friends.

Also, if you haven't noticed from my website, Mer has a cupcake named after her, The Mer, a hot chocolate cake. Yum-o, but that story is for a later post.

Boy or Girl....

Blue or pink...which is it going to be?

Four months ago, my friends, Mr. and Mrs. J, announced that they were expecting. How exciting. While the group of my friends were super excited, I was excited for the reveal, because I'd get to make reveal cupcakes. Any excuse to make cupcakes makes me excited.

Waiting 20 weeks to make cupcakes was starting to kill me. Ha. But alas, on June 2, also Mrs. J's birthday, I was able to present her gender reveal cupcakes. Now if you've never heard of a reveal cake/cupcakes, it is either a cake coloured to present the gender of the baby. The cake is frosted so when you cut in, you 'reveal' the gender. Well, I did my take on a gender reveal cake and made it into cupcakes. I started with my sinfully delicious chocolate cake, a moist, fluffy cake exploding with rich chocolate flavour. For the blue filling I tinted vanilla buttercream with blue. And because I was secretly hoping it was a girl, I even predicted in the baby pool, I filled the pink with my strawberry cheesecake icing. Yum. Mama-to-be S, loves creamy cheese icing, so I figured that the pink would be pretty reflective of her faves. To finish the cakes, I made fluffy swirls of tinted yellow and green buttercream. I combined the two colours to make the green and yellow swirl.

So what is Mama-to-be S and Daddy-to-be M having in November...Well the first ultrasound was inconclusive. Baby was playing shy and wouldn't show its bits. Poor Mama-to-be and Daddy-to-be, but after a second ultrasound the verdict was in...three lines...

IT'S A GIRL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Expected in November. Congratulations Mr. and Mrs. J and family and friends. Have to go now, I need to go shopping for baby girl J.

Yee-Haw Cowboy cookout birthday

Little boy B's mom contacted Toot Sweet Cupcakes about two weeks ago. They would be in Edmonton, from Calgary, to celebrate B's first birthday. B's mom wanted a 6 inch cow patterned cake and 24 cupcakes for his family Cowboy Cookout party. Yee-Haw.

We constructed a Black Forest cake, Chocolate cake with a cherry filling, covered it is vanilla buttercream and covered it with vanilla fondant. The results looked awesome. We loved the cow pattern.

The cowboy hat was hand moulded from fondant and gumpaste. We also made the little bunting flag with the special one year-old's name.

In addition to the cake for B to smash, we also provided 24 red velvet cupcakes frosted with cream cheese icing and topped those with cow patterned fondant.

Thank you to B's mom for contact us and inviting us to be a part of B's special day. And B, Happy 1st birthday, I hope you made a big mess.