The good news is, I finished the Baby Shower cake due today. Yay! First occasion cake I’ve done in a while. I noticed that some of my decorating skills are somewhat rusty, and I struggled with certain aspects of decorating this cake that I normally would have managed with no problems. It also didn’t help…
Category: Cake/Cupcakes
Baby Shower Cake: Gluten Free Baking?
I have the great opportunity to make a baby shower cake for one of my work colleagues this week. I’m actually looking forward to it, as I haven’t baked anything… Not. A. Thing…in a few months now, and I’m starting to jones for the smell of OMG CAEK in my home again! The catch? The…
Collection: Black Friday!
…so another Black Friday has come and gone. Unless you have been living under a rock for the last several years, you will know that the term “Black Friday” does not mean this, …but instead identifies the day after American Thanksgiving; a concentrated day of store (and now online) deep discounts on a myriad of…
Meyer Lemons!!! Yaaaaay!!!!!
I found Meyer Lemons totally at random this weekend, in the Ottawa region of all places! I am NOT KIDDING when I confess that my eyes got wide as I snatched the single remaining bag of Meyer Lemons off the display table, pressed them to my heart as I squeaked (yes, *squeaked*), and…
Blast from the Past: Under the Sea Baby Shower Cake
Almost exactly a year ago, a friend and I made a lovely baby shower cake for my little sister’s first baby shower.As the theme was “Under the Sea”, so the cake theme was as well. We expected around 40 people to the shower, and boy, did they all come! It was quite the event; obviously…
Blast From the Past: Baby Block Baby Shower Cake
Since I’ve discontinued writing in my former blog, I thought for a continual series I would bring over some of my previous blog posts and discuss past cake commissions as appropriate. One of my favourite cakes I’ve made in the recent past (March of last year, to be exact), was a baby block “Welcome the…
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