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…
Recipe Post: Colourful Spiral Cookies
Another short series I will be working on over the next little while will be to share recipes, pictures, and tutorials of the several dessert table goodies I made for my wedding last month. Today, I shall show you how to make these awesome Colorful Spiral Cookies, courtesy of an amazing baker and cookbook author,…
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…
Commission Tales: So many little’uns, so many birthday cakes…
Right after I had completed the birthday cake commission mentioned in the previous post, I had to start work on the next one due only a few days later. Also a vanilla funfetti flavour (totally a coincidence, whodathunk…) for the bottom tier, and deep chocolate for the top tier, this cake was a gift to…
Commission Tales: Elmo says,"Tee hee, that tickles!"…or something.
Pulled myself through a bad case of the flu in order to complete this cake commission last week. One of two commissions, actually. Ah well, illness never arrives in the right time anyway, so we must soldier on regardless! Of course, I made scrupulously sure that all of my baking surfaces were cleaned and disinfected,…
How did the sick girl get to heaven? Flu…
Holy CATS this has been a rough weekend. After dropping our friend off at the airport last Thursday afternoon, five days after our wedding, the Hubster and I headed for home. We had stopped for dinner, when all of a sudden I started to feel unwell. Four days later, I have just managed to crawl…
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