Goodbye 2011, Hello 2012

Another year has come and gone. I welcome 2012 with "Open Arms" and am hoping for a better year. 2011 was a busy year and challenging as well. I am hoping for big things in 2012 and hopefully more baking challenges as well. My goal is to bake more so i can post more! Hopefully taking more cake classes as well to better my cake talent.

I hope everyone has an awesome 2012 and am looking forward to some new challenges and a New Year!

-Brandy

Pokemon Cake

Here is a very cool Pokemon cake that i recently had the pleasure of creating. The bottom layer was vanilla, the pokemon head was chocolate, both covered in buttercream and Fondant. The ears were made out of cardboard and then covered in Fondant. A little trick i learned from Cakelava!

Baby Oliver!

My cousins Julie and Marc recently welcome a new baby into the family! Marc's brother decided to surprise them by ordering cupcakes (he lives in Florida) when they baby arrived! Of course i said yes especially when welcoming a new baby into the family!

The cupcakes were dairy free chocolate flavored cupcakes with Fondant decorations!

Welcome Baby Oliver!

Scott & Erin Wedding Cupcakes

My niece recently got married in August and i had the pleasure of doing her cake and cupcakes for the big day! Nothing like a beautiful day in August to celebrate the marriage between two best friends! My niece looked absolutely gorgeous and Scott, well he cleans up pretty nice! :)

The Cupcakes were a mix of chocolate and vanilla with vanilla buttercream tinted to their Orangey/Red color and to Green as well. The cake on top was a vanilla cake with raspberry filling, vanilla buttercream and white fondant. The flowers on top were made out of gumpaste to replicate part of the brides Bouquet.

The pictures are courtesy of Frey Fotos, her work is absolutely amazing! They are located in the GTA area and if you ever need a wedding photographer i would hit them up first!

Oh Panda!

This cake was a lot of fun to make, i had never made a panda cake before! :) The flavor was lemon with lemon buttercream, of course all fresh ingredients right down to the lemon juice from the actual lemon. He was almost too cute not to eat!

The ears, feet and arms were rice crispy treats covered in fondant.





I need to figure out how to make character eyes looking happy and not scary. Maybe i should watch some Top Model! :)

1st Day of Fall!

As much as it's sad knowing that summer is done, i do love fall, especially the weather and of course clothes shopping! This time of year i tend to do a lot of baking because who doesn't love a house that smells of warm comfort food. My personal favorite is baking and my favorite ingredient to bake with in the fall is non other than Pumpkin! Soon enough it'll be time to go and pick a pumpkin and create my very own Pumpkin Puree. Every year we go to Naumans Farms I highly reccomend this spot for Pumpkins and of course they have a really cool Corn Maze!

Here are some of the pictures from last year. I'll be sure to post some of my Pumpkin Baked Goods this year as well.

What is your favorite fall food to either cook or bake?







To finish it all off, here is what i had made with the Pumpkin Puree in the beginning of 2011. Pumpkin Cupcakes with Brown Sugar Icing, sooooo good!

Happy Days for Lee and Nicole

At work a lovely couple were getting married and we decided to throw them a Surprise Shower! Trying to get two people in the same room was a bit tricky especially so close to their wedding. Their colors were purple and i decided to add some bling to the dessert. I made vanilla cupcakes with swirling some purple coloring into them. Then dark chocolate ganache with silver drag and some rainbow dust!

Congrats to Lee and Nicole!