Spooktacular!

Halloween is so much fun for the kids!  Now that we have one, it's a great excuse to have a Halloween party!

My little wicked witch!

Busted!  Sneaking candy from her cousin's pile!

Ken and I played hooky from work this Saturday and decorated the backyard with a mini-spooky scene for a Halloween party! The weather so nice, the kids actually got to play outside...so Thankful for nice weather!!!

Super Sweet Brenna!

Super-Ghyan with mama!

Silas and Dilly...chubby bums!

Mr. Shandro the monkey

 

Ken and his magic with flashes to make it look creepy...it was actually bright blue sky when he took this photo!

Santos Characters

Queen Rian and Princess Izzaboo

And inside....SWEETS and TREATS galore!

The shop was also bustling with Halloween themed cake and cupcake orders.  In the past 3+ years, we don't remember getting so many Halloween requests, but we loved it!  Here are just a few we did up for the weekend. 

Cool Graveyard scene put together by Brenna, Heather and Aislinn.

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we added cute little angel wings to this giant cupake before it got picked up.

Hope everyone had a Happy Halloween!

Cake Walk

TUESDAY NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Oh, how we look forward to this event each year. It puts the FUN in fundraising!!! So go get your ticket to support the Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts...eat some cake...drink some wine...watch some hilarious performances...and cheer on our cake, darn it!

Two years ago, we got third place...last year we got second place...this year? Well, let me just say that Ais, is coveting the top spot pretty badly! Ha ha.

This was the cake that gave our sponsor, Avenue Magazine a second place win from last year's event...you see Ringo in the back there? Ken was able to make him SPIN around while playing that drum...COME ON people!!!


Background story: Beatles song that was given to us was "I saw her standing there"; our stage team members were Orville (Avenue Magazine); Jesse Lipscome; and Ken...with the ever so funny talented Sheri Sommerville singing our song. If you haven't caught on yet, our cake represented each of our team members...hence, the Archetypal Beatles...because Aislinn and I are soooo funny and creative!

I can't tell you what song we got this year...not until the event is over, but I can tell you that it's going to kick serious A**!

...now, if I can only find the video footage from last year's stage performance. IT was too funny!

PS. watch us bright and early on City TV's Breakfast television this Monday October 25th to promote cake walk!

Mini Dessert Tables

Ken and I had a great time at Bridal Expo this year! Cheers to Katherine (from Elegant Touches and her Bridal Expo Edmonton team) for a wonderful show!

We decided it was high time to showcase more than just our cakes. We created 3 mini dessert tables for future brides to drool over! Sorry for the bad quality photos...Ken didn't have his super awesome lighting gear with him (surprisingly)...but the sweets are still eye candy...

Love + Cake + Buttons = super cool!

The cake shots were SUPER popular...so glad we decided to bring those this year.


Vintage Bollywood
A new favourite. I love stenciling in gold...so romantic!
Mini desserts: matching sugar cookies; petit fours; and mac pops.


Cupcakes + brown + pink...still HOT!
This fun little two tiered cake is the perfect topper for a cupcake tower.
My new favourite dessert table item: chocolate covered Oreos (also great as favours)

Cake Impersonation

Every once in a while, a couple will come into our shop wanting a non-traditional wedding cake. Caroline and Cameron are such a fun couple! They brought me a photo of a cake made by one of my favourite cake designers, Elisa Strauss, and asked if I could do something similar for their wedding. Typically, my answer would be no to recreating some one else's work of art, but these two were too cute to say no to...and I love nothing more than a totally wonky wedding cake. They called it their "cake impersonating a cake".

Here it is in all it's yummy glory!

And as a surprise, Caroline had us create a groom's cake for Cameron.

Congratulations to the lovely couple!

Amanda & Chris - Hastings Lake Gardens

I LoVe the awesome couples that come into our shop and allow us to design a totally unique wedding cake just for them! When Amanda and Chris came in and showed me their cute invitations, I knew right away the cake had to be themed after it. It just made the cake more personal and tied in with the decor of the hall beautifully. Below are some photos from Rhiannon of Don't Say Cheese. Definitely check out her post of the wedding for more awesome photos from that day.

From invitation...


...to cake!

I just love this next photo...we rarely ever get to see our cakes sliced and eaten up. People always ask us if it "hurts" to see the cakes get cut into after we spend hours (sometimes days) on a cake. Honestly, I think it's the best part!


Congratulations Amanda and Chris!

Mini Cakes

Mini cakes have a double purpose...they make the perfect unique wedding dessert and can also serve as a sweet wedding favour. When displayed, these little cakes always make a huge impact. Clients are always shocked to learn that mini cakes can cost so much more than one large wedding cake. It's simply because they do take a lot of time...it's like decorating one cake over and over! So, when you ask cake designers "if we buy more does it cost less?" The answer you will more than likely get is, "not in the case of the mini cakes." However, if you consider using the little sweets as thank you favours for your guests as well, then they are truly worth the cost.

Here are 60 (plus a couple extra) little box cakes we did this weekend for Lance and Shannon.
Congratulations you two! It's been a pleasure working with you.

And for something more unique and oh so chic...

80 Mini brownie cakes we created for Jenelle of Pink Polka Design!
Congratulations J&T! Can't wait to share your wedding photos from the our studio!
(Our brownies photographed from Nuance Occasions)

Mini cakes....it's a LOVE and HATE relationship sometimes...but mostly LOVE!

Sweets and Treats and Lots of Fun

As promised...photos of Kenna's first Birthday! I'm just gonna let the photos do most of the talking.

The fun invitations made by Pink Polka Design (photo from Jenelle's Blog). Jenelle also made all the signs for the games, the big poster for the entry way and the dessert table tags!

The Dessert Table (we had mini donuts, peanuts, cotton candy, chocolate mustaches, cupcakes, elephant sugar cookies, salt water taffy) On a side table we had a popcorn machine, cotton candy machine & old fashioned sodas.
(photography by Buffy Goodman)

Party Favours (Dumbo books for Kenna's friends and photo cards of Kenna with a mustach for all)!

Pick-a-Duck
Kenna's 2 year old cutie-pie cousin Izzy was later on found swimming in the pick-a-duck!

Kissing Booth guessing game

Petting Zoo...I didn't get my baby elephants or miniature ponies, but we got all sorts of fun little creatures!


Fat Franks...the bill was something like 59 smokies, 61 hotdogs, 30 hamburgers, 20 cheeseburgers, 5 bacon cheeseburgers and a partidge and pear flippin tree consumed by our guests...who also ate BBQ and Filipino food served up by Ken's parents! CRAZY!!!


It's not a party until the bouncy deflates on the children attending the party...so many kids that day...waaay too many and only 1 cried...

Face painting and balloon animals by Mike and Auntie Frani

Kenna-Lu with her grandma and grandpa (earlier that week both of my brother's...well their wives, had baby boys making my parents the grandparents of 8)!

Birthday Cake (she doesn't eat cake or icing, can you believe it?)

Lots of hugs and kisses from family and friends
(this is cousin Mya)

Bestie Cousin (Rian)

Cousin Izzy

Photo booth Silliness with Mama and Daddy

She partied all afternoon...

...and got all tuckered out.

How do we top this for next year? WE JUST DON'T. Kenna gets a little birthday party at home with pancit, pizza and cake (if she will actually eat it)! Thanks for reading!