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Wedding Cake Topper

Jacquie — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 02:07:53 +0000

A week after we got back from our honeymoon a very talented friend of mine offered to photograph the remaining top three (faux) layers of my wedding cake. The result was stunning. I’m blessed to have incredible friends.

Of course I made my own wedding cake, the original cake was 6 tiers, I chose to make the top layers faux and the bottom real. All the flowers are handmade gumpaste flowers by yours truly.

Photo Credit Nathaniel INC http://nathanielinc.com/

Vintage Birthday Cake

Jacquie — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 15:38:26 +0000

Did this cake for vintage birthday party which I also had the pleasure of attending, flowers are handmade. It was a simple chocolate fudge cake inside. Enjoy!

Dig in! Such a fun night!

( I also made the mini cupcakes)

Cake Fight!!

Jacquie — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 15:46:25 +0000

My soon to be hubby and myself wanted some original engagement photos… we aren’t really the type of people to sit in a park and stare into each others eyes so we did this instead….

Oh! I made the cake! (its done in our “wedding colours”)

Enjoy!

Photography by Will Fournier

http://willfournierphotography.com

Photography by Will Fournier

http://willfournierphotography.com/index2.php#/home/

Cake on the fly…

Jacquie — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:36:57 +0000

General Manager came to me at 6, just as we were starting service and told me he needed a birthday cake for a VIP party of 16 sitting at 8pm. VIP was a friend of the chef’s and apparently a contestant on Top Chef so I wasn’t allowed to use my ” in the freezer on the fly back up cake(s)” for events such as these…. so I pulled this together in an hour and a half…

Layered cake: Chocolate sponge, roasted pistachio mouse, Alba truffle, ricotta cream and salted chocolate glaze.

Sweet 16 Cake: Blink 182

Jacquie — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 15:35:33 +0000

A friend of mine from work asked me to make a cake for her little sister’s sweet 16 birthday party. She loves Blink 182 so that was the theme.

Enjoy!

Red Velvet Cake

Jacquie — Tue, 24 May 2011 06:05:47 +0000

A colleague of mine approached me to make a large 16” red velvet cake for his in-laws 50th wedding anniversary. I was well into 15hr work day when I snapped this photo, so it not the best but it will do.

Mini Cupcakes

Jacquie — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 04:18:26 +0000

I did these cupcakes for a friend’s art gala debut (http://cinderswork.blogspot.com/). She wanted them bright and vibrant for her theme. Generally I am very much against using food coloring to this degree but it was her birthday and she asked nicely; and they turned out pretty

(but I wouldn’t do it again, hehe)

My 25th Birthday Cake

Jacquie — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 03:41:11 +0000

So I was lying in bed one night and I had this idea to do a “guest-book” cake. Just covered in white fondant, allowed to harden up a bit overnight and then get my friends to write birthday wishes all over it, I’ve never been a big on birthday cards anyway. So I finally found markers that are both food-safe and suitable as a writing utensil. I was kind of nervous that it wasn’t going to work out, I’ve never seen or heard of it being done before… but it turned out great and everyone had fun! Check it out!

The top layer was vanilla and citrus sponge, the middle was a coconut chocolate truffle torte, and the bottom was classic carrot cake with cream cheese icing. I offset the layers in such a way that they looked like a spiral staircase in order to maximize writing space.

The finished product…

Wedding Cake: Molded Flowers

Jacquie — Sun, 16 May 2010 05:09:14 +0000

This last cake I’m posting is one of my favourites, I did it for a small wedding while working at Rimrock resort in Banff, Alberta. I had never tried to produce a cake like this before nor had I done molded flowers before, especially out of fondant but the pastry chef had left and no one had filled her position yet so I was the only one in the entire (huge) kitchen staff with any wedding cake experience so they asked me do it, and I am so happy they did

Wedding Cakes: Chocolate Fondant

Jacquie — Sat, 15 May 2010 07:28:59 +0000

This is cake I designed for a wedding show, I had a lot of fun doing it because it was a first time I didn’t have someone telling me what they wanted and just got to design something really original and very mine