beginning at the beginning...

so...i figure i should finally get around to posting pics. it's probably best to begin at the beginning...well, the beginning of the pics i have, anyway...


i used to be horrible at remembering to take pics of cakes i've done. i think i've mentioned this before, but most of the excitement in it for me is about the reaction i get from someone. so in the past, as soon as the cake was done, i'd put it away and didn't think of getting a pic until the reaction was over! because of this, quite a few of my older pics are ones that have been graciously given to me by my friends and clients...


now that i'm doing this for a living though, i'm much better at taking pics of pieces before they go out the door.


so here goes...




this cake was done for ferrero canada. it was to celebrate tictac being number one in sales that year (2007). it was meant to be a fairly simple cake, then i got a bit carried away and started making a whole bunch of tictacs to scatter all over the sides of the cake. i luckily scaled back and just put them on the border at the base. i'm glad i toned it down, they were pretty happy with the result. the cake itself was mint chocolate and vanilla with mint white chocolate buttercream.






at a brazen hussy event a couple summers back, my sis nana and i ran into one of her old high school friends. we got to talking when and she said she was getting married soon, nana (like the wonderful sister she is) mentioned that i make cake, and the rest is really history...cheryl had sent me a pic very similar to this cake, but with different colour ribbon. she was really very easy going and basically wanted the same cake. the flowers were done in gum paste, as they dry stronger and are longer lasting than regular fondant.


one of the great things i remember about this cake was that the thought of the flowers on this cake reminded me about when i was pastry chef at a pastry shop on the danforth and the owner and i, one afternoon spent a couple hours cutting and shaping flowers for a martha stewart type cake (7+ hours of just decorating - i wish i had remembered to take a pic of that one!!) i made that summer. i was pressed for time and she had dropped in between classes (she taught at gbc full time) and helped me out...ohh the memories...and the cakes!! it was an interesting time there, that much is for sure! point being i went out and bought the cutter that saved me a whole lotta time on the ms cake and used it for this one.

more to come! off to get eggs....