some 2010 weddings...

As promised, I'm posting more pics (slowly but surely).  I thought I'd start with the wedding pics.  Some are of last year's cakes, some are display cakes from last year's wedding show.  

Among them, is my *first* travelling long distance cake (read: baked the cake in glasgow + train to to dundee + coach to aberdeen *to a castle* + buttercream, white chocolate tablets & assembly in foreign kitchen = not exactly as it was planned, but turned out great AND I MADE A CAKE IN A CASTLE - perhaps not everyone's idea of a good time, but I LOVED the kitchen in the early morning silence).

See the full gallery on posterous

Below are proposal cupcakes with the sweetest story, read more (from the bride herself!) here.

And speaking of looooveee....  stay tuned for prettysweet valentine treats!!

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yup, it's here again!

WOW! That happened fast! It's that time of year again... 

I was going to try something else in gingerbread this year, but there were orders fairly early for the boxes so... they're back!! :)  If i'm honest, I'll pretty much make anything that's holiday themed if there's Christmas music on (this year I'm partial to A Motown Christmas)... 

The prices are $10, $20, and $30 respectively for small medium and large.  They can also be personalized with the recipient name.  Email me at adjoa@prettysweetboutique.com to make your order.  

Oh, and my very obvious resolution this year is to post more.  There are a ton of pics to see...

All the best to you and yours for the season and a very Happy New Year!! 

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cupcakecamp hangover....

so cupcake camp (http://cupcakecamp.ca/) was a hit!! all the work was soooo worth it and it was great to exit my bubble and taste and share with others!!

the cuppies i made were banana chiffon cake (a la sunshine's cake), filled with peanut butter caramel and topped with chocolate peanut butter buttercream under a fondant face. i (as usual) got carried away when i started making the faces, as i was originally just going to make a monkey holding a banana (what to do with all the fondant bananas i dried & prepped?!)....and so they each ended up being a different face...didn't take as long as i thought it would!! it was good definitely times though (you had to be there.....me, a mirror and fondant...lotsa laughs - to myself...)






i've posted individual pics of the faces on my flickr page, if you'd like to see them up close...http://www.flickr.com/photos/prettysweet/

cakes for fam...

sooo... i mentioned how strongly my fam feels about birthdays...

my sister, sunshine, is one of the most vibrant people i've ever known (her nickname is quite fitting, no??), so there was really no question what her cake would look like!! last year we had a weekend long extravaganza to celebrate (as we do...)!








what i love most about fam cakes is that i basically have carte blanche over what to make. i like to give a choice of flavour and my maany (her given name is maanua) gave me a list of flavours she wanted: banana (sponge, not like the bread - i enjoy it when people are as specific as i am about deets on their cake!), chocolate and peanut butter.... so the sun itself and a few of the rays are banana cake with peanut butter buttercream or chocolate buttercream and the other few rays are chocolate cake with peanut butter buttercream.

(she also fancies herself the queen of the universe, and her bday is the one day i humor her, hence the qotu candles...)

the next birthday that came up was my lp, becky's. it was another weekend long bonanza for hers (i hounded her for months about how big a deal it should be and she finally gave up and let me plan it!). so becky knew she wanted carrot cake.....and that's all she asked for. this is what she got...





probably one of the BEST reactions ever!!!

picture perfect cake!

this cake was made for my friend's hubby Jonathan (well, he's my friend too...). among many things, he's a very talented photographer (http://jonathangreenwald.com/) and so his wife Lesley suggested his birthday cake should be a camera!! she found pics for me of a camera he'd recently purchased that had a separate lens, so naturally the cake had to be in two pieces!



soooo much more to come!!

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....