Catching up...

Ok - so I haven't been great at posting lately so I have a few more today than normal!

I was feeling festive and wanted to take something both yummy and tasty into the office for Christmas Eve day.  Plus... I had a whole lot of candy canes to use up!!!  This was a new recipe... a 'warm-white spice cake' with a cranberry-orange filling.  (Thanks to my office guinea pigs when it comes to new recipes!) This definitely fit the bill for yummy!!!  The cranberry filling helped to cut the overall sweetness of the cake and gave you a mouthful of festive flavours at the same time!

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!!!

White Spice Cake with a Cranberry-Orange filling

HAPPY NEW YEAR'S 2016!!!

This year we celebrated NY's kiddie-style.  Chocolate-carrot cupcake & candy parfaits, spider-dog crescent rolls, and mustache tatoo's were on the menu for the day!!!

Yes... those are milk shots with sprinkle rims!!!  We like to celebrate in style.  :)

  

This next cake was a small chocolate-carrot cake made for a friend.  It paired very nicely with a relaxing night of good company and good wine!!!

Let It Go.....

A special cake for one of my oldest kiddo's favourite people!  :)   Happy Birthday Peyton!!!  This is both a cake and present.... Elsa is actually a Christmas tree decoration that she can hang on the tree afterwards.  I absolutely love this cake and want this exact one for my birthday next year!  Check out the snowflake snowflake under Elsa's foot!  The blue's are so pretty and the touches of 'snow' everywhere make me want to go outside and play.  Especially if Christoph and Sven are out there with me!!!

French Vanilla 4th Birthday Cake!

 

Christmas/Birthday Cheer...

Happy Birthday to my Mom... the best-est ever Mom and Grandma!  We love you!!!

French Vanilla & Buttercream 1/2 cake

Oh Christmas Tree....

Ok, so retail therapy is kinda my thing.  And when you combine that with making cakes/tasty creations... I am absolutely hooked!  I found this on sale at my favourite cake store and knew I needed an occasion to make a couple.  So.... the kiddies got to take these cookie trees to their kindergarten classes for the last day of school before Christmas vacation!  Take that Griswald's!!!

Peanut/tree-nut free sugar cookies Christmas trees!

Woof! Woof! Woof!

Anyone that knows me knows that I am a dog person... most days I like dogs more than people!  They're cute, cuddley, are always happy to see you and don't care if you're still in yoga pants at lunchtime.  Or lets face reality... dinnertime.  :)  

This particular dalmation-esque puppy dog is so cute you could just eat him up!  Oh wait... you actually can!  He's a purebred white velvet pup with vanilla buttercream.  All parts of the dog are cake... with exception of the ears and tail.

He is stylin' in hot pink - matching the uber-cool birthday decorations perfectly.  There were 2 columns of pink, white and black balloons in front of a hot pink backdrop.  It looked stunning!  What a lucky little birthday girl!

White velvet 3rd birthday cake!

Seeing squares....

So I finally am getting comfortable with my superhero knowledge and all of a sudden... Batman is out and Creeper (?) is in!  Boo.  The Minecraft craze has been going on for a while now but we're just starting to get into it.  My only knowledge is that they do have cute character 'stuffies'!!!  

This cake was for my youngest nephew... who I held when he was only a few weeks old and is now up to my elbows!!!  Where does the time go?  Happy 6th Birthday dude!

By the time I was done making this cake I was literally seeing squares... not stars!  It's a triple layer chocolate cake filled with the most delectable chocolate buttercream ever!  How many squares could you eat???

Lucky Little Cowboy :)

I first want to prefice this post with the fact that Grandma's are just plain awesome.  And this Grandma took her awesomeness to the next level by finding this 'Classy Cowboy' cake design for a special little guy turning 1... complete with Cowboy Cupcakes!  The cake is french vanilla with buttercream filling and the cupcakes chocolate.  Yee-haw little man... I hope you have a great 1st birthday!