You'll never guess what I'm doing!!

I said it wasn't happening until next week...but I guess you can take the girl out of the kitchen, but you can't stop the cake ideas from happening!! So here I am making a quickie Easter cake for tomorrow's dinner at my sister's. The kids and I saw the cake idea on Cake Central actually and I figured I will use them to help make the flowers & polka dots so it won't be too much trouble. The cake is dirty iced & getting ready for fondant...it's lemon cake and is delicious!! So I'm glad I decided to do it. I'll post pics once it's finished!

Happy Happy Easter eveyone!

God bless,
Cynthia

Happy Easter!!

I'm posting this with the slightest smile on my face right now. I, gasp, don't have any cakes to make this weekend!! A wee little WOOT!! And not because I don't enjoy doing the cake thing! You all know how I love it! But after several weeks in a row of 3+ cakes, many of which were challenging, I'm sort of ok with the down-time. That being said, hold onto your hats people! May is turning into a HUGE cake month for me!!

Enjoy the long weekend with your friends & family! I know I will make every moment count (starting today with some much over-due cleaning/painting!) and will enjoy my CHOCOLATE on Sunday!!

Chat soon,
Cynthia

Wow what a week/weekend!

It was another cake-filled week/weekend around here and I'm happy to say that all clients were pleased! The orders are coming in quite quickly for May and into June so if you're thinking about Father's Day, spring birthdays or graduation and need a cake, please message me sooner than later. I'm trying to stick to 2 cakes/week but already have gone over this every weekend for the past 3!!

So what's up this week? Report card comments & marking!! Hockey, swimming and laundry!! And Easter with my beautiful children!! My mom arrives on Monday morning so we're having a family Easter dinner on Monday. And I will NOT be making cake, but instead I think a rich, decadent chocolate/peanut butter cheesecake with chocolate ganache!! Can't wait to taste that sweet chocolate (and martini!!) after 40 days of lent!

God bless you all on this Holy weekend and thank you so very much for supporting my passion with your comments and orders for cake!!

Cheers,
Cynthia

Another 3-cake week PLUS a 2-hr sleep on Friday = help!

I knew I was too old for it! I volunteered to spend the night at school on Friday for the 30-hour Famine! I sort of knew that I wouldn't get a good night's rest. I also knew that I had a cake to deliver for Sat and another one for Sunday and probably wouldn't get much done. However, I not only had a good time with the 39 students that committed to fasting for 30 hours in order to raise $ and awareness for World Vision (wow - they raised over $4000), I also managed to work til the wee hours of the morning on my Super Mario cake pieces. I didn't sleep well and for only 2 hours. But Mario was delivered at noon and the birthday boy, Marshall, was SOOOOOO excited!! I was actually pretty pleased with the finished cake! It's my 2nd Mario cake and I think better than my first!

Now, I'm going to finish Toopy & Binoo (another repeat cake for me) tonight and hope to have another happy client/birthday boy tomorrow! I'm tired for sure but I KNOW that Toopy, Binoo & Patchy Patch will perk me up!! And then I can relax going into the long weekend knowing that I can enjoy Easter with my family without baking/caking/delivering!! No cakes til the following weekend! YAY!

Thanks to all of those who keep me busy!! And to those who admire my work! You continue to set my bar high and I just go for it!! Thanks!

Cakes, cakes and more cakes!!

When it rains, it pours is all I can say!! Isn't that always the way though? I had a little down-time from cakes in March and really wasn't all that booked up for April. Now, however, I find myself doing another 3-cake-week!! I LOVE it! I'm not complaining (yet!!). But I did sort of vow that since I teach fulltime, have 3 kids to somehow mother/love/teach/rear, a husband who also needs some sort of attention, a training schedule, and commitments to my church, that I'd stick to 2 cakes per week! I just can't help myself. It's so hard to say NO.

So this week looks like this: a small custom birthday cake for Wednesday (my Principal's wife so how do I possibly say no to this?), a medium birthday cake for my favourite repeat customer family (you might recall the Fireman Sam cake I did for Marshall's 4th bday last year - it's in my gallery) - this time Marshall wants Super Mario!! And finally for Sunday, a special 1st bday cake for Layne - Toopy & Binoo!! I'm actually pretty excited for all 3! And none of them involve drywall or crazy piping skills!

I made 3 more cakes and have them in the freezer, made a big batch of vanilla buttercream, and strawberry/banana marshmallow fondant! I'm ready! 1 cake dirty iced and in the cold room! Tomorrow night after swimming I'll knock off the Wed cake and then hopefully get the Mario cake started before my parish council meeting Wed night.

Ok, enough! You don't need to listen to me whine! I know that I got myself into this - and I'll enjoy every moment! Thanks so much for your support! If you do need a cake, however, please give me as much notice as possible. I really really don't want to say NO but I totally can't do more than 3 a week. :)
Enjoy your week!
Cynthia

My week in Cake Land

Well that was a rough week!! Late nights, stresses, and some tears! But it's over and as far as I know there are at least 3 happy "clients" out there. Thursday was the CGC Sheetrock Ultralight cakes for their Miss and Oakville offices - little tricky with the travel to Burlington but according to my contact, everyone was happy and cakes were delicious!!

Next came the Retirement cake for 2 ladies- the client phoned on Monday so I had to squeeze this in between CGC and my daughter's 5th birthday. So glad I did. It was a lot of fun to make and didn't really stress me out! Cake was vanilla with vanilla buttercream - white wine glass & tumbler of rum & Coke made of gumpaste. The client was thrilled and even tipped me! YAY!!

And then my favourite cake - Ariel and friends for my beautiful Naia!! Truth be told, I procrastinated all Saturday morning on this one because I knew that I would struggle with Ariel's face/head. Sure enough - I did! But I'm glad I tried out the modelling chocolate I made. It was very easy to colour and fun to work with b/c it doesn't dry out like gumpaste. AND it tastes amazing!! I just wish I were better at sculpting faces!! Oh well - the party people loved it and most importantly Naia loved it!!

So now I rest (although I had to make a batch of cakes already for the freezer in preparation for this coming weekend). Super Mario cake for 5yr old Marshall and a Toopy & Binoo cake for 1yr old Layne! This is going to be F-U-N!!!

See ya soon and thanks for looking!
Cynthia

Mmmm my house smells like vanilla cake!

I just got a last-minute order for a Retirement cake needed for Saturday...so my house, once again, smells like yummy baking vanilla cake!! I will have pictures up by the end of the weekend for this week's cakes - CGC cake for their new product, Sheetrock! My beautiful girl Naia's 5th birthday cake of Ariel & friends; and now this Retirement cake for 2 ladies - a white wine drinker and a rum&coke drinker! I love them both already!!

Thank you to all of my friends, family & clients for sharing my contact information! I hope my summer is as busy as my spring is shaping up to be!!

Pics soon!
Cheers!