Chocolate M&M and Kit Kat Cake

I found this cake on cake central and thought it would be perfect for an upcoming girls' night out I am hosting on the weekend. Seriously who doesn't love chocolate and candy?

Easy cake to make. 10 Kit Kat chocolate bars to cover the outside, but it obviously needs 11. There are spaces that I wasn't too happy about, but was too lazy to go back out last night for more chocolate. But you get the idea, and it looks yummy!

Soccer Ball Cake

I made this soccer ball cake for Owen's 3rd birthday party. The ball pan is a Wilton pan I rented from Bulk Barn. I had a minor scare when I went in to pick up the pan because they told me somebody had rented it already! luckily it was in the back being cleaned, I needed it that night!.

The cake was fairly easy to make. The most frustrating part of decorating the cake was trying to tint the icing a green that would match the colour of grass. I used Kelly green with a hint of black to make a hunter green, but ended up adding some yellow to it to make it a little more like grass. It took me about an hour to get the green close enough that I was happy about it. I think that those types of things will just get easier with practice.

The total cake including baking, making and tinting icing and decorating took me about 10 hours. Two hours for baking friday and then about 8 hours to decorate and make icing on saturday. I'm sure for most people it wouldn't have taken that long, but my hand was killing me from making all of the stars on the soccer ball & then my icing would get too warm from my hands & I'd have to put it in the fridge for a bit. This was also the first time I used the grass tip #233. It was awesome and really easy to use.

I am happy with how it turned out & Owen was really pleased with his soccer ball cake too!

Wilton Course 2 Final Cake

our final cake for the wilton course 2 was a basket weave cake. i made a small cake using the pans supplied in the course 2 kit, we are getting tired of cake. the basket weave was easier than I expected once you get going on the pattern. i had to spend my birthday weekend making extra flowers for the cake. i find that by the time the teacher shows us how to make different flowers and we practice making the flowers, there really isn't that much time left in class to make many worth keeping. i made lots of daisies mostly because they are large and i found them the easiest to make. i wasn't feeling well on the weekend and really didn't want to spend all day making the flowers. the total time it took to make this cake was about 12 hours, that is including the time spent in class to make some of the flowers. crazy. in any case i'm happy with how it turned out. the flowers i put on the cake were daisies, pansy's, primroses, and daffodils.

happy easter! i think owen will enjoy the easter bunny and easter egg.

60th Birthday Cake

Gavin helped make Jim's 60th birthday cake. We worked on it & the cupcakes until 1am on friday! It turned out well. We made a carrot cake with cream cheese icing. I had made the carrots using royal icing and colour flow. I think so far that is my favourite part about decorating cakes. I am sure I will use the colour flow technique more often in the future. The decorations last a long time & you can make them well in advance which is handy. I have already made some easter decorations to decorate the kids easter cupcakes!

Wilton Course 1 Final Cake

for the final cake in the wilton course 1, we were required to make a rose spray cake. i'm not incredibly happy with how it turned out, but certainly learned a lot while making it. i just wish i had more time to practice in between classes. i've decided to continue on with the second course starting next wednesday. our instructor mentioned that wilton may be changing the way the courses are taught so it would be best to continue straight through. more cakes in the near future :)

Farm Animal Cupcakes

i made cupcakes for noah's first birthday instead of a cake. i love how most of them turned out, and surprisingly they only took two hours to decorate. ya!

i've started taking a cake decorating class offered by wilton at michael's. my class runs every wednesday evening for four weeks. i imagine i will continue on to the second course, but i'm not sure if i'll start that in march, or wait another month. buying the ingredients, baking the cake, icing the cake, making extra "practice icing" for class, as well as icing to decorate the cake during class takes up quite a bit of my time per week. but i'm enjoying the things i've learned so far and look forward to taking course two at some point.

here is my first rose. i am expecting to make much better roses this week. it's obvious by my first attempt that my icing was too stiff, so this week i will make sure it is the right consistency :) the rose is actually a purple colour, but it doesn't look like it in the picture.

for our third class we could bring in cupcakes to decorate. we started learning how to make roses and figure piping. i am really pleased with my clown cupcakes. they were really easy to make and looked really cute. although, i'm not sure i would want to eat that much icing on one cupcake!


this is the first cake i made for wilton course 1 (cake decorating basics). we had to find an image to transfer using thin icing and piping gel onto the cake. i chose the easiest design i could think of, but am not happy with how the colours turned out. i wanted more primary colours.