Tweety Bird Cake

I almost forgot to post this cute cake. My sister needed a cake for her sister in law, Ana. She looooves Tweety so for the second year in a row we made her a Tweety cake. The figure is made out of royal icing and the cake is covered in buttercream and adorned with fondant flowers. This is a strawberry jello cake and it seems like they were raving about it at the restaurant where they cut the cake. Here's another picture of it.

Cute uh?

Train Cake

What do you do when you don't have a train mold to make a train cake? You carve it!

We (my mom and I) had the opportunity to make a train cake for a boy turning 2 years old. I decided to carve the main engine instead of using one of those standing 3D cake molds, that way I could determine the size and the shape of the cake . What was I thinking? Yes it was a lot of work. Yes, I went to sleep at 2:00 am finishing the main engine, but it was worth it.

Here's the main engine. Marble cake on the botton and spice cake on the top. We made chocolate wheels and decorated everything in buttercream. Candy canes and a sugar cone filled with buttercream are part of the decorations.

Here's a picture of some of the other cars. Candy, chocolate lollipops, chocolate wheels and lots of colorful buttercream cover the cakes. Lemon, spice and white cake were chosen.

Here's a picture of another car. We placed chocolate birthday lollipops on top.

And here is the whole train on it's way to the party. I loved it and the client loved it too.

Bernese Mountain Dog Cookies

Check out these puppies!!!

Aren't they adorable? A dear customer came back to us for an order of cookies for a vet that breeds Bernese Mountain Dogs. It was only appropriate to make them cookies with  a design of this adorable breed. The picture is made out of royal icing and the cookies are sugar/vanilla cookies.

Being a dog lover myself, I really enjoyed making these cookies and I know that the cookies were enjoyed. See what Sarah wrote back after taking the cookies to the vet:

"Thank you so much for the amazing cookies, Mayra! I just cannot get over how darling each little dog was... such attention to detail! I knew they would be super cute, but they surpassed my expectations by far. You are so talented! Our breeder/vet was thrilled to have them and everyone in her office thought they were awesome."

Thank you Sarah!!!!

Noah's Baptism

This is my Noah!

It took us almost one year to finally set a date for my darling son's baptism. On Sunday 15th Noah Matthew was baptised and now I can finally breathe better. I'm a happy mom! Of course I had to make his cake, but I have to tell you that I wasn't very happy with the end result. I thought that it ended up looking more like a combination of a wedding cake and a little girl's baptism cake. It is blue though.... Well, that's what happens when I don't start with a design in my head. At least he had a cake right? Here it is. You decide what it looks like, close your eyes...open them.

The bottom tier cake was a delicious tropical cake with walnuts, pinneaple and coconut and my husband's request, marble cake (chocolate and vanilla). The top tier was orange cake. We filled both cakes with appricot buttercream. Although my preferred way of working is fondant, I decided to cover the cake with buttercream frosting.

We made the crosses with chocolate and outlined with buttercream. I used real flowers on this cake because I was running out of time. I had only a couple of hours of sleep and I had no energy to make real flowers.

We also made cookies to give them as thank you gifts to our family and dear friends. The crosses are also made with chocolate.

Curious George

My best friend's godson was celebrating his first birthday and they wanted to have a Curious George cake. Well, here it is! Inside the cake we have a tropical mix with pinneaple and coconut along with coconut flavored buttercream.

Curious George was made out of chocolate and the cake is covered in buttercream.

Hannah Montana's Guitar

Hannah Montana's guitar cake just went out the door and they liked it, yeah!! I used a picture of HM's real guitar design to make it out of chocolate. Musical chocolate notes surround this cake also. I hope sweet Victoria likes it. This is a fudgy chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream (dad's request to be all chocolate).

Stethoscope Cake

Check out this cake! It was designed for an ob gyn doctor for his birthday. A scrubs design was out of the question because he doesn't really wear them. We thought about other designs, but some of the ideas were not very appropriate. So a stethoscope was sitting on top of a prescription sheet was perfect.

Inside the cake we have mocha cake with chocolate ganache filling and butter chocolate cake with raspberry filling. The cake is covered with our home made MMF (fondant) with a touch of almond flavor.

Cute Monsters Cake

My mom and I had lots of fun this weekend making this cake for one of my dearest friend and my daughter's Godmother. Well, the cake was for her son Abelito (sweet darling boy) on his first birthday! It was a challenge because I wanted it to be perfect, cute and a bit scary.

80th Birthday cake

This cake was made for a previous client that was pleased with our work before. Her dad was turning 80 years old and they celebrated with this delicious chocolate cake covered in chocolate buttercream frosting. Matt (hubby) was upset because I didn't cut anything fom the cake... I'm sorry, it came out perfect from the oven!

Cookies for a fundraiser

We made a few cookies for a fundraiser this last Sunday. A big bake sale was organized to repair the dome on the ceiling of the Basilica of Saint John because it was a bit damaged. We didn't think twice about making some treats to help out. My husband Matt participates and is very involved in that church and we love the people there. You can't go wrong with pumpkins.

Check out our little ghosts! Matt didn't really think this was appropriate for church, but I thought that kids would take a bite out of those scary ghosts. My daughter Lillie managed to steal one of these while we were wrapping them. The cookies were cinnamon and vanilla sugar cookies. They were decorated with royal icing and some of the details were fondant and buttercream icing.