Saturday, November 28, 2009

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!!!!

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

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.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

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.