Regal Purple Cupcakes

This little girl asked her mom for "Gangsta Purple Cupcakes with Gold". She's 4. What does she know about gangsta purple? LOL

My inspiration came from "A pimp named slick back's suit" #Boondocks

I think I did a good job matching the colour as it is very hard to get a deep purple without using the whole entire jar AND without making the icing taste bitter. No one wants that!

Product Used: Americolor Regal Purple , Gold Liners, and Gold Pearls

Created: February 19

Happy Baking
-Ashley

Another Pink Rosette Cake, this time with PEARLS!

Pink Rosette Cake

with Customer Pearl Topper

This cake has been very popular over the last couple of months. 

Most people see it, want it, and sometimes ask for an upgrade.

This time around, I made the rosettes larger and made a customer cake topper, which I will explain below how to make.

For the Pearl Topper

You will need the following supplies:

(A LIST OF LINKS are included at the end.)

-An item to cover in Pearls

(This was for a lady's 91st Birthday and her first name began with an F.)

-Jewel It Embellishing Glue

-Pearls

(this one is up to you, you can use whatever you like and you can use fully rounded or half flat)

-Tweezers (optional)

I bought a white letter purposely because I did not want to have to paint it. The process only took about 20-25 minutes while I was on lunch at work and the glue hardened within the house.  

TIP: Running low on time, stick it in the fridge. (I had to do this when I had to replace one minutes prior to putting on the cake)

Step 1: Clean your letter and place on a flat surface.

Step 2: Grab your pearls and apply a bit of Jewel It to the side. (Tweezers come in Handy for the small ones, I was at work and had to improvise and use a thumb tack)

Step 3: Apply to letter

Step 4: Let Dry.

Step 5: If placing on a cake, I cut out a piece of a thin cake board and stuck it to the bottom with White Merkens Chocolate. I then adhered the cake board with the same chocolate to the cake for it to stand up perfectly. I then covered over with the icing rosettes.

Links:

Click each name to be directed to the site.

Letter Topper

Jewel It Embellishing Glue

Pearls

(The closest link I could find for the Pearls is still by the same brand, except the case I bought was 7.6 oz with various sizes and no pink.)

Created: February 17, 2017

Happy Baking!

-Ashley

Valentines Day Cupcakes!

The Valentines Day Cupcake Sale 

(posting a bit late)

I got requests for the Champagne Cupcakes which are featured below.

Details:
-White Cupcake with Champagne imbedded into the batter (used egg whites instead of the full egg to get the full white cupcake effect)
-Buttercreme Icing with Champagne imbedded into the batter and turned pink to celebrate the day
-Toppers: one outline of a heart and the other solid heart, both made with Red Merkens Chocolate

Always start with a good liner. The type of liner will depend on the cupcake you're making and if you want the liner to be vivid and stand out. Since I only made a white cupcake, the liners kept their colour in order to show the valentines effect. [However, if I made a chocolate cupcake - it would be best to go with "Colour Cups Foil Liners". Those will not fade.]

Finished products:

Packed and ready to go!

 Some for the Cupcakes, Some for me ! Lol.

Most supplies bought at Bulk Barn.

Cupcake Boxes bought at Creative Bag.

Valentines Day 2017

Happy Baking

-Ashley

Valentines Day CUPCAKE SALE!!

         Valentines Day is quickly approaching!

TWO FULL DAYS LEFT TO BOOK.

ONE SPOT LEFT!

Now's the Chance to grab something Sweet for your Sweetheart.

Choose your flavour.

Choose your FREE topper.

Email: SweetPiecesBakeShop@gmail.com

BOOK YOUR SPOT TODAY BY FEBRUARY 10th!

This Offer is for Pick Up Only! Pick Up will be by February 13th at 9:30pm.

Cars. Happy 3rd Birthday

Cars "the movie" Cake and Cake Pops.

Aiden's mommy is a regular here at Sweet Pieces Bakery and she always leaves the design up to me. While it is always fun to have control of a design, it is nerve wrecking when you show it to them for the first time. In this case, and like always with Ms. Nisha, she loved my idea.

Happy 3rd Birthday Aiden!

The cake is vanilla covered in fondant

The cake pops are vanilla with a hint of coconut.

The design of the cake features a Roadway for the cars, Checkered Flag along the back, and the cars logo.

The cake pops turned out really well. I almost wasn't going to make them as the last time I had a few crack. I researched a few reasons why and changed my method vaguely. This time I had no issues and will apply the same method next time!

Cake Pops Packaging

fitted with our business card

**Note: A little ribbon goes a long way to making something plain look elegant. As one of my favourite movies says: simplicity is a fine line between elegance and plainness.**

Cake Created: February 3rd, 2017

Happy Baking

-Ashley

Pizza Cake

This past weekend I had the opportunity to make 2 cakes.

This pepperoni pizza cake was one of them.

The birthday girl's friend is a friend of mine and insisted on this style and topping of cake.

They absolutely loved it and said it tasted great that they kept going back for more!

Icing colour for dough was obtained using brown and yellow from Wilton's colour right system.

The pepperoni was created by dying fondant with red and crimson from wilton's colour right system.

The "cheese" was formed by shaving white chocolate down. (I used 3 different tools for 3 different effects. The first I do not know the name of, but I'm sure it is a zester. The second was a vegetable peeler and the third was a cheese grater).

Cake Created: February 2nd, 2017

Happy Baking!

-Ashley

Purple Ombre Rosettes

Purple Ombre Rosettes for a darling 8 year old!

Happy Birthday Nevaeh!

This cake came about after Nevaeh's mom seen my last post on instagram.

 (instagram: sweetpiecesbakery)

She fell in love with the style of the cake, but was more interested in an ombre effect. Purple was the birthday girls favourite colour and we went from there. Inside, the cake is also 2 shades of purple.

Cake: Vanilla

Purple Pearls on Top

Rosettes with a 1M tip

These were two toppers I was playing around with that didn't necessarily come out the greatest.

The "eight" was gorgeous, but then was too thin and broke.

The "8" stayed, but wasn't as fluid and free from imperfection.

We'll work towards getting it perfect!

Cake Created: January 28, 2017

Happy Baking

-Ashley

Pink Rosettes

This cake was created for my friend Keisha. She loves all things pretty, classy and gold.

The minute she seen this featured cake, she had to have it. (I did a smaller version for a cake smash.)

The cake features a coconut cake with coconut icing. She absolutely loves this flavour, it is why I had to introduce it as a standard flavour within my bakery.

Pink Rosettes formed with a 1M tip.

Gold Pearls sprinkled on top.

#26 made of white chocolate and painted with "old gold" dust.

Good reviews came from this cake and Keisha definitely enjoyed it!

Cake Created: January 20, 2017

Happy Baking

-Ashley

Red Coconut

This cake was done for my friend's boyfriend Elijah. Happy Birthday!

First cake of the NEW YEAR!

Cake features the spatula technique I had worked on after Christmas.

Coconut Cake and Coconut flavoured icing.

Cake created: January 1, 2017

Happy Baking!

-Ashley

Little Mr. Man

This little man is growing up! He is turning the big ONE!

His mom decided to have two cakes (both blue with moustaches), cake pops, and cupcakes.

Happy Birthday Real Deal.

While making these cakes, I was asked to make another cake for a Christmas party - but red velvet. The white cake is cream cheese icing done with the same spatula technique over a red velvet cake.

Goodies created: December 26th, 2016

Happy Baking

-Ashley

Gender Reveal/Birthday Cake

Boy or Girl?!

Who will win?!

This cake was created for a Gender Reveal Party as well as to say Happy Birthday to the pregnant Mommy. Although this cake was made in early December, with the recent Superbowl this past Sunday, I felt it was a good time to post this cake.

Some pictures from the happy customers.

Cake Created: Early December 2016

Happy Baking

-Ashley

Paw Patrol

When asked to make a Paw Patrol Cake - I had absolutely no idea what Paw Patrol was except that it involved a fire station Dalmatian. I took to Pinterest as many do when in need of some inspiration and came up with the following design.

This cake absolutely needed a topper. This little guy was Hand Crafted by me and turned out way better than I had hoped. His name is Chase (as per the TV show).

 

Unfinished cake until we add on the topper!

Look at him sitting on his throne!

Just adorable!

Finished Product

Happy Birthday Mekhi

Cake Created: Mid December 2016

Happy Baking

-Ashley