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

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

Turquoise Quilt

Turquoise Quilt Cake with Pink Icing and Pink Batter.

 

A very Quick Crumb Coat of the cake. I left plastic underneath so the icing would not get everywhere. After applying fondant, I removed it for less clean up.

The finished product.

The gold ribbon was wrapped around the bottom to make it pop a bit more.

Cake Created: End of November 2016

Happy Baking

-Ashley

Royalty Cake

A friend of mine ordered this royal cake for her boyfriend's 25th birthday. It was an interesting thing to make.

The navy blue fondant was achieved by starting with white fondant. I then used Wilton's Colour Right System starting with drops of blue mixing with red and pink. Eventually after getting the blue colour, I then darkened it with a bit of black. Voila! 

After quilting the side of the cake, I stuck gold pearls to the side.  I melted white chocolate into a numbers mold and placed in the fridge for about 10-15 minutes. After I took them out, I painted the numbers as well as the crown with an "old gold" lustre dust from Golda's Kitchen. 

The front "Happy Birthday Kareem" sign was made by his girlfriend using paper and sparkles. And lastly, the car  is a black Audi - which is what he drives daily.

Happy Baking!

28th Birthday!

Birthdays are fun stuff. This lady turned 28 and her friend ordered her a cake using the card she got her for inspiration. 

 The inspriation!

Happy Baking!

Pretty in Pink Returns!

My Pretty in Pink Cake has returned with an upgrade towards the simplistic version I made before.

This little girl's 3rd birthday consisted of pink, butterflies and stars! She absolutely loved it and wanted to eat it right away -- before the party!

Happy Baking!

CARS -- 3rd Birthday Cake

CARS!

This beauty was made for little 3 year old Sebastian! Happy Birthday cutey!

We started off with a round 8" cake. Crumb coated the cake and putting it in the fridge to set for approximately 15 minutes. After Taking the cake out it was covered with black fondant that we rolled out. Using the stretching and smoothing method, we then were finished covering our cake.

       

Once we covered the cake, we added the details to the cake we had pre-made. 

The little log is our cars podium as you can see in the picture above. 

Checkers all around the cake and a special #3 for this little guy!

Happy Baking!

Let's Eat Cake!

This is the second cake I've made with this theme: square, rosettes, and teal. The cake was ordered a second time by the same person who absolutely loves it. So let us eat cake! 

Happy Baking

Batman Cake

Batman v. Joker

After a few changes to the original design, this cake came about. 

Toppers: bought at Chapters Indigo 

Mask: bought at Walmart 

And what's a party without custom themed cupcakes?

Happy Baking

4th Birthday Cake

A friend asked me last week to make a cake for her daughters 4th birthday. She wanted pink, gold, and elegance. This is what I came up with.

Happy Birthday to the little girl who's birthday was on Halloween. 

Happy Baking xo

Tiffany blue SWEET 16

So back in December we had a SWEET 16th birthday party for my niece.
Now last year I made the sassy shades cake for this very same niece but this year was all about the Tiffany Blue. The fondant was easy but getting the icing colour for the cupcakes took some work. I believe I ended up using Wilton teal and a touch of sky blue to get the colour below.

Here is a few compilations of the treats I made for the party.

It was a good party and everyone loved the cake. The cupcakes were just to pretty to eat...but we did!

Ashley <3