June "Birthday Month" Special

As June is my Birthday, I thought I'd spread the love this month: 

I am offering 10% off any CAKE order placed between 

June 1 and 30 only, for a date within June or July, 2017.

The following dates are booked:

June 23-25

June 29

July 20 & 21

Inquiries?

Email: sweetpiecesbakeshop@gmail.com

Instagram: sweetpiecesbakery

Please Note:

If you have already placed an order prior - this 10% has already been taken into consideration

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

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

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

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

Doc McStuffins

Doc McStuffins.

I've never actually seen the show, but the premise is just so adorable. This cake was created for a 4 year old along with matching cupcakes to pull it all together.

Cake & Cupcakes created early November 2016

Happy Baking

-Ashley

Tiffany & Co Inspired

This cake was inspired by the Tiffany & Co. box for a bridal shower party.

I've done something similar in the past, but this one turned out better than the last.

Cake Done: 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!

German Chocolate Cake

This is a special request: German Chocolate Cake with a Coconut Pecan filling & topping.

This guy is a lucky man. His girlfriend ordered this knowing she is deadly allergic to nuts! - All to make him have a wonderful birthday celebration. That is what true love looks like!

Recipe: German Chocolate Cake - Betty Crocker

*click the link above*

For this recipe, I used a 4"x4" round cake pan and I modified the recipe.

For the cake recipe, I split it in half and for the topping, I split it into one-third.

Happy Baking!

Baby Shower

Baby Shower time! Baby bumps and baby things!

Congrats on your new baby girl!

Happy Baking!