Specialty Raspberry Rose Cake
For the creation of this Specialty Raspberry Rose Cake I had lots of inspiration from the customer. She came to me with several images of cakes she liked and we took parts of each to create this specialty cake for her grandma.
It is four layers of vanilla cake and raspberry filling in between. The cake is covered with white fondant over a thin layer of raspberry-white chocolate buttercream icing.
Fleur de lis in raspberry pink sit on the sides. Royal icing pipings in white and pink and two-tones fondant roses decorate the top of the cake.
Specialty Carrot Cake
It is a moist carrot cake with crushed pineapple and walnuts. The cake is filled and iced with a white chocolate cream cheese buttercream. This icing holds up in warm temperature much better than regular buttercream. Therefore it would also be perfect for an outdoor wedding reception.
Specialty Polka Dot Cake
The colours lime green, dark green, light and dark blue and white were used to coordinate with the shirt the birthday boy was going to wear on his big day. Brushed on pearl dust gave some special shimmer accents.
Specialty Orchid Cake
This specialty cake was extra special for me; and that for many reasons.
I created it for my mom’s 50th birthday last weekend. My mom’s favorite flowers are orchids and of course I had to incorporate those into her cake design. But she does not like fondant very much. As solution I covered the cake in tinted marzipan and also made the flowers from marzipan.
This was not as easy as it would have been with fondant or gumpaste as marzipan can’t be rolled out as thinly and is of rather heavy consistency. What we all do for our parents!
The cake is vanilla cake with our special summer filling: raspberry-white chocolate buttercream.
Some more excitement was added to this cake as it was to be served at an outdoor surprise party by the lake. It was a very hot day and as we were setting everything up I started to become worried about the cake in the hot car. Buttercream can become very soft and cause the covering to just slide off.
My sister had the saving idea to empty out one of the coolers we brought for the drinks. It was just big enough to fit the cake (well, we had to cut off a piece from the board).
So in the ice-cube filled cooler the cake survived until it was served.
Specialty Canada Day Cake
Specialty Hazelnut Chocolate Cake
This cake is completely focused on hazelnut. It is a hazelnut white cake, first filled with a hazelnut chocolate ganache and also a hazelnut buttercream. The icing is hazelnut buttercream as well. The decorative ruffle border and rosettes are vanilla buttercream and there are accents of chocolate shavings.
