Disney Cars

So I haven't updated in awhile, but now that the holiday season is upon us I expect to be updating more frequently.

I got asked to make Lightning McQueen from the Disney Cars series for a birthday. This was my first ever 3D cake in which carving was involved. I was a little nervous, yet incredibly excited.

I started off which two 10x13 sheet of vanilla cake. Blew up a picture of Lightning McQueen to use as a reference and traced a curvy car body shape onto a piece of cardboard to use as a template.

Sadly I didn't take any pictures of the assembly but here is one once everything was carved and iced.

Not very pretty but it keeps the fondant stuck to the cake.

Next was the cover the whole cake in red fondant - that red fondant really didn't want to roll out. As soon as I can afford one I'm going to buy a fondant sheeter like the Cake Boss has.

Next was adding all the details. I started with the eyes, headlights and McQueen's mouth.

Next was the racing strips, his number 95 as well as some windows on the sides. ( can see them a bit here )

Then the wheels when on, my original plan was to wrap black fondant around an Oreo cookie to give the wheels width, the the fondant and Oreos didn't get along and so the wheels were placed on the sides.

( this cake was done at night and at this point my camera started giving me attitude )

Last but not least was Lightning McQueen's sponsor Rusteez Bumper Ointment to finish off the whole car.

And that's it, the birthday boy loved it and the cake tasted great ( which is always important ) can't wait to try another 3D cake.

If you have any questions or suggestions for next time, please leave me a comment below.

Girls Day

For the last couple of years the women in my fiance's family go wine touring in Niagara in June. This was my second year going, and I was so thankful we had nice weather for our trip.

We usually have a potluck picnic lunch and I decided this year to make lemon poppy seed sugar cookies shaped in lemon and lime wedges.

Everyone really seemed to love the cookies. Although I think next time I'll add more lemon as it dissipated quite a bit in the oven.

After all our fun at the wineries, we returned home for a BBQ with the menfolk. Hamburgers, hotdogs and tons of good food.

I kept half the cookies at home for the BBQ since I didn't want the guys to miss out and I also made chocolate peanut butter cupcakes, topped with chocolate peanut butter ganache. ( say that five times fast )

Chocolate and peanut butter has to be one of my favourite combinations. 

With the temperature being over 30 here I'm going to be switching to some no-bake desserts for a bit to beat the summer heat.

Long Overdue, Playoff Cupcakes

Alright finally finished taking all the pictures off my camera so I can make another post.

This one is long overdue. I made these cupcakes with my sister for the Stanley Cup Playoffs, in hopes that maybe Vancouver would win. Sadly this was not the case, but I don't blame the cupcakes, and they tasted good all the same.

They were made with plain old out of the box rainbow bit mix ( my sister's favourite ) and vanilla icing.
The hockey sticks I made by piping blue and green melted chocolate. They were a little delicate to transfer and I broke many of them in the process ( good thing you can always remelt them).

First post

This is the first time I've ever had a blog, so you'll have to bear with me as I get the hang of it.

I won't be updating as often as some other food bloggers, simply because baking and decorating is only a hobby for me right now. I want you to understand that I have not had any formal training or classes on how to bake or decorate. The baking I learned from my dad and the decorating I've been learning as I go with the help of YouTube and my fellow food bloggers.

I certainly hope to update at least once a month. Mostly my practice has been commissions from my friends of cakes for their birthday's.

If you have any comments, suggestions or questions please don't hesitate to ask me.