YeeHaw!

Even though I as born in the city, I love everything about anything country.  There is not a second of my day where country music isn’t playing.  My favorite pair of footwear hands down are my worn in cowboy boots and there is something about seeing a combine harvesting at the end of summer that makes my heart happy.

So naturally I was so thrilled to get the chance to make a country themed cake for my client who was looking for a cake to celebrate her Mom’s birthday.  She had mentioned wanting to incorporate boots and hay, long horns and ‘anything country’, which made me so excited to start working on this one.  

I couldn’t of been happier with how this cake turned out and the smile on my clients face made me sure she was too!

xo K

The Teams I Call Home

Winnipeg seems to be one of those cities people either call home and are proud to call themselves Winnipeggers or people are just dreaming and waiting for the day to leave for someone bigger.  I personally fall into the first category.  This is home, I’m a prairie girl and I love this city, the good the bad and the ulgy of it.  

When the request came in for a client who was looking for a cake to represent both the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and the Winnipeg Jets I was so game!  If there is one thing that everyone comes together to be proud winnipeggers over it is our sports teams.  

I  love how this cake turned out and I think it would do many Winnipeg sports fans proud.

xo K

Babies, Bottle & Cookies

One of my first baking memories is decorating Christmas sugar cookies with my Mom and siblings (my Dad naturally was on quality control).  Making them was always a big deal because we got to decorate them however our little heart desired.  

Even though I am now very rooted in cake design, I love when I get asked to make sugar cookies.  I get a little nostalgic when I sit down to decorate a batch for a client.  I adore how personalized you can make a little cookie just as you would with a full scale cake.  These little baby inspired sugar cookies were individually packaged and handed out as favours for my clients baby shower. 

I must say they are adorable and hope to get more baby themed sugar cookie requests in the future!

xo K

Health & Hearts

Personally, I believe that nurses make the medical profession go round.  They are that comforting voice telling you it’s going to be just fine when you aren’t so sure it is.  They are the ones who check in to make sure they keep the pain at bay.  They are the ones who will stay for two extra minutes when you start to cry because in that moment you just need to.  I am proud to have many nurses (and future nurses) in my life and I am so thankful for them and for the nurses who have been amazing in situations in my own life.  

When I got a request for a cake to celebrate a nursing students graduation I was delighted.  I was more than happy to create a perfect nursing inspired cake to welcome another nurse into a tough profession that I am very appreciative of. 

Congratulations to Kasarah and thank you in advance for all the good you will do in the world.

xo K

Lulu-licious

I always strive to make each cake individual and unique.  I never want the same cake leaving my kitchen twice, it always needs to be personalized for the person it is being made for.  There have been lots of requests for cakes people have seen me do before and want me to replicate.  I don’t mind doing this, as long as I can change it up a bit so it can be perfectly unique for my clients.  One of my most popular request is for a Lululemon bag, even though I have now done this style a few times I still love making them each time.  This particular client made only one request, that is was hot pink (my kinda lady!).

 And so another Lulu bag was personalized, made and delivered to two very happy birthday girls.

xo K

It's Hockey Night Tonight

Being born and raised hockey girl you would think I would be a die hard fan of one team.  Not so much the case, certain players yes but never been devoted to one team (although I must admit the flyers have been stealing my heart as of late).  However, even though I do not have a favorite team, there is one team that I could not love less if I tried.  So i’m going to come clean and be open and honest and tell you that I am very much so anti-Canuck.  I have no legitimate reason or explanation other than they are just that one team that gets under my skin.  

You can imagine the little giggle I let out when I got an email from a client who was looking to have a Canucks cake made for a friend who was a huge fan.  So I put my differences aside and I must say I ended up loving how this cake turned out despite the logo that was all over it and I know the Canucks fan was happy, mission accomplished.

xo K

Cakes for Kiddies

One of the favourite parts of my birthdays growing up was the cake (are you surprised?!?!) and for years the request was always the same, cotton candy flavoured icecream cake.  I remember how much I looked forward to that over the top sweet and sugarly slice of cake every year, it was awesome (still is, your never too old for cake people remember that).  

Getting requests for kiddie cakes is probably one of my favourite kinds of cakes to work on.  It is a green light for whimsical, colourful, fun designs, which is exactly what came happened with these Hawaiian inspired birthday cakes for a couple of little munchkins.  

Don’t forget you are never too old to have your cake and eat it to.

xo K