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

Hole in One

Dad’s are pretty awesome people, no wait, REALLY awesome.  My Dad is hands down a real life superhero, over the years I have realized that there is very little my Dad can’t do.

Growing up I was the epitome of a girlie girl (still am actually) and my Dad was what you could classify as rough and tough but as much as the interests we had were very different, sports was always one thing we could agree was a mutual love.  

This golf theme cake was requested by a client to celebrate a special Dad in their life.  It was  fun one to tackle because it brought together two things I love, sports and my Pops.  

Do me a favor, go give your Dad a hug and say Thanks... just because.

xo K

Welcome to the Neighbourhood

I’m a big believer in laughing.  I know it may be cliche but it honestly is the best medicine, keeps your heart happy and healthy.  So as you can imaging I love clients with a great sense of humor.  

When my client Katie came to me with this idea, 1) I thought “O goodness how am I going to tackle this!” and 2) Knowing Katie for quite sometime, this idea of hers didn’t surprise me at all.  Katie requested a Transcona themed cake to celebrate a move into the area (for all the non Winnipeggers this cake idea will be less funny but trust me on the giggle factor of this one).  We came up with all kinds of things to represent that very unique little area of ‘T-cona’. 

What better way to celebrate a move to the one and only Transcona that with an all things Transcona cake to mark the occasion! .

xo K

It's a Beautiful Life

I knew this day would finally come.  The day when I cried after getting off the phone with a client due to being overwhelmed and so honoured to be making a cake for a huge milestone in their life.  This happened when I was asked to make 3 mini cakes to celebrate a birthday, a graduation and a clean bill of health for a very special, incredibly sweet client of mine.  

It is orders like this that make me so overjoyed and in love with what I do.  My cakes were ordered to celebrate a monumental, joyous milestone in her young beautiful life and I could not of been happier to in a little way be a part of it.

xo K

Duct Tape & Plaid

I love plaid shirts.  I love them in summer with cute shorts and some cowboy boots.  I love them in fall with jeans and some Chuck Taylors and I love them in winter with some riding boots and leggings.  Plaid shirts may be one of my favourite pieces of clothing.  You can imagine my delight to begin to tackle this plaid shirt cake inspired by my clients "Red Green Show"-esq father who was to soon be celebrating his retirement.

Not only was the plaid shirt cake itself a great representation of her Dad but adding all other little touches around the cake board including a fighter plane, a Tim Hortons mug and a CN logo made this a great centre piece at the retirement party.

 xo K

Getting Sassy

As it is probably obvious by now I love cakes that are cute, whimsical, elegant, sophisticated and all things pretty.  However, every once and a while getting sassy with cake is fun too.  Which is exactly what I did when my client requested this risque cake....

Plastic surgery in my future?  No thank you, I think I'll be sticking to cake.

xo K

I and Love and You

Why not say it with cake?  That is what came to mind when I sat down to design these wordy little cakes.  These little cakes were inspired by a scrapbook made by one of my clients for Mothers day which was made with paper filled with words of love.

I adore when a cake has a personal touch that will speak to the heart of the person that cake is for and I think these little script cakes did just that!

xo K

Pretty Things in Small Packages

I have always kind of had this obsession with mini things, the travel item isle at Shoppers gets me more excited than I care to admit.  Everything is automatically cuter when they are mini (babies are mini and cute, case and point).  So you can imagine how much heart gushed over these mini couture cakes.  I adored everything about these couture cuties from the colour schemes to the deigns and their darling 'fit in the palm of your hand' size.  Cutie cakes for the win!

Ps This my cake loving friends is what I like to refer to as a cake murder scene.  I can assure you as horrible as it looks, they were thoroughly and happily enjoyed (eaten with her hands and all)

xo K

Touchdown!

I've grown up in a family filled with sweet tooths and sport enthusiast.  I can proudly say that I have carried on the family tradition with both sugar and sport being two things close to my heart.  Naturally anytime I have a client that request a sports theme cake I do a little fist pump at my computer and start planning.  

This New England Patriot themed cake was for a clients boyfriend's birthday who is a HUGE Pats fan.  The pressure was on to please this NFL lover and I can happily say, it passed the test!

xo K

Pretty Things

As I have become more involved in the cake world it amazing how I see cake in EVERYTHING around me.  Whether it is a pretty pattern on a napkin, detailing on a dress or a dazzling coloured eye shadow.  It seems as though every where I look there is something beautiful that inspires me to create something beautiful out of sugar and cake.

Not only am I inspired by things around me but people around me as well.  I am so blessed to be dear friends with the talented Britney who in my mind is the queen of all things floral.  She is the uber talented designer and owner of Fache Forward Designs and I am so lucky to have such an amazing talent to inspire me daily in what I do.  Pretty girls like pretty things and I think that speaks volumes about Brit and myself, just check out these amazing floral cupcakes she surprised me with one unassuming afternoon.

xo K

Little City Girl in the Big City

I'm a prairie girl.  I have lived my whole life on the prairies and this is where I call home.  So it surprised even me when I decided to kick off my cowboy boots and leave my little kitchen on the prairies to head to the big city of Toronto.  Why Toronto you ask?  Well because Toronto is home of the Bonnie Gordon College of Confectionary Arts and I wanted to go!  I packed up and headed out on a six week cake journey to soak up everything I could and come home full of inspiration and new talents, and that is exactly what I did.  So thought I would share some really exciting pieces I got to work on during my time and Bonnie Gordon....

 New decorating techniques were coming at me from all angles such as modelling chocolate, brush embroidery and the dated/gotti but somewhat pretty (somewhat) Lambeth piping.

Sugar work was definitely something I never thought I would ever get my hands.  Not going to lie, didn't love this class, on but once all was said and done it was a pretty interesting skill to learn.

O how my heart skipped a beat when it came to sugar flower day!  A phenomenal teacher helped us guide us in making some pretty spectacular flowers!

This might of been the part of the course I was most looking forward too.  Quite the challenge but figure modelling was a great experience.

Technically we were supposed to leave our topsey turvy cakes undecorated but I mean lets be serious, me leave a cake undecorated? I think not!

When we got to our sculptured cakes class, hockey playoff were right around the corner so naturally a Claude Giroux Flyers ball cap was totally fitting!

Now I got quite a lot of scuff from my cake girls when I RANDOMLY chose this Maple Leaf themed cake as my final project.  No joke...random draw... hockey girl gets the hockey cake.

I don't know if I have ever fallen in love with one of my cakes as much as this one.  This wedding cake stole my heart the minute I got the description handed to me.  It still sits in a perfect placed spot in my house and when I walk past it, it still makes me smile.

All in all I can truthfully say that taking this prairie girl out of her country roots and putting her in the big city was well worth the trip!

xo K

Sit Back... And Enjoy The Ride

Sometimes I let the hectic, non stop, around the clock pace of my life get the best of me.  Emails to be answered, cakes to be decorated, deliveries to be made and then when I can fit in time, sleep.  I love this crazy little cake machine that is Laugh Love Cakes but every once and a while I have to remind myself to 'Enjoy the Ride'.  I'm really excited to be back blogging and sharing all things cake with all of you!

I figure what better way to get you caught up with our busy little kitchen than to share some cakes with you that have left our kitchen over the last little while, hope you enjoy!

xo K

Well Hello

Hi All!  Thanks for stopping by the Laugh Love Cakes Blog.  I am so looking forward to giving you an in depth and behind the scenes look at the little cake designing machine that is Laugh Love Cakes. Be sure to stop by often to find out all the fun and exciting things going on in our kitchen and the inspiration behind all things Laugh Love Cake!