Cake Creations

A few of my creations from the past few months. Unfortunately, our old computer crashed and took along with it pictures of some of my first cakes. It would be fun to show off some of my 1st attempts and how I've improved. But alas, that darn computer is keeping them from you!

A dutch chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream and raspberry coulis filling. Topped with chocolate ganache and toasted almonds. Twas one yummy cake! 

This piano inspired cake was a fun job...thankfully, we have a piano in our living room for me to run to frequently as reference. Apparently it was a hit with the birthday girl! 

This cake was inspired by the Hunger Games trilogy. My daughter's best friend is a HUGE fan of the series. Her only request was for the cake to have "as much fondant as you can get on it"

And lots of fondant she got! 

A Washington Capitals inspired cake, we found a picture of a vintage jersey and went from there...

Ah yes, the "Biebs"....fortunately, we don't really have Bieber Fever in our house! The cake is covered in buttercream and the zebra stripes are in fondant. I used some cookies to top the cake and spell the birthday girls' name. We glued the Bieber doll to the cake board with icing. 

My most recent cake, I giggled when this request for a "horse" cake came in. How was I going to pull this one off?! I've never had any talent in artwork or sketching (and yet, here I am designing cakes and cookies?!). I could have printed off a picture from the net and traced it, but that would have been too easy. So instead, I spent quite a bit of time sketching and tweaking my horse until I felt it was perfect.

I especially love the mane on the horse; I marbled the fondant with 3 shades of brown and rolled it out. This was also my first attempt at homemade Marshmallow fondant and truly, hands down...it's SO much better than store bought (plus a great workout for my arms) I won't be going back.   

Cookies...

Here are some of the cookies I have created over the last few months. Each one is hand decorated, customized colours and designed. I use only high quality ingredients, they are peanut free although they are created in a kitchen that has nut products. (I am sure to clean thoroughly before each project).

A few pretty flowers to brighten up anyone's day (ok, any lady's day)

Each one is a bit different

These cute cupcakes are great for kids and the kids at heart.

I like these cupcakes better than the real deal. Seriously, give me a big slab of cake and send me off on my own to enjoy! These cookies, tasty impostors!

Our friends' son is playing rep hockey for the 1st time this year. I made these skates for a post game 'snack'. I customized the colours to match the team jersey and each player got his number.

Hand painted the blades with silver food paint.

Christmas cookies, this was a fun season to work on! 

Teacher's gifts, I made chocolate sugar cookies (yum) and vanilla sugar cookies. Apples for the teachers, of course

The cookie at the front is a Santa Belly, which stumped my usually creative hubby ("I don't get it, where's his head!?")...I got many compliments on that particular cookie

I would say this was my favourite batch of cookies to put out, the peppermint twists, snowflakes, gifts and trees. 

Each snowflake was unique, just like the ones we never saw this winter season!

I admit, I usually duck my head, dress in black and do whatever I can to avoid Valentines day....

... but when you make cookies, that's next to impossible to do! 

I still dressed in black though! ;)

A friend helped me bake and flood 194 cookies cut in the ribbon motif. We made them for a fundraiser for a family from our Ringette Association, the mum is battling Leukaemia.

Here they are, flooded and detailed with navy royal icing. (Orange is the colour for leukaemia, orange and blue happen to be the Burlington Blast colours too!)

Packaged and ready to go, we received great support and all proceeds went to the family. 

Feet, a funny project for a lady retiring from nursing, she worked with patients after foot surgery...

I still have to figure out how to make the toes look good. Imagine biting into these toes!

Cupcakes went with the feet, I love the colours my friend asked for

I made these cookies to celebrate my mother-in-law's 65th birthday. She's not a huge fan of sweets...

...but she is a fan of my cookies and designs! 

The Candy Corn cookies were the start of my cookie mania...to realize how easy it was to make each one unique and fun! (I said the one in the bottom right corner was me in high school, before I discovered waxing for eyebrows! LOL)

A spider, Mummy and web - a hit with the boys on our street.

Little chocolate 'cake bite' ghosts. My SIL ordered these for her office, apparently everyone loved them!

Kathy's Konfections -A collection of my homemade konfections

My journey began in the summer of 2010, a challenge to myself after seeing a cake a friend had made for her daughter's birthday. I said to myself "if she can do it, so can I!" and so it began with a simple buttercream icing and a cupcake.
I have not taken a course for anything, maybe I should however, I haven't yet! Everything has been trial and error and with the encouragement of family and friends, I have been fairly successful.
To be honest, blogging is not 'My thing', time is precious for me. I take the time that my 2 youngest are in school and late at night to 'work' on my creations. Blogging seems like a time consuming process and honestly, who wants to hear from me?! I've created this page to mainly show my work to those who are interested in them, nothing more.
So, if you've stumbled across this page or you've looked for it with intent, welcome! Enjoy! And let me know of cookies or cakes you'd like to see!
Kath