birthday cake

January 18 2011

Vanilla vanilla buttercream

A simple recipe today for safe-keeping. I originally copied this down at a store, typing surreptitiously on my now defunct BlackBerry, but forgot to save it when I switched to my iPhone. All’s not lost, as I attempted to re-create the recipe this past weekend and am pleased with the results. So, before I lose [...]

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October 31 2010

Dora the Explorer Cake

Finally breaking the awkward silence – it’s been a while. Somehow life managed to get ahead of me ever since our vacation in late August to Vancouver, so only recently did I get a chance to slow down, take a hard look at my calendar, and wonder where the past couple of months went. We [...]

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I just think it’s so quaint when someone refers to that cake that they always had at family gatherings. The “it” cake of the family, if you will. Growing up, my birthday cakes have been interesting and wildly different every year depending on geographical location and later on, the temperamental weather in May in BC. [...]

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October 18 2009

Ella’s Birthday Cake

A little something for a little girl’s first birthday. The theme that her parents requested was Mary Had A Little Lamb…so off I went with some modelling with the fondant! The little lamb had somewhat evil eyes, I know – food writers suck, don’t buy them. For the little girl, I opted to use a [...]

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Since my birthday was coming up shortly before Linda’s wedding, and since I volunteered to make her wedding cake because I’m slightly nutty, I thought I would make my birthday cake and use it as practice. You know, what a great idea, making two large intricate cakes within a week or so of each other. [...]

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