With this Xmas cake I made for a lovely woman & her daughter, I wish you all a MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

The theme: a Yule Log.

It is the traditional French Christmas cake.

YULE LOG CAKE

This was made with Coffee cake layers filled with a salted butter caramel buttercream. 

The idea: Santa taking a nap under the snwo, after cutting some wood.

 This was a really simple little cake but I really enjoyed making it.

I work SO hard on preparing this market that I was expecting a lot from it!

But, as always, it just did not work out as I expected.....

After important snow falls during the night leading to the day of the market, we could not get out with our car!

We tried to call so many times the organizer to see if the market was still happening and to let them know that we were going to be late. But NO answers!

When we finally got out, we went to the place where the Xmas market was meant to be but.......NOTHING.....there was nothing at all, so we went back home, thinking that it had been cancelled.

Few hours later, after learning that it might have been moved somewhere else, I finally managed to get hold of another phone number for the organizer.

They had moved the market but did not call anyone.

By the time I got there (after "fighting" on the phone to get a space), we were jammed in a corner at the entrance where everyone was stuck trying to get in or out and they did not really look at what we were showing and selling. And we could not put up anything to explain what the products were, .... Most people did not realise that they were cakes...

SO DISAPOINTING!!!

the positive thing: few people seemed really interested and took a business card.

Anyway, let's not dwell on it and let me show you my little creations:

First,

The Xmas Cake

This was a simple vanilla cake filled with vanilla buttercream and covered with sugarpaste.

The idea behind the cake was: White Xmas. At first, I was going to make a plain white cake with a snow-covered tree and white royal icing designs.

Then, the first night, I don't really know why, I just made a snowman, then a reindeer and finally Santa.

They looked really cute! 

 then I added the presies and I pipped some "snow" everywhere.

Next,

THE REINDEER CAKE

This was also a simple vanilla sponge cake filled with vanilla buttercream.

The head was made like a cake pop: I mixed cakes crumbs with vanilla buttercream, left it overnight in the fridge and covered it with sugarpaste.

The rest, his nose, his ears and his antlirs, were all made with sugarpaste.

Finally, a little picture of one of the chocolates bags with my new LOGO!

This week, I have to make few chocolate boxes and two Xmas cakes and a Birthday cake (CARS + TOY STORY)

Hi there,

I had two cakes to make for yesterday.

One for a little girl, Thylane: the theme was Angelina Ballerina.

And one for a boy, Estevan: the theme was Mr & Little Miss.

Let's start with the first one:

ANGELINA BALLERINA

This is made with three chocolate cakes: two really dense chocolate cakes and a lighter chocolate yogurt cake with chocolate chips (white & black) in the middle.

then filled with white chocolate cream and finally vanilla buttercream to cover it all.

As i have been stuck in my house for three days because of the snow, I did not have the necessary ingredients to do the recipe I am used to do for the chocolate cakes.

Trying new recipes is great, but not when you are making a cake for a client! This was scary as I really wanted them to taste great! But from a message I got: they seemed really happy with the cake!

I had to make stars and little flowers. The colour scheme was really simple: white, pink and dark pink.

And I made Angelina Ballerina with metal structure.

The letters are made with Funky alphabet cutters, which are great for children's cakes.

For the second cake, I was given the following theme: Mr & Little Miss.

I already made in the past a Mr & Little Miss cake so I wanted to make a different one.

I decided to make the cake in the shape of Mr TICKLE.

MR TICKLE

I had a lot of fun making this cake.

The cake is made out of three vanilla yogurt cakes filled with a milk chocolate cream and covered with vanilla buttercream.

I used the Funky alphabet for the name and the number.

The kids seemed to have loved it!

I am really happy because all the orders I am getting are for children's cakes and they are all different.

I was worried that people would only ask me for the same designs but not at all.

Last week was my little niece's birthday.

She turned 2! Already!

I really wanted to make something special for her.

While trying to find the perfect idea, I stumbled upon some of my son's books: Mr Men & Little Miss.

I also found a Mr Men & Little Miss toy so I went for that idea.

First: The idea: I wanted to tell a story, or stories: I wanted to have few characters interacting with each other.

Second: finding which characters to make???

There are so many! So i just chose the ones me & my husband loved the most as kids.

Mr BUMP, Miss NAUGHTY, Mr TICKLE, and so on...

Third: Spending a long time wondering what to put on top of the cake. I knew I wanted her name, and her age, and I wanted it to look simple and cute.

So, here is the result:

 And here are the stories:

First story: Miss NAUGHTY laughs as Mr BUMP falls.

 Second story: There is not really a story here....just Mr SMALL and his house on top of the valley.

 Third story: Mr TICKLE tickling Mr GRUMPY, who is clearly not finding it funny!

And finally, the top of the cake:

  Simple little colourful cubes.

The inside of the cake was made out of 3 sponge cakes filled with white chocolate cream and covered with fresh strawberries.

The things my niece loved the most: the cubes! we had to hide them as that's all she wanted to eat

Hi There,

Last week, I made a cake for two old friends of our family.

The cake is called MIRK POT as it is a representation of their house (which is called Mirk Pot) and of themselves.

The cake: the house, is made with two yogurt cakes and two chocolate cakes, filled with chocolate ganache and covered with fondant.

Everything else is made out of fondant or buttercream.

 They live in a cottage in the middle of the woods. The cottage is a listed building from the 17th century (if I remember correctly) and the wood surrounding them has actually being planted entirely by them. There are flowers and plants everywhere.

A lot of things in this cake are really personal to those two people.

I used to go there every year on holiday as a child, and this is as I remember it all.

They seemed really surprised and really happy when they saw this.

They looked at every little details and they seemed really pleased that I had incorporated all these little elements: The red squirrels (for the past few years, they have been helping to save the Red Squirrels as they tend to be killed by Grey squirrels), the little birds (they come every morning to eat in front of the house), the giangantic tree with the squirrels house, the bench, the bushes, the plants, the Pine trees, ...and so on...

I have to say that being able to make a cake like this, so personal, was trully something!