Elliott loves the movie Finding Nemo.  He's watched it so many times that he knows the movie off by heart so it was a given that his 3rd birthday party would be Finding Nemo themed.  For the cake, I wanted to make an under the sea scene with some characters from the movie as toppers.  I decided on Nemo, Dory, and Pearl for the toppers and sculpted them out of modelling chocolate.  The top tier was a vegetarian chocolate cake with vegetarian chocolate buttercream.  I also added chocolate crispy pearls to the buttercream for an added crunchy surprise!  The bottom tier was a classic vanilla cake

We hosted a baby shower for friends this weekend.  The theme of the party was "Bun in the Oven" so I made a Bun in the Oven cake complete with an oven topper and some baby onesie and bun cookies.  The oven topper was sculpted out of modelling chocolate.  The cake had alternating Classic Vanilla cake and Classic Chocolate cake with Hazelnut Praline buttercream, Blackberry buttercream, and Chocolate buttercream. Congratulations Bryan and Sarah!

How time flies!  Elliott turned 2 and we threw him a pirate themed birthday party.  He's still too young to pick his own theme so I picked the theme based on the cake that I wanted to make! Photos by Brian Wiebe Photography

We hosted a baby shower for some friends of ours.  The lovely couple are expecting their first baby girl in July - so what better way to shower the parents-to-be, than with a pretty in pink & aqua cake with a pink peony gum paste flower and baby themed shortbread cookies!