I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!

This past weekend was a birthday party for my two little munchkins.   My kids birthdays are 3 days apart so we do one big joint party every year.   It's getting a bit harder to pick themes they will both like, but since they both love ice cream this year was lots of fun.   I thought I would share some photos from this ice cream filled event with everyone. 

We played some fun ice cream themed games.   The first one was a spray painted Styrofoam ball on a ice cream cone.   They had to walk around the yard trying to keep the ball on the cone.   Once they made it back they traded in their cone for some ice cream treats.

 

Then changed up the old fashioned game of pin the tail on the donkey and everyone got some ice cream lip gloss for playing.  

The kids then made their own ice cream sundaes.....yummy

 

 For the cake I made a large ice cream bar style cake.   Lemon flavoured cake (picked by my son) covered in fondant.  The stick is made from gum paste so it would hold up in the heat.  

To keep on track with the theme all the items in the loot bags were ice cream themed as well.   I made some ice cream bar chocolate treats that were also included in everyone's bag.  

 

That was our ice cream parlor birthday party.   The kids are already putting in their requests for next years party, so let the planning begin again :) 

Another Great Workshop

We did a full day of workshops yesterday and what a day it was.   I must say I have some great ladies that come out to the workshops which makes the day full of laughs.   I don't know what I look forward to more, the cake making or the time to hang out with these great ladies. 

We made 2 cakes yesterday a purse and a golf bag.   I didn't do the golf bag cake as I gave my cakes to one of the ladies as she was short on baking time.   Their golf bags turned out great!   I missed getting a photo, but will try to snag one from one of them.

Here is my purse from the workshop.

Fire Helmet

This as a fun cake to make.  I have wanted to do one for sometime so it was great to finally have the opportunity.   This was for a local firefighter celebrating his 40th birthday.  

This cake is a true to size replica of the helmet.

Love of pink

This birthday girl was celebrating her 21st birthday in style.   She loves the colour pink so it was easy to bring in as much of her favorite colour as possible in this cake.

Spring Workshop

Join us on Sunday March 20, 2011 and learn how to make this pond themed cake just in time for spring.   The workshop will start at 12:30pm at the Jarrett Hall on Horseshoe Valley Road.   We will add a few more gumpaste figures such as a snail, lady bugs and a tree.....so this is a great workshop if you want to learn more about modeling figures. 

Space is limited so sign up early to reserve your spot.  Pre-payment of $50 must be submitted to hold your seat.  I accept e-mail transfers to info@smashingcakedesigns.com or please send an e-mail to arrange other payment options.  

You will be e-mailed about a week prior to the workshop with a list of items required.   Such items will included, fondant, roller, fondant mat.   You can make a real cake or a dummy cake for the purpose of this workshop.

Catching up

Sorry I have been absent for awhile.   We were without internet for some time so I wasn't able to upload photos onto this site.
 
This one was for a 40th birthday party.  The whole cake is edible.

I will post a photo soon of another cake that was made in February.   I am going to offer a workshop on the cake, so will post a photo with the workshop info.....so stay tuned.

Cold One

Here's a nice cold one for those beer lovers out there. 

This is a chocolate lovers dream with a chocolate cake, chocolate icing wrapped in chocolate fondant.

Simple Floral Birthday Cake

This weekend was my Mother-in-laws birthday.   So we headed up to her place for lunch and cake of course.    It was fun to just make a simple pretty cake as I don't get to do those very often.  

Would you eat it?

Okay so my step father and I have lots of fun teasing each other all the time.   At a family birthday party in August he was teasing me about what kind of cake I should make for his birthday.   I shot off with a quick response saying he would get a piece of S***  He of course laughed and said "Ya, right.  I dare you" 

So I thought about it for about a week and thought he deserved much more then one piece.   So below is his very delicious Banana Cream Cake.

Happy Birthday Gerry!! 

If you are a little twisted like I apparently am, this would make a fun cake for a Halloween Party.   Rather then cake, have it all cupcakes underneath and see how many party goers are brave enough to dig in :)

Beach Cake

This cake is for a 50th Birthday Party.   The theme of the party is elegant beach theme.   The customer send me a inspiration board of pictures that they were as a guideline for decor.   This was perfect!  I was able to truly understand the feel of the party and design the cake accordingly.

This cake would also be perfect for a beach wedding.  

 

A nice cold one.

I have been wanting to make a beer bucket cake for a long time now.    This is a small cake so I only used 2 bottles for this one. 

Bottles, labels and ice is edible and placed on top of a delicious chocolate cake.  

First Birthday

A little girl celebrated her first birthday this weekend.   Young kids just love the show In The Night Garden, so this was the perfect cake to celebrate such a large milestone.

Happy Birthday!

Drivers, start your engines

This is for a little guy turning 6 that loves his Hot Wheels cars.    This cake only needs to feed 10-15 which was a nice break from some of the larger cakes I have had lately.   

Happy 6th Birthday Owen!

Crazy for Flip Flops

My daycare provider Linda is known for wearing her flip flops around the house year round.  So this was the perfect birthday cake for her.  

A busy day of cake decorating

Today was first.  I had 3 cakes all go out today.....wow am I tired.     Hoping that everyone has fun celebrating all the birthdays this weekend.

This cake is for 2 little girls celebrating their birthdays at the same party.     I was asked to make a girly cake using pink and purple.  So this is what I came up with. 

This cake is for a guy that loves Scuba Diving.   I had a lot of fun doing this cake and don't want to let this one go.  I hope he enjoys it as much as I do.

This cake is for a young girl that is going to the movies with some friends for her birthday party.

For all you fashion ladies out there

I was finally able to be a participant at a workshop rather then instructing one, and I had so much fun.   I was thrilled when Sweet Cakers offered this workshop and I signed up instantly to learn how to make this fun purse cake.   I now have so many ideas for other designs, so when I get the chance I will make some other samples up, and maybe some kid versions as well.

50th Birthday

This was a cake I was asked to make for a 50th birthday.    I was provided with a few pictures of the woman's house and dogs.  I only took the main features of the house trying to keep it simple and not take way from the dogs which were the main feature on the cake.  Therefore I left out all the greenery on the front of the fence so the dogs could still be seen.  We also added a 50 as the house number for her 50th birthday. 

This cake was a learning experience in many ways, but it was fun to see it coming to life.  

This is the photo I was given of the

Here are the dogs

 and here is the cake....

Dino

This cake was for a little guy turning 4.   He seen a larger version I had done last year and told his Mom that was the cake he wanted.   We scaled it down in size, using less dinosaurs and a smaller volcano.   His Mom put sparklers in the volcano which gave it a nice effect of the volcano erupting. 

Cream coloured roses and a special cake for a young man

This was ordered to celebrate a variety of occasions.   Birthdays, Wedding Anniversary and a party with visiting family members from England.   The roses were a good match as it let guests pick away at the bouquet all evening.

 
 It was also their son's birthday, figuring he wouldn't like a rose bouquet as a cake they asked if I could just do a blue cupcake or something for them.   During that conversation I inquired about his interests to try and make the cupcake a little nicer for him.  Apparently he is saving all his pennies to buy his own big screen TV.  So keeping it simple like they requested this is what I came up with for him.   It's a 5"cake, which would also make a cute smash cake size for 1st birthdays.

Red, White and Gold

Who doesn't love red roses?   I must say I can go awhile without seeing another rose for a few weeks after staying up until 2am making 2.5 dozen of them.   

This cake turned into a challenge on many levels.  Several things did not go as planned and had to change design plans half way through to make it work.  I am happy with the final outcome and hopefully the customer will be as well.