Chocolate Hearts

Order your chocolate Valentines heart lollipops today for just $2 each!   Each will come individually wrapped and tied with a Valentines ribbon. 

Milk Chocolate
Dark Chocolate
White Chocolate (Red and Pink)

Yummy give away and pre-order sale.

What is your favorite kind of Bark?   I did a lot of taste testing this weekend and must say I love all 4 of our Bark flavors and can't decide on a personal favorite. 

Holiday Bark,  I can say has the most enjoyable scent of all.  You open a bag of this bark and  can almost taste the mint and chocolate combination before taking a bite.

Cookies n' Cream, is just that a delicious creamy chocolate combination that melts in your mouth.

Toffee Bark has a nice crunch to it with a hit of toffee flavoring throughout.  

Festive Bark is an orange flavored chocolate mixture with Cranberries for added colour and flavor.  It reminds me of the orange chocolates found at Christmas time with the added bonus of cranberries.  

Smashing Cake Designs will be making bark an annual treat you can purchase each November and December.  You can also order bark and have it shipped to a friend with a personal gift card included.   


Bark will be retailing for $10 per box.  However if you pre-order your bark before November 30th, you can enjoy a bulk rate of 3 boxes for $25.    These make great teachers gifts, hostess gifts and stocking stuffers.  


Would you like to win a box for free?   I will be giving away 2 boxes of bark. Winners will be announced Sunday November 14, 2010.  Local winners can arrange pick up of the bark or you can have it shipped anywhere in Canada.   Here's how to enter both contests:
1) Post a comment below stating what you think your favorite flavor would be, be sure to include an e-mail address for contact purposes. 
2) Become an active follower of this blog.   To become an active follower you must enter your e-mail address in the bar in the top right side where is says "subscribe"  you will then a receive an e-mail from Feed Burner to activate your subscription.  Click on the link in the e-mail and you are now an active follower. 

Good Luck!

Christmas Lights

I love driving around in December looking at Christmas lights.   I remember doing it as a child with my Mum and I now love taking my children out and see their eyes light up.

Another way to light up the eyes of a child is with candy of course.   This year I will be making and selling these chocolate light bulb lollipops during the Christmas season.   These make great stocking stuffers for kids and adults alike.   It's also a nice treat to hand out at Christmas parties to all the guests. 

I will be appearing at a few Christmas craft shows over the next few weeks where you can get your hands on some goodies.    I will post all the info on the shows shortly.   If you can't make it out to a show you can certainly place an order for any of the Christmas treats.    I can also ship a package of these lollipops :) 

BOO!

Well Halloween is this weekend and this is my last Halloween themed cake for this year.   I forgot how fun Halloween can be.   I still have so many other ideas in my head for cakes, so hopefully I will get to work through a few of them next year.

Happy Halloween!

 

Halloween Cookies

I made up 5 dozen Halloween cookies to package up for the kids at daycare and to send to son's school this week.    It's hard to tell in the picture but there is a little spider on the web cookie. 

Halloween Toffee Apple

Yummy!!  Doesn't this cake make you just want to take a big bite?   Today I was able to enjoy being a student in one of Andrea Sullivan's workshops.   She has amazing sugar skills and I love being able to learn new tricks from her and always walk away with an amazing cake.

This cake was so much fun to make and I can see changing it up slightly for different designs and seasons.  

All the candies on the board are hand made and edible.

Halloween Cake Pops Workshop

Make these fun treats in time to send with kids to school for Halloween or for Halloween parties taking place over the weekend.

Once you learn how to make these, you will find yourself making different themes throughout the year.

Workshops will be $25 per person. Once workshop payment is received you will be sent a supply list and instructions for baking your product at home. E-mail payments will be accepted at info@smashingcakedesigns.com or send an e-mail to us for other options.

This workshop will be running Wednesday October 27, 2010 at 10:00am – 12:00pm OR  7:30pm - 9:30pm at 80 Bradford Street, Barrie ON

Please sign up by Friday October 22, 2010 and feel free to pass the workshop details onto your friends.

Oreo Cookie Turkeys Tutorial

Make these cute little treats for Thanksgiving.  Little ones just love these guys.
They are easy to make, but give yourself a couple of hours to complete them. 

To start out you will need:
Oreo Double Stuf (the regular ones will not allow you to put the candy corn in)
Whoppers
Candy Corn
Resse Mini Cups or you can get mint and caramel for those with nut allergies
A pipping bag with a number 3 tip and some icing (you could also put a small hole in a baggie with icing)

Each turkey requires:
10 Candy Corn
2 Cookies
1 Mini Cup
1 Whopper

Use a bit of icing to attach your 2 cookies together.  I suggest doing all your cookies first so the icing can harden a bit before you start attaching stuff to the cookies.

 Take 6 candy corns and push them gently into the cookie.  You may need to put a little bit of icing into the cookie first so they stick better.
Put a bit of icing onto the bottom and back of the mini cup and apply to cookies.

 Cut the tips off of 2 pieces of Candy Corn. Set the tips aside as you will need them later.

Attach the 2 Candy Corn you just cut as feet, using a little icing as glue.
Attach the Whopper onto the cup by putting a little icing on the bottom and back of it.  Yow will need to hold it in place for a few seconds.

 Take the remaining 2 Candy Corns and attach them to the top of the mini cup on either side of the whopper as arms.
Take one of the little pieces that you cut off for the feet and attach it to the whopper as a beak.   Then use your icing bag to make 2 little dots as eyes.

  Put a little bit of blue food colouring into a bowl and use a tooth pick to add blue eyes to your turkey. 

 Your finished!  Watch the kids faces light up as they enjoy these little guys. 

Halloween Cake Pops

I made some sample Halloween Cake Pops the other day.    The kids love these things!  

I am thinking this might be what we do this year for the October Workshop, so keep an eye out for details to come later.

Happy Canada Day

I know I am a couple of days early, but I am taking a few days off over the weekend and will be trying to contain myself from using a computer.
These are some simple cookies I made up for all the kids to enjoy on Canada Day.    I might just need to snap a picture of all of them with red tongues after eating them.

Enchanted Easter

A fun Easter egg hunt in the forest.   This is the cake I made for our family Easter dinner tomorrow night.    It's a vanillia strawberry cake covered in chocolate fondant.   Everything is hand molded except for the Easter eggs, they are chocolate mini eggs.

Easter Chick

I have wanted to make this cake since last Easter.  I couldn't make it last year because I had no idea how to use fondant so I made a very sad looking Easter egg instead.

This little chick is for a children's Easter party.

I might add some little eggs in the grass.  I just didn't have any on hand today as they are all on location for the Easter cupcake workshop in the morning.

More Cake Pops

I am officially hooked on making cake pops.   They seem to take forever to make but they are just so cute when they are done.

Here are some more Easter ones for the kids at daycare.

Don't they look so pretty all wrapped up?

I had to play with my new wrapping items today.

Easter Egg Cake Pops

I can't stop making these fun cake pops.  Be sure to check out the post below this to see more cake pops and see what a cake pops is.

Fun with cake pops

, So what is a cake pop you ask.......a little piece of heaven!   I came across the world of cake pops on Bakerella and had to try them out.  They are made from cake crumbled up then mixed with icing which you then form into balls  (or what ever shape you need), as if that doesn't sound yummy as it is, you then dip them in chocolate!!   Trust me, they taste amazing.

These are some fun little chick pops for Easter.

Here are some great spring flowers.   I love the colours of these.   The cake pop is the base under the flower, so you get an added bonus of candy with these ones :) 
I will also be making this for Mother's Day so let me know if you are interested in ordering yours as I need to get some of the supplies while Easter items are still out.

These little guys didn't turn out as cute as I had hoped but I wanted to post them for you anyways.  My kids love the show In the night garden.   These are two of the characters from the show.  

Easter Cupcake Workshop

We had so much fun with the Halloween and Christmas cupcake workshops, I am doing an Easter one this time around.   You can make these cute cupcakes just in time for any school Easter parties or guests you have coming over the Easter weekend. 


Sign up today to reserve your spot in the session of your choice as space is limited. You will make 12 cupcakes, 4 of each design - if you need to make more let me know when you sign up.

Wednesday March 31st 10am-12pm OR 7:30pm-9:30pm
$15 per person - Pre-Registration is required by Monday March 22nd, you can e-mail me to sign up.

Happy Valentine's Day

Today was a busy day.   I had a few orders of Valentine's cupcake roses to make.  I also made this box of chocolate cake for my hubby. 

Happy Valentine's Day everyone!