New Website!

Hey Everyone! I just wanted to write a quick post to let you know that I've started a new website! I'm (slowly) moving these posts over to the new website and I'll be adding some new cake posts as well as branching out and posting about parties, crafts and DIY home projects! Here is the link, check it out and let me know what you think!

All Things Peachy Keen

Kate Spade Styled Mothers Day Dinner

Alright... so not really a cake post, and first post in a while, but Happy Belated Mothers Day to all the Mothers out there! We celebrated with a dinner party at our house for our favorite moms. It was a squeeze but a tonne of fun! #smallhousebigparty!

I am a huge Kate Spade fan, and decided that mothers day is a great time to celebrate all things girly!

I had a great time crafting for the party, my favourite craft was the mini balloon letter cake toppers! check these out...

The cake turned out pretty good too! It was a classic sponge cake (super easy, 8 eggs, 1 1/4 cup sugar and 1 1/4cup flour, beat the sugar and eggs till frothy then fold in the flour. Bake at 350 for 25-30 mins) with buttercream and fresh fruit. I also made a sweet cream and raspberry icecream to go with it. 

Another super easy, and cheap craft with high impact is the tissue paper tassels that you see pretty much everywhere. 

I choose light pink (since that was the table cloth I had on hand.. read: borrowed from my Mom) and added in the bold black and white graphic prints and then tried my hand at the mixed metal trend. I have a few copper things on hand, brass candle sticks and my china has a silver on it. The table runner? wrapping paper from the dollar store! same with the paper on buffet!

 I also printed out a few Kate Spade quotes and put them in dollar store frames that I painted silver/copper and gold. They said things like "She leaves a trail of glitter wherever she goes" and added a cute talking point at the table.

Instead of buying two bouquets for the Mom's, I split up a few little bouquets and put the flowers in my copper mugs that I got for Christmas from my MIL and a few beer bottles that I spray painted silver. Overall it really added to the girly-ness of the table.

But my favorite part.... the bow napkins!

All in all it was a great party with good food and great company! Hope you all had a fantastic mothers day!

Planes, Trains and Automobiles.

 

 The second cool grooms cake for the week! This will be a short post, but a neat one! My cousin got married last April (almost a year ago! Happy Almost 1 year Anniversary!) and she asked for a grooms cake that looked like her now husbands car!

 She sent me a picture and I did my best! I think it turned out pretty good... but the next time I make a car cake I'm going to do it more like the Millennium Falcon, I would build a wood base and decorate the car around it, so it looks more like the wheels are supporting the car.

I love the cans hanging off the back.. they are by far my favorite part! 

Anyway, Happy Baking! 

And We're Back!

It has been a crazy, busy and wonderful year! I got married last summer, and although that in no way makes up for my terrible (lack) of blogging efforts, it was a whole bunch of fun! I spend most of my time before the wedding preparing for the wedding. Some people don't like planning their wedding. I LOVED it! Every minute of it. Even though this is a cake blog, indulge me by letting me show a few pictures of all the wedding projects. (although i'll try to keep the craft posts short and sweet!) But today is looking at wedding cakes, more specifically, my wedding cakes!

I made both my cakes before the wedding... some tips if you are making your own wedding cake make it out of Styrofoam. I made the cake the week before, but it settled during the week and got kind of lumpy looking. (forgive me.... when I'm making someone elses wedding cake I do it the day before but this wasn't an option this time!)

 I made all the flowers on the cake out of gum paste and the MR & MRS sign was an Easter weekend well spent!

All the work I did on the wedding cake and the sign was almost (not quite, but almost) pointless... because everyone LOVED the grooms cake! My husband is a pretty big starwars fan so as a surprise I made him a Millennium Falcon grooms cake! It took my mom and I a full weekend (the bachelor party weekend as a matter of fact) to make the cake. We even got to have a bit of an adventure with a jig saw! All in the name of making the great cake!

 I ordered the figures on Amazon.... I think the seller was shocked that i was going to take them out of the original packaging! (don't worry.. they aren't collectibles... they were less than 5 bucks each!)

My mom spend a good amount of time making the gun at the top accurate... doesn't it make the whole cake complete? 

Cutting the cake with a light saber... pretty fitting right? The groom and groomsman got them as gifts from me the morning of the wedding. we had a blast with them!

(My mom made the bridesmaid dresses and the top to my dress, aren't they great?) 

Anyway... thank you for letting me indulge with my wedding post! (there may be one... or two more...) 

Happy Baking! 

Birthday Shoe Cake!

Nothing says girly like shoes, lipstick and red roses! (Just ask Dorthy, a new pair of shoes can change your life!)

Honestly I LOVE zebra cakes. Love everything about them! big statement and they are not super difficult to make! I used my airbrush a LOT on this cake. It really helped add texture to the red ribbon and made the reds a nice deep red that can take so long to kneed into fondant.

Of course the all important shoe!

I also got to play around with more gumpaste flowers this month, I am really liking these 'cabbage roses' they have all the impact and are way less fussy!

Short post today, I'm getting all packed and ready to go on vacation this weekend!
Happy Baking Everyone!

Something Blue!

This month I was lucky enough to get to make a wedding cake for a friend from University! Her wedding colours were Navy blue and lime green (so awesome!) and she picked a really cute cake design! 

 The ribbon matched the bridesmaid dresses! So cute!

 I loved this cake, I got a chance to practice making fondant roses (my poor BF had to listen to "does this look like a rose?" about 100 times) I think they turned out quite well!

This cake was a bit of a challange due to the size of the cake. It had to be assembled on site (I could hardly think the whole drive over I was so worried about the cake!) It was supported using the wilton layer plates and candy sticks as dowels. Each layer had 6 dowels that were measured to the height of the cake, so the cake plates balanced on the dowels. Overall it worked really well. Next layer cake I make I'll take pics of the process and post a tutorial. (I was too focused making the darn thing stay up to take photos!)

Anyway, That's all for now, Happy baking!

BLACKJACK!

Phew; Summer is winding down and I finally have a free moment to sit and write out a quick post! (I have a few saved up from the summer that I will get around to this month!) Even as I'm sitting here the dog is whining at the door wanting a walk, so this will just be a quick taste of a really cute cake! 

A friend of the Family is turning 21 this weekend and to celebrate he is taking a trip to Sin City with some Friends, we decided that a blackjack cake was the perfect fit for his poker tournament birthday! 

 I used edible markers and gum paste to make the cards and the poker chips, drawing out the queen was the funnest part of the cake for me! I had three decks of cards all lined up trying to decide on the most classic looking Queen. (Needless to say my M&M cards with the blue M&M wearing a crown, or the Star Wars, Princess Leia decks didn't make the cut!)

The backs of the cards were decorated with the Birthday boys favourite website, "The Chive" I got quite a few questions from the older generation what the Chive was, my response: "It's like Pinterest for  Men, more humor, way less weddings"

Anyway I've got a really big project coming up this week so its back to the kitchen to bake!

Happy Baking everyone!

Lingerie shower!

This week I got to host a lingerie shower for my friend Alanna! The theme was pin up and the colors were light blue and red. Blue because it's one of the wedding colors, and red because most pin up pictures are wearing red!

The dessert table! (my favorite table at any party!) It was a small shower so I just made cookies, mini cupcakes and cake pops.... But I think the coke bottles were my favorite part!

For favors I went and got cute red lipstick and panties from Victoria secret! (they haves one size fits all panties.... Perfect!) I used the panties as decorations throughout the house... They almost looked like bundling when tied together! And I put the lipstick in little gift bags that matched the colors... The gift bags were lined up as the backdrop of the table.

I made mini cupcakes with buttercream frosting! I printed off the invitation on photo paper and used it as a center piece!

I also made cake pops in the coordinating blue! Super cute! I haven't made very many cake pops so please excuse the lack of stick straightness!

However, these might be my favorites! They defiantly made the table! I got the straws online at green paper co. I was super impressed with how they stayed in the cokes!

And last but not least.... The lingerie cookies! They were also favors! To make these you simply cut out heart cookies and then cut the tips off! Best boob and bum cookies and no special cutters!

To decorate the table I made tissue paper Pom poms, super cute, super fast and super cheap! I will deft be doing them again! Loved the pop of color! I also printed off some cute pin up pictures on 4x6 photo paper and then mounted them on card stock. They looked really cute hanging with the poms!

I also used the poms to decorate the chandelier at my front door!

Here are a couple more table shots! I couldn't resist!

And one more shot of the cola... Love the glass bottles they defiantly added the right element to the table! I got playing around with itch the filters in iPhoto.... Can you tell?

Hope you enjoyed this weeks post! It was a blast putting the table together and the party was a hit!

Happy wedding Alanna, and happy baking everyone!

Chelsea

Hats Off to the Captain!

This weeks cake is for a gentleman retiring from Air Canada!

On this cake the order-er gave me free reign, (woohoo!) it didn't need to be a big cake, just a small celebration cake over dinner, so I decided to go with a captains hat!

(I had some fun playing with the iPhoto filters on these pics.... Thoughts?)

I think it turned out pretty cute! Congratulations on your retirement!


Happy baking and Happy Easter! (I have been off sugar since feb and Sunday I get sweet treats! For my first treat on Sunday I'm thinking slutty brownies! Not very easter-y I know... But they look SO GOOD! Stay tuned for some food porn this weekend!)

Chelsea

Billiard Engagement Cake!

This weeks cake is pretty special to me, it's an engagement cake for a good friend of mine! These love birds met a bar called 'The Billiard Club' so for an engagement cake we thought that a billiard theme cake would be perfect! 

 This cake is a Guinness chocolate cake with whipped Baileys frosting and a chocolate gnache filling, Yum!

To make it stand my awesome guy built me a little stand! Here is the base uncovered! (Don't worry... I wrapped it in saran wrap before putting the cake on it!)

I then trimmed the cake and smothered it in bailey frosting!

The covered it in tinted marshmallow fondant! The balls are gum balls with some fondant decorations!

 Cute right?

 To make it a bit more 'engagment-y' I added a veil to the white ball and a top hat to the 8 Ball!

 I also made some cupcakes to go with the cake (I wasn't sure how many people were going to be at the party) and decorated them with gumballs as well! The numbers on these balls aren't random though.. they are the date of the wedding!

Looking forward to making your wedding cake in July guys! Congrats again!

And Happy Baking!