Three Little Pigs

 Once upon a time, there were three lovely lady friends who all got pregnant around the same time. Nine beautiful months later, the three friends gave birth to a wonderful trio of February babies, who are destined to be the bestest of friends! And for their first birthday, I got to make them a cake topped with three figurines, one for each of their favourite things. One was Paddington bear, the other a somewhat bizarre rectangular own, and the third, a doll the little girl likes. At first I thought it might be a bit random, but they looked wonderful together! (Don't judge me on my terrible photography skills, I know these were terrible!)

The real pleasure though was seeing the kids digging into the cake and looking beyond happy in their first introduction to chocolate overload!

Galinha Pintadinha

Ladies and gentlemen, I'm about to introduce you to the cutest foreign cartoon ever! It's Brazilian, it's in portuguese, its so insanely adorable, and it's almost hypnotizing!

No wonder it's so darn loved by the kiddos over there, right!? Apparently it's a very popular birthday party theme as well.  Now if that video wasn't adorable enough, here is it in cake for a little girl's first birthday!

Wait, wait, there's more! Matching cupcakes, of course! 

The party mama also sent me this picture of their setup. Is she talented, or what!? I love seeing creative sweet tables like these, especially when my cakes are right in the middle of all this deliciousness! 

Sexy Classy

This weekend, I was asked to make a simple cake for a fortieth birthday. The cake was inspired by the Agent Provocateur logo and packaging. The idea was to combine classy with sexy, as well as imitate the font from the logo. The challenge in this cake? Completely gluten free and lactose free. I've done lactose free before, but I was completely new to the world of gluten free. A daunting task, but I was up for the experimentation. After a couple of attempts, I think I came up with something just as yummy as my regular chocolate-raspberry cake!