Conversation heart ice cream sandwiches

I always have fun on Valentine’s Day, creating romantic meals with a special dessert.
This year I decided to play with the conversation heart theme but this time make them into pastel-coloured sugar cookies and then sandwich them with chocolate and coffee ice cream between, creating a Valentine’s Day ice cream sandwich. Silly and delicious.

Frozen Two

A special cake for a special day.
A liver transplant seven years ago is celebrated as a sort of second birthday, since its success gave new life. And Frozen is a favourite theme so celebrate they did.
Characters (in the form of action figures) from the film Frozen Two will be added to this cake which serves as a kind of stage for Anna, Elsa, Olaf and Sven the reindeer.

Canoe engagement

Alex and Tyler’s first date was on a canoe. How romantic! Love at first paddle, perhaps? And then they announced their engagement. Party-time!
The cake was a nod to their first date. Atop the cake (that fed 70 partygoers), was a fondant canoe with Alex at the front (her ponytail under her cap) suited up with a life jacket and Tyler rowing behind her.
Here’s to many happy years of steering that boat and paddling together Alex and Tyler!

Üvegtigris

“Üvegtigris” is a favourite film of the birthday boy. A few years back, I made a cake featuring this movie for his buddy Andi’s birthday. She asked me if I could make it again for Attila, but this time to feed 60-70 people.
I printed images from the movie on edible paper and surrounded them with black fondant sprockets to make them look like real film strips.
I asked Andi about the movie and she said it was a Hungarian thing that I likely wouldn’t find funny — but Attila and their gang think it’s the bomb. So, without further ado, here’s Attila’s Üvegtigris cake. Many happy returns of the day to him!

YOW-za

Louise has spent much of her working life at the Ottawa/Macdonald–Cartier International Airport so a suitcase cake was a perfect way to celebrate her birthday. YOW is the code for that airport so there’s a sticker with that ID slapped onto the side of her pink luggage cake.
She’s a flamboyant gal who loves pink so pink it was! And hats? She loves to wear hats. Two doggy footprints are a nod to her two companions with whom she shares much of her time.
What more can we say? Happy birthday Louise!

Birthday succulents

My last bake of the year for the past few years, has been for Cheryl who celebrates her birthday on December 28.
I’ve done all manner of cupcakes for her so this year her daughter suggested succulents.
I love doing succulents out of buttercream. When I make succulents, I experiment with different piping tips so they turn out a little differently each time. Always fun!
Cheers to Cheryl on her birthday and Happy New Year!

Christmas spice cake & eggnog icing

We were invited to a late lunch for Boxing Day at my partner Richard’s sister’s house and I offered to make dessert.
I wanted to try something new and found a recipe for Christmas spice cake with eggnog frosting. Ooh, sounded fantastic.
It came out great, the cake baked up beautifully. My only issue was the icing was too sweet, so I alternated the 1/4 cup of heavy cream with freshly squeezed lemon juice and it made all the difference in the world.
I decorated it with the last of my gingerbread snowflakes and topped it with snowy icing sugar. Delightful.