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Kaliah`s Bear

Wow, December 2010 came and gone too fast. Just like that *finger snap* it`s January 2011. Happy New Years to everyone! After 22 dozen cupcakes this December and a few cakes, I`m ready to hang my apron and take a vacation. I keep telling my hubbie that this is my last cake, my last dozen but it seems that they kept coming and I AM such a big softie! But, a last minute call from a mom of a baby girl (whose celebrating her 1st bday)... as a Mom of 2, I couldn`t say no. I hope they like it...

chocolate cake with chocolate ganache buttercream

Aquarium Fish Theme Cake

Got a last minute request for an aquarium hobbyist. I'm not much of a 'fish person' and my little daughter can attest to this. "There is no fish that looks like that!", she said. I replied, "In my imagination... there is!". I had loads of fun making this cake and hopefully they liked it too!

Chocolate Cake with coffee buttercream.

Completely edible.

Christmas Cupcakes Galore

I am literally buried with cupcake requests this year. I love this season, everything from trees to malls, houses to hedges are covered with Christmas lights. So merry and bright! To kick off my Christmas cupcake stretch, here is a picture I hope you all will like.

Red Velvet Cake with Cream Cheese frosting. Topped with red sugar and gum paste candy cane.

Monogram Cupcakes

Forgot to share these photo...

Parisian Theme Cake

I love this theme. I was asked to make a black and white Parisian inspired cake and I did not know where to go. So much design possibilities, so little time. In fact, I had just over 24 hours to make this cake. Although not impossible, I would have like more time to 'pimp' my cake. I couldn't get enough of this theme, I needed to pry my hands off this cake. Seriously! I wanted to add this and that... I would have like to make a 3 tier cake out of this theme alone.

Rich chocolate cake with vanilla butter cream.

Lightning Mcqueen - Disney's Cars Theme Cake

Never sculpted a car cake before and this was a challenging one. Basically two cakes on top of each other with different elements. I'm glad a had an opportunity to make this cake for this a really cool dude!

Retirement Cake - Island Getaway

I usually do fondant covered cakes and it was nice change creating a buttercream cake. It's more challenging than fondant in way that all imperfections are exposed. I am very happy how it turned out specially the waves.

Elmo Cake and Cupcake Topper

Just wanted to share a new version/photo of a previous Elmo topper that I've done.

Gumpaste Pumpkins!

What a busy, busy few weeks! 2 colds, a party, an injury and a disaster! I'm so excited to be back with a couple of cake projects... I'm looking forward to the distraction it brings me :) Visit soon to see my finished projects. Hope everyone had a safe and fun Halloween!

Good news. Website is up! Visit www.yummythingy.com and have a looksy! I had to redo the website AGAIN! To celebrate, here's a photo to share of my home made pumpkin patch!

Pumpkin made out of gumpaste and fondant

Silver Anemone

Belated Happy Thanksgiving to everyone... Here's a nice bouquet that I made for a friend's project. Hope you enjoyed your long weekend, I sure enjoyed mine!

A few peeps, are asking about the design process from start to finish. I am doing a couple of project early November... So watch out for some sketches that I will be posting!

White Anemone with Silver dragees

Rosie's Cheer Cake

This cake is inspired by the Panther Cheer uniform for Rosie's 15th bday. Colours turned out great in this hot pink cake!! In addition to this cake, Nancy (Rosie's mom) requested 25 oversized cupcake toppers with the Panther's colours. This was a learning curve for me, I never had to make a multi-coloured (fused) ribbon before. Quite happy how this all turned out and I hope Rosie is too!

Emma's Posh Cake

Lee-Ann's oldest girl, Emma is turning 9! She liked a cake that I previous made called Winn's Roses. I wanted it to be similar but younger. I enjoyed making this cake and her mom request it to be made out of Marshmallow fondant. It turns out that today, was the warmest day in the last 3 weeks... It was sooo fun (NOT!) trying to cover a square cake while the marshmallow fondant was trying to melt off the cake. How fun! But, Emma is such a sweet girl and I tried my best to make sure she gets a beautifully decorated spa cake!

In the end, I loved the design and how it turned out despite the heat.