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Real Wedding Feature in Weddingbells Magazine : Na and Terrence

I am obsessed with baby’s breath after seeing how soft and dreamy this wedding turned out. Na and terrence had a lovely intimate wedding planned by the talented Melissa Andre Events on Chinese Valentines day at the Jamie Kennedy at the Gardiner Museum that is featured in the newest issue of Weddingbells magazine. Check out...

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Laduree Inspired Sweet Table with Principal Planner

      I’m really lucky to have found what I love to do as a cake designer, and even luckier to meet extremely talented people in this industry who have the same passion in creating beauty for wonderful couples. What drives me is pushing my creativity and making couples surprised and happy in their...

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“Too Cute” Cakes: Featured in Weddingbells Magazine

I’m going through a stage where I’m obsessed with all things cutesy and pretty. I’m even loving pink, glitter, and even started taking ballet lessons. This is coming from a past tomboy who wore overalls and plaid  (usually covered in mud). I guess you can my style has evolved and the little princess in me likes...

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Sneak peek of the Dubai Wedding Cake

Well I’m back from an amazing journey to Dubai to create a beautiful (and colorful) wedding cake. Yes I travelled all way to the U.A.E. to work exclusively with the talented and passionate ladies behind Carousel of Life and teamed up with the yummiest cupcake bakery in Dubai, Sweet Stuff . The cupcake shop was so very nice to...

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Carried away in feathers {Owl Inspired Wedding Shoot}

Today I have a treat for you all! Back in the early  fall my dear friend (who is also one of the most talented and sweetest people I know),  Elizabeth Kaye asked me if I could create an owl inspired cake for a outdoor rustic shoot. I was immediately  inspired thinking about the multicolored  feathers that Owls...

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{Inspired} by Ruffles

     I’ve had a design relationship with ruffles for half of my life now, starting with my obsession of fabric before cake. It’s funny about  four years ago I was practically begging couples to trust me and design a ruffle wedding cake and now there’s a cake ruffle craze. Here’s a few of my favorite ruffle wedding cakes...

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Color Inspiration: Deep Purple Wedding Cakes

    Whether you call it aubergine, plum , eggplant, or just dark purple , these shades have found their way into elegant affairs. Some would say it has been used royally as the focal color with metallics like gold being the accent and in other ways the neutral when paired with a vibrant color...

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Inspired by Color: Coral Wedding Cakes

Color plays a huge role when it comes to designing the wedding cake, let alone setting the tone to the entire event. I want to share some color “cake flashbacks” to show different ways we have brought a color to the sweet life (pun intended.) First up, Coral. There’s something very happy and elegant about coral in which ...

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Sanaa and Fidan’s Sweet Table

         Recently Sanaa and Fidan’s sweet table was featured on the Amy Atlas blog (the queen of dessert tables.) Back in July a designed this sweet table and cake for their reception which included a cake inspired by Sanaa’s Amsale dress and framed macarons and meringues. Enjoy!  

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Featured: VIVA Weddings Magazine , Dubai

I have something colorful to share today. Recently this cake was featured in Dubai’s VIVA wedding magazine as a collaboration with the talented wedding planner’s behind  Carousel . I was asked to design a golden wedding cake for a colorful and luxe wedding spread. I look forward into sharing more details soon but for now check out the...

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Simply Chic Ruffles

Last weekend I taught another Haute Couture Class at the Bonnie Gordon College of Confectionery Arts last weekend. It was such a fun group of talented cake decorators and I enjoyed sharing my couture techniques with them and look forward to seeing their future successes in such a rewarding career. I get asked a lot how long I’ve...

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Brush Embroidered Cake – Class Cake

This past year I’ve been very fortunate to teach some lovely classes. I’ve been flown to New York for a private class here and there and also been going to Montreal for private group classes. I really love mentoring some of the most passionate cake decorators I’ve ever met. I also teach a regular Haute couture class...

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Wonderfully White Wedding Cake

I just had to blog this five tier white wedding cake. The lovely couple said their I do’s in a beautiful art deco movie theatre turned venue, The Eglinton Grand  in Toronto. For the design we did pearl painted and embossed tiers with ruffle trim and fantasy fashion flowers. It’s funny when I first started decorating...

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Cirque de Soleil Bridal Shower Cake

For the most part I do believe that everything on a cake should be edible. Partly because I’m a tad of a purest when it comes to baking being raised in farm country where the eggs in the christmas cookies were from my Grandma’s hens down the road  and the strawberries, rhubarbs  and apples in...

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Lovely White Wedding Cake for {Elysia and Matt}

Okay maybe I have too much fun with the chalk board in my cake studio but I photograph most of my cakes on that wall because it has the best light to capture the cakes with windows in front and to the side of it. I recently been getting a lot of good feedback on...

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