Bryn's 4th Birthday

Today I want to share with you some gorgeous pictures from our dear friend Shona, the owner of Sweet Earth Photographics. Back in May, while exhibiting at the EPIC EXPO, Shona told me they would be celebrating her youngest daughter Bryn's 4th birthday weeks after the expo and asked if I would be able to make Bryn a cake. Bryn had the opportunity to see my pink ruffles cake with ribbon flags at the expo, and when her mummy told her she would be getting a cake just like that for her birthday...she screamed (happy kind of scream of course!).

For little Bryn's birthday, I made a Dark Chocolate Cake with Passionfruit Buttercream for Bryn's backyard birthday party and some mini Vanilla Bean Yellow cupcakes with Vanilla Buttercream topped with fresh raspberries.

Please check out Shona's blog for more amazing pictures of Bryn's Ladybug themed birthday party. I hope you will enjoy looking at them pretty pictures just as much as I did.

Click on the link Sweet Earth Photographics to see Shona's pictures.

Summer markets kick off

This is a short post as we are stepping away from the oven for 5 minutes to blog about our first market of the summer! Come see us at Kitsilano Farmers Market tomorrow at the parking lot of Kitsilano Community Center from 10am to 2 pm, the weather will be fabulous according to the forecast, and we look forward to making new friends and seeing old friends of the bakery!

Vancouver Central Library's 16th Birthday

When we received an email inquiry from Vancouver's Central Library about our cake pops for the library's 16th birthday back in April we were so excited. The ladies at the library planned a party filled with lots of sweetness, literally! Bright pink and purple were the colour theme, so we made 3 different varieties of cake pops, decorated with sugar cutouts. Lots of mini cupcakes, handmade marshmallows. Thanks so much to Marya and Sophie at VPL for letting us be part of the celebration.

EP!C LOVE 2011

Good times fly. After much preparation we were off to the Vancouver Convention Center last Friday for the annual EP!C Expo. This year's wedding showcase was bigger and with more vendors exhibiting. We spent 3 days meeting show visitors and friends new and old. For this year's exhibit, we decided to do something more on the romantic side. We used a vintage dresser, distressed wooden crates and antique chairs as our canvas and fill them with simple yet elegant cakes, french macarons and cake pops and adorned them with gorgeous and fragrant peonies, field tulips, garden roses and baby's breath in vintage milk glass vases. We had a wonderful weekend and would like to thank Globe Foundation and Vancouver Sun for organizing such a great event and Liliana and the crew at Green Chair Event for putting the wedding showcase together.

Gorgeous day at the market & Happy Easter!

We couldn't have asked for a better day at the Vancouver Winter Market today! The sun was shining and lots of good friends/customers visiting. We would like to thank everyone for a great winter market season (despite our encounter with the winter snow and rain), and we look forward to the upcoming summer season. Please visit the bakery's website or the blog often for our summer schedule and locations. Happy Easter!

Chocolate sweetness

It looks like cake pops are now the treats to eat! Last week, a friend told us that even Starbucks are offering these cute little things. This week, for a very special potential client, we made some double chocolate cake pops to sample, hopefully, these little gems have made a good impression!