Ashley's Cakes

Cornflower Blue with Cornelli Lace

2008-10-19T13:36:00.003-04:00

Chocolate Cake with Chocolate ganache

Fondant with SMBC and royal piping

Stars!

2008-10-14T11:39:00.002-04:00

Chocolate and vanilla cakes with SMBC

Fondant accents

Halloween

2008-10-14T11:38:00.003-04:00

Top tier - Banana Spice Cake with toasted coconut filling

Bottom - Vanilla w/ berry SMBC

All covered in SMBC & fondant

Golfer Chick Cake

2008-07-25T14:32:00.004-04:00

9" chocolate cake with 6" egg-free chocolate cake. With Buttercream and fondant details

Fruity Cupcakes

2008-07-15T11:45:00.001-04:00

Black Forest and Berry Shortcake cupcakes

Bridal Shower cake

2008-07-15T11:44:00.002-04:00

Chocolate cake with chocolate ganache

SMBC icing and fondant details

Circles & Cupcakes

2008-06-13T14:15:00.005-04:00

Carrot cake with cream cheese icing

Banana cupcakes with nutella SMBC

GO DIEGO GO

2008-05-09T22:45:00.001-04:00

Chocolate Cake with fondant accents

Boom Box

2008-05-08T10:07:00.002-04:00

Chocolate Cake with Cookies & Cream filling

Fondant details with luster dust

Superman~

2008-04-11T12:11:00.002-04:00

Chocolate cake with SMBC & fondant accents

Ocean Cake

2008-04-04T12:42:00.000-04:00

Marble cake with SMBC and graham cracker "sand"
Ocean friends are piped SMBC and all other details made from fondant.

Tiara Cake

2008-02-25T12:37:00.006-05:00

Tiara Cake for my very royal friend Charis

Chocolate Cake with SMBC, covered in fondant and lustre dust

Tiara is made from piped Royal Icing

Lightning McQueen Cupcake Cake

2008-02-22T10:13:00.005-05:00

As promised - A Lightning McQueen Cupcake Cake. Egg Free chocolate cake with Toba Garrett's buttercream. Road and Lightning are covered in Satin Ice fondant (loved that it comes in a variety of colours!!!

New cakes coming this weekend!

2008-02-21T11:34:00.002-05:00

It's been a busy time in my life so I haven't had much time for cakes as of late! This weekend there will be two new cakes...

1. A Cars cupcake cake. The birthday boy is allergic to eggs so it will be egg-free chocolate cupcakes with Toba Garrett's buttercream (also egg-free). This cake will be similar to my puppy cupcake cake with a version of the red car on the cake made from cupcakes covered in bc/fondant

2. A pillow/tiara cake birthday cake. It will also be chocolate with buttercream, but I'll use my normal SMBC I think. Now let's talk about this tiara for a moment - I'm ready to smash the friggin thing - heck I have! (by accident of course) Basically it's a tiara made from piped royal icing and it's very fragile. I'm currently on attempt number three and if this doesn't work I'm making it out of white chocolate.

Dora the Explorer Cupcake Cake

2007-12-01T23:34:00.000-05:00

Vanilla cupcakes with SMBC. Dora is made from fondant.

Jack-O-Lantern Cake

2007-11-06T07:58:00.001-05:00

Chocolate cake with SMBC with all fondant decorations. Painted with colouring and luster dust

Satin Ice Trick or Treat Cake

2007-11-06T07:57:00.001-05:00

Chocolate Cake with SMBC and all fondant decorations

Buddha Photographer Cake

2007-10-15T08:48:00.001-04:00

Buddha as a Photographer

Chocolate Cake with SMBC

All fondant details

More baby cupcakes

2007-10-15T08:43:00.001-04:00

More baby cupcakes

Chocolate with SMBC

Baby Cupcakes

2007-09-20T09:18:00.000-04:00

Spice cupcakes with cream cheese icing. All fondant accents. For a co-worker's baby shower

Puppy Cupcake Cake

2007-09-20T09:16:00.000-04:00

Chocolate Cupcake Cake with SMBC. Puppy made from cupcakes covered in SMBC with fondant accents.

Blue Jay Cake

2007-09-20T09:11:00.000-04:00

Chocolate Cake with SMBC for father and son who love the Blue Jays. All fondant accents

Exciting news

2007-09-10T12:16:00.000-04:00

I'm a member of CakesCanada.com and frequent the forums there on a regular basis. Every couple of months they hold a competition called Showcase where members can enter pictures of their cakes for other members to vote on. This month they extended the contest to include a draw. Nine winners will recieve 2 buckets of Satin Ice fondant and then create a Kids' Cake with their fondant to be judged for the grand prize. Well I was one of the first two winners in the draw! I'm super excited!!

... I've ordered fondant from the people sponsoring the prize for this event and when I sent my contact info to Levon at La Gaterie, he included a picture of my Chanel cake on the website. You can view the site here

New pictures will be coming next week...

2007-09-07T15:23:00.000-04:00

I ♥ my new logo - thanks honey!

Bought some new cutters and a cupcake stand. Should recieve them in the mail soon. Can't wait!

Doing a second cake next weekend. It's a cupcake cake for an 11 year old who likes dogs and the colour purple. Should be fun! Chocolate and strawberry cupcakes with SMBC.

Recipes that I like

2007-08-28T10:23:00.000-04:00

Hershey's Black Magic Cake A great moist chocolate cake recipe that isn't too sweet and easy to make
Chocolate Banana Cake An awesome low-fat cake recipe. If I'm making it to decorate I'll often use a different chocolate cake recipe and make 1-2 layers of the banana cake. I use a low-fat cream cheese - chocolate icing (rather than the ricotta)
Martha's Swiss Meringue Buttercream I love using my Pink Kitchenaid mixer to make this buttercream. It tastes amazing and I wouldn't survive without it. I add flavoring to this recipe to make different types of filling

Chanel Purse Cake

2007-08-28T10:09:00.001-04:00

Chocolate/Banana Cake with Nutella buttercream. Covered in fondant with fondant accents.

Tiffany Whimsical Wedding Cake

2007-08-28T10:07:00.000-04:00

Better pictures to come.

Bottom tier is chocolate/banana cake with nutella buttercream. Top two tiers are chocolate cake with strawberry buttercream.

Tom Servo Cake

2007-08-28T09:58:00.001-04:00

My boyfriend Joey loves the show Mystery Science Theater 3000 so for his birthday I got him a MST3K themed gift and made him this Tom Servo cake.

Base is made from chocolate cake with SMBC. Torso and upper is made from Rice Krispie treats. All covered in SMBC & fondant. Painted with luster dust.

Jungle Cake

2007-08-28T09:52:00.000-04:00

I did this cake in my final class with Bonnie Gordon. It's a banana cake filled with nutella covered in SMBC. Covered in fondant with fondant/gumpaste & royal icing

Mini Cake II

2007-08-28T09:50:00.001-04:00

Another go at the mini-cake. Covered in fondant. Cat & flowers are a gumpaste/fondant mix

Mini-Cake I

2007-08-28T09:47:00.000-04:00

One of the first times I used fondant to cover a cake.

Introduction

2007-08-28T09:41:00.000-04:00

I've created this blog to post pictures of my cakes! I started decorating cakes this year and it's turned into quite a hobby. I even made my first wedding cake this month. This site will be dedicated to the cakes that I do, recipes I like and classes that I take. Enjoy!