Tanya's Cakes

Soccer Ball Cake

2010-06-08T14:13:00.005-04:00

This cake was for my nephew's 13th birthday. This was a vanilla cake with vanilla filling. This was a very big cake which was lots of fun to make!! Happy Birthday Denver!!

Gotta Love Pigs and Soccer!

2010-05-18T14:11:00.004-04:00

I did this cake for my niece's friends birthday. My niece told me that she likes pigs and soccer, so this is what we came up with! The image was a frozen butter cream transfer. This was a rainbow chip cake with berry butter cream filling. I think it turned out super cute!

Golf Cake

2010-04-17T21:32:00.005-04:00

This cake was my first golf themed cake! This was a chocolate cake with chocolate ganache filling. It was then decorated with butter cream icing and a few graham crumbs.

2010-04-17T21:32:00.001-04:00

Mocha Cake

2010-04-17T21:29:00.002-04:00

This was a vanilla cake with vanilla filling. It was then decorated with mocha icing and chocolate.

Froggy Cupcake Cake

2010-04-03T20:22:00.004-04:00

This was my first attempt making a cupcake cake. It was lots of fun! This originally was supposed to be for a friends little boy's birthday but that party had to be postponed. So I gave this cake away to one little girl who was celebrating her first birthday the same week! These were rainbow cake cupcakes and it was decorated with butter cream icing! Happy Birthday Kaelyn! I hope you enjoyed your cake!

Edmonton Oilers Jersey Cake

2010-03-13T14:16:00.003-05:00

This cake was a lot of fun to do. I was excited because I had never done a cake before. This was a chocolate cake with vanilla filling. It was decorated with butterscotch butter cream. VERY blue butter cream!!!! These were very intense colors and I am sure that more than a few guests had some blue teeth! The team logo was added on the side. This was a frozen butter cream transfer. Happy Birthday Jeff! I hope you liked your cake!

Little Lion

2010-02-22T12:24:00.003-05:00

This cake was for my little nephew who turned one!! This little lion was a frozen butter cream transfer. This was a vanilla cake with cherry filling. Happy Birthday Elias!

Doll Cake

2010-02-22T12:10:00.002-05:00

This cake was a for a little girl's birthday. She really likes her dolls, so this was very appropriate! This was a vanilla cake with mixed berry filling. It was decorated with butter cream icing and fondant decorations. I REALLY liked doing this cake and I loved how it turned out! This client always picks out the best ideas! Happy Birthday Maeve!

Construction Site

2010-02-22T12:06:00.002-05:00

This cake was for a good friends son's birthday! This was a lot of fun to do and all the kids at the party thought it was pretty cool. This was a vanilla cake with butter cream frosting. It was decorated with plastic toys which the birthday boy got to keep! Happy birthday little buddy!

Baby Blocks

2010-01-07T21:19:00.005-05:00

So, personally I think this cake is pretty cool. I was excited to do it, seeing as I had not done something like this before. But...it was a LOT harder than I thought it was going to be! I thought working on a smaller scale would be easier, but it really wasn't. I'm still pleased with how it turned out and hopefully the recipient was too! This cake was made up of 3 inch cake squares. Each square was either vanilla cake, chocolate cake or a combination of vanilla and chocolate. They were filled and iced with butter cream icing and covered in fondant. They were then decorated with royal icing decorations. Congratulations to C and K and little baby L!!

Number One Birthday

2009-12-14T13:00:00.002-05:00

This cake was for my niece's first birthday. This was a rainbow chip cake that was filled and iced with butter cream icing. It was then covered and decorated with fondant. Happy Birthday Ava!

Tractor Cake

2009-11-28T12:46:00.003-05:00

So I recently made this cake for my nephew's birthday. He REALLY wanted a tractor cake, so this is what I came up with! This was a lot of fun to make and I think he really liked it. It was a white cake with butterscotch flavoured icing used for the filling and also to decorate it. The decorations were not edible. Happy Birthday little man! I hope you have fun with your tractor!

Turtle Cake

2009-11-24T10:03:00.005-05:00

I just finished this cake for my son's 1st birthday! I think he is just the cutest little thing! This is a combination of chocolate and rainbow chip cake. I filled it with a butterscotch flavoured butter cream. It was then decorated with fondant and butter cream icing. Happy Birthday Shane! We love you very much and I hope you love your cake!

Giraffe Cake

2009-11-22T20:28:00.003-05:00

This cake is probably one of my favourites so far! I think this little giraffe is just super cute. This cake was a chocolate cake with mocha icing. It was then covered in white fondant and decorated with butter cream icing.

Girl Baptism Cake

2009-09-27T11:03:00.002-04:00

This was a baptism cake that I did for a friend. This was a white cake with strawberry buttercream filling. It was covered in buttercream icing and decorated with royal icing flowers.

Pink Cupcake Wedding Cake

2009-09-27T10:57:00.004-04:00

This is another cupcake wedding cake. It was white and chocolate cupcakes decorated with very pink butter cream. The top tier was a white cake covered in white fondant. I really liked the couples choice of cake topper, it was a very cute "I" which represented their last name. Congratulations!

Castle Cake

2009-09-27T10:50:00.004-04:00

I did this cake for my daughters fifth birthday. Wow! This cake was a lot harder than I thought it would be. I knew it would take time, but it was very time consuming. The humidity also did not help. Let's just say a few tears were shed...especially when half of it fell on the floor! I did manage to rescue it and she never noticed. This was a vanilla cake witha strawberry buttercream filling. It was covered in fondant and decorated with more fondant flowers and edible sparkles. Happy Birthday Nicole!

Bug Cake

2009-06-23T21:20:00.005-04:00

I just recently made this cake for my daughter's third birthday. She really likes bugs and animals lately, so I wanted to incorporate that theme. My sister made the little blue ant and I made the other two. This cake took a fair bit of time to make, but I thought the end product was worth it. It was a vanilla cake with a strawberry butter cream filling. All the decorations were either made out of fondant or gum paste. Happy Birthday Emily!!!

Frisian Flag Cake

2009-05-01T22:19:00.002-04:00

This cake was done for a friend of mine whose father turned 70. He comes from Holland, and the province of Friesland. He loves all memorabilia having to do with Friesland so this cake was perfect for him. This was a vanilla cake with berry filling and buttercream icing.

30th Anniversary

2009-05-01T22:14:00.004-04:00

This cake was done for a local landscaping business that celebrated their 30th anniversary! This was a vanilla cake with vanilla filling. It was iced in vanilla butter cream icing. The flowers were made out of royal icing.

Chocolate and Strawberries

2009-05-01T22:11:00.003-04:00

This cake was for my aunt's 50th birthday. This was a chocolate cake with oreo cream cheese filling. It was iced with chocolate buttercream and chocolate ganache. Then I topped it off with chocolate dipped strawberries! Yum!!!

Baseball Cake

2009-05-01T22:03:00.004-04:00

This cake was for my uncle's 50th birthday. This was the first time I made a cake in this shape, and I think it turned out well. (Gotta love your good ole Pyrex bowl!)This was a butter pecan cake with standard buttercream filling and it was also iced in buttercream.

Brown and White Wedding

2009-05-01T21:36:00.004-04:00

So this is probably my favourite cake so far. This was for my cousin's wedding and it took a lot of work but was a lot of fun. Every tier but the top one was fake. It was covered in white and chocolate brown fondant. I thought it turned out really well! Congratulations Jon and Candace!

So, I'm back...

2009-05-01T21:05:00.002-04:00

Well, I guess it has been a little while since I posted last. I have been doing a few cakes here and there, but after baby number three in November, things have slowed down a little. I hope to catch up with my posting now and I have some more cakes coming up in the near future. So I am back!!

Funky Brown and Pink Wedding Shower Cake

2008-08-26T21:54:00.001-04:00

This is a cake that I did for my cousins wedding shower. Her sister also was a great assitant to me with this cake. It was a chocolate cake with a white chocolate rasberry filling. It was then covered in fondant. This cake was pretty labour intensive, but still a lot of fun to do! I would not recommend doing this filling again, it did not taste very good. But you only know if you try it right??

Little Mermaid

2008-08-26T21:48:00.001-04:00

This cake was for my oldest daughter's birthday. She is really into The Little Mermaid right now, so this is what she got! This was a vanilla cake with berry filling. Ariel was star tipped onto the cake. I was not entirely pleased with the final results but Nicole loved it, so really that is all that counts!

Dora and Diego

2008-08-26T21:42:00.000-04:00

This was a cake for my daughter and my good friends son Griffin. This was a vanilla cake with berry filling. It was covered in a sky blue fondant and star tipped with Dora and Diego. Both kids very very happy with the cake!!

Girls Garden Cake

2008-08-26T21:29:00.000-04:00

This cake was for two sisters birthday. This was a vanilla cake. The top layer had standard icing for a filling and the bottom was filled with a mixed berry filling. This cake was a lot of fun to do!!

Candy Castle Cake

2008-02-05T21:12:00.000-05:00

This is a castle cake that I just recently made. This one was a lot of fun to do and my girls loved it! Too bad we couldn't keep it! Anyways, it was all white cake. The top layer was filled with butter cream and the bottom layer was filled with berry filling. It was iced in butter cream icing. I then decorated the cake with Mike and Ike's(yummy) and fruity jube jubes. Then I topped it off with sugar cones (including one for the tree) Happy birthday Leah and thanks Julia!

Flowery First Birthday

2008-02-01T15:16:00.000-05:00

This cake was a white ten inch round cake with berry filling. It was covered in butter cream icing and decorated with fondant and butter cream decorations. This cake mimicked this little girls bedroom colors. This cake was a lot of fun to do. Thanks again Tara! Happy Birthday Maeve!

Go Diego Go!

2008-01-04T13:36:00.000-05:00

I did this cake for my friends son's birthday. This is a vanilla cake with a four berry filling. It is iced with regular butter cream. Happy Birthday Myles!

New Years Cake

2007-12-31T09:56:00.000-05:00

I made this cake for a lady from my church. Her birthday is December 31, so we went with a New Year's theme. This was a carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. Happy birthday Chris and Happy New Year's everyone!

50th Anniversary Cakes

2007-12-29T14:05:00.000-05:00

These two cakes were for a fiftieth wedding anniversary. The white cake with the pink roses was a vanilla cake with vanilla filling. It was covered in butter cream icing. The second cake is my first attempt at a "dutch" mocha cake. It was a white cake with vanilla filling and covered in mocha butter cream. It was then decorated with chocolate on the top and chocolate sprinkles on the sides.

Cars and Trucks

2007-11-23T22:36:00.000-05:00

This cake was for a little boys third birthday. It was a white cake with mixed berry filling. It was covered in buttercream. I love all the neat little vehicles and think it would suit many little boy's birthday parties! It was a fair amount of work but worth it!

Chocolate Explosion

2007-11-23T22:25:00.000-05:00

This cake is a chocolate lovers cake! This was a chocolate-chocolate chip cake with cream cheese Oreo filling and covered in chocolate butter cream and chocolate ganache. Last but not least it was topped off with chocolate covered strawberries and chocolate decorations. What a fun cake to make. I'm just sad I didn't get to taste it! Happy Birthday Kathryn!

Black and White Cupcake Wedding

2007-10-31T21:40:00.000-04:00

This is another cupcake wedding cake that I just did. This was 100 chocolate cupcakes with white icing. The top cake was a chocolate cake covered in white fondant. It was wrapped with a black bow and topped with the bride and grooms initials. Congratulations Blake and Tasha!

Cornucopia Birthday

2007-10-13T20:29:00.000-04:00

This was a three layer white cake with pineapple cream filling. It was covered in real butter cream icing. This was the second cake I've done like this, but it was still a lot of fun!

Dad's 50th Birthday

2007-10-13T20:17:00.000-04:00

This cake I did for my dad's birthday. It was a three layer white cake with mixed berry filling. It was covered in real buttercream icing. It had a photo transfer of an F4 Phantom airplane on it which is one of my Dad's favourite planes.

Husbands Airplane Cake

2007-10-12T21:14:00.000-04:00

This cake was a butter pecan slab cake covered in butter cream icing. It has a piped image of a BF-109 airplane which is my husbands favourite plane.

Mom's Birthday

2007-10-12T21:10:00.000-04:00

This cake was a white three layer cake with a mixed berry filling. It was covered in real butter cream icing and decorated with a cornucopia of mums. This cake was a 12x12 square and should feed about 60 people.

Dad's 70th Birthday

2007-10-12T21:04:00.000-04:00

This cake was a butter pecan cake with chocolate hazelnut filling. It had a edible image transfered onto the cake. This cake is a 12x12 square and should serve around 60 people.

2007-09-21T21:11:00.000-04:00

This wedding cake was a white cake with a strawberry raspberry plum filling. It was covered in pink marshmellow fondant and wrapped with a taupe colored bow.

I love the simple and clean look of this cake. Congratulations Brooke and Travis!!

Flower Wedding Cake

2007-09-17T16:46:00.000-04:00

This cake I did for my sister in law's wedding. It was a three tiered butter pecan cake. It had a vanilla pudding filling and a very subtle butter cream/cream cheese icing. It had a scrolling embroidery pattern on it and it was decorated with bunches of real roses.

Cupcake Wedding Cake

2007-08-27T14:45:00.000-04:00

This is a cupcake wedding cake. I made 200 cupcakes for this wedding. This stand holds around 75-80 cupcakes. This cake was made with half chocolate and half cherry chip cupcakes. The very pink buttercream icing matched the wedding colors. The bride chose this very cute elephant as her cake topper! Congratulations Jay and Jenna!

A Bug's Life

2007-08-02T15:10:00.000-04:00

This cake I did for my daughters third birthday. This is one of her favourite movies right now, so this is what she wanted me to put on her cake! The cake was a chocolate cake decorated in almond flavoured butter cream icing.

Square Fondant Covered Wedding Cake

2007-08-02T14:54:00.000-04:00

This was a white cake with a lemon filling. It was covered in white marshmallow fondant. This cake was supposed to serve between 80-100 people, but it would probably serve around 150 people at least! Thankyou for the business Heather!

My Daughter's First Birthday

2007-06-25T15:11:00.000-04:00

This is a triple layer cake that I did for my daughter's first birthday party. It was chocolate, vanilla, rainbow chip and butter pecan cake. It had a cherry filling and was covered in buttercream icing.

Classic Car Cake

2007-06-18T22:19:00.000-04:00

This was a white cake filled with strawberries and whipped cream. This car is

a 1957 Mercury that this Dad owns. I hope he enjoyed eating his car!

Cinderella Cake

2007-05-25T15:38:00.000-04:00

This is a version of the barbie cake made into Cinderella. This was for a girls third birthday. It was a chocolate cake with vanilla filling and buttercream icing. The Barbie's dress was made out of fondant.

Oma's Birthday Cakes

2007-05-22T21:34:00.000-04:00

These are two cakes that I made for my Oma's 75th birthday party. One was butter pecan with buttercream icing. The other cake was carrot with cream cheese icing.

Carrot Cake

2007-04-19T15:02:00.000-04:00

This is a carrot cake that I did for a friend's birthday. It has cream cheese icing and royal icing daisies on top. Yummy!

Hockey Cake

2007-04-19T14:43:00.000-04:00

This is a birthday cake that I did for my nephew. It was a double vanilla slab cake with strawberries and whipped cream for the filling. It was huge but tasted great! This was fun to do and I'm glad Shawn could help me with the layout. Thanks honey!

Fishing Birthday Cake

2007-04-18T21:22:00.000-04:00

This is a birthday cake that I made for my brothers surprise birthday party. This was a strawberry vanilla cake with butter cream icing. And no worries, the fishing lure was not previously used!!

Mom's Fiftieth Birthday Cake

2007-04-16T11:54:00.000-04:00

This is a cake that I just did for my mom's 50th birthday party. It was a raspberry cream cake with raspberry cream filling. It was pretty good and a lot of fun to make!

Barbie Birthday Cake

2007-03-27T14:15:00.000-04:00

This was a birthday cake that I did for a six year old girl. It was a vanilla cake with butter cream frosting and purple royal icing flowers. The Barbie had a fondant top with butter cream flowers on the front. This cake was great fun to do and I'm sure one of my girls will want one in the future!

Castle Cake

2007-03-16T19:50:00.000-04:00

This is a birthday cake that I did for my cousin. What fun!! It was a slab cake that had a castle on top. The castle was made out of cake and covered in marshmallow fondant. The figures I found at the dollar store... Oh how I love that place!!

Mulan Birthday Cake

2007-03-08T19:57:00.000-05:00

This is a birthday cake that I also just finished. This is a butter pecan cake that is covered in buttercream icing. This image was star tipped. This cake should serve around 50-55 people. It is a single layer with no filling.

Baby Shower Cake

2007-03-08T19:52:00.000-05:00

This is a baby shower cake that I just completed! It was a chocolate and white layered cake, covered in homemade marshmallow fondant. Yes, I found a recipe for fondant that actually tastes really good! It is very sweet though. The babies are also made out of fondant.

My Latest Creation

2007-02-23T20:14:00.000-05:00

This is a birthday cake that I just completed! It is my favourite cake to date! It was a lot of fun to do. I was really able to use my imagination on this cake. The background on this cake was sprayed with color and the characters were done in a star tip. My favourite part was all the leaves on the trees. It took awhile to make all those colors, but it was worth it!

2007-02-13T13:49:00.000-05:00

This was a birthday cake that I also did for one of my classes. I'm not a big fan of clowns but I thought it turned out pretty cute! This was done in buttercream icing.

Basketweave Garden Cake

2007-02-09T21:37:00.000-05:00

This cake was a cake that I did for one of my classes. It is full of royal icing flowers that we learned over a period of three weeks. Some of these include roses, daffodils, pansies, mums and daisies. It also has a color flow fence and butterfly. This cake was also where we first learned the basketweave. This was a very sweet cake but very fun to make!

Character Pans

2007-02-06T10:53:00.000-05:00

Today they have a wide assortment of character pans that you can rent and decorate. These are two of the pans that I did for birthdays. The cupcakes were an addition to the Lightning Mcqueen Cake. These work great for children's parties!

Baptism Cake

2007-02-05T22:01:00.000-05:00

This cake is one of my favourites. Probably because it tasted really good. This is the biggest cake that I have made to date. It was actually a little scary. I think it weighed over thirty pounds! I know it weighed more than my toddler. It was for my nephews baptism. It was a white slab cake with strawberry whipped cream filling and a cream cheese icing. The icing was made with over over twelve cups of icing sugar! The white lilies and small flowers were made out of royal icing. It also had a basket weave along the sides. I think this cake served around 100 people and not a crumb was left!

Pricing

2007-02-05T16:48:00.000-05:00

Some people have inquired on pricing for cakes. This is really a difficult question to answer, seeing as all cakes are different. All cakes have different ingredients and come in different sizes, so prices would vary. Just contact me if you had any questions and would like a quote. This is probably a good reason for me to start up a website soon!

Gum Paste Flowers

2007-02-05T14:07:00.000-05:00

I am currently taking some courses on gum paste flowers. Gum paste is somewhat similar to fondant. It is rolled very thinly, then shaped into very realistic flowers. Although they are edible, most people do not eat them . They have the potential to make very beautiful cakes, especially wedding cakes. They take a while to make but are worth it in the end! Above are two of the flowers that I've learned. They are a calla lily and a carnation.

Fondant Present Cake

2007-02-05T13:22:00.000-05:00

This cake is a cake covered in fondant. I made this cake also for one of my classes. There really is no limit what you can do with fondant! I really like the look it gives, but it doesn't taste that great. I'm hoping to find a fondant soon that tastes better.

My First Wedding Cake

2007-02-04T21:30:00.000-05:00

This was the first wedding cake that I made! Unfortunately this was for one of my classes and not for a wedding. I also would have preferred to do it in fondant, but that would have been more expensive for a class cake. It would have been more elegant and smooth in fondant. This cake was a butter pecan cake with white buttercream and white royal icing lilies. These are entirely edible except the stamen. This is one of my favourite cakes so far.

Did you Know?

2007-02-04T21:04:00.000-05:00

Did you know that I can put a picture of your loved one on a cake? And yes, you can eat it too! Works great for birthday's or anniversary's!

My first cake

2007-02-04T20:48:00.000-05:00

This was the first cake that I made in my first cake decorating class. I began classes with Wilton in June 2006. We ate this for Fathers Day. It was really sweet but good! This was a butter pecan cake with standard buttercream icing.

My New Cake Blog!!

2007-02-04T18:20:00.000-05:00

Hello Everyone!

I'm very excited to be able to give everyone a glimpse of what I have been doing lately! I hope to post more pictures as I make more cakes and flowers. Every week I seem to learn or make something new! Please feel free to check this out regularly to see what's new! I hope to post weekly!