Sunday morning scenes from my kitchen

One last cake for my grandmother

Chocolate fudge cake, filled with salted caramel buttercream, topped with dark chocolate ganache buttercream. 

Octopus cupcakes!

Chocolate and vanilla octopus cupcakes for my cousin's kiddos! I adore them. And I love the above photo of the two of them with my brother.

Tres leches

Giant (11 inch!) tres leches cake, filled and topped with chantilly cream and fresh berries.

Cupcake garden

Chocolate and vanilla cupcakes with vanilla buttercream roses.

Strawberry rhubarb

Vanilla buttermilk cake, filled with strawberry rhubarb compote and strawberry rhubarb buttercream, topped with vanilla Italian meringue buttercream, and decorated with Nova Scotia wildflowers.

A cake for my grandmother

Chocolate fudge cake with vanilla Italian meringue buttercream.

Cupcakes

A recent order:

• Chocolate fudge cupcakes with chocolate mousse buttercream and a chocolate chip cookie
• Coconut cupcakes with coconut buttercream and a white chocolate and coconut cookie
• Confetti cupcakes with vanilla buttercream and a confetti shortbread cookie
• Lemon cupcakes with fresh strawberry and lemon buttercream and a lemon crinkle cookie

Vanilla and rhubarb

Vanilla cupcakes with rhubarb buttercream.

Cupcake garden

Dark chocolate cupcakes with vanilla buttercream.

Mixed berry short cake

All I wanted for my birthday dessert: Flaky sweet biscuit, chantilly cream, berries.

A variety of cupcakes

Cupcakes from a large order recently:

• Chocolate fudge cupcakes with dark chocolate mousse buttercream, topped with a chocolate chip cookies. 
• Confetti cupcakes with vanilla buttercream, sprinkles, and a confetti shortbread cookie
• Vanilla bean cupcakes
• Lemon cupcakes with lemon and strawberry swirled buttercream
• Vanilla and strawberry cupcakes with white chocolate buttercream and a white chocolate dipped strawberry. 

Lemon and strawberry

Lemon cake, fresh strawberry buttercream filling, topped with fresh lemon buttercream, meringues, berries, and roses.

Salted caramel

Caramel cake, salted caramel buttercream, caramelized hazelnuts, salted caramel macarons.