Cupcakes and More

This past week was full of cupcakes (200 and counting) with the usual wedding cake orders to boot. I was busy baking 240 chocolate and vanilla cupcakes topped with our newest frosting, Orange Cream Cheese. Yummy! This frosting has been so popular this year that over 1/3 of my brides have requested it as filling for their wedding cakes. Unfortunately, I didn't get a picture since the bride picked up all the cupcakes the day before her wedding.

To make it short and sweet, here are the recent round of wedding cakes:

A small and simple wedding cake for a bride getting married at home. Sweet and simple...

Another Camoflauge wedding cake created at Just Like Gram's this summer. This was for a created for a couple from Tumbler Ridge, BC who enjoyed the outdoors, hunting and fishing and all that fun stuff! Congratulations, Stephanie and Roger!

Caramel Apples Anyone?

Just Like Gram's is proud to introduce a new product to our list of goodies - "Caramel Apples".

This past weekend I was asked to create some caramel apple wedding favours. Now, having never made these before, I thought why not and played around for a week searching and perfecting recipes. Came up and created these "OMG, so delicious" Chocolate Caramel Apples. Now, I must confess, I don't like raw apples (yes, call me weird), only cooked apples. Plus, I don't like caramel - I hate how it sticks to my teeth. BUT, since I had to try out these first, WOW, I couldn't stop eating them. I absolutely LOVE them. I think I found a new addiction!

Chocolate Carmel Apples are NOW FOR SALE! We'll drizzle them in chocolate, dip them in nuts or even put your choice of sprinkles or whatever topping you desire. Hey, we'll even package them for you too!

"Is that for People or for Us?"

That's a question asked far too often here at Just Like Gram's. Whenever my kids see me baking something, they always ask who it's for. Well, I'm sad to say, but 9 out of 10 times, it's for a customer. To be quite honest, after baking and decorating cakes all day, the last thing I want to do, is come home and bake - even it's for my family.

Well, seeing how school is fast approaching. OMG, is it tomorrow already? I had thought I had better whip up some goodies for school lunches. So, I actually spent some of the day baking for my family. I made some oatmeal chocolate chip cookies and used up some bananas and made some banana bread.

What - NO CAKE? Yep, my family doesn't really like cake anymore. After trying out so many recipes on my family, they are sick of cake. So if I have to try something new, I usually wait until we have company over and I make a new cake flavour and then send the rest home with them.

So, there my guilt trip is over and I actually did some baking for "us". I got my daughter into helping me and she stirred, poured and mixed - my son though preferred to be taster, trying to steal cookie dough. We had a fun and relaxing afternoon.

Now, back to "baking for people". Hapy Labour Day!

Free Cookie Giveway Winner!

Congratulations to Kim of Fort St John who won 2 dozen free oatmeal cookies!

The Quiet Before the Storm

Sorry I haven't posted in a while. I decided a much-needed break was in store for me and I went to Edmonton to visit my sister and her family for a week. I did lots of shopping, stayed up and drank tea with my sister and had lots of "girl-talk" and played with my nephews. THEN, I came back home and the STORM hit - the storm of cakes, that is.

Been craaazzy buzy with cakes, so I'll just make it quick and give you a quick peek of a few of the cakes we have completed so lately.

Red Cherry Blossoms with Black branches winding gracefully up the sides of this cake.

Baby shower cake for a couple who were avid hunters.

Suitcase cake decorated with whimsical purple flowers for a young lady travelling abroad.

A simple white fondant covered cake with orange tiger lilies.

ENTER to WIN FREE COOKIES!!!

That's right - here's your chance to enter to win 2 dozen delicious homemade oatmeal chocolate chip or oatmeal raisin cookies from Just Like Gram's. All you have to do to ENTER is email us at justlikegrams@xplornet.com and tell us (1) thing you love about the season FALL. Contest is open to residents of Fort St. John, BC only. Contest deadline is August 31, 2009.

Recent Cakes

Sorry, it's been a couple of weeks since my last post, but I have BEEN BUSY with cakes. Let's not forget it's summer vacation and the kids are STILL at home. Cakin' can be, well, a bit challenging when you have kids hanging around, cause their bored, or it's too hot to do anything.... and the list goes on. Anyway, here some of the recent cakes we have created recently here at Just Like Gram's

This cake was created for another couple who had a hunting and outdoor theme to their wedding.

This brown and fuchsia wedding cake was created for a small wedding. The bride and groom also chose to have their monogram on the cake.

This simple cake was created for a couple of ladies who were celebrating their birthday together. Cake was lemon with raspberry cheesecake filling, traditional buttercream covered in light green fondant. The cake was adorned with sugarpaste flowers and butterflies.

This past weekend I created this wedding cake. It was made to replicate the bride's aunt's wedding cake. The bride chose fresh Gerber daisies to adorn her cake.

Just Like Gram's finished off the week with this traditional wedding cake. The bride chose a design based on one of Martha Stewart's wedding cakes. She, however, changed the colors to black to match her wedding colors.

I said I have been busy lately, didn't I?