Monthly Archives: July 2009

Wendy and Harry’s Wedding Cake

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Wendy Fletcher marries Harry Monday, July 27, 2009 location: Brock House Restaurant, Vancouver (where is that?) Base and top tier – Mocha 2 middle tiers – Lemonberry

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Rosie’s Bakery Chocolate-Packed Jam-Filled Butter-Rich No-Holds-Barred Cookie Book

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This is a fun book, written by someone who obviously loves her cookies!  It is the only cookbook I know that uses texture to group the recipes, under such categories as ‘Cakey Cookies’ and ‘Crispy Chompy!’ It has a lot … Read More »

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23 Wedding Cakes for the biggest wedding of our time

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It is now 28 years since Diana Spencer married Prince Charles in the grandest wedding of the last 50 years.  An estimated 750 million people watched on television. According to various sources, there were 22 or 23 different Wedding Cakes … Read More »

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Best Wedding Entrance Ever

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Have you seen this fun video – lots of people are checking out on Youtube – the Best Wedding Entrance Ever! Doesn’t that look like fun!!!

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Elsa & Charles’ Wedding Cake

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We were delighted to find this nice picture of one of Thea’s cakes on Anna & Kasia’s delightful  Gucio Photography blog – there is nothing like a fabulous photographer to make our cakes look great!  You should check out their … Read More »

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Erica Segec marries Jamie Mullen (photos by Chelsea Gray)

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Chelsea Gray sent us these wonderful photos from Erica & Jamie’s wedding Erica Segec marries Jamie Mullen Location: Marine Drive Golf Club, Vancouver, B.C. (where is that?) Date: Saturday July 18, 2009 100 guests Passionfruit slab cake served; fake cake … Read More »

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The Wilton Way of Cake Decorating Volume 1, 2 ,3

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These three books are fantastic instructionals – I was so lucky to get my hands on them! One of the restaurants I was working for decided they were useless, and threw them in the garbage – boo-yah! A lot of … Read More »

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Erica Segec marries Jamie Mullen

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We received this lovely note from Erica on Monday: Thea, Thanks again for the cake. It was both lovely and delicious! Jamie and I absolutely loved it, and we both heard compliments from many of our guests. The cake certainly … Read More »

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Molasses Ginger Cake with Caramelized Apple

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Molasses ginger cake with warm pineapple sage caramelized apples, Late Harvest Riesling and lemon thyme sabayon, toasted pumpkin seed crème anglais, and a sugar twist. Served at Sooke Harbour house Friday September 26 2003.

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Sarah Higgins & Mark Matthews’ Wedding Cake

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On Friday we posted Sarah Higgins’ ‘John Deere’ cake from her rehearsal dinner, and promised to show you their wedding cake – Thea took these  after setting the cake up on Saturday afternoon – Sarah Higgins marries Mark Matthews Location: … Read More »

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