Just because..

Have a wonderful day!

La Clé et la Rose

A nostalgic key and the rose... 

This mini cake I have made for the birthday of a dear dear friend. She loves getting cakes and this is the third birthday cake I've made for her. 

I can't wait to see her reaction... 

The combination of white lace and that old key next to a white, blooming rose, remembers of old times... Doesn't it?  

Have a great day!

Cake Chic

My sister turned 25 last Wednesday and celebrates tonight. This is the third time already I'm making a cake for her birthday. The first time, was also my first cake ever.. 

This year she wanted something else than a cake in sweet pastel colours. 

For my own birthday I wanted to use beige and white with black, but as I decided to do a high tea, I made a cake in pastel colours.

Manon liked the combination of beige with white and black and a detail in antique gold. From then on, I could think about a pretty design. 

I recently bought a SugarVeil lace mat and this was the perfect moment to use it on the cake. It wasn't easy and it took me several times untill it came out right, but doesn't it look gorgeous on the beige?!

The letter was also made with SugarVeil, this workes perfect. I printed the letter in a pretty font and piped it with the SugarVeil on a baking sheet. 

What do you think of it? Do you prefer pastel or more neutral colours combined?

I though you might like to see the other two cakes I've made for my sister. 
The first one didn't look like the cakes I make now.. I still had to find my own thing, my own style. These two were made in in May 2010.

The second cake I've made for her was, as many, inspired by Marie Antoinette.. This one was made last year.   
                                            

Have a great weekend!

Weekend...

I just love these pastel coloured pink roses combined with white ones...

Lazy Sundays...

...but with a beautiful vase with roses.

"I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds 'round my neck."

Emma Goldman

 

2011

Again, Christmas is almost over and it's only 6 untill 2012....
It's amazing how short a year seems to be....

I've made 32 cakes this year and I loved making them. 

Yesterday, I've made my last cake of the year and I wanted to show you my favorites cakes of 2011.


Thank you for all the visits and comments and I wish you a wonderful last week of 2011!

Update..

Hello my dear followers!

It's has been a while since my last post. I hope you guys didn't forget me...
For now I hope you are happy with this short update.

As you know I moved out and my new home is almost ready. Soon I will post some pictures!
It's becoming a cosy, white shabby chic home and I love it :)

The past few weeks I also made a small cake and cupcakes for two weddings, but I haven't found the time posting them. I will show you the pictures here and I will make the topic later.

How about this...

Jorinde from "The perfect wedding - Je must read trouwblog" made a topic about Tessa and me. She wrote such nice things about our cakes and cupcakes and I'm sooo happy with the result!
I immediately wanted to share it with my readers.

Here you can read (it's in Dutch..) her topic:

http://www.theperfectwedding.nl/blog/2011/11/inspirerende-bruidstaarten-tess-en-nadines-cakes/

Étincellement avec Rose et Blanc

Baby girl Norah is being baptized this sunday. Mer mother asked me to make the cake.
For the babyshower I've made cupcakes and I was looking forward to make a baby girl's cake.

A while ago I made a cake for baby boy David (Étincellement avec Bleu et Blanc) and I really loved the design and the combination of blue, white and glitters. So, the oppurtunity to make a cake for a baby girl was a reason to redesign the David cake :)

Stripes are one of my favorite decorations and I keep falling in love with the glitter on the letters. Instead of a open flower I wanted to make a big open rose. 

I do think I surpassed myself with this rose. Making the petals on stread I still find difficult.... But using almost dry petals layer for layer, makes it quite a pretty rose.

I'm very pleased with this cake! The parents just picked up the cake and my friend couldn't stop looking at the cake and she was very happy with it. So I'm happy too :)

Happy Baptism Norah!


Have a great weekend!

Baby Norah wordt morgen gedoopt en haar moeder vroeg mij een taart te maken.
Voor de babyshower heb ik cupcakes gemaakt en ik kon niet wachten deze taart te maken!

Een tijdje geleden heb ik een taart voor baby David gemaakt (Étincellement avec Bleu et Blanc) en ik vond het ontwerp en de combinatie van blauw, wit en glitters ontzettend leuk.
Dus, toen de kans zich voordeed een taart voor een meisje te maken maakte ik van de gelegenheid gebruik het ontwerp aan te passen.

Strepen zijn een van mijn favoriete decoraties en ik blijft verliefd op de letters met glitters.
In plaats van een open bloem wilde ik deze keer een roos maken. 
Volgens mij heb ik mijzelf wel overtroffen wat betreft de roos. Het op draad maken van de blaadjes blijf ik echter moeilijk vinden. Maar het compleet laten drogen van de blaadjes om ze vervolgens op de plakken werkt ook goed.   

Ik vind de taart ontzettend schattig geworden... De ouders zijn hem net komen ophalen en mijn vriendin kon niet stoppen met kijken en was er erg blij mee. Dus ik ook :)

Gefeliciteerd met jouw Doopsel Norah!


Fijn weekend allemaal!

Seulement Blanc

My first real cake since my summer break. As you may know, I´ve been busy buying furniture and decorations for my new home. In only two weeks the key of the house is finally mine. Can´t wait to move all my old and new stuff into my new shabby chic home...

Matching the shabby chic style perfectly is this mini birthday cake for my friend Christiane.

Eventhough it´s not a real colour, I adore white, just love it's purity and calmness...

A white on white cake was on my to do list for a long time, with the combination of my new doily cutter I found a perfect match.

Happy Birthday Christiane!

Mijn eerst echte taart sinds weken.. Zoals je misschien weet heb ik mijn zomervakantie gevuld met het zoeken naar en kopen van meubels en decoratie voor mijn nieuwe huisje.
Over minder dan twee weken is de sleutel van het huis eindelijk van mij! Kan niet wachten om mijn oude en nieuwe spullen te verhuizen naar mijn nieuwe shabby chic style huisje.

Perfect passend bij shabby chic is dit mini-verjaardagstaartje voor mijn vriendin Christiane. Ik adoreer de kleur wit! Ook al kan wit niet als kleur bestempeld worden.. Het pure en kalme ervan vind ik prachtig...

Een wit-op-wit-taart stond al een tijdje op mijn to-do-lijstje, dit gecombineerd met mijn nieuwe doily uitsteker vond ik een perfecte match.

Nogmaals van harte gefeliciteerd lieve Christiane!

Vintage romance

In May I visited London with my friend Tessa. We both fell in love with this 30's style, georgous mint-green china from Royal Albert. I just had to wait a little while before I could make a cake to go with this cup, saucer and dessertplate.

The rose is a second try with petals on thread. The inside petals of the rose are glued on, the other two layers are on threa. I tried to use the same colours as the china, I just love these soft tones combined with gold.

It's a gift for my friend, she completed her study and is celebrating tonight. 

Congratulations Carmen!

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Afgelopen mei hebben mijn vriendinnetje Tessa en ik London bezocht. We waren beide meteen verliefd op dit jaren '30, mint-groene servies van Royal Albert.
Moest alleen een tijdje wachten voordat ik een bijpassend taartje kon maken.

De roos is een tweede poging met blaadjes op draad. The binnenste blaadjes zijn vastgelijmd en de buitenste twee lagen op draad. Ik heb geprobeerd de kleuren van het servies na te bootsen, vind de zachte kleuren in combinatie met het goud zo mooi...

Het is een cadeautje voor een vriendin, die vanavond viert dat ze haar diploma behaald heeft.

Gefeliciteerd lieve Carmen!

Alan Dunn

Finally it was time for a Alan Dunn workshop with Tessa at Ellens Creative Cakes.
We were going to make a old fashioned rose, and we both do love roses...

The original workshop was on friday, but Tessa and I could do it on Saturday :) It was so great that he took the time for us! He also had another workshop that day.

We have learned so much! And oh my, we had no idea that one small rose could take so much time! It took us about 7 hours! But, the results are lovely.

We've made the roses of cold porselain instead of sugarpaste because it will be less fragile..

It was so much fun, Alan is a realy nice guy! 

Hope you like the rose!

Me with Alan and Tessa

Romance à la Marie Antoinette

My new favorite :D

Made for my sisters birthday who turned 24 today. It's also my anniversary cake, exactly one year ago I've made my first two cakes for my sister :) Times flies....

This year she wanted the colour peach in her cake and I just love the combination peach, ivory and gold. I did a lot of new stuff on this cake. The rose has been made with a super duper petal mold and is my new favorite, the flower cameo was bought last week and I just needed to use it :) and I have done some stripes on cakes befor, but never these thin ones.

The bottom cake is made of Victoria sponge, probably will be used a lot after this....
The other cakes are made of biscuit, all filled with a vanilla buttercream (with real vanilla seeds for the first time) and cherry & strawberry marmelade.

Hope you like it too :)

Happy Birthday sis!

Inspired by Peggy

A while ago I made this mini cake for my aunt. I was inspired by the magnificant Peggy Porschen.. 

It was hard to get the right colours! I constanly took my fondant to the computerscreen to see if the colours matched...

My aunt was very happy with it and send me a few lovely pictures she took at home. Here it one of them.

The roses I would do different, but I still like the colour combination :)

Pink blossoms and roses

Last year I've made the "Sophie cake" which I loved so much... A colleaque wanted to order a cake for her daughters sweet 16. She searched for ideas and told me this was the prettiest cake she could find :) Instead of a single cake, she wanted a tree layered cake and cupcakes.
The mother had two preferences regarding the decoration; her daughters name and age on the cake and more pink shades. I was realy looking forward making this cake, as I had so much fun making the original.

The birthday girl just called and told me that she was so happy with it. Now I'm happy too :)


Happy Easter!

In Dutch:

Vorig jaar heb ik de "Sophie taart" gemaakt, waar ik zelf helemaal weg van was.
Een collegaatje wilde graag een taart voor haar dochter die 16 zou worden. Ze had al op internet gezocht naar ideeën, maar kon geen mooiere vinden dan deze vertelde ze :).

In plaats van een enkele taart, wilde ze eentje met drie lagen en een aantal cupcakes. Verder wilde ze graag veel roze en de naam en leeftijd van haar dochter op de taart. Ik zag er enorm naar uit, aangezien ik de originele zo leuk vond om te maken.

Gelukkig was de jarige job ontzettend blij met haar taart en dan maakt mij ook blij :)

Fijne Pasen!

The original cake-design.

Ivory, peach and gold

Every two months a small group of girlfriends and I meet and go to see a movie or have diner. Since last year on every birthday I've made a mini cake to go with our present. This time is was for Vivian.

The inspiration was a small necklace that has a tiny ivory cup with a goold border and roses in dark peach with grey-green leafs. I really wanted to make a cake using these colours. The base is white fondant with a small amount of ivory.

I just love the result! Hoping she does too.. We'll see tonight..

In Dutch:

Iedere twee maanden treffen een paar collega's/vriendinnen en ik ons om naar de film te gaan of om te gaan uit eten. Sinds vorig jaar maak ik voor ieder verjaardagsetentje een mini-taartje voor bij het cadeau. Deze keer is het Vivian's beurt.

De inspiratie was een ketting met een klein kop en schoteltje in ivoor met een gouden randje en perzikkleurige rozen met mosgroene blaadjes. Wilde al een tijdje ontzettend graag een taartje maken in deze kleuren. Bij dezen :)
De basis is witte fondant met een heel klein beetje ivoor.

Ben zelf heel erg blij met het resultaat en Vivian hopelijk ook. We zullen zien vanavond..

My first dessert table

On the internet I always see so much pretty dessert tables and I realy wanted one at my birthdayparty. I was lucky enough to celebrate it at my little sisters house and she has a lovely wall and even greater dinertable that I could use. The lace tableclouth and decorations on the table are mine :)

The table isn't full of food, but a first I think it makes a little pretty dessert table.