La Dentelle et le Ruban

Who doesn't love the romance and vintage touch of lace and silkyness and grace of satin ribbons.... 

Well, I adore both of them! There are only few cakes I've made, that weren't combined with both or just one of them.

On my shelf, two big glass jars protect my pretty treasures.... 

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Wie houdt niet van de romantiek en vintage touch van kant en het zachte en gracieuze van satijnlint....

Ik adoreer beide! Er zijn maar enkele taarten die ik niet gecombineerd heb met beide of alleen een van beide.

Twee grote weckpotten herbergen mijn lieflijke schatten....

"I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature; lace always evokes for me those incomparable designs which the branches and leaves of trees embroider across the sky, and I do not think that any invention of the human spirit could have a more graceful or precise origin."

Coco Chanel, April 29, 1939  

Have a great sun- and fathers day!

Cookie please!

Made for a colleaque who's son is turning 1 tomorrow. Last year I've made the birth cupcakes and this year she wanted a Cookie monster cake, Thijmen loves him. So I did.

Although it's not my style, I think I succeeded with this fluffy monster with a touch of Nadine ;)

But, it's a one time only design....

What do you think?

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Gemaakt voor mijn collegaatje Sonja, wiens zoontje morgen 1 wordt. Vorig jaar heb ik de geboorte-cupcakes gemaakt en dit jaar wilde ze graag een Cookie Monster-taart, aangezien dit de favoriet van Thijmen is. Zo gezegd, zo gedaan.

Ondanks het feit dat dit niet mijn gewoonlijke stijl is, denk ik dat het een geslaagde Cookie Monster-taart is met een tikje Nadine ;)

Het is een eenmalig ontwerp en het volgende ontwerp staat al in mijn schetsboek, maar nu in verschillende tinten pastelblauw met strepen....

Wat vinden jullie ervan?

Used to be one of my secrets....

I get more and more questions about how I get that tight curve at the top of my cakes.

Her's my secret...
For a while I've using this awesome smoother from Edgers. It's a bit odd at the beginning, but it does the work very well! Use it with a small amount of cornflower, so it glides better on the edges of the cake.

I've bought it in a Dutch store: Ellens Creative Cakes

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Ik krijg steeds meer vragen over mijn strakke taartranden, dus hierbij mijn geheim....

Sinds een tijdje gebruik ik een super hoeksmoother van Edgers. In het begin even raar werken, maar hij doet wat hij belooft :)

Gebruikmakend van een klein beetje maïzena, glijdt hij makkelijk over de randen en zorgt hij voor die strakke rand.

Gekocht bij Ellen's Creative Cakes

So, that's one of my magic tools....

Étincellement avec Bleu et Blanc

I do love blue and white together... and the occasional glitter works great :)

My colleaque Hendrik and his wife are gifted with a baby named David.
Hendrik asked me to make a cake for the visitors. His wife doesn't know...

He liked the idea of blue and white, simplicity and elegance with glitter letters reveiling the name of their son.
So I came up with this idea. Stripes are one of my favorites, and letting them continue on the middle cake turned out quite pretty I think :) Of course my all time favorite pearls finish the border.

The letters are a first and I LOVE them with those baby blue glitters (already bought disco baby pink...)! This definitly will not be the last baby cake with glitter letters!

The flower was my number two, the first one smashed on the ground.... But, I already decided to only use one flower on the top. Lucky me :)

He just picked up the cake and was so happy with it, that's always the best part!

Have a great week!

La Menthe Verte

What a suprise! Such a lovely package from my dear aunt..

A big notebook to collect pretty pictures as inspiration for my cakes and a small notebook for my cakedesigns.
Love how she wrapped it up :)

She has her own blog now; filled with memories, inspiration and other things.
Maybe you like to take a look at:

La Menthe Verte

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

Charming lavender

This cake was made for the mother of a friend. She loved my Victorian charm necklace cake and also wanted cupcakes to go with it.

Using lavender with ivory and gold was on my to-do-list for a long time and she also liked these colours. And I'm glad I used this colour combination :)

Have a great weekend!

Together again on a blog!

Margarita from Party Inspirations has  written a blog about Tessa and me. It's so kind of her to do that and of course we are so happy with it! Thanks Margarita!

Here you can read the post: Tess' and Nadines Cakes

 

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!

I love Macarons!

Tessa and I bought several of these delicious cute Ladurée macarons. At home I ate three and realized that I  haven't taken any pictures of them on my new cupcake stand..

So here it is :)

On the left you see the pink box where the macarons were in and a tiny round box which contained white sugared almonds. On the right the box from the recipe book of Ladurée.

Don't they look pretty....

London baby!

Last weekend Tessa and I went to London for a shopping trip. Of course we went shopping for new cake stuff and found a lot :)

On fridaymorning our trip began, from Germany to Brussels and with the Eurostar from Brussels to London. We arrived around 14.00h at our hotel.

After unpacking, we went to Peggy Porschens Cake Parlour for a late tea with the lovely Monica. On the way we came along a Starbucks (one of the many we would be seeing) where I had to buy my England and London Mug :)
 

For such a long time we wanted to visit the parlour and we finally did! This pink building in a fine neighboorhoud looked so cute, also the inside was all pink and white, she has lovely white seats outside and yummy cakes and tea! Unfortunality Peggy wasn't there.. We would have loved to see her too.

After visiting Peggy Porschen, it was time for our cake stand-search. (We will make a picture of our new cake stuff!)

On saturday a new day of shopping started. After a delay (had the wrong adress of a shop and lost about 3 hours.....) we also visited Harrods, where we had a ice tea and macarons at Ladurée.

For diner we had tapas at a local Mexican restaurant, it was sooooo good.

Close to our hotel, so our bed was very near... We were very tiered after two longs days walking through the city and our feet were killing us....

At sunday, we only had a few hours left. After a breakfast at Starbucks (hmm, sandwiches with caramel frappuchino), we visited Piccadilly Circus and a few clothing stores. 

They also had taxis in our favorite colours :D

The weekend was great, lots of shopping & laughing. We are already planning a trip for 2012 :D

 

Simplicity in white and latte

My first wedding cake I made by myself. It's a bigger version of my "Eggplant Elegance"

The couple and I decided to use a white base and open flowers in latte macchiatio. Matching his suit.

The result, I think, is very simple but oh so chique and elegant.
Now that it's finished, I just love the colour combination. Although it was difficult to get the colour of the ribbon... But the trick is; brown, red and black.

They just picked up the cake and were very happy with it :)
I'm so glad they loved the colour latte! 

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 :)

Combined on Facebook!

Tessa and I just started a Facebookpage together, where we will show our cakes and tell about our hobby and adventures!

We would love you to visit our page: Tess´& Nadine's Cakes

Have a great monday!