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Wild Baby Shower

Most baby showers I go to (or make cakes for) have baby cute themes in pastel colours. The request for this cake was slightly different since it was for a more fancy-fashion type of event.
I loved that the client’s first words when she saw the cake were: Wow, that’s classy!

Trick or Treat

Trick or Treat

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If you are one of those people who loves to bake for special occasions but doesn’t have the time to do so, Berliosca can help.
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Our Halloween sugar cookies come in 5 spooky-cute designs and are $3.95 each.

The Titanic

The Titanic

I learn a lot when researching the cakes I make. For example, I’ve learned about everything from juvenile arthritis to 3-D animation techniques because of cake requests. I have also dissected a tiger lily in the name of cake-science. This summer, thanks to an 11-year-old Titanic aficionado, I learned that contrary to our image of [...]

Happy Birthday Katie!

Happy Birthday Katie!

Katie, my fellow straw-stealer (don’t ask), recently commissioned a cake for her 21st birthday. She has been working this summer at the store where I share kitchen space, so we often spend hours chatting and laughing while I do my designing and sculpting. She keeps me from talking to inanimate gumpaste figurines, so I probably [...]

Cassie and Friends

Cassie and Friends

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The people behind Cassie and Friends promote awareness of juvenile arthritis and raise funds for research, pediatric rheumatology programs, services, equipment, and events. Their team raised money at the Scotiabank Half-Marathon and 5K run, where I got to meet 4-year-old Cassie herself. (It’s always fun to hobnob with celebrities.)
After delivering Cassie’s cake to the Stanley [...]

Hands Around the World

Hands Around the World

It’s always nice to make a cake for a celebration, but getting involved with special projects can be extra special. This extra special feeling was evident with a recent cake for the CISV Vancouver Chapter Picnic.

CISV is a wonderful organization that promotes world peace by connecting kids from different countries and cultures through camps and [...]

Bikini Cake

Bikini Cake

The gentleman who commissioned this bikini cake, as well as the birthday boy, really appreciated the intricate details and, shall we say, textures of the buxom torso. Some customers are easier to please than others…
While we’re on the subject, clicking the pink button on this site gets you karma points in promoting breast cancer awareness.

Huzzbelito

Huzzbelito (that’s my nickname for the man of my life) hasn’t seen much of me recently, as the Berliosca Cake Boutique takes its first baby steps in July. He has been pretty good about washing the dishes and feeding himself, but I hope he doesn’t forget what I look like.
Actually, if he fails to recognize [...]

Matching Walls and Cupcakes

Matching Walls and Cupcakes

Taste to Savour is an established catering company with a brand new retail store on Oak Street in Vancouver. For their opening party I made the little cake with Tracy the chef plus 2 kinds of mini-cupcakes (coconut and chocolate) to go along.

We had some fun with the buttercream topping for the cupcakes as Tracy [...]

Disco Cake

Disco Cake

Apparently the birthday lady wrote the words “no presents” right on the invitation, so my client creatively circumvented this rule by bringing Disco Cake to the theme party.
I wonder if this guy was invited…
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