illustration ∙ design ∙ creativity
Spring is finally here! We celebrated my dear friend Kate’s birthday with a flower pot cake blooming with beautiful flower cookies, inspired by her love for plants, flowers, and nature! I dyed the stems green ahead of time using gel icing colour diluted in water. I wanted to make these flowers very colourful and relatively…
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I made this textbook cake in 2011 for the launch meeting of the 7th edition of Moore’s Clinically Oriented Anatomy at Imagineering. Over the next year and a half, my colleagues and I created about 1100 medical illustrations for the revitalized art program, in which we preserved the original figure content, but redrew all of…
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These were an edible farewell token for a friend moving on to new adventures. To make these Hello Kitty cookie pops, I needed a Hello Kitty cookie cutter, but didn’t have one, so I formed one using a round cutter and some pliers. For each cookie pop, I placed one thin cookie dough shape on parchment…
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This was a farewell cake that I made for a good friend who loves cute things! I created the tokidoki characters out of various colours of rolled fondant, and placed them on a white fondant covered two tiered cake, with some rainbow sprinkles for more colour. I made rainbow sprinkle cupcakes with the leftover cake…
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Kim and I made this sweet scene with winter-themed sugar cookies for a children’s holiday party. We hand decorated them with home made sugar cookie icing, and made the penguin and snowman characters stand up by connecting them to a round base cookie using royal icing (once the decorative icing was already dry). The trees…
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Kim and I made these mini christmas desserts for a client’s christmas party!
Read MoreThis was my first time making sugar cookies and decorating them with icing. I have a feeling this will not be the last… because I have already done 3 more sugar cookie projects since I discovered this versatile new medium of edible art! This was for a christmas cookie exchange, so I was looking to…
Read MoreThese 3D stacked cookie trees are fun and easy to make, and could be decorated in many different ways, but would also look great even without decoration! I used a gingerbread recipe for these ones, but they also work well with sugar cookies. I used cookie cutters from the Wilton Christmas Cookie Tree Kit, but…
Read MoreSpooky treats from Halloween! The monsters are my faves…
Read MoreMy sister and our little helper and I made these curling cupcakes for my brother in law’s birthday. The paper cupcake wrappers we used claimed that they didn’t require muffin tins to bake, and we also used a new brand of boxed cake mix… So we tried baking them in the cups set on a…
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Natalie Intven 