Our Belle cake, from Walt Disney’s film, Beauty and the Beast (1991) was selected as one of the best Doll Birthday Cakes!

Here is a screen shot of the Cake as seen on FoodNetwork.ca

The Bride and Groom requested a large elegant wedding cake, so we had the honor to  produced the largest wedding cake of the season.

Here is a close up view of the Wedding Cake, and all items were hand made and yes took several hours to create! With very fine details on each of the 8 tiers.

Apart being 8 tiers high, our bride and groom, also requested that we put the cake on a metal cake plate, which made this cake over 5 feet high!  We literally had a challenge setting this one up!

Voila, total height with table brought the cake to nearly 10 feet tall !!!

Creating a cake for a grandmother, always reminds me of fond memories of my very own grandma.
Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all day and then the day was complete.

un gâteau pour une grand-mère, me fait rappeler toujours de bons souvenirs de ma grand-mère.
Grand-mère m’a toujours fait sentir qu’elle ne pouvait pas attendre pour me voir ce jour.

WHAT IS A SAN PIETRO PICNIC BASKET?

A San Pietro basket is a food service with a sole purpose, to take a a load off your shoulders. If ever your in need of a food basket or if you are in need of a hand with your food preparation, you can just call San Pietro. We only need one day notice!!!

Download the PDF Picnic_Baskets_Brochure

Download the PDF Picnic_Baskets_Brochure

St Valentine’s Day can be celebrated in any number of ways – from a romantic, intimate dinner with a significant other, to a fun  heart-theme party with cake! But no matter how you celebrate, February 14 is a day to take time out to enjoy something sweet.

At SanPietro Bakery in Montreal, we will be serving up, lots of Sweets for your Sweet!

This year, we have Marshmallow hearts on top of Cupcakes.

Or you may wish for a chocolate rosettes with a heart!

Or perhaps a cake, try this rose cake!

Or try our St Valentine cookies!

Cupcakes come in many flavours, with various messages on top of them.

Some cupcakes are sold as a group that spell out lovely messages!  L-O-V-E  or J’-T-I-A-M-E !

Enjoy, them all!

But most of all, Happy St-Valentine from us all @ SanPietro !

If you have ever done a bridal show, they can seem daunting. At least in our area, we have 2 big bridal shows, one in September and one in January. There’s always more people (vendors and brides) at the January show. I went to a bridal show (as guests with my current husband) before we did our first show, year ago. Walk around and look at booths, especially the ones that are in our industry. Take notes and/or pictures as you walk around… this is required homework!

We want to thank everyone who helped us prepare for this show, we believe it was a complete success for us, and we hope to be a part of the show next year.

For those who couldn’t come see us at our booth here are a few photos of our set up.

Our back drop was a huge success! It was nice to just chat with couples. Now, what should you bring to the booth?  Being in the cake business, you have to show that your cakes look good and that they taste good, and above all look spectacular!

These cakes are styrofoam cakes, but believe me, they are equally just as complex to create as the real-thing! There’s no shortcuts or magic!

We had Sugary put some sweet treats at the corner of our booth with photos! They make amazing candy displays! Yummy!

The most important thing to bring to the show????  Is your passion… No matter how many questions were asked I loved answering every single one of them.. Meeting the soon to be’s was sooo such fun and I  love hearing there fresh ideas. What imagination they have today with such creativity…it was so nice to be part of their brainstorming ideas.. i would love to get married all over again…with the same husband of course!!!!  

Welcome to our first blog entry, which I will try to post an interesting story, experience, or cake secret that happens at San-Pietro bi-weekly! I hope everyone had a great Christmas, this year for Christmas we had a challenging fondant house cake to make.  The cake was huge, 30″ x 48″,  that’s 2 and a half feet by 4 feet wide!

The first advice I’d like to tell anyone that is going to attempt making such a large cake, is…when making such a large cake, always make sure it will pass through your door(s) and into your fridge!

And lets kick it off, this was the front of the house, this house was is an exact model of some real home somewhere in Mont. Tremblant, QC.

In the back of the home I put our two stars, and their dog, playing in the snow making snow-angels. There’s something about creating snow angels that is peaceful, and that is how I envisioned the owners of this home.

Here we have a close up of the winter evergreens, which have a representation of snow on their branches. Do they look realistic?

Hear we are finalizing it, and getting ready to store it in our walk-in fridge. You would have guessed correct, if you thought we worked close by to the fridge. We had the men (thank god for them) put this heavy cake onto a wheeled table, and there it remained, while we worked on it. It was convenient to just roll it into the walk-in, and back out.  A cake this size, needs time to freeze and take its shape, you cannot decorate it in one sitting. You need to do it in phases, otherwise the cake will thaw, and then it won’t hold its shape.

This year, we had a warm Christmas, in Montreal, global warming perhaps, sadly, as you see, it wasn’t a white Christmas as we brought the cake to the customers vehicle.  This cake was way too heavy for us girls to carry, thankfully, our boys did all the heavy lifting!

Off to be eaten! When you think of it, its really sad to see it go. The number of hours it took to put that house together, with only edible arrangements, and to see its final product is a sad, and yet a happy moment. In a few hours after it’s displayed, it will be hacked up into little pieces, and its existence will only be a figment of our imagination.