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2010-01-28T12:17:00.000-08:00

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Lots and Lots of Holiday Treats!!!

2009-12-21T14:09:00.000-08:00

We had a great Christmas and New Years! The kids were home for a couple of weeks and I was busy baking away, trying out some new cookie cutters and using the edible frosting sheets. There were so many pictures.....so here are a few of my favorites!

PIES, PIES, PIES

2009-11-23T07:47:00.000-08:00

I know its been so long since I've posted.....if you are on facebook, please take the time to check us out on there and become a fan, it's the quickest and easiest way to see most of our updates and pictures!

I am still taking last minute pie orders for Thanksgiving!!! All homemade, organic pies!

Check out our Holiday Menu at www.sweettoothconfections.net and email me at rachael@sweettoothconfections.net.

So Many Cakes

2009-10-19T23:15:00.000-07:00

I am so far behind in updating our blog, but we have been working on the website and trying to get it up and running. For someone who is not computer savvy, it's taking me awhile! Fortunately we have friends that know what they are doing!

So here are some cakes we have done the last few weeks.

This first one was so special and one of the best deliveries I've had! I have been wanting to take our business into the community and somehow use our passion and love for cakes/desserts to give back. An opportunity of sorts fell into my lap a few weeks ago, where we provided a pretty cool cake for a special little boy and his family. We also brought cupcakes and sugar cookies for the kids at the After School center he belongs to. He was so excited to have his own cake and even more excited that it was ALL Chocolate cake with Chocolate Fudge Buttercream!

Here's the cake:

Another really fun cake we had was a Carnival Cruise Cake. This was a cake for a gal turning 50 and her family was surprising her with a Cruise next month. It was fun to have the cake be a part of the big reveal and from what the clients said, she was so excited about the cruise and the cake!!

The cake was Chocolate with Kahlua Espresso Cream Cheese

Finally, this one is of a wedding cake we did a couple of weeks ago. The bride sent me a picture of a cake she had found, so we change some things up a bit.

The bottom tier: Buttermilk Cake with Buttercream
Middle Tier: Chocolate Cake with Bittersweet Ganache, Oreos, White Chocolate Mousse filling
Top Tier: Buttermilk Cake with Almond Buttercream and Salted Caramel

Website

2009-10-17T21:57:00.001-07:00

Check out our new website.....we are slowly working on it, but it's up and please check it out!!

www.sweettoothconfections.net

We are so excited and we are working hard at moving our business forward and can't wait to see what the future holds

Ruffles, Ruffles, Ruffles

2009-10-04T20:51:00.000-07:00

I wanted to try out a new technique and got the perfect opportunity on this birthday cake. They wanted something fuchsia and girly. So I colored some fondant a beautiful fuchsia color and created these layered ruffles out of gumpaste and kept the cake clean and simple. I'm really happy with the way the ruffles came out and will definitely use them in future cakes.

Hope you like it!

Robot Cake

2009-10-04T20:43:00.000-07:00

Unfortunately for this cake we didn't get too many good pictures...but this little guy turned out so cute, that I wanted to share at least this one picture.

He is completely edible and is made up of Buttermilk cake with White Chocolate Mousse filling and fresh strawberries.

Topsy Turvy Cake

2009-10-04T20:34:00.000-07:00

This past weekend we created a Topsy Turvy cake. They are a lot of work to create, but so worth it in the end and look so much fun! This one was created for a little girl who turned 3 and was having a Mad Hatter Tea Party. We created the cake to be bright, fun, and whimsical. I was really happy with the way the design and colors all came out.

The cake was 3 tiers, each tier a different flavor.

1st tier: Buttermilk cake with Buttercream
2nd tier: Red Velvet with Cream Cheese frosting
3rd tier: Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese frosting

Some Extra Desserts

2009-10-04T20:24:00.000-07:00

As much as I enjoy creating fun and special cakes, I still get so much enjoyment out of baking simple, delicious, comforting sweets. Here are some pictures of some simple treats I made this last week.

Fudge Brownies...All you need is a nice tall glass of milk or a hot cup of coffee!

Rustic Cake for a friend.....Buttermilk cake with Lemon Curd filling and frosted with Coconut Cream Cheese frosting.

Also, I have been trying out some new recipes for our Mini Dessert Menu...basically taking some of my favorite desserts and seeing how they work out when creating them bite-size. One of my favorite pies is a Rich Chocolate Mousse pie with Chocolate Crumble crust and topped with Kahlua Espresso Whipped Cream.

R2D2 Cake

2009-10-04T20:18:00.000-07:00

One of our first cakes we made was for our son's birthday and he requested an R2D2 cake. We had a great time creating it and we had the honor of creating one again for a birthday boy who LOVES Star Wars. This one turned out great and we were able to get so much more detail on it and it looked amazing. It was a lot of fun delivering this cake and seeing his eyes light up!

The cake was Buttermilk with Pastry Cream and fresh strawberries. The arms were made up of rice krispy treats.

Von Dutch Tattoo and 1949 Mercury Cake

2009-10-04T20:08:00.001-07:00

This cake was created for a client whos brother has a Von Dutch style tattoo and loves old cars. We incorporated both of these things into his birthday cake. The tattoo and car were each hand painted onto gumpaste and they turned out amazing!

The cake was Chocolate with Peanut Butter Mousse filling.

Wedding Cupcakes, Mini Desserts, Groom's Cake

2009-09-28T21:04:00.000-07:00

We had the honor of providing desserts for an amazing couple this past weekend. I absolutely adore them and the bride was incredible to work with!

The wedding was held at Seascape in Aptos, so the delivery was pretty intense, but everything made it there in one piece, except our cupcake stand topper...but we had an extra cake stand, so it all worked out ok!

We created an assortment of cupcakes, a small topper cake, a grooms cake, and several dozen mini desserts. I loved the finished look, it all came together beautifully.

The cupcakes were an assortment of:

Cookies-n-Cream
Buttermilk with Raspberry Buttercream
Chocolate with Raspberry Buttercream
Buttermilk with Pastry Cream filling and Coconut Cream Cheese frosting
Chocolate with Kahlua Cream Cheese frosting

The Mini Desserts were:

Lemon Drops with Lemon Whipped Cream
Red Velvet Cake Pops

The Topper cake had handmade sugar roses on the top and side and we created a Chicago Cubs hat, since the groom is a huge fan. They had a game that night and won...so good vibes for the married couple!

Enjoy:

Wizard of Oz cake

2009-09-28T20:39:00.000-07:00

It was a very crazy and busy week...but I feel incredibly blessed and excited to see our business and hard work paying off.

There are going to be a ton of pictures....but so worth looking at!

The first cake from this weekend was a Wizard of Oz cake, created for a birthday girl who loves the movie.

This cake has to be the most time consuming and hardest cake we have made! I absolutely love it and am so happy with the way it turned out.

All the characters are hand-made by my partner, my incredibly talented husband. We wanted to keep it as authentic as we could and really bring the essence of the movie into the cake.

The shoes were made with gumpaste and each sequin was cut out and glued on. Tedious work, but in the end it totally payed off!

I hope you enjoy looking at this cake as we had creating it. Sorry for some poor shots....I think our camera is nearing its end.

Curious George Cake

2009-09-13T21:28:00.000-07:00

Curious George was a popular little guy this month! We had another George cake to create for a little guy who was turning 2.

This was a much simpler and smaller cake then the first one we did. I love the simplicity of it and of course Kyle did an amazing job hand painting and drawing George.

The cake was Vanilla with Vanilla Buttercream and fresh strawberries

Pool Cake

2009-09-13T21:18:00.000-07:00

We created another pool cake, unfortunately we forgot to get pictures of the pool, but we also created a little snack shack, which turned out so cute!

The cake was Vanilla cake with White Chocolate Mousse filling and fresh strawberries.

Minnie Mouse cake

2009-09-13T21:06:00.000-07:00

This cake was created for a little girl who was turning 3. She specifically asked for a Minnie cake with a purple bow. Minnie turned out super cute!

She was Chocolate cake with White Chocolate Mousse filling and fresh strawberries. Her nose was made out of rice krispy and her ears were cardboard covered in fondant.

Apple Caramel Toffee Bites

2009-09-13T21:01:00.000-07:00

Our new FAVORITE mini dessert! I love coming up with new mini desserts and taking some of my favorite sweets and figuring out a way to make them bite size.

After testing out a couple of different caramel recipes, I finally found one that was thick enough to coat and not too sweet.

This mini dessert is the perfect ratio of apple to caramel and is just delicious. Takes you back to the days of going to the boardwalk and getting a big juicy caramel apple. To top if off, you end the bite with some crunch from the toffee bits around the bottom of the apple. This has become a fan favorite!

The picture doesn't do it justice....

Sugar Roses ~ A Gardner's Cake

2009-09-13T20:28:00.000-07:00

A couple of weeks ago we created a cake for a client who's mom was turning 90! They wanted to create a cake that would best represent her love of gardening and in the words of the client "My mom's elegance."

I hope we acheived this in the cake, we had a lot of fun creating it and seeing all the elements come together.

The cake was 3 tiered (the 3rd tier is the top of the sun hat).

It was a Vanilla Lemon cake with Lemon Cream filling.

We created hand-made sugar roses, a gumpaste flower basket, sun hat, and sugar gloves. I think it came out beautifully, especially the basket!

Enjoy~

Giants Baseball Hat Cake ~ Batter Up

2009-09-13T20:17:00.001-07:00

We finally got commissioned to create a baseball hat cake! While Kyle would have loved it to be a Yankees hat, this was for my step-dad who is a big Giants fan, so always make the customer happy!

The entire cake is edible, it's a Chocolate cake with White Chocolate Mousse and fresh strawberries...delicious.

The birthday boys magic number!

Curious George cake and Cupcakes

2009-08-30T20:23:00.000-07:00

A few weeks back we created a first birthday cake for a client who's little girl LOVES Curious George.

This cake was so much fun to create and see it all come together!

Everything on this cake is edible! Kyle hand painted all the furniture pieces on the bottom tier, hand painted the palm trees on the top tier, and hand-drew and painted Curious George and the balloons!! It came out just as we wanted, colorful, fun, and definately screamed George!

We took one of the scenes from the Curious George book where he paints the covered furniture in a room as animals and creates a whole jungle look.

We also created cupcakes for the guest to take home as favors and hand made each of the toppers that went with the cupcakes.

The cake was all Chocolate with our Chocolate Ganache, Oreos, and White Chocolate Mousse filling. We also created a small smash cake for the birthday girl!

The cupcakes were Chocolate with Buttercream and Red Velvet with Cream Cheese frosting.

Enjoy! I have to THANK Lindsey from BellaLu Photography again, she swung by and took some great pictures as we were in the middle of finishing the cake. Unforunately we were finishing this cake to the last minute, so she was unable to get some pictures of it completely finished, but our clients were kind enough to send us some pictures from the party.

We created some Yellow Hats, Bananas, and Curious George faces as toppers for the cupcake favors

Bunco! Dice Cake

2009-08-30T20:13:00.000-07:00

A great friend of ours celebrated her birthday by throwing a BUNCO party. For those of you who don't know what BUNCO is...basically it's a dice game that you play with at least 12 people and when you roll a 3 of a kind and depending on what number you are on from 1-6, you yell BUNCO! It's a ton of fun and we had a great time.

So we thought what was more appropriate for her then to make 3 little dice cakes and her favorite colors are black and pink.

Each cake was a different flavor:

Chocolate with Pastry Cream and fresh bananas

Buttermilk Cake with Chocolate Ganache and Salted Caramel

Chocolate Cake with Espresso Kahlua Cream Cheese frosting

Mini Desserts

2009-08-30T19:47:00.001-07:00

Creating a Mini Dessert bar is one of my favorite menus to come up with. I love mini desserts, one small bite of goodness and then you move on to the next little bite. You can create such a fun look, colors, textures, smells, taste, and satisfy all palates. Here are some pictures of a couple of mini desserts spreads that we created the last couple of weeks for our church.

The menu(s) had the following:

Mini Banana cupcakes with Coconut Cream Cheese frosting

Rice Krispy treats with M&Ms and Chocolate dipped

Buttermilk, Chocolate, and Red Velvet Cake Pops

Toffee Crunch Brownie Bites

Mini Lemon Bars

Sugar Cookies

Mini Key Lime Pies with Homemade Graham Cracker Crust

Oatmeal Toffee Crunch Cookies

Chocolate Chip Cookies

Mini Oreo Cupcakes

Caramel-Toffee Apple Bites

Here are some pictures

Wedding Celebration ~ Cupcakes

2009-08-18T19:13:00.000-07:00

~Cupcakes Galore~

A california bride who recently got married in Cape Town, came home for a wedding celebration with all her California family and friends. Since they had cupcakes at their wedding, she wanted to re-create that for the California reception.

The cupcake flavors were:

Red Velvet (the bride and grooms favorite) with White Chocolate Cream Cheese frosting

Chocolate with Coconut Cream Cheese frosting

Buttermilk cake with Chocolate Ganache frosting

We made some sugar flowers for the Buttermilk cupcakes and some sugar "W" to represent the couples new last name!

I also tried out a new recipe for this week.....delicious!

Buttermilk cupcake with Almond Buttercream, Salted Caramel and topped with toasted Almonds

Bird of Paradise Cake with Green Tea....yum!

2009-08-13T10:29:00.000-07:00

We had the honor of creating a fun colorful cake for a beautiful birthday girl! She loves the flower Bird of Paradise and Green Tea. So I got to try out a new recipe and was really happy with the way it turned out.

The cake was a vanilla cake with a Jasmine Green Tea wash and filled with Green Tea Cream Cheese frosting. It was sweet, light, and had a wonderful nutty Green Tea flavor with a hint of the Jasmine. I would recommend this flavor to anyone who is a Green Tea fan!

The cake itself turned out gorgeous, with fun bright colors and amazing depth!

Enjoy.....

The frosting....

Filled and ready for some carving, we wanted to make it a tall column shape, something a little different.

The finished cake...

Red Velvet and Mini Lemon Drops

2009-08-13T10:19:00.000-07:00

It's so fun taking surprise sweets to people! I love the reactions and delight in their voices when they see a variety of desserts sitting and waiting to be devoured. I took some cupcakes and Mini Lemon Drops to more of the nurses and doctors at Kaiser last week and they were enjoyed by all!

Red Velvet Cupcakes with Coconut Cream Cheese frosting and a small fondant rose

Mini Lemon Drops with Lemon Whipped Cream.

I also did some Chocolate Cupcakes with Kahlua Espresso Cream Cheese frosting, but forgot to take pictures.

Disney Cake and Sandbox Cake

2009-08-06T17:14:00.000-07:00

We had several fun cakes this weekend and one of our more challenging one was the Disney cake that we created for a little girl turning 2.

Each character was hand drawn and painted onto gumpaste and I thought they came out amazing! The cake was girly, fun, and simple since we wanted each of the characters to be the main focus on the cake.

The bottom tier was Chocolate cake filled with White/Dark Chocolate Ganache and oreos. The middle tier was Buttermilk cake with Raspberry Meringue Filling and the top tier was Chocolate cake filled with Kahlua Espresso Cream Cheese frosting.

Sorry for the poor pictures, we were down to the wire to get this cake delivered...so it was pretty rushed.

The other cake was a blast to create and it came out great! This client wanted something fun and playful for her friend who was celebrating her birthday, so she asked for a sandbox cake.

The pail and shovel are made of gumpaste and I decorated the pail with some fun jewels to brighten it up. The sandcastle was created out of rice krispy and sprinkled with our edible sand (brown sugar, graham cracker crumbs, and raw sugar). The wood slats for the sandbox were created out of fondant and then hand painted to give a wood effect.

The cake was homemade Funfetti, Vanilla cake with sprinkles and filled with Chocolate Mousse Buttercream.

Dino-Mite Cake

2009-08-06T17:05:00.000-07:00

We had several birthdays this past weekend...one of which was a Dinosaur theme, so of course we had to create a Dinosaur.

Everything is cake, except his head, which was made out of rice krispy treats. He was covered in fondant and then airbrushed.

White Chocolate Vanilla Cake with White/Dark Chocolate Ganache filling and fresh strawberries.

I also did some Sugar cookies for the guest to take as favors.

Butterflies, Flowers, Mini Desserts

2009-07-29T22:49:00.000-07:00

This past weekend we celebrated a very special little girl's 3rd birthday and I was so excited to do the desserts. Her mom, my good friend Lindsey from BellaLu Photography gave me full reign.

We wanted to do a small cake for the birthday girl, so we went with Chocolate cake with the ever so popular Chocolate Ganache and Oreo filling.
We decorated with beautiful bright green fondant and added gumpaste butterflies and flowers. I loved the way the cake looked and she adored it!

For the mini desserts I wanted a nice array of flavors, textures, and colors. The menu included:

Mini Chocolate cupcakes with a Bittersweet Chocolate Ganache and Kahlua frosting
Mini Cheesecakes with Toasted Hazelnut Crust and topped with fresh fruit
Vanilla Bean Sugar Cookies
Chocolate Cups with Peanut Butter Mousse (the crowd favorite!)

Enjoy.....

Thank you BellaLu Photography for the awesome pictures!

Sweet Sixteen

2009-07-28T17:48:00.000-07:00

I had the privilege of creating a special Sweet Sixteen Birthday cake for an awesome client! The requests for the cake was girly, bright colors, and to somehow incorporate some converse shoes and a basketball...this paticular 16 year is an amazing basketball player, but also loves to be the princess!

The cake was my version on Funfetti (since I don't use box mixes and that is her favorite cake), so I made a Vanilla cake and added some bright pink sprinkles to the batter. It was filled with Swiss Meringue Buttercream and fresh strawberries....I heard she loved it!

Cupcakes

2009-07-28T17:40:00.000-07:00

A very sweet couple ordered some cupcakes to celebrate their anniversary a couple of weekends ago. They are huge lemon fans, so they wanted the Buttermilk Cupcakes filled with Lemon curd and topped with Coconut Cream Cheese frosting. As a little touch I made some sugar Calla Lillies since that is what she had used in her bouquet.

They also ordered some mini lemon drops, but I didn't take any pictures...scroll down to see those.

I also made some of the most delicious and messy cupcakes for a friend's birthday. Vanilla Cookies and Cream Cupcakes.

Vanilla cupcakes with crushed oreos and topped with a sweet Buttercream frosting and heavily decorated with more crushed oreos....yum!

Cakes, Cakes, Babies, Birthdays...and more!

2009-07-19T23:13:00.000-07:00

This was a busy weekend...which is a huge blessing!

This cake was for a baby shower and my client specifically asked for the converse shoes that we had done on a previous cake. We added a couple of cake cars decorated in fondant too.

I had some trouble with the heat and cracking fondant, but overall the cake turned out super cute, you can't ever predict the weather and how your cake is going to react, but the cake was a lot of fun to make!

The bottom tier was Chocolate cake with Kahlua cream cheese frosting and the top tier was a Buttermilk cake with White Chocolate cream cheese frosting and fresh strawberries.

This next cake was for a client who's only request was make it pink and make it girly! Well, nothing says girly to me more then bright pink, crystals, and some rhinestones....

More from this past weekend coming up soon....

Red Velvets

2009-07-19T22:22:00.000-07:00

I did a small order for a Red Velvet cake with White Chocolate Cream Cheese frosting. The only request for the order was to have purple in the decorations, so I iced the cake with Swiss Meringue Buttercream and accented it with purple dots and found this beautiful huge purple flower!

I love fresh flowers on cakes....simple and elegant!

Since this cake was so small, I had left over cake, so I decided to try out a new design. Melody from Sweet and Saucy posted this gorgeous simple cake and later did a tutorial on how she did it. I loved the way it turned out, some rough spots, but for the first time trying it out, I was pretty happy with it! I think it would be easier to do on a slightly larger cake.

'72 Chevy Nova

2009-07-18T12:31:00.000-07:00

A friend of ours celebrated his 30th birthday last weekend, so as his gift we recreated his "baby" a 1972 Chevy Nova in cake! His wife then surprised him by towing the car from his childhood home in Colorado to California for his big day! So much fun to surprise him with the cake, and even better with the real deal!

The cake was Chocolate with Raspberry Meringue and Chocolate ganache filling.

Celebrating a new Baby with a Classic Book

2009-07-11T22:11:00.000-07:00

This weekend I also had an awesome opportunity to do a baby shower for an adorable Mom-to-be! They gave me creative liberty, so when I was told that each guest was bringing a book for the baby, I knew I had to make a couple of cake books! The order also included some cupcakes for the guest to enjoy.

Both books are Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Mousse Buttercream. The books are covered with fondant and I created the front cover by cutting each piece out of fondant and decorating it with an edible pen.

The cupcakes are a Vanilla Buttermilk cake with Coconut Cream cheese frosting and Chocolate with Chocolate Meringue Buttercream

Duo Birthday...Mini Lemon Pies and Espresso Cake

2009-07-11T21:51:00.000-07:00

This weekend we celebrated two birthdays for some very dear friends!
One likes cake...one likes lemon desserts...so to celebrate them both, they each received their own dessert!

Chocolate Espresso Cake with Espresso Mascarpone cheese frosting

Mini Lemon Pies with Shortbread crust and topped with Lemon Whipped Cream

A little treat for some folks at Apple

2009-07-01T21:09:00.001-07:00

I recently did a cupcake order for a group at Apple. It was fun to mix up the flavors and toppings....I heard that they were enjoyed by everyone!

The cupcakes were a variety of 4 different flavors.

Red Velvet with White Chocolate Cream Cheese frosting
Buttermilk with Chocolate Mousse Buttercream
Chocolate with Kahlua Cream Cheese frosting
Buttermilk with Raspberry Meringue frosting

Welcome Baby

2009-06-30T12:56:00.000-07:00

This last cake was made for a Baby Shower to welcome a new baby boy, Paxton. I decided to try using Chocolate fondant, before I knew that it would be reaching over 100 degress outside, but even with a few shakey moments, I love the way the cake turned out! Fortunately the shower was indoors and the cake was right in front of the a/c. This was my first time decorating/delivering a cake in such hot weather and there are some things I would do differently, but overall the cake turned out adorable and I hope the mom-to-be was happy!

The cake was all Chocolate cake. The bottom tier was filled with White Chocolate Mousse and fresh strawberries and the top tier was filled with a bittersweet Chocolate Ganche and Kahlua Cream Cheese frosting. Everything was covered with a thin layer of buttercream and covered in Chocolate Fondant....needless to say the kitchen smelled delicious!

The little Converse and bow were made from gumpaste. The shoes turned out perfect, my new favorite decorations for baby shower cakes!

Pre-K Graduation

2009-06-30T12:53:00.000-07:00

The second cake was for my son's Preschool Graduation from Pre-K. They were having a Beach theme party, so I made a fun beach cake and some cupcakes to go along with it.

The cake was a Chocolate/White Marble cake with Chocolate Ganache and Oreo filling. The cake was covered in Buttercream and all the pieces were made of fondant. The cupcakes were Chocolate with Buttercream frosting.

Everything was gone within minutes....so that was a good sign!

Happy Graduation

2009-06-29T10:06:00.001-07:00

This past weekend was not only HOT, but I had a few really fun cakes to do!

This first cake was for two beautiful sister that both graduated from college, one with her B.A. and the other with her R.N. They did a combo graduation party and asked me to make a simple, graduation cake to use as the centerpiece of the dessert table. I loved the colors they chose to use and it came out great! I only wish I had remembered to take a picture of the table...it was beautifully decorated.

The cake was Carrot cake with White Chocolate Cream Cheese frosting. Everything was created out of cake and fondant, except the top piece of the hat was styrofoam covered in fondant. The diplomas were created with fondant.

Enjoy!

Cupcakes...mmmm....love Cupcakes

2009-06-24T10:02:00.000-07:00

Here are a couple of picures of the cupcakes I made for our Father's Day BBQ.

The cupcake is a Buttermilk cake. The cupcakes topped with toasted coconut are filled with a lemon curd filling and topped with coconut cream cheese frosting. The cupcakes topped with a fresh strawberry are filled with pastry cream and topped with cream cheese frosting.

Both were delicious and light for a beautiful sunny outdoor BBQ!

Woody Car Cake and Bridal Shower

2009-06-21T09:25:00.000-07:00

First...Happy Father's Day!

I have a couple of new cakes to share that I LOVE!!!

The first one was made for a Bridal shower. They wanted something simple and clean. The brides colors are navy and burnt orange, so I decided to go with white fondant, navy ribbon, and I created a flower which I then painted a burnt orange color. I love the way this cake turned out, it was beautiful!

The cake was red velvet with a white chocolate cream cheese frosting!

This next cake is hands down my favorite! A friend wanted to surprise her husband for Father's Day with a woody car cake.....so here it is! It was so much fun to make and came out incredible!

The cake was Chocolate cake with a peanut butter filling. We covered it in fondant, hand painted the car, and used fondant for the detailing.

Here's some photos of the process....

And now the final product.....

Polka Dots, Bows, Graduation!

2009-06-15T19:31:00.000-07:00

Tis' the season for graduations! This client wanted something simple, feminine and didn't want it to scream "graduation!" This was a lot of fun to make, I'm really happy with how my first bow turned out!

The cake was a White cake with a Raspberry buttercream filling and covered in fondant and decorated with gumpaste and fondant.

All my pictures were once again provided by Lindsey at BellaLu Photography

Honoring the Nurses

2009-06-12T17:34:00.000-07:00

Today I made a special delivery to some very special people! I made a cake and about 40 cupcakes for some of the nurses and doctors at Kaiser San Jose.

The cupcakes are Red Velvet with Cream cheese frosting and some had little nurses hats that I made out of fondant.

The other flavor was German Chocolate with Kahlua cream cheese frosting...yum! I topped those with some semi-sweet chocolate shavings.

The cake was two different flavors. The bottom tier was Chocolate cake with Valhrona bittersweet chocolate ganache, oreos, and white chocolate mousse filling. The top tier was a White Chocolate cake with pastry cream and fresh strawberries. All were iced in buttercream and covered in fondant, with fondant decorations. I hope they all enjoyed their special treats!

Cakes, Cupcakes, Mardi Gras

2009-06-07T22:53:00.000-07:00

My son had his final T-Ball game this past Saturday, so after the game we headed out for a pizza celebration with his team. I brought along some Buttermilk Chocolate Chip cupcakes with chocolate ganache filling and fondant baseballs.

Please excuse the picutres are kind of out of focus, our camera was running out of batteries!

I also did an order for some Carrot Cake cupcakes for a clients mother-in-law's birthday.

Carrot Cake with raisins and toasted chopped pecans and topped with White Chocolate Cream Cheese frosting and fondant flower cut-out.

This final order was for a Mardi Gras theme birthday cake. I had never done a Mardi Gras cake so I was pretty excited to do one. Of course, there are some things I would do differently and I had a really hard time getting the mask we made to stand up on the cake, so structure wise I need to rethink some things, but overall I think it turned out pretty neat.

The bottom tier was a Buttermilk Cake with a lemon curd filling and fresh raspberries and the top tier was Chocolate Cake with chocolate ganache, crushed oreos, and then topped with a white chocolate mousse filling. Each tier got a thin layer of buttercream and covered in fondant. The mask was made from gumpaste and painted with silver luster dust.

I could have spent another several hours on this cake, but then they never would have gotten it in time for the party!

More cakes

2009-06-03T16:12:00.000-07:00

This past weekend was very busy! I had 4 cake orders, but unfortunately I only have pictures of 2 cakes, our camera broke, but I am really proud of these two cakes and for each event, everyone enjoyed them!

Train Cake:
My friend's son turned 3 last weekend and he loves train, so she asked if I could make him a train cake. It was a really fun cake to make, but had lots of little pieces to it!

It was a chocolate cake with a chocolate ganache and chocolate mousse filling and iced in buttercream.
The letters, the train and the tracks are all made out of fondant. Enjoy....

The other cake we did this weekend was for my daughters dance team from the Dance Zone. The theme for the recital this year is A Rockin' Hula Luau, so they asked me to make another surfboard cake with the team colors of red, black, and yellow.

The cake was chocolate and vanilla with chocolate ganache, oreo cookie, and white chocolate mousse filling all frosted in buttercream and decorated with fondant.

Feast your eyes.....

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I love when strawberries are in season and I get to make on of my favorite tarts....
Strawberry Mascarpone Cream Tart. A lovely buttery flaky tart crust, filled with whipped sweetened mascarpone cheese and topped with fresh strawberries!

One of my favorite flavor combinations is chocolate and peanut butter, and this new pie recipe I tried out, married these two flavors in a rich and delicate way!

Peanut-Butter Chocolate pie with a graham cracker crust. I wish I had gotten a picture of a slice of this pie...it looked amazing. A thick chocolate ganache layer on the crust topped with a light peanut-butter mousse.

Thank you Lindsey and BellaLu Photography for always offering up your talent and blessing me with amazing pictures!

My inspired 1920's hat cake

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I had done this cake a little while ago, I wanted to practice carving a round top and I love the look of the 1920's. There are some things I would do differently the next time around, but for my first time making a hat, I was pretty pleased with myself. I'm really looking forward to doing more of these little hats, so much you can do with them!

So...enjoy!

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I have been baking like crazy the last couple of weeks. I realized that once I decided to start a blog and start Sweet Tooth Confections, I didn't have very many pictures of sweets I have made. Obviously from a marketing point of view, I need pictures in order to establish myself, telling potential clients that I think I'm pretty talented, just isn't enough! I am horrible at remembering to take pictures and I don't have an eye for angles, lighting, etc. as you may notice in some of these pictures! There is a disticnt difference between the pictures I have attempted in taking and the ones Lindsey has taken for me...so bare with me as I learn.

Graduation cupcakes for my brother who just graduated from Emory...way to go Ben!
He requested chocolate cupcakes with peanut butter filling and chocolate mousse buttercream. The graduation hats are made of chocolate dipped graham crackers, set on Trader Joe's peanut butter cups, and decorated with royal icing.

This was the cake I made for Mother's Day this year. I really wanted to try a banana cake with a peanut butter filling and chocolate mousse buttercream. This was a flavor combination I saw on an awesome blog that I came across and I knew I needed to try it out. It turned out delicious...definately a hit!!

Also, I love cakes with fresh flowers and I thought this flower went perfect with the deep chocolate color of the mousse buttercream.

One of my all-time favorite desserts....lemon bars! A classic; made with fresh meyer lemons from my mom's tree. I believe in using the freshest and best quality ingredients. It truly makes the world of difference in the texture, color, and most important taste.

The next few pictures are of a cake that I brought to Kayla's school for Teacher Appreciation week. Each day the Kindergarten parents were responsible in providing desserts for all the teachers. I decided to do a pie (see below the cake) and a cake to honor our school mascot, the Sutter Frogs. The frogs came out adorable, they were made out of fondant, and the teachers loved it!! I was so excited to bring this to the school.

The cake was an espresso chocolate cake with a rich espresso marscapone frosting, iced in buttercream and covered in fondant with fondant decorations and flowers.

Here is the pie I created for the teachers, it was a Caramel Crunch Apple Pie. I love making pies and don't get to do it very often aside from Thanksgiving and Christmas, so I was excited to make a pie in the middle of Spring.

The theme of the week was "You Rock!"

These last few pictures is of one recipe done two ways. I wanted to try out a new white cake recipe from Sweet Melissa's. White cake can be a little tricky and this recipe was great, it came out light and had a great flavor to it.

The cake I filled with a raspberry meringue buttercream and frosted it with a chocolate ganache.

The cupcakes are filled with a lemon curd and topped with a coconut creamcheese frosting.

Fortunately, once again, Lindsey from BellaLu Photography came to my rescue and I drove my treats over to her house to get some great pictures of them!

The cake that began it all.....

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I first got the cake decorating bug just this past April when I decided to create a cake for my daughter's birthday party. The theme was a "Mad Hatter Tea Party" and after researching ideas I wanted to make a topsy-turvy cake. Unbeknown to me, this is a difficult cake to make, but if you know me, once I get my mind on something, well there is no stopping me.

The baking wasn't an issue...I've been doing that for years, but the carving and decorating with fondant brought me into a whole new world. Overall I was so happy with the final outcome, and most important, it tasted delicious!

Birthday Cakes

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Here are several cakes that I made for 4 different birthday parties this past weekend. It was a crazy, very busy time, but each cake came out great and I was so happy with each one. They were all different and I had so much fun designing and creating them!

I have to first mention and thank my friend and talented photographer Lindsey from BellaLu Photography who was so sweet to come over and take a ton of pictures for me! Please check out her site....amazing!

This first cake was for a client's son who is really into Bakugan, a Japanese cartoon/game. I'm still not sure exactly what Bakugan is, but looked at the website and this is the design I came up with. I love it, clean, and the letters were fun!

The flavors were chocolate cake with chocolate mousse filling, covered in a dark fudge buttercream (dyed black) and decorated with fondant letters, flames, and stripes. From what I have been told, he loved the cake!

This was for a little girl who was turning 6 and she wanted a pool cake.
Once again, a chocolate cake with a chocolate mousse filling. The cake was iced in a vanilla buttercream and the pool and all the accessories were made with fondant. I ended up painting the diving board and slide orange, which made them stand out a little more.

I saw her a couple of days after her party and she runs to me and
says, " I Looooovvveeeddd my pool cake!" There is something very special about creating kids birthday cakes...the appreciation they show is unlike any other!

This next cake was so much fun to make and I love the way it came out...in fact I will be doing this same cake (different colors) for my daughters dance team beach party next weekend....so stay posted!

This was for a 1st birthday party, the family is Hawaiian and wanted a summer/beach cake.

This was a chocolate cake and a chocolate/vanilla marble cake with chocolate mousse filling. It was frosted in a bright pink buttercream and accented with fondant flowers and royal icing.

Sorry for the messy looking cake board....I had to add that at the last minute, the cake turned out heavier then we thought and I couldn't cover the cardboard.

This last cake was made for a very special man in my life...my son who turned 5 this past week! Yes, I thought it would be a great idea to not only do 4 cakes in one weekend, but also host a birthday party!

He loves Star Wars and requested a R2D2 cake. We did a lot of research online and decided to do a standing R2D2 cake, but just the top half of him. The amount of cake needed was way to much to do the full body. Kyle did the majority of the carving, drawing, and cutting out the fondant details. When Landon woke up the morning of his party, the first thing he asked was, "Where's my cake?" He loved it!

The head was made of styrofoam and covered in fondant, the top half of his body is vanilla cake with lemon curd filling and the bottom half is chocolate cake with oreo cookie filling. We covered it in fondant and all the decorations are fondant. Delicious!

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Our friends Nathan and Lindsey had a BBQ a few weeks ago and she asked me if I could bring dessert. Of course I was happy to....and despite the fact that we were having funky rainy weather, I created a couple of beach/summer fun cakes.

The large cake is a chocolate cake with white chocolate mousse filling and fresh strawberries. Iced in buttercream and covered with fondant. The surfboards are made of fondant, the sand is brown sugar, and my son was kind enough to let me borrow the palm trees from his dinosaur set.
The small cake is a white cake with a lemon curd filling and iced in buttercream and covered in fondant. All the beach pieces were made with fondant and the sand is again brown sugar.