So Many Cakes

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

Ruffles, Ruffles, Ruffles

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

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

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

R2D2 Cake

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.

Sugar Roses ~ A Gardner's Cake

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~

Mini Desserts

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

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.