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

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.

Wizard of Oz cake

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.

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~

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

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...

Woody Car Cake and Bridal Shower

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.....