July

It's been exactly 30 days since my last blog. I've been sooooo incredibly busy. Here's what I've been up to cake wise in July.

Cat in the Hat cupcakes. 

Princess cake for one of the most adorable little girls I've ever seen. I did the smash cake out of chocolate and the 2 tier cake out of marble and chocolate ganache for one tier and chocolate with cream cheese and strawberry filling for the other.  The cakes were covered in fondant and all the decorations were made out of fondant / gumpaste. It turned out super cute!

This is a yellow cake with buttercream filling for a baby shower. Its decorated entirely in buttercream because the client is not a fan of fondant, and who can blame her?! The taste isn't that great but you can do oh so many pretty things with it :)

Here are some super duper adorable fondant covered Hello Kitty cupcakes.

This is one of my favorite cakes. I made the peacock entirely out of fondant and wire for stability and made it a few days to allow to dry hard. The cake itself it just plain ol' chocolate with chocolate buttercream and frosted in white buttercream with a pearl border. No need to do anything fancy with this beautiful peacock on top, lol!

This cake is a 3 tier Buzz Lightyear / Alien cake. It took me forever to hand make all the aliens and fondant decorations, but I was super happy with how it came it out. But this cake almost made me give up doing cakes. I was depressed and super embarrased about it for like a day and a half and then I got over it. Bottom tier is yellow cake with buttercream, middle is chocolate with strawberry filling and top is red velvet with cream cheese. So anyhow, one hour after pick up, mind you it was a very humid day and the cake left my place intact, I get a call that the cake somehow fell apart and the client is super dissappointed. Nothing is worse than a disgruntled client and they can do wonders to discredit all your hard work so I cheerfully offered to refund all $120 back. I still cannot understand how it is that the cake fell apart with all the wooden support in it. Its not my first cake and it was pretty solid. Other than it being humid, I am baffled as to what happened. But in all my years of customer service, the one thing I've learned is that the customer is always right! C'est la vie!

Moving on . . . this next cake is the best cake ever! I say that because it's my birthday cake. Yes, I know how silly it is that I made my OWN cake but that just how I am!

Its a 2 tier cake, the bottom tier is carrot with cream cheese and the top tier is pink velvet with lemon filling. I covered it in fondant and added gold sugar balls. The flowers are handmade out of gumpaste. I absolutely LOVE how it came out and it tasted really good too. 

And with that I say, Welcome August! Can't wait to work on some very exciting cakes I have coming up. Look for my Justin Bieber cake and and a Tiffany and Co. inspired wedding cupcake tower coming soon!! Enjoy the rest of your summer <3

1st Birthday Cakes

I absolutely love kids birthday parties. Especially 1st birthdays. They are my favorite. This week I was lucky enough to be booked for TWO 1st birthday parties.

Here's one of the cakes I did. This was a BIG cake. Its a three tier (8", 10", 12") and feeds about 88-118 people. I made it out of chocolate and strawberry filling. Its frosted in hot pink buttercream and then I added zebra frosting sheets to the middle tier, and did hand painted zebra tiaras, bow and #1 out of fondant.  I also did a matching smash cake, but forgot to take a picture (boo).

This cake I did for a friend. Its a 2 tier (8", 10"). I did the top tier out of carrot cake and cream cheese filling and the bottom tier red velvet and cream cheese filling. I frosted it all in buttercream and did gumpaste flowers, butterflies and the #1. I absolutely LOVE this cake. I always work so much better when I'm given free rein :) OOh, plus I was invited to the party so I actually got to eat some (bonus)! 

Morgan Wedding Cupcake Tower

I like to think that cupcake towers are my 'thing'. It's super popular but I don't see alot of people in my area doing it. They're convenient because no cake cutting is involved but they're still really pretty and dramatic looking. Almost all the weddings I've done have been cupcake towers. This one right here is my favorite.

 I did this beautiful cupcake wedding tower for the sweetest client I have ever had! It was a pleasure to work with her. I've been pretty lucky and had some amazing clients but this girl topped 'em all! She emailed me for a consultation and told me she was looking for a cupcake tower like a previous one I had done and she wanted navy and silver as her colors but definetely wanted a silver pearl look. At first I didnt know what I could do with those colors. Anyhow, I met with her and her fiance and they were the most polite people I had I ever met. They loved the tasting and booked right there and then! Yay! A week later I got a pretty pink envelope in the mail, it was a thank you card! That seriously made my day right there.

Here's a picture of the tasting. We did white cupcakes with cream cheese filling, yellow cupcakes with cream cheese filling, and marble cupcakes with chocolate mousse all topped with vanilla buttercream. They chose the white with cream cheese filling.

This is what I came up with. You can't really tell by the picture but all the cupcakes have a navy flower with a silver ball in the middle to match the cake on top. Here's a side view picture.

All in all, best client ever, she even brought the tower back before it was due :) and gave me a big ol' hug and thanked me for my service. Jennifer, thank you for being so sweet! I would love to work with you guys again!!