New York Yankees Groom's Cake

NEW YORK YANKEES GROOM'S CAKE

LOVE SCULPTURE BASED ENGAGEMENT PARTY

The happy couple wanted to have a special theme for their engagement party this past weekend. They based the decor of the party on the LOVE sculpture in NYC and Philadelphia.
We created for them a candy buffet with this in mind. The letters were purchased, glued and painted to replicate the amazing sculpture. This became the focal point of the table. Then we added all red candies in various jars around the centerpiece. Birch branches were placed in a vase with glass heart ornaments filled with red sugar crystals. We added the couples initials and personalized take out boxes so her guests can help themselves to the delicious treats! We placed a framed sign on each table with the message: "Life is Sweet, take a Treat...Hugs & Kisses from the Future Mr. & Mrs.", so their guests new the candy bar was the take home favor. Red makes for a very dramatic and striking look and overall we were very happy with the end result.

I was also asked to bake the cake for the event and searched online for any images of cakes based on this particular sculpture. This is the one I found...http://whippedbakeshop.com/blog/2009/11/making-a-philly-love-wedding-cake/
I set to replicate this cake with a few minor alterations. I handpainted the Brooklyn Bridge on the middle tier and eliminated any Philly reference from the original. I also purchased the wooden letters and glued and painted them for the topper rather than use gumpaste.

CHANEL PURSE CAKE

Did my first purse cake and I think it went fairly well. I was asked by my sister in law to do a cake for her grandmothers birthday. Rose is not your typical grandmother. God bless her she looks amazing and never goes anywhere with out her heels!! A chanel cake was the perfect choice for such a high class lady.
I started with an 8" round cake, layered and filled with vanilla buttercream. Then the top and bottom were cut at each edge in a straight line to leave the middle body of the purse. The ivory fondant was quilted with the edge rolling pin tool and then applied to the cake in pieces. I used parchment paper to trace the front, back and sides of the cake which I used as a template when cutting the fondant. The chain is from a real bag. (this in my opinion gave the cake it's real-like look! I sprayed the gold accent pieces with gold glitter spray which I like better than petal dust. Not too bad for my first try!! LOL

MINNIE MOUSE CAKE

Minnie Mouse cake made for a special little girls first birthday. Party was decorated in hot pink and zebra stripe mix patterns. I incorporated those colors into this beautiful three tiered cake. Cake consisted of top tier-chocolate cake with marshmallow filling: second tier - vanilla with chocolate chip filling and bottom tier Devils food with oreo cookies filling. I made the ears out of fondant and the hat shape was done using the Wilton sports ball pan. I finished the look with a zebra print table runner!! Cute and spunky at the same time. LOVED IT!

THOMAS THE TRAIN CAKE

I was asked to make a Thomas train cake for a very special boys 2nd birthday. Having a son who is a huge Thomas fan, I was all to familiar on how I wanted the cake to look. I purchased a Thomas train whistle that I used to put into the top tier cake as if it were coming out of a tunnel. The boulders were made out of grey fondant. Fondant hills and grass completed the look.
Cake was vanilla chip cake with nutella buttercream filling.

Tiffany Theme Dessert Table

This past weekend, we threw a surprise party for my mother's 50th birthday. We decided to go with a tiffany theme cake and dessert table and base the table decor on the tiffany blue color. We used a matching tiffany blue table cloth and based the table around the center Tiffany box cake. Behind the cake we used a tiffany bag as a holder for some branches that we hung tiffany blue stones from. Two cupcake liner topiary trees we made were placed on both ends of the table with a sign on each that read "50 & Fabulous...Happy Birthday."
We made a personalized happy birthday banner to match the colors and hung it from the front of the table. We added blue candy such as sixlets, vanilla tootsie rolls, rock candy and gum balls around the table in different jars as well as some vanilla meringue cookies and sugar cookies.
We then scattered the favors around the table. The favors were tiffany blue boxes with hershey kisses inside and decorated with white ribbon and a personalized label. The boxes were purchaed at http://www.beforetheidos.com/Tiffany_Blue_Favor_Box_Set_of_10_p/ee-tblbox.htm
The table was a big hit at the party and my mom loved it! :)

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Tiffany Box Cake

Customized topiary trees  and matching decor

Favors-Tiffany blue favor boxes filled with hershey kisses and personalized label added

SPRINKLED THEMED BABY SHOWER

We were asked to do a cake and dessert table for my partners close friend who was having her second baby very soon. This sprinkle shower was new to me but I loved the idea of basing the decorations on the key dessert decoration....SPRINKLES!!!

The table started with a candy stripe tablecloth and we worked all the desserts around those colors. The cake featured matching circles and butterflies. We hung colored cardstock circles from wire ribbon on white birch branches placed in a vase filled with sprinkles. We then centered all the other desserts around it. We added pink marshmallows, sprinkled donuts, marshmallow pops, pretzels sticks, cookies and cupcakes all decorated with what else but SPRINKLES!

"Sprinkled With Love"

White boxes were sprayed with glue and then dipped in sprinkles. Fake flowers were added to create a beautiful sprinkle flower centerpiece.

Cake was a 6" and 8" two tiered cake. Top tier was red velvet with cream cheese frosting and bottom was vanilla with oreo cookies buttercream,

Cake push up pops are the new craze!! I placed 3 mini cupcakes topped with buttercream and sprinkles placed in plastic push up pop containers. LOVE THESE!!

Jungle Themed Baby Shower Cupcake Favors

I was asked to make cupcake favors for a young lady's baby shower. They were sick of the tired and old knick knack given as favors in the past that most of the time get trashed or collect dust on a shelf somewhere. What better favor to give then something delicious to eat and sweet to look at! The theme was Jungle Safari so I set out to look for pictures of jungle animal shaped cupcakes. Many of the pictures I found were done with fondant covered cupcakes shaped into animal faces. As cute as they were my only hesitancy was about the taste. As someone who LOVES cupcakes I worried about how the cupcake would taste without the best part....FROSTING! So I decided to dip the tops in chocolate ganache and frost with homemade buttercream. I then created the animal faces with fondant on circle discs. This way you can remove the disc before eating as many people don't like the taste of fondant and still have a delicious frosted cupcake to enjoy! They were a big hit and came out just as cute as all the others I saw online.

monkey cupcake

elephant cupcake

giraffe cupcake

lion cupcake


Boxed in clear cube and personalized label with ribbon

ALICE IN WONDERLAND CAKE

Here are some pictures of the Alice in Wonderland themed first birthday cake I was asked to make for a special little girl. The mom wanted the topsy turvy look which goes with the whole feel of the wonderland theme. I searched online looking for pictures of cakes and found Pink Cake Box's version to be my favorite.
http://blog.pinkcakebox.com/alice-in-wonderland-topsy-turvy-cake-2010-02-24.htm

I think I did a pretty good job of duplicating it. I made the tea cup and saucer out of rice crispy treats t help me keep the shape. Everything else was done in fondant.

SUPERHERO DESSERT AND CAKE TABLE

What little boy wouldnt want the coolest Superhero party! This party we were asked to do was not only alot of fun to prepare, but looked amazing when completed. The smile on the birthday boys face once he saw it was priceless!! Thanks to many different ideas we found on the internet, we were able to create an eye popping table that became the talk of the party.

I made the pennant by searching comic book covers on the internet. Printing them out on 8.5x11 paper and cutting them into triangle shapes. Once I had enough I used double sided tape to adhere them onto red satin ribbon.

Candy was easy to find around the 4th of July that went well with the theme colors. The gumball jars looked the best stacked by color.

We accented the table with Spiderman Pez dispensers and gumball machines. They looked really good edging the table. So simple and yet had a great effect.

I used styrofoam cake circles for cupcake stands. With Illustrator I was able to replicate the labels and a building scene that I attached to the sides of the styrofoam with pins.

Marshmallow pops with colored sprinkles.

Cake consisted of a 10" and 8" with three layers in each. Chocolate and vanilla cake with oreo cookies filling on the top layer and nutella filling in the bottom layer...YUM!!

A black cardboard building scene was used as our backdrop to complete the look!