White Birdie Cupcakes

The design for these cupcakes was inspired by The Dwell Studio Collection at Target. What a hip baby girl's room with the retro birds and twiggy trees. I attempted to make the chocolate fondant trees as twiggy as I could without them losing their structure, and the birds were a riot! The design has all white birds, so I felt funny even putting a little black dot for an eye, but it gave them so much more personality.

You might notice that the picture of the cupcakes was taken with them inside the box, totally ghetto, I know..... I am working on making sure I get photos of all my projects (SO slacking at the moment) even as they are flying out the door.

Crawfish Boil!

This cake was made for an adorably cute pregnant-with-twins lady. She is originally from Louisianna and has a fantastic sense of humor, so when her friends began planning her suprise baby shower, they knew the cake had to be over the top. I made all sugar crawfish, lemons, red potatoes and corn on the cobb. The cake itself is the pot and put sugar prints of babies on the side to recognize the little ones as the guests of honor.

Elmo Birthday Cake

My baby girl's first birthday finally arrived. After much debate about what cake to make for Amelia's special day, I decided to do fondant figurines of her favorite toys (Elmo of course, her rubber duckie and the Blackberry!). I made a banana cake with strawberry buttercream (two of her favorite foods) and she didnt'waste any time digging in! We had to take the cake away from her after she ate about 1/3 of it (which is about three adult slices!)

Wedding Kit Heaven!

Thanks so everyone who participated in the Wedding Cake Selection Kits! We have heard stories about the fantastic experiences our clients had tasting the cakes and buttercreams, and we are so glad everyone had a great time! If anyone would care to post about their experiences, feel free to leave a comment!

Chocolate Polka Dots

This cake was chocolate cake with chocolate cream cheese icing and dark chocolate (73%) polka dots. Since attending the Festival of Chocolate, a whole new world has opened up to us..... CHOCOLATE! Before, it was a fantastic ingredient..... now, it is a full-on fixation!

The purity of chocolate is measured in the percentage of cocoa in the chocolate. Milk Chocolate is typically between 30%-40% cocoa mass because of the cream and sugar added, thus lowering its percentage. Dark Chocolate is typically between 50% - 85% cocoa mass, with much less added than milk chocolate (this is the reason many health experts recommend this type of chocolate). White Chocolate, a whole different category! White chocolate is made with cocoa butter instead of cocoa mass (creating the lack of chocolate color), which creates a slightly yellow tone in the chocolate (watch out for lighter colored impostors).

The polka dots on this cake are actually chips we got from Whole Foods, but our new premium chocolate provider (to be announced soon) has an even cooler product! Stay Tunned!

Italian Style Bridal Shower

These cupcakes were created for a bride whose wedding will take place in Amalfi, Italy in May. Since not all of her friends and family can make the trip to Italy for the wedding, the bridal shower became a meaninful celebration. We incorporated the wedding colors of bordeaux and chocolate (all with chocolate-brown cupcake liners). We brought in the bordeaux acccents with sugar tulips, sugar disques, and a "fancy" (name I made up) sugar charm. The bride purchased these cupcake towers at Target, and I am positive that she will have many uses for them in the future.

My meeting with this bride and mother enlightened me to the fact that many destination brides miss the wedding cake tasting experience, as their vendors are at their wedding destination. This is why we have decided to offer a spot in the Wedding Cake Tasting Kits to our bridal shower clients as well. We love brides, and dont want them to miss one of the best parts of wedding planning because they are having a destination wedding.

Mac Cake

This cake commission for my IT guy by his lovely fiance. He is a huge fan of Mac (even has an Apple decal on his car)! For an extra little suprise, I added some html symbols to the text..... having no idea if it makes any sense. The blue background is actually a base, covered in fondant and sprayed with light blue food coloring. The cake is covered in white fondant (for the complete iconic Mac white look) and is actually the same height as a normal cake. I don't own a Mac, but I know that the people that do are absolutely in love with them!