Two ribbons at The Festival of Chocolate!

This past weekend we had the pleasure of participating in The Festival of Chocolate at the Orlando Science Center for the third straight year. This event includes so many quality vendors, we are proud to be on their roster.

We received two ribbons at the event for Runner Up in:

Best Chocolate Cake Competition

for the Mint Chocolate Cake and

white chocolate buttercream and Mint OREO cookie crumbles

and

Best Chocolate Cupcake Competition

for the Tiramisu - chocolate cake with espresso rum buttercream

To see more of our cupcakes visit our Cupcake Gallery: CUPCAKES

This year we introduced our Moose Munch Cupcake, which was a huge hit! I was inspired by the Food Network Show Cupcake Wars, when all of the contestants passed up popcorn as an ingredient in the crazy ingredient round. The cupcake includes a toffee popcorn, candied pecans and a white chocolate drizzle on a chocolate cupcake with chocolate buttercream.

This was our booth on Sunday right before we sold out!

Our littlest tasting girl!

The Orlando Festival of Chocolate is a fantastic family event, and we look forward to participating for many years to come!

Tear Sheets and Wedding Words Worksheets

The Sugar Suite has a process to better understand our clients style. With thousands of images and hundreds of wedding related blogs on the internet, and even more sources of inspiration fro magazines,venues and friends..... organizing all of those thoughts on top of design choices already made for the wedding can be a daunting tasting.

To simplify this process for the design consultation we ask our brides to bring one of two things to our design consultation.

First, for the right brainers out there: The Tear Sheet. The Tear Sheet consists of images that represent the couples wedding style. We have gotten pictures from chandeliers, invitations, dresses, things that brides have torn out of magazines and printed from the internet...... and we love it when we get a collage of various images such as this one below. This helps me as a designer reference the carefully chosen pictures when sketching out their wedding cake designs.

Second is for the left-brainers out there: The Wedding Words Worksheet. The Wedding Words Worksheet is the same concept as the Tear Sheet, just in words. There are no rules or psychology to which words are chosen, I just ask them to circle the ones that stand out to them.

Getting to know our brides and helping them communicate their style makes the process fun and easy!

Mini Wedding Cakes

At The Sugar Suite, our goal is for our brides to fall in love with their wedding cakes, from design to execution to the lasting memory they have of their special confection on their special day. To recreate their experience, some couples are opting to skip the tradition of eating their frozen wedding cake topper on their anniversary, and instead going for a miniature replica of their cake. This cake was created last year for a couple that has become regular clients of The Sugar Suite. Here is their "mini me" cake (as they referred to it:)) complete with the original design and flavors of their wedding cake. The cake serves 4-6, but will surely be enjoyed by only two as a sweet way to reminisce on their very special day.

Sweet Southern Wedding

Here at The Sugar Suite, we are passionate about design. Our goal is to take the style of the bride and translate that into an original cake design, because every bride is an original herself.

I met this bride over a year ago and if there is one word I could use to describe her, it is SWEET! When we talked about the idea of using real lace on her Southern inspired Winter Park Farmers Market wedding, I prayed she'd say yes! Not only did she say yes, but she asked for a ranunculus and garden rose inspired sugar flower to go on her cake...... I was immediately in love with the cake, before I even created it!

Here is a little bit more about her flower.

I started with clean edged petals on a round cell bud. I placed the first three overlapping to cover the cell bud, and then the following five, tightly around the base.

The next set of seven petals were also placed in a tight, bulb-like fashion, on a slight vertical angle at the tip of the clean edged petals.

Then onto the outer layers of 5 and 6 petals that I placed gradually more horizontal. The cupping technique on the edge of the petals gave the flower a bulbous feel, while still allowing for width.

The final product placed on the cake

Oh, sweet Southern lace!

To see more of our recent wedding cakes visit our wedding cake gallery

For more on our wedding cake design philosophy visit our weddings info page

2011 Best of Weddings Winner on The Knot!

We were recently awarded the "Best of Weddings" on The Knot, and OUR brides gave us a perfect score!

We are grateful, humbled and so pumped to reach this personal and professional goal.... and in our first year on The Knot!

Thank you to all our brides, we love you!!!

French Bronze Birthday Cake

Last week I was in a design rut when it came to a friends birthday cake. I knew it had to have a French feel since we were dining at the fabulous Chez Vincent in Winter Park! I wanted to use turquoise and bronze reminiscent of the Parisian rooftops and metro.

After an agonizingly uninspired Google search and an quick education that real bronze is actually a brown-black shade of green, not the shiny red-copper I remember......I only had a turquoise two tier hexagon cake and nothing else, then I saw "it!"

I saw some favorite camellias I made last year, along with some extra flowers and leaves that were left over from a different project.

I looked at my leftover florals, then looked at my bronze paint and I took the leap!

There is nothing better than great friends, great food and great cake!

The Sugar Suite has a great MENU, but we love it when people want to customize their flavor. This cake was Mint Chocolate cake with Baileys and white chocolate buttercream, I know I always say this.... but this is my new favorite flavor!

Bon Appetite!

Grooms Cake Fever

Grooms cakes, a tradition here in The South (Yes, Orlando is in The South), show the personality of the groom, and the whimsy and fun side of the couple. At The Sugar Suite, we always encourage the couples to put the grooms cake on completely different table than the wedding cake, ideally on the other side of the room. The elegant and statuesque wedding cake should never have to compete with a fun or funny cake.

What do these cakes say about their grooms?

This is a "red" sea turtle for a red-headed surfer groom

Trumpet for this musical groom


Snoopy and Woodstock for this Snoopy memorabilia collector


Noles emblem for the Florida State grad


Yellow Shirt for the Trekki


Soccer ball for the Arsenal fan!

Cessna for this pilot

PC for this groom, with his actual screen saver (what a sweetie!)

The Sugar Suite's grooms cakes are a personal and fun touch to your wedding reception. Check out our specialty cake gallery for inspiration for your grooms cake!