Baby Shower Sweetness: Top 5 Trends in Baby Shower Cakes

The Top 5 trends in baby shower cakes:

Our clients are hosting baby showers with some serious style! From the meticulously chosen invitation and party theme, to the thoughtful favors, to the design centerpiece of the party: the cake! Here are some of the trends we've seen and the fresh approach and design style our clients are taking....

1.) Modern/Stylish Color Pallets

"Greige" (grey+beige), tangerine and blush

Black & White with vibrant pops of color

Light Aqua and Brown

2.) Using the baby's name in the cake design...

3.) Sentimental Themes. Sometimes the sweetest themes comes from a very personal inspiration as a child. Here are some classic themes that are sweet throughout the decades...

nautical themed cake

Clothesline - baby bloomers, socks and dresses must be the cutest thing in history!

Baby feet! If you are a mom, you know that tiny little baby feet are forever the sweetest little things in the world.

Winnie, Eeyore and Piglet actually get cuter with age (after all, they are 85 years old this year!). This uber-classic theme can be passed down for generations!

Transportation Cake - there is nothing more "boy" than a transportation cake!

4.) Gender Neutral Cakes. Nowadays, many parents are waiting to find out the sex of the baby until birth.... recapturing the same excitement of the "olden days" Shower themes don't need pink and blue to have a strong identity. Take look at these gender neutral cakes....

This baby shower was "build a library" theme where all the guests were asked to bring their favorite childhood book. The cake was the center of conversation where guests pointed out the sugar version of their favorite books!

This shower took place over the Thanksgiving weekend, and was affectionately called "Welcome little pumpkin" :)

This shower was for a sweet baby girl, whose mommy loves green. We added a little turtle, teeny-tiny bits of pink and the baby's name for personal and sentimental touches.

This mommy was so excited to keep the baby's sex a secret, we went with the perfect neutral color pallet, yellow and white!

5.) Mod: Mod is back baby. Clean lines, prams and polka dots will never go out of style. period.

Spring Cupcake Day at The Sugar Suite!

By popular demand, The Sugar Suite will be hosting its first retail cupcake

day for one day only on Saturday April 23rd at our shop in Maitland from

10:00AM - 3:00PM.

We will have four flavors available for sale:

Coconut - with almond cream cheese and shreded coconut

Lemon Poppy - with vanilla bean buttercream and raspberry filling

Strawberry Blonde - vanilla cake with strawberry buttercream

Carrot Cake - with cream cheese icing and caramelized carrots

All in our festive Spring decor!

The cupcakes are $3.00 Each and can be purchased individually.

For orders of 12 or more, please order in advance.

This is our first CUPCAKE DAY, and our first time selling retail our of our

location..... and the cupcakes will be on a first come first serve basis so

plese RSVP if you would like ensure you get your favorites!

To RSVP or to place an advance order email us at

hello@thesugarsuite.com

**If you are a confirmed bride of The Sugar Suite and didn't receive our

email regarding this tasting, please email:

jennyfer@thesugarsuite.com

We will also be featuring our little bunny cupcakes which can be ordered 5

for $30.00

Bunny Cupcakes are a _specialty order only

Order your cupcakes before Wednesday, April 20th by clicking here:

Email Jennyfer@thesugarsuite.com

BRIDES Florida Feature

Now, I already have a slight obsession with bridal magazines, but when I knew our cake was in this issue of BRIDES Florida I couldn’t get to the stand fast enough! (Literally, I had to beg an industry friend who had an advance copy)

This is our FIRST official magazine feature, and the excitement is bubbling over at The Sugar Suite!!!

We were so honored when BRIDES Magazine contacted us to be featured on their Florida Spring Edition and even more excited when they chose one of our favorite and most sophisticated cakes. Thanks to the couple, Jenna and Jim….. you have helped make a dream come true for us!

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