Truly Custom Cakery now offers Birthday Parties!!!

Truly Custom Cakery has partnered with Lollipops & Gumdrops, of Huntingdon Valley to offer Couture Cake Creator Birthday Parties.

Emulate your favorite cake designer at your very own Couture Cake Creation event!

This Birthday Party package is for 12 guests (including the birthday celebrant).

Each guest will dress in a "couture" apron as she prepares to decorate her own pre-made and fondant covered personal cake. Guests will be led by cake designer, Stacey Hill, owner of Truly Custom Cakery, as they sketch their ideas on a baking color sheet. They will then creatively assemble their design with prepared cake accessories such as: fondant strips, candy jewels, and other theme related accessories.

Each designer will be crowned "couture chef" with their own chef hat and will receive a personal photo with their creation. A box will be provided for each guest to transport their cake art.

The guest of honor will receive a personalized "couture" apron to keep.

Package also INCLUDES a Birthday Cake designed according to the party theme and color specifications with servings for 15. The cake will be enjoyed at the conclusion of the party.

Possible Themes include but are not limited to:
Ballerina
Princess
Hollywood Diva
Spa

Package price: $475.00
Add $15.00 for each additional guest.
Also included in the package: tablecloths, plates, napkins forks, and a decorative table centerpiece.
You may wish to provide the children with snack food or pizza.

Contact Renee Lawsin of Lollipops & Gumdrops to schedule. 215-947-ROSE (7673)

Tinkerbell First Birthday Cake for a client in Philadelphia.

Happy Birthday Curryn! Here's your pink & purple Tinkerbell 1st Birthday Cake. It's so girly and adorable!



This is a marble cake with whipped chocolate ganache filling. It is iced in buttercream and covered with homemade fondant. All the decorations are fondant and the piping work is done with royal icing.

Tropical Themed Hibiscus and Butterfly Birthday Cake

Birthday cake with a tropical spin. It is a very tiny little cake. 3 single layers torted and filled with raspberry filling. Pound cake sizes are 8", 6", and 3.5". Shorter than a standard pencil. Iced in buttercream and covered with homemade marshmallow fondant. The hibiscus flowers are done in brush embroidery and the butterflies are sugar paste.

Happy 5th Birthday Princess Roslyn

Made this for a friend's daughter. She's turning 5 and loves the whole princess thing. 6" cake with 37 cupcakes.

Happy Birthday Mom!

My mom's 61st Birthday is tomorrow and she loves pound cake with buttercream icing. It's her all time favorite. I recently found an incredible pound cake recipe that is beyond melt in your mouth good!!! I gave her a taste last week and she decided there was no other cake she'd rather have to celebrate her 61st!

She told me just cake with icing smeared on it would be good. BUT you know me! Even though I started icing this cake at 10:30pm tonight, I had to make it pretty! So... it's a little nicer than just pound cake with icing.

Here's a link to the recipe if you are so inclined to try making it. I made it for company this past weekend with a homemade blueberry topping and garnished with whipped cream. That's MY favorite way to eat it! http://www.recipezaar.com/The-Most-Ultimate-Buttery-Cream-Cheese-Pound-Cake-78552



Gotta love a simple round tip when you want a quick freehand design. Happy Birthday Mom!!!

Steps to a Finished Cake Part 3... It Is Finished!!!

So here is the finished girlie, pink, Mickey Mouse Cake. I'm really pleased with the outcome of this project. Mickey and Minnie ended up standing in front of the cake because I'd have had to cover their feet in icing to get them to stand on top of the cake and it would have made the cake very, very tall. This seemed to give it more balance and now Jessie can keep them as long as she likes.

Chantilly Lace

My friend Kristin celebrated her Birthday yesterday. We don't exchange gifts and I didn't see her but I felt this desperate urge to make her a cake anyway. So it will be a day late but it is the thought that counts.

White whipped icing and butter cream decorations. This is my first attempt at Chantilly Lace and I'm really happy with how it turned out.

Vanilla cake with blueberry filling. It is only a 6" cake and I had left over batter so I made some vanilla blueberry cupcakes also. My husband told me that they are "terrible and we shouldn't share them with anyone". That's how I know he likes something. He gives it a bad review so they won't leave the house. HA!

One Crazy Week

My good friend Nicole was drafted to make a surprise 30th Birthday cake for a good friend. I offered to help her and we worked side by side. She worked on her 30th Birthday cake while I worked on the Monster truck. It was a LOT of fun to have someone to share in the creative process. We did a lot of laughing, a little commiserating, and made a HUGE mess 3 nights in a row. It was a blast. I hope we can work on another project together in the future.

Other than helping her learn how to make fondant and cover a cake, the only other thing I did is help make the topper. She did the rest by herself! Not bad for her first attempt at fondant. She did a great job!!!

Monster Jam Birthday Cake

My son absolutely loves Monster Trucks. His favorite is Blue Thunder and for his Birthday, he asked for a monster truck cake. His cousin TJ is celebrating his Birthday in February also (the boys are 6 days apart), so this is for both of them.

It was most definitely a challenge. Matt was an indispensable part of this project. He put his carpentry skills to work and built an incredible frame for me to work with. He also helped carve the shape of the truck. He wanted to have a hand in our son's cake and he did a fantastic job!!! I love you baby!

Happy Birthday Garrick & TJ!!!

For the Outdoorsman...

This cake was made for the father-in-law of a good friend of mine. He's a hunter, fisherman, camper... etc. So we went with an outdoorsman theme. (Is that a word?)

Anyway... I'm thrilled with the result. There's a TON of detail in this cake and you really could stare at it for a while. Of course to me... that's what's so cool!

Hope you like it!

Baby's First Birthday Cake.

This is a cake for my nephew's 1st Birthday.
This is a White Cake with mini chocolate chips, butterscotch icing, and Twix candy bar crushed on top under the leaves. The decorations are all fondant.

The bushel is two - 9" round cakes and the little pumpkins are mini bundt cakes sandwiched together with butterscotch icing between the layers. They are iced and covered in fondant.

The leaves are all made out of gum paste. Baby is also gum paste. Absolutely everything on this cake is edible. Minus the cake plate of course.

Here are a couple of photos of the Birthday Boy and his cake.

Mom's 60th Birthday Cake

This is my favorite cake to date. It took forever but was a blast and turned out really well. It's a chocolate cake with mint chocolate chip filling. Iced in butter cream with fondant accents. Figures and accent details are all made of fondant and gum paste. There are a few support pieces that are not edible. Mom loved it!

My son's 3rd Birthday Cake

Braden's 3rd Birthday Cake. Chocolate with chocolate fudge filling and iced in butter cream with fondant accents. A lot of fun to make!