Showing posts with label daisy wedding cake. Show all posts
Showing posts with label daisy wedding cake. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Playing Catch Up! A small gallery of recent cake photos for you to enjoy.

EEEEEK!!!! I'm so behind over here. It's like a ghost town and there's no one to blame but me! The problem with social media is that there's so much of it! Despite my utter failure to keep the blog up to date, my facebook page is ALWAYS up to date. So I'm not falling behind EVERYWHERE. Just with twitter (which I still don't get, so I must need lessons, because I haven't a clue what a hatch tag is, but I'm told I need to use them), and the blog, and trying to figure out what the fuss is with pinterest (which would be easier if I knew what it was, but I haven't a clue), and I'm a loser with flickr too (don't laugh cause I really can't be the only one!) All in all, despite being a Social Media Mom, it seems I'm an utter failure at social media. How ironic! lol

So with summer coming to a close, rain almost every day, school starting, cake orders, and laundry piling up, the social media has taken not only a hit, but a BIG one! For those of you who loyally check every week for the latest cake photos, I'm very sorry. So here's my attempt at playing catch up.

These are my most recent cakes. In no particular order. Thanks for stopping by and being so forgiving. *wink*


Gerbera Daisy Wedding Cupcake Tree





Fall is almost here and with fall, we welcome wedding cakes that are topped with oranges, pinks, yellows, browns, and greens! Fall colors are being ushered in by the start of school and the cooler temperatures. And I LOVE it! Fall is one of my favorite times of year. I love the smell of the leaves, the crunching of them under y feet, as I walk along and take a deep breath of cool, crisp, fall air. I also adore the mums, pansies, and of course gerbera daisies that start popping up all over! Especially on a cake!


First Birthday Cake


An animal themed first Birthday cake. It's designed to coordinate with the Birthday Boy's bedroom and his party decorations.

My favorite part, the monkey's face on the smash cake. Seems he KNOWS what's about to happen to him!


Race Car


A grooms cake replica of the groom's race car. His fiancee wanted to make sure he knew that throughout the wedding planning process, he was not forgotten. And what a lucky guy to have a gal that cares so much.


It's a Girl Thing...




For a little girl's 6th Birthday. She's a girlie girl. Loves sparkle, ruffles, gems, feathers, and anything that screams FASHION! So this cake was about all things girl! BUT WAIT... there's more! She got 2 cakes.




The photos in the frame around the cake are based on a lamp that Alexis has in her bedroom. It's a Barbie lamp. With a little fancy footwork in PhotoShop, I was able to remove Barbie's face and replace it with the Birthday girls. It was a seamless transition and a big deal for the Birthday girl!


Man's Best Friend...


Another Grooms Cake. It's always nice when there's something "manly" at the wedding festivities for the guys. Generally, weddings are all pomp, circumstance, bling, frill, flowers, ruffles, and bows. So when the bride, parents, or friends take some time to make sure there's something for the groom that has nothing to do with frill, well, that means a lot. Because it's not something they HAVE to do. It's something special. To make HIM feel special. And that should say a lot about how much he's loved on this momentous occasion.


A Precious Welcome...







Cupcake Trees are a great way to have a stunning centerpiece for your special event without having to worry about cutting and serving cake. The inspiration for this particular piece was a combination of the invitation and the diaper cakes that the soon to be Grandma made as a centerpiece for each table. Each diaper cake had a different stuffed animal on top of it. So we pulled the animal theme into the Shower Cake. To cut costs, we scattered the animals throughout on some of the cupcakes and put pearls on the others. The Precious Moments topper on the cake was provided by the client.

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Sunday, September 26, 2010

A VERY Busy but VERY Successful Week in Cake!

This is gonna be one big post! I'm whooped! My week started with making a few toppers for a local wedding. The couple's wedding cake was provided through the venue that was hosting their reception. Since they couldn't get their cake from TCC, they decided to order their custom toppers so they could still have the feel of a custom cake. Good compromise when you want a custom cake but your options are limited by your reception hall.

The first is a replica of the grooms airplane. This is for the grooms cake.
The second is a sugar iceberg with custom sculpted penguins. This is the topper for the wedding cake.


Gerbera Daisy Wedding Cupcake Tree



Wedding Cake Stats:
Top Cake is pound cake with raspberry filling, iced in buttercream, covered in ivory fondant, trimmed with brown ribbon. Piped with ivory buttercream. Top edge is done using a fondant crimper.
Cupcakes are pound cake and chocolate chip pound cake with vanilla buttercream and my own chocolate buttercream recipe. YUMMY!!!!
All the daisies are made using gum paste. This Cake was delivered to The Joseph Ambler Inn in North Wales.Stay tuned for a little tutorial!



Fairytale Theme Baby Shower Cupcake Tree. My client specifically asked that I have a friendly Puff the Magic Dragon on the top of the cake. What better for a baby shower than a baby Puff???



Cake Stats:
Top cake is White Almond Sour Cream with Raspberry Filling. Iced in buttercream and covered in fondant. The color was airbrushed on because the invitations had a sort of water color look to them and I wanted to match the theme. The dragon is sculpted from a fondant/gum paste mix.
The cupcakes are White Almond Sour Cream, Double Chocolate, and Lemon. All with buttercream filling. Airbrushed in yellow, green, and blue and then topper with little gum paste toppers.




Soprano's/Gangster Theme Cake.

This is for a Surprise 60th Birthday. The recipient is a big fan of the Soprano's and Gangster type movies. This one was pretty fun because they sent me a photo of the recipient and I was able to PhotoShop his face onto the $100.00 bill and get edible images printed. I LOVE the personal detail that added to this cake. The cake was delivered to Bella Cena on Spruce Street in Philadelphia.




Cake Stats:
Base Cake is Vanilla with Buttercream, Middle tier is Marble with Chocolate Ganache, and the Top Cake is Pound with buttercream. The whole cake is iced in buttercream and covered with fondant. The money is gum pate with edible images. The pin stripes on the bottom tier are painted on freehand with silver highlighter dust mixed with a little rum.


Beyond all that, I also had a tasting and 3 dozen cupcakes. This week... I'm taking a break!

Happy Caking!!!

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