Poker Cake

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This poker cake was commissioned as a Birthday Celebration for a customer's boyfriend. She brought in a sample photo from a cake designer in England. The actual cake is a 14 inch square.

The playing cards on the top of the cake were hand drawn on sugar-crafted cards that I made and then inked with a food safe pen. I left the images in black and white, because I wanted the client to be able to have the cards as a keep sake and colors would fade after a while on the mantle top.

The poker chips were made with two circle cutters and a knife to make indentions around the rim of the coins.

Enjoy!

Birthday Cake

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This cake was created for one of the best customers I have, who has gotten numerous cakes from us over the year we have been open.

A birthday cake that takes a bit of inspiration from the Jaguars with the teal rings and dots.

Birthday Cake

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Last week, I had the pleasure to create the birthday cake for, Agnes Lopez, one of the best photographers in Northeast Florida and a good friend of mine. She has many exciting ventures on her plate and I am very happy to call her a friend!

The flavor was carrot cake with pecan cream cheese buttercream.

Birthday Cake

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Here is a cake that was done for one of my mother's customers, whose daughter was celebrating her 12th birthday. She wanted something different and elegant. After studying our blog and website, she wanted a white fondant cake with a butterfly and our signature bejeweled Poppy!

The flavors of the cake were chocolate cake with cookies and cream.

Sea Horses, she loves sea horses!

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Earlier in the week, I dropped off a little cake in Amelia Island for a client from Scotland, whose family was renting a beach house to celebrate her sister's 60th birthday.

The cake was inspired by the sister's love of sea horses, which lead me to create a textured stencil plus some sea shells, etc.

The cake is a carrot cake with pecan cream cheese buttercream.

Duo of Birthday Cakes

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This week involved the creation of two birthday cakes that were actually inspired by wedding cakes that we have created!

The first cake was inspired by "Eve" our dogwood flower cake with jeweled centers that is in our cake gallery. The clients wanted everything to be chocolate, hence we created a chocolate cake with chocolate fondant. But we included three different buttercreams that compliment one another: Mocha, Hazelnut, and Cookies and Cream.

The second cake was created via email with another client we was inspired by our "Lola" cake. She wanted something elegant for her birthday but staying within a budget. So I created this 10 inch cake inspired by "Lola" with the lace effects, but without making the cake topsy turvy. The flavor of the cake was a chocolate butter cake with cream cheese and hazelnut buttercream with crushed Heath Bar bits mixed in!

Cinderella Birthday Cake

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Today I had a client pick up a cake for her daughter's 5th Birthday. We talked and designed the cake over email mostly and came up with this design. We first wanted to do a Walt Disney World Castle theme, but after creating the stencil for the castle, I felt that it looked odd and decided to add a stencil of Cinderella as well. The medallions around the top edge of the cake express the princess theme and the borders are based on the ramparts of a castle.

The flavor of the cake was Yellow Butter Cake and Raspberry Buttercream.

Betty Crocker!?....taking it back to Old School

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This is actually the second such cake I have created for a client based on an old technique popularized by Betty Crocker. While I promise that I don't use mixes in my cakes, I can't help but take inspiration from my clients.

The occasion was a Birthday Party for a young girl, "Lily." The Hula Skirt is yellow cake with vanilla bean buttercream. The base is chocolate cake with cookies and cream. The skirt itself is formed from molding chocolate which I scored to create the plant effect.

The bikini top is made of modeling chocolate, as well.

Best

1st Birthday Cake

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Also this weekend I was commissioned to create a birthday cake to celebrate the 1st birthday of one of our customers children, who discovered us via Kristen's Wedding Cake (I want that cake in the window!).

The source of inspiration was the invitation that the mother provided, for her son's pool party birthday. I created a cutout using the invitation as a stencil and then sketched the details of the invitation onto the sugarpaste with food safe markers.

60th Birthday Cake

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Many people have chosen to take a motif/design from one of our wedding cake displays and turn them into cakes for other occasions, such as birthdays, baby showers, etc.

Here is an example of taking our 'Lily' cake and using it as inspiration to create a birthday cake to celebrate the 60th birthday of one of my mother's customers. The cake is a two tier cake with a golden tree that has two orchids erupting from the branches, slightly magical, since orchids don't grow on trees, but it's cake, not a botany book!

The flavor of the cake was two tiers of chocolate cake with a one tier being chocolate buttercream and the other being cookies and cream.

The Cake is Out There....

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After creating birthday cakes for little kids, we got the chance to make a fun cake for a 'big kid,' who turned 18. Our client's daughter is a major X-Files fan, so the younger brother suggested that theme and we came up with the idea of having the birthday message as part of a 'top secret' folder on top of the cake. We also air brushed the logo of the X-files on the side of the cake with black airbrush spray and utilizing a negative stencil technique.

The flavor of the cake was a chocolate butter cake with chocolate buttercream and cookies and cream buttercream.

Storybook Cakes

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When we do cakes where the occasion is the birthday of a small child, one technique/theme we recommend is to take a favorite book and translate that using our talent/technique into something special.

Here are some examples.

All boys like trucks....right?

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Here is a cake that you recently did for a little boy for his birthday. That was all we had to go on....so we figured that all little boys like trucks, right? I think so.....I know that I did!

The inside was a red velvet cake with cream cheese buttercream. We made the buttercream our way, i.e. a swiss meringue rather than american-style.

Skater's Birthday Cake

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One of our best customers ordered a cake for her son, an avid skateboarder. After looking at the brand of boards he liked, we brainstormed and came up with this cake!

She recently emailed us with their reaction:

Judy and Jaycel,

What can we say that we haven't already said about your talents?! Langston's cake was a HUGE hit at his party this past weekend. Everyone was in complete AWE of the "Grinder's Cake". Him and his buddy decided that they would actually EAT the skateboards that you made:) Of course, both boys had black, red, yellow and orange lips - which was priceless! Langston even enjoyed "wearing" the grinding rail around his neck for a while:) The buttercream - WOW - the bananas were the most outstanding touch to that cake! You have GOT to keep that in your recipe list. Those, mixed with the chocolate - absolute heaven! The Krown Skeleton and Happy Birthday plaque are going to be saved and shadowboxed for him to remember. Langston is already coming up with ideas for next year's cake! Thank you again for making my son's day so special. It is definitely a birthday he will remember for years to come.

Happy Baking!

What can we say....we try our best!

Can you do something simple....?

Hello,

We have been getting ALOT of requests for rather 'simple' cakes for birthdays. Many people think that we only do elaborate wedding cakes or birthday cakes, i.e. drums or shoes! But we also love making rather simple and elegant birthday cakes for small intimate gatherings, as well!

We really like to pipe a small tablet, made out of chocolate, wishing the lucky person "Happy Birthday" rather than writing directly on the cake, it doesn't look as nice, we think. Also, while you certainly can, we have found that alot of people don't want to put candles into the cake! Go figure!?! Guys tend to be more geometric while the Gals prefer the flowers.

Take cake!

Birthday Cake for Fashionista...

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We recently did a fun cake for two of our best customers in our boutique in Orange Park. They came in and said they wanted to commission a birthday cake for a dear friend's 42nd birthday. The sad and surprising note was that this would be her VERY FIRST birthday cake! Can you imagine?!?

Needless to say, the pressure to create something EXTRA SPECIAL was on us! But we were VERY EXCITED, because this was the reason that we became pastry chefs: helping people to celebrate the special people and moments in their lives.

After some consultation we came up the idea of a shoe cake, specifically a JIMMY CHOO cake! Very sexy!

Given the subject and inspiration this became Judy's project.

Naturally the cake would be the shoe box. She then would have to create handmade shoes out of sugar paste. The writing on the box and shoes were done using a food safe pen free hand. We colored the cake pink using an airbrush, channeling our INNER DUFF! (Ace of Cakes reference). The Happy Birthday Note would be the Receipt.

One the day of the pickup (we normally drop off cakes, i.e. wedding cakes are ONLY delivered by us) the couple came in and thought that we had been cheap skates and BOUGHT REAL SHOES! But after some discussion, they were very happy and pleased!

....a few weeks later.....

Our couple returned and had a great story! After showing the cake to the Birthday Girl, she was so happy and thought that the cake was too beautiful to eat....SHE WENT TO PUBLIX AND BOUGHT ANOTHER CAKE TO SERVE PEOPLE AT HER PARTY!!!!!

We don't recommend that course of action, but....we are proud of the look of our cakes!

In the end we were so happy with the circumstance, because when you work hard to create something for such a special event, you so desperately want your labor to result in making the clients smile in appreciation and happiness!

ROCK OUT MY SON'S CAKE!!

"It was the hit of the party!!!! It was delicious! Gave your cards out, everyone loved it! Thank you, will recommend to all. ;)"

- Stacey H.


Hello,

Over the past weekend we did a cake for a client whose son was celebrating his 16th Birthday. Our inspiration was that that he was in a band, which lead us to sketch a preliminary concept, which was adjusted by photos provided by his mom, we rocked out this cake.

The 'Marshall' amp is an almond cake with wild strawberry buttercream.

The drum is a carrot cake with cream cheese pecan icing. We created the blue color effect by airbrushing. (Which can be slightly nerve racking....because if you mess up.....can't grab an eraser!)

The guitar picks are made out of white chocolate, colored with cocoa butter colors with "16" piped onto each one to be used as party favors.

The drum sticks were made out of sugar paste earlier in the week to let them completely dry out.

Take Cake!