Duo of Cakes

Hello,

I recently was commissioned to create a pair of cakes for a double celebration, the 45th Anniversary of a good family friend and their birthday as well. I wanted to create something that would compliment each other and decided upon polka dots and rings, made of those dots.

The rings and polka dots were created out of modeling chocolate, which tastes like a tootsie rolls, and colored with food coloring. The notecards were created out of sugar.

Best,

Red Hat Society

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A very good customer of ours came in with a short notice request, to create a celebration cake for a member of the Red Hat Society, which a terrific organization!

Since we had only a day to create the cake, we decided to take the colors of the Society as inspiration, purple and red. One dogwood flavor in each color on a stark white cake, which makes the colors POP!

The flavor the cake was yellow butter cake with champagne buttercream.

Celebrating who We Love!

Hello,

We have recently created a few cakes to celebrate the people our client care about in their lives. Above is a series of examples.

Our turtle cake, a la Johnathon Adler, drew this reaction from our client. The cake is a yellow cake with a salted caramel buttercream.

Thanks again Jaycel. I took Erika with me to pick it up.
She freaked. The cake looks amazing. Absolutely perfect.
She started emailing photos of the cake to her girlfriends
immediately. Thanks for helping to make our anniversary a
little bit more special  I knew I could trust the
etiquette of chocolate vision. Tell Judy how pleased we are.

The Etiquette of...Cake

Hello Happy People,

After being in business for nearly a year with our very own boutique, learning about the environment that we are now in, after being in NYC, has allowed us to develop through trial and error our own philosophy of craftmanship and hospitality as we have gained commissions to do numerous cakes for a wide variety of clients. As a result, we wanted to display the principles and the expectations that you should expect of us when commissioning us to create the Centerpiece of Your Celebration. In the end, it all comes down to making people Happy!

• All cakes from Etiquette of Chocolate are made from scratch. Betty Crocker did not bake your cake! Jaycel Adkins, graduate of the French Culinary Institute and former intern at Ron Ben Israel Cakes did, period.
  
• Our icing is a Swiss Meringue Buttercream, which is a very light and smooth which floats on your tongue and retains the ability to carry an infinite number of flavors. Rather than blending confectionery sugar and butter/shortening, which creates a too sweet taste with a grainy mouthfeel. Sadly something EVERY bride has nodded in agreement with during our tastings.
• We work at your convenience, NOT at our own. Meaning, if you need for me to stay late in order to meet you for a tasting, no worries. If you cannot make it out from the beaches to Orange Park, let's set up a time when I can come out to the beaches to meet you, instead.
  (My civic gets great mileage!)
• Our training allows us to show our brides a far larger and more modern range of techniques that can be used to express the message they want their centerpiece to give. From sugarpaste flowers and notecards, which can be saved for years into the future as remembrances to stencils that recreate scenes from children's books.
• The consultation and tasting: We do not charge for consults/tastings. At our meeting, we will sample a cake with a variety of difference buttercreams based on your likes and dislikes. In addition, the overall concept and budget will lead to a general outline for a cake. Once you select us, we will create a very detailed proposal and then a sketch, showing you the concept that we are going to create. From there we can go back and forth, fine tuning the concept until it meets with your desires and vision.

In the next month, we will be creating a new series of display cakes, but we still love the ones we have now, to illustrate other techniques that we will be offering our customers, including sugarpaste flower bouquets, elaborate stencils, and story telling through cake with new flavors, such as the exquisite cherry blossom.

Please click on the labels down below to see the cakes we have crafted for our clients, thus far and browse through the blog....

We'll Miss You!

Hola!

I wanted to post a few photos of a 'going away' cake that we did for a customer who works at Vistakon. As always, we try to do something that is different yet playful with our cakes, so we created a driving map of the US, some post-its with the Vistakon logo on top, and naturally, since it is an office environment....a coffee stain!

The actual cake in the inside was Chocolate Butter Cake with Champagne Buttercream.

We are developing ALOT of new ways to present our cakes, doing playful riffs on traditional ideas, etc. and I am looking forward to sharing them with everyone once we start to do them.

Take Care!

Another week....hence...more cakes!

Hello,

Another week has passed with us making lots of fun cakes for clients. Here are some of them!

Best

week that was...

Hello,

So chocolate season has ended with the passing of Mother's Day, leaving us to a summer/fall of making cakes and more!

Here are some of the cakes that we did this week....two weddings, groom's cakes, congratulations cake, engagement cakes, etc. etc. etc.....