Cake and Cupcakes

Hi,

One popular option many brides are doing now is the whole cupcake craze, started I think by Magnolia Bakery in NYC of Sex and the City fame.

The bride did what I think is the best option, combining a small presentation cake with cupcakes.

A wedding without some sort of presentation cake is very boring to me.

Cakes provide a touch of pizazz!

Coming to a Magazine near you...

Hello,

One of my favorite cakes of the summer was this cake which was the subject of my last post before disappearing to work on the opening of the bakery.

I have included some close-ups of the flowers.

Soon, this cake will appear in a wedding magazine, which I will post about once it happens.

Enjoy!

Poker Cake

Hello,

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!

Back in the Saddle AGAIN!

Hello!

I'm glad to be back posting on my blog after an absence as I opened up my business as a full-time bakery and eatery called "Love and Laughter Bakery & Eatery." But I am keeping Etiquette of Chocolate the same, after all it's the same business with the owner, just Up-Sized!

I will be posting throughout the week with many of the cakes that were completed during the build-out.

Best

Recent Cake

Hello,

I recently created a cake for a very discerning bride, Sarah, whose wedding was June 6 and held her reception at the University Club.

While my own camera has issues (why I haven't put on new photos!), I am immensely lucky to have one of my cakes photographed by a talented local photographer, Scarlett Lillian.

I think the photos speak volumes about her talent...and how great the cake turned out!

It was a five tier, ivory fondant covered cake with a bejeweled belt in gold and jewel tones on the third tier. In addition, I added bejeweled sugar blossoms of poppies and a new rose I am developing.

I am in the process of opening up a Bakery and Eatery in my current location, no worries, Etiquette of Chocolate isn't going anywhere! Just expanding our horizons!

Updates Soon! I promise!!

Kind Regards

Who won?

Hello,

I blogged about a contest for St. Judes Hospital that I took part in at the beginning of the year! I never posted about it until now because I have been way too busy. Here is the results:

I did not win, but got great compliments from the Head Judge about the flavor of my cake. I think that my style/vision just was too different to from all the other contestants!

The inspiration of my cake was "PEANUTS." The cause for the event, plus the idea of what makes a marriage work, lead me to use 'PEANUTS' characters and the virtues that they represent to create my cake. I have included both a photo of my cake, the winning cake, some of the other cakes that were presented.

The photos are from: www.steamykitchen.com

Best

Marisa and Levi's Wedding

Hello!

I apologize for not posting in a LONG time, I have been busy planning an exciting venture for Etiquette of Chocolate and look forward to posting TONS about in the very near future!

But, before that, I wanted to start posting some of the weddings I have done thus far this year.

One of the best couples to work with, Marisa and Levi, but married at the White Room earlier this year, and were a great couple to work with, both are have designer backgrounds, so their tastes were very much on point and particular.

The theme of the wedding was Honey, Nuts, and Oaths, playing off of an amazing Invitation that Marisa and Co. put together with her being a squirrel and Levi being a bear that told the story of their meeting, love affair, and marriage!! I think she should be an invite designer, for sure!

The cake itself was a play off of one of our designs, "Lily." The fondant itself was colored 'gooseberry' with a chocolate brown stenciled tree crawling up the front of the cake with dogwood appliques, golden bejeweled chestnuts, golden leaves, and an amazing ceramic cake topper of a bear and a squirrel bride and groom.

I really recommend brides looking at this type of design, when planning on doing something unique with their cake. The cake should be an expression of who the both of you are. But the great thing is that you can take an established design and tweak it to your own desires.

I am sure this wedding is going to be in some magazines and blogs in the near future and I am very happy to have been a part of it!

Warm Regards,

J