New week/New Technique

Hello,

One of my favorite customers, who always pushes for new ideas/designs, commissioned a baby shower cake this weekend. She supplied us with photos from another cake company, Pink Cake Box, out of NJ.

In addition, she ordered party favor goodie bags which contained assorted milk and dark chocolate almond clusters which were tied in yellow and green ribbons, the color theme of the party.

The couple atop the cake was formed out of modeling chocolate (which tastes like a tootsie roll!).

The extra tall tiers were carrot cake/cream cheese buttercream and chocolate cake/cookies and cream buttercream. There are actually two tiers of cake in each cake, doubling the servings and creating this effect.

I am excited to be bringing a new medium to the decoration of our cakes, offering something new to our clients.

Great Photographer

Hello,

I wanted to highlight one of the best photographers in Northeast Florida, Agnes Lopez. She is a Knot Pick and her style is truly unique and allows her clients events to shine. She is also the photographer of our cakes on our website and has photographed three of our cakes, thus far.

Here is to hoping that she will be photographing many more.

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Wedding Cake

Hello,

I just completed a wedding cake and groom's cake for a wedding with a Mardi Gras Theme. The wedding cake design was supplied by the bride who wanted a gold beads, fleur de lys, and a quilted pattern on the even tiers.

The flavors of the wedding cake were almond cake and vanilla bean buttercream.

The groom's cake was a sculpted cake in the shape of a Miller Lite bottle with logo. The flavors of this cake were Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Buttercream.

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Why I create Cakes....

Hello,

I found this excerpt from another budding chef's blog.

" ....when i finally closed my eyes and tried, what I wanted came to me with complete clarity. The place that I went, the place that I still go, was the warm, hollowed-out center of a Bundt cake. It is usually gingerbread, though sometimes that changes. Sometimes it's gingerbread crowned in a ring of poached pears. The walls that surround me are high and soft, but as they go up they curve back, open up to the light, so I feel protected by the cake but never trapped by it. There are a few loose crumbs around my feet, clnging to my hair, and the smell! The ginger and butter the lingering subtlety of vanilla... I press my cheek against the cake, which is soft as eiderdown and still warm.
.......Cakes have gotten a bad rap. People equate virtue with turning down dessert.
There is always one person at the table who holds up her hand when i serve cake.
No, really, I couldnt, she says and then gives her flat stomach a conspiratorial little pat. Everyone who is pressing a fork into that first tender layer looks at the person who declined the plate, and they all think, That person is better than I am. That person is discipline. but that isn't a person with discipline, that is a person who has completely lost touch with joy. A slice of cake never made anybody fat. You dont eat the whole cake. You dont eat a cake everyday of your life. You take the cake when it is offered because the cake is delicious. You have a slice of cake and what it reminds you of is someplace thats safe,uncomplicated, without stress. A cake is a party, a birthday, a wedding. A cake is what's served on the happiest days of your life. "... Jeanne Ray

Bridal Shower Cake

The cake was beautiful and delicious yesterday – the bride was really impressed. Thank you for making me look good!
- P. F.


Hello,

I had two bridal shower cakes this weekend, but was only able to photograph one, since the other was out the door before I remembered to take a photo, which is a shame, but I have a similar cake at the end of the, so I can post that one.

This cake was inspired by "Ella," one of our display wedding cakes, but with a deep orange poppy with medallion center and a gold band around the base.

The flavor the cake was chocolate cake with hazelnut praline buttercream.

Red Hat Society

Hello,

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.

1st Birthday Cake

Hello,

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.