October 10, 2009
It is always a little disconcerting when someone you remember as teeny tiny suddenly is old enough to get married. My cousin Crystal is all grown up now, and a married woman as of today. She married a nice guy by the name of Jake Allen. Their cake had a layer for him, chocolate with cream cheese filling, and one for her, vanilla with fresh raspberries and strawberries, both covered in swiss meringue butter cream and homemade fondant.
Congratulations Mrs. and Mr. Allen!
August 22, 2009
It is hard to tell in this picture, but the entire surface of this cake has a silver shimmer. The bottom layer was devil’s food with fresh raspberries and strawberries. The middle tier is vanilla butter cake with the same fresh berries.
May 23, 2009
The mother of the bride was so sweet and happy for her daughter, that she, along with the cake, was just tickled pink. The feminine confection was a Meyer lemon cake filled with lemon curd and Swiss meringue butter cream all wrapped up with white, light, and dark pink fondant.
August 9, 2008
For a couple years now I have thought of entering a cake in the fair. In California, it didn’t seem to be real popular, for the size of the fair in LA there were never very many cakes. I wasn’t quite sure what to expect in my new home town. There was a fairly good turn out and some very beautiful cakes. Around 20 cakes were submited in four divisions, youth, amatuer, advanced, and professional.
I entered the advanced catagory, but there weren’t any guidelines and none of the cakes were labeled with the catagories. My cake was “named” Something Blue, we had to name our cakes and featured cornflower blue fondant and royal icing flowers and vines, with ribbon on the base and gumpaste flowers on top.
The judging was a little hard to follow, everyone got a blue ribbon to start with, high blue ribbons were awarded next, then two sweepstakes, four best in show and lastly a special award of Judges Choice, there were two judges, hence two awards. I recieved a high blue ribbon and a sweepstakes award, pretty satistifing for my first try. The cake that won best in show in my division was very well done and deserved to win, I didn’t mind coming in second to a beautiful design like that.
What do you think of our local talent?
July 1, 2008
Aren’t Gerbera daisies such a great summer wedding flower? It’s a fresh and pretty look I think. I had the good luck to get in touch with a friend that I went to high school with just in time to get invited to her reception. She made a beautiful bride! Best wishes to Monica and Gavin!
June 12, 2008
Some cakes are just more of a pleasure to make than others. This was one of them. First of all the couple was really sweet and easy to work with, and I loved the design they chose. It was from Martha Stewart Wedding Cakes, altered to suit their colors. The cake in the book had a tea cup with olive branches on top, which, ahem, wasn’t her cup o’ tea. So we discussed a couple of options, one of them being the peonies growing in my front yard. I watch the flowers for weeks waiting for them to bloom. They bloomed the very day of the wedding, perfect white peonies. The cake was chocolate with raspberry and chocolate fudge fillings, iced with vanilla butter cream and covered in fondant. Congratulations to Eric and Liz!
May 20, 2008
Here is a topsy turvy wedding cake I did recently. It was a nice light carrot cake covered in vanilla buttercream and fondant. The pearls you see are edible and the entire cake was covered in gold luster dust. Finished off with a black ribbon and a floral cake topper.
February 20, 2008
