Jungle Book, The Musical

Almost caught up! In March the Rocklin Youth Theater Company put on a production of The Jungle Book. For the cast party we had a Jungle themed cake, complete with a tiger striped marble cake (altered version of a zebra cake) in Shere Khan's honor! The bottom tier has scenes of the monkey's ruins, and the village. The middle tier is Council Rock, and the top tier is the canopy of the jungle.

Elliot Adler's Birthday

My friend and Uncle Elliot Adler, who designed my logo, had his birthday in August and I wanted to translate one of his beautiful works of art into cake! Here is the cake along side the print I used to inspire me!

A Shower and Mother's Day

My Mother's Day creation in 2010 replicated a quilted look with pearl details. The cake was a champagne cake with champagne frosting and fresh strawberries. This is my favorite cake! The bubbles keep the cake so light! And champagne and strawberries are definitely a great combination.

For a wedding shower I made another Marimekko poppy cake. This one had golden poppies to match the invitation seen in the picture below.

More Catching Up!

Little League Baseball cake!
This is another end of season Little League cake. This one is for the Yankees. It had layers of chocolate and vanilla. IT also had the players' numbers on individual baseballs around the bottom tier so that each child had their own piece with their number! It was a big hit!

Catching Up!

It's been a long time since I posted but I have still been making cakes! So in April of 2009, it was birthday season again and I made some fun cakes for my boys. For my 9 year old we had a stack of Diary of a Wimpy Kid books. He took a group of friends to the movie and then we enjoyed the chocolate chocolate cake!

Then my five year old wanted a volcano cake that would erupt and the lava would cover dinosaurs. So I am to please and I created a volcano with plenty of dinosaurs. The lava was made from food coloring, water and marshmallow fluff (totally edible!). The eruption and "smoke" was created by using dry ice which caused the lava to bubble and flow down the volcano. Of course the cake was chocolate with lava red frosting in between the layers.

Biggest Project Yet!

Well, I took on my biggest project yet which had a few bumps along the way but it all worked out and everyone was loved the result. The project was a wedding reception last weekend. The couple had gotten married on Valentine's Day but were having an informal June reception. The schedule posed a unique problem. The reception was an open house that lasted all day with both lunch and dinner being served. Since people would come and go before the cake was scheduled to be cut at 7:00pm. The solution we came up with was to serve petit fours during the day with lunch and save the cake for the cutting in the evening. So there were 35 petit fours and a two layer cake. Both were lemon cake with raspberry preserves, lemon Italian meringue buttercream, and fresh raspberries. The cake is covered in fondant and decorated with gumpaste and real flowers. The petit fours were covered in poured fondant and decorated with the same gumpaste flowers. The bride is a big time pirate fan and likes chocolate cake therefore there was also a bride's cake (instead of a groom's) which was pirate themed and chocolate with a brown sugar Italian meringue buttercream.

Little League Cake

Hello! My newest creation is a cake for a Little League end of the season party. It was fun to make. Each tier is one layer of vanilla and one layer of chocolate with a vanilla buttercream frosting. All decorations are fondant or gumpaste. The best part was that the baseballs around the bottom tier had each player's name and number and made a perfect slice for each one. The kids were thrilled! One of the kids was so impressed that everything was edible that he took a huge bite right out of the fondant bat, he said he liked it!