Finally.... A Lorax Cake!

Good Afternoon Ya'll!


I hope you all are having a good day today, for us in Philadelphia it has been raining for the last couple of days and today is no exception. So on this rainy day I have decided to blog a little bit. I had been waiting all year to do a cake like this.. I have seen plenty of pictures on the internet from other cake decorators but no one had ordered from me until a couple of weeks ago! Yes folks, I finally got to do a Lorax theme birthday cake:) See for us cake decorators we love it when we get to do new characters or design we haven't done yet.. it gets kind of boring doing the same cakes. So when an old York client L, asked me if I could do a Lorax theme cake for his daughter I jumped at the chance to do it. I have been wanting to do a Lorax figure for a while now... of course he was the first thing I made for the cake. Of course I made some Truffula trees to go on the cake as well. I love the meaning behind the story and I think the movie was soo cute. I think kids are never to young to learn more about conservation efforts.

The only thing that dampened my mood when the cake was done was realizing now I have to drive 2 hours to deliver it back to York. So I packed up the cake. Jayden and myself and we made the trip back to York to drop off the cake. By the time I got back home it was already dark and half the day was gone so from that experience I have decided that unless its for a huge party cake or a wedding, I will be limiting by deliveries to York. It just takes up too much of my time to deliver just one cake. I love my York customers but doing that drive all the time is a bit much. Other than that, this cake was soo much fun to make.. I hope I get to make another so I can do something a little different.

Peace & Blessings

Pink Passion!

Hi Ya'll!!!!

I am back after about a month of not blogging! The reason for the long delay is that I relocated. I am now a resident of Philadelphia:) We have been settled into our new place for about a week and half now and I have already done two cakes here. I am working on a third this week for a York client for her husband's 50th birthday. Oh I how love those kinds of birthday cakes. But back to the post at hand.... Pink Passion! Earlier in the month of October I had the pleasure of making a sweet 16 cake for a sweet girl, Brooke. Her mom came to me earlier in the summer to discuss her daughter's birthday cake. From the initial conception to the actual delivery of the cake, many things have changed but still the cake out great! Brooke is a dancer who loves the color pink and when I mean loves the color pink... she LOVES pink. So suggested that her cake be different shades of the color pink which she absolutely loved the idea. She also wanted to include something referencing to her being a dancer but that would fit into the overall design of the cake as well. So we decided to use silhouette of dancers in black around the bottom tier. This is also one of a few cakes in which I had to make sugar roses in various shades of pink. Now I love sugar flowers but making them can be a pain in the rear..but this time around I didn't mind it so much. Once you get an assembly line going it goes by fast.

When her mom met me to pink up the cake, her facial expression was all I needed to know that I got it right:) She later emailed me to let me know that Brooke loved it just as much as she did:)

Well that's it for now.. I should have another post this weekend for ya!

Peace & Blessings

Changes are a coming!

Hey Ya'll!
This is just a quick note to let you know why I have been missing in action for the last two months..not only I have I been very busy with cakes and finishing up my wedding cake orders for the season... I am in the middle of packing to relocate to Philadelphia, PA!!! Yes I know my York,PA clients are NOT happy about this but it is a move that been have been planning for awhile now and the hubby got a transfer with his company so we are going:) I am excited for the business and what is to come doing cakes in a much bigger city. So please bare with me while I make the transition and I promise to try to get another post before the weekend is over to show some cakes.

Peace & Blessings,
Kima

Oh Baby Showers!

Hi Ya'll!
I have been doing a lot of caking lately so I have been busy but I have noticed that my baby shower orders typically come in clusters. I'll get a few scattered here and there and BAM! I'll client 3 or 4 clients asking about baby shower cakes in the same week. So I thought it would be fitting to do a post dedicated to baby shower cakes:)

First up we have the baby shower cake I just delivered this past weekend to the Springettsbury Township Park in Springettsbury, PA. It a really nice park and lots open space, so if you are an outdoor person and have a shower coming up I would recommend that location.

This cake really didn't have a theme, my client K saw a cake online and sent me the photo to replicate it. So you know how I feel about doing someone's else exact same cake so I put my whole little twist on it. The baby booties were different in that mind where hand made and not from a mold. I also made my gift box part of the cake a little different as well. The cake flavor was vanilla with vanilla buttercream.

The next baby shower cake I did a couple of months but since my photos were bad (need to get a better camera) I never posted them. My client actually sent me some photos yesterday when her sister in law wanted to place an order for guess what?? A baby shower cake for her niece:) So here are the pictures she sent me. The cake was an 11x15 sheet cake with an 8 inch square on top. For the life of me I can't remember what the flavors were but the theme was "Eat your Peas & Carrots" so I made the 8 inch square look like a garden with a hand molded baby (my babies look so much better now than this one) and some hand molded vegetables. The "dirt" was crushed oreo cookies.The cake was delivered to Shank's Mare in Wrightsville, PA. It is a store located on the bank of the Susquehanna River that specializes in outdoor equipment rentals and tours of the area. They also have a meeting facility upstairs that they rent out for events like baby showers!

The last baby shower cake was for a client D, I did about 2 weeks ago and was delivered locally to a bed n breakfast here in York City. The name of the bed and breakfast is Grace Manor B & B on West Market Street in York, PA. The inn so is cozy and has all of the detailing and sophistication of an earlier era. The cake in the shape of a lady's church hat in various shades of brown and beige with ruffle flowers and sugar beads. D also order cupcakes as well to go with the main cake which were decorated with little babies wearing hats.

So that is what I have been up to lately..more to come:)

Peace & Blessings
Kima

Hubby's 30th Birthday!

Soo I have officially slacked off again with my blog! Great thing is have been busy, bad thing my blog has suffered. So I am going to work backwards starting today to get caught up yet again. Since today is my husband's 30th birthday I decided to talk about his cake and go back from there. So I have a huge wedding and baby shower this weekend so I couldn't give my hubby another party like last year so I decided to keep it simple and make a cake and surprise him at his job.

So I asked him what flavor and theme he wanted.. of course he said Amaretto (which has been his favorite flavor since he tried it) but he surprised me with the theme..Superman. I say, "Superman? Really??" and he says, "yes Superman!". So Superman it is.. I made a mini 2 tier cake (5 and 7 inch rounds) covered in blue fondant. The one thing I did differently was I made Swiss Meringue Buttercream for the first time.. and boy let me tell you..it is sooo freaking DELICIOUS!!! No lie! All family cakes will be made with this buttercream from now on and I will offer it to my clients now. It takes some work to make, but it is soo worth it. It has silky smooth texture and its not overly sweet..it just melts in your mouth. And I don't even like buttercream so that is saying something!

Back to the cake..so I made some stars, hand molded 30 and a the superman logo to on the cake. Nice and simple the way my hubby is:) He loved it so I am happy. Now off to make cookies, cake pops, and etc.. for this wedding.

Peace & Blessings
Kima

XBOX360 Cake

Good Evening Ya'll
   I don't know how I let so much time passed before I put up another post! I just happened to look at the last date and realize OMG it has been almost 2 weeks! So I am now back with new post:) So obviously from the title that the post about an XBOX360 cake that I did about 2/3 weeks ago for a local client. She ordered the cake for her son's birthday. She said he loves XBOX and that he specifically likes the black one (not the white one:( I think that one looks better lol). So of course I told her no problem. About a year ago I did a PS3 cake (with the help of the hubby), so I knew if I can do a PS3 then I knew I could do the XBOX360. She also asked for the controller but it wasn't a very important part of the cake so I decided to work more on the XBOX part of the cake than the controller. Next time if I get an order for a bigger one, I will definitely had more detail but the key to being a cake decorator is to not spend sooo much time on a design that you don't make money from it. Meaning since this was a smaller order I can't spend the same amount of time on it that I would for a bigger order (more expensive order). The key is to price accordingly to how many hours you think it would take to decorate that particular order plus the ingredients/supplies needed to make the cake. If I had my way I would work longer on all of my cakes, but then I wouldn't make any money lol. So yeah below are some pictures I took before the hubby delivered the cake.

White Chocolate cake with Vanilla Buttercream filling. 

Peace & Blessings
Kima

Owl Themed 1st Birthday Cake

Good Afternoon Ya'll!

It seems that every where you look owl are popping up and in the cake world (or cake land as the hubby says I existent in) it is even more prominent. So I was not surprised when my client A contacted me to do a owl themed first birthday party for her daughter Mia. We talked extensively about her order to make sure everything was perfect. I am used to that when it comes to first birthdays and weddings. She already had a picture of the cake she wanted, so once I took a look at it I knew I could do this cake with no problems. Now most of the time I don't like to replicate someone's work but when the client want that specific design you just have to suck it up and do it. In this case the design was close to something I would have done anyway so I didn't mind to much.

So we decided on a 2 tier cake, a smash cake for Mia (which are free for first birthdays) and a dozen cupcakes.

 The top tier was red velvet with cream cheese buttercream and the bottom tier was 1/2 chocolate and 1/2 vanilla with white chocolate buttercream. The owl was made from chocolate fondant as well as the tree, the little mice and squirrel. The balloon is fondant a bit of tylose added to it to stiffen it up to get the balloon shape. The cake was covered in more yummy chocolate fondant. 

Mia's Smash Cake- All of the first birthday smash cakes are about this size and are decorated to match the main cake. Her cake was 1/2 chocolate and 1/2 vanilla and covered in chocolate fondant. 

The matching cupcakes were so simple, but so cute. The flavor was Oreo Overload with a vanilla buttercream to provide a blank canvas for the fondant buttons I made that were on the cakes as well. 

 My client A loved the cakes and cupcakes so that makes me happy. I wouldn't mind doing this theme again but in another color scheme maybe something for a little boy.

Peace & Blessings
Kima