Friday, September 11, 2009

Twilight Cake

Cake is one layer chocolate, one layer vanilla with chocolate buttercream filling. Covered in fondant. Serves 30. Decorations made of fondant.

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Ron Ben-Israel Sugar Flower Class




This is a cake which was made by Kerry who is a very talented cake designer at Custom Cakes in Savannah, GA. The flowers were made by Ron. Beautiful! Here I am with Ron Ben-Israel who is a master at creating extremely beautiful flowers out of sugarpaste.Thank you Ron for a great class. I'm looking forward to making some for future clients. Next photo is of me and Minette Rushing, the owner of Custom Cakes in Savannah, GA. Thank you Minette for hosting the class! Check out Ron's website at www.weddingcakes.com

Monday, February 23, 2009

Kate's Pink Hearts Cupcake Tower



Red Velvet Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Buttercream frosting and fondant hearts.

Friday, January 23, 2009

Texas Longhorn Grooms Cake

This little guy was a chocolate cake with buttercream frosting. Serves 30.

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Watch cake

Almond buttermilk cake with raspberry filling, vanilla buttercream and fondant. Edible image of the watch. This is a replica of a $200,000 watch. Serves 20.

Sunday, January 18, 2009

Baby shower cupcakes

100 cupcakes. Flavors: Chocolate and vanilla.

Thursday, January 15, 2009

More Halloween Wedding Cake

Another photo of the Halloween Wedding Cake. Image taken by Abbey of London Photography.

Saturday, January 3, 2009

Rocky Cake

Here's Jordana with the surprise cake she had Lise's Bakery make for her new husband who is a huge Rocky fan. The cake was for their rehearsal dinner and was a red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting.

Sunday, November 30, 2008

Brooke & Joshua's Wedding Cake


3 tiers (6", 9" 12") - 85 servings. White cake with raspberry filling and amaretto buttercream finished with almond flavored fondant. Damask stencil design done with black royal icing. Bow and ribbon are made out of a 50/50 mix of fondant/gumpaste and dusted with pearl luster dust. Cake board is covered in fondant with satin ribbon around edge. The wedding took place at The Addison in Boca Raton. It is a lovely venue and the cake design was inspired by some beautiful wrought iron doors in the main dining room as well as the bride's dress which included a bow and flowing ribbons.


Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Danay & Albert's Wedding Cake

This 4-tiered cake included a 6", 10", 12" and 16" cake. 2 of the tiers were yellow cake with pineapple rum filling. 1 tier was white cake with strawberry filling. And the other tier was white cake with raspberry filling. All 4 tiers were finished with vanilla buttercream and almond fondant. The bronze colored bow and ribbons were made of fondant dusted with luster dust. 157 servings.

Albert's Groom's Cake

A 10" square tier and a 14" square tier. This is a chocolate cake with strawberry filling, chocolate buttercream and chocolate fondant which tastes just like a tootsie roll. Chocolate covered strawberries surround the top tier. Serves 93.

Monday, September 29, 2008

Wedding cake

Racetrack Car Cake - 40th Birthday

Chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream frosting, finished with buttercream flavored fondant. 30 servings.

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Nautical 50th Birthday Cake

A 5oth birthday with nautical theme. This 3 tiered cake was a carrot cake with cream cheese buttercream and creme bouquet flavored rolled fondant. What is creme bouquet? It is a combo of vanilla, almond, orange and lemon. Delicious! Approx. 50 servings. The party was at the Lighthouse Point Yacht Club.

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Adam's 30th Birthday

This present cake is a 10" square white chiffon cake with vanilla buttercream and almond fondant. Serves 30.

Saturday, May 31, 2008

Melanie's Wedding Cake

This is such a popular style wedding cake right now. It is a 3-tiered cake covered in fondant with real satin ribbon wrapped around the base of each tier. Sizes of cakes are: 6-inch, 10-inch, and 14-inch. 100 servings. Real Calla Lillies on top.

Happy Couple - photo #2

Happy Couple

The bride and groom are made of gumpaste, surrounded by fresh flowers on top of a 2-tiered fondant covered cake. The cake sizes are a 6-inch round 10-inch round on the bottom. 50 servings.

Nikon Camera Cake

The camera is made out of cake and fondant. It was a grooms cake for a photographer. It is sitting on a 12-inch square red velvet cake with vanilla buttercream and fondant.

Sunday, May 4, 2008

Sturdivant & Salem's Wedding Cake

The wedding took place at Gulfstream Golf Club. The 3 tiered wedding cake consisted of 2 different flavors. The top and bottom tiers were almond chiffon cake with almond buttercream filling. The middle tier was a lemon chiffon cake with lemon curd filling and lemon buttercream. The hexagon shaped cake was covered in white fondant with a light green sugarpaste bead border, sugarpaste bow and fresh orchids. The base of the cake was covered in white royal icing and finished with a pale green satin ribbon (the color is called lemongrass). The beautiful round silver cake stand was rented from Lise's Bakery.

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Work In Progress

Lise (right) and Andrea apply the sugarpaste beads to the cake using a small brush and a little bit of water to "glue" each bead to the cake. Each sugar bead was rolled by hand and there were approximately 275 beads on the cake.

Sunday, March 9, 2008

DeAngela's Wedding Cake

DeAngela's wedding took place at Winston Trails Country Club in Lake Worth. Her 3 tiered square cake consisted of several flavors. The bottom tier was yellow cake with strawberry filling, the middle tier was yellow cake with chocolate ganache filling and the top tier was yellow cake with vanilla buttercream filling. All 3 tiers were covered with a layer of vanilla buttercream and then white fondant brushed with pearl luster dust. The gold scrolls were handmade out of sugarpaste painted with an edible gold paint. There were styrofoam risers in between the tiers to create more height. The risers were covered in gold fondant. The flowers on top were fresh calla lillies and orchids. The beautiful square silver cake stand was rented from Lise's Bakery.

Sunday, March 2, 2008

Holly's Wedding Cake

Holly's wedding took place at the Singer Island Hilton on the beach. Holly's wedding cake consisited of yellow cake with vanilla buttercream frosting and strawberry filling. It was decorated with silver dragees and fresh orchids. The cake topper (which was provided by the bride) was a seated groom with ball and chain. The bride is holding the key.

Sand Dollar Wedding Cookie Favor

This is one of Holly's wedding cookie favors. She also gave out the flip flop cookie. Half of her guests received the sand dollar and half of her guests received the flip flop cookie which were both perfect for her beach wedding at the Singer Island Hilton.

Welcome Andrea!


Welcome Andrea Houren - my new assistant. Andrea's background is in nursing, but she also has a passion for baking and cake decorating. She has taken Wilton Cake Decorating classes and has made some beautiful cakes and cookies for her friends and family. She has recently started helping me and assisted me on my most recent project - a wedding cake (shown here) and some adorable wedding cookie favors. We made the cutest little flip flop cookies (photo below) and also sand dollar cookies (photo to come).
Thank you, Andrea, for all of your help! I'm looking forward to working on more fun projects in the very near future!

Friday, February 29, 2008

Saturday, January 19, 2008

Colette Peters

In November, I was fortunate enough to take a Colette Peters cake decorating class at the Notter School of Pastry Arts in Orlando. It was a 4 day course which I thoroughly enjoyed and learned so much from this very talented lady who you might have seen on the food network or maybe you have seen one of her cake books. She has written 5 wonderful books with information on how to create some of her beautiful cake designs. For more information on Colette, go to www.colettescakes.com and view some of her beautiful work. She also posts her class schedule on her website.

Monday, January 7, 2008

Kelley's Wedding Cake


Kelley's wedding took place at the Jupiter Yacht Club. This wedding cake had 2 tiers of one flavor and 2 tiers of another. The 1st and 3rd tiers were chocolate cake with raspberry filling and vanilla buttercream frosting. The 2nd and 4th tiers were yellow cake with chocolate orange swiss meringue buttercream filling/frosting. All tiers were covered in fondant.