Showing posts with label vanilla bean buttercream. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vanilla bean buttercream. Show all posts

Sunday, July 24, 2011

Baby Shower Pram and Butterflies Cake


A two tier blue fondant cake for a Baby Shower. The first tier is pound cake with vanilla bean buttercream and the top tier has carrot cake with a cream cheese frosting.


The mother is pushing a pram with baby twins inside, while the groom is prsenting his proposal with a surprise ring.


A twig of apple blossoms and fondant butterflies add extra decoration to the cake.

Sunday, November 29, 2009

Blackjack Cake and Cupcakes with Poker Chips


This Blackjack theme cake is red velvet with a Madagascar vanilla bean buttercream filling and is decorated with playing cards and piles of poker chips. Fondant card suit cut outs and colored beads surround the cake.

An assortment of red velvet and chocolate cupcakes with vanilla bean buttercream are all topped with several black and white poker chips. We delivered the cake to the 3 Forty Grill in Hoboken NJ.

Saturday, November 28, 2009

Roses and Daisies Bat Mitzvah Cake


Hand-made sugar roses and daisies adorn this beautiful Bat Mitzvah cake for a celebration at the Orange Lawn Tennis Club in South Orange NJ. Petal dust give the flowers in each bouquet an extra sheen and helps blend the apricot, peach, orange and pink colors. The white fondant is surrounded at the base of each tier with an embossed green fondant ribbon. Inside there is chocolate fudge cake with Madagascar vanilla bean buttercream and Red Velvet cake with Cream Cheese filling. I piped a message "Mazel Tov" on the top tier.

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Cole Haan Shoe Cake and Shoe Box


I have been wanting to make a shoe cake for months. This Cole Haan shoe made of "pastillage" (a modeling sugar paste which becomes harder, but should be handled with care because it dries so quickly and becomes brittle) sits on top of a chocolate fondant shoe box with red velvet cake and vanilla bean buttercream. The shoe had hand-painted gold accents and sugar pearls. Gold fondant ribbons lay on the cake board as if the shoe box was wrapped and has just been opened. The shoe cake was for a birthday party in Union NJ, the guest of honor told me she had a collection of thousands of shoes.

Thursday, November 12, 2009

The Graffiti Cake is a Lie!


A 1980s theme birthday party called for a personalized Graffiti cake. The red velvet cake has strawberry cream and vanilla buttercream filling. The red fondant is embossed to look like a brick wall, it is then sprayed with many different colors, we left the spray cans as accessories.





The cake is topped with a pair of glasses (you can even see through the isomalt lenses), a boom-box (remember those?) and we later added a golden chain for some extra bling!



Saturday, September 26, 2009

Tiffany Blue Wedding Cake with Gems and Magnolias


This Tiffany blue wedding cake was made for the "Cakes for Cause" event in Gladstone NJ that raised funds for the charity Habitat for Humanity. It was a chocolate fudge cake with Amaretto Moccha cream and Madagascar Vanilla Bean fillings, which picked up on the bride's love for coffee and coffee shops. The Tiffany blue fondant is covered in an assortment of cast sugar gems to replicate diamonds and aquamarine jewels. The cake is finished with an array of large Magnolia flowers that have an element of fantasy, each with a large gem at the center. We were pleased to earn a close run second place! (Picture courtesy of DominikaPhoto).

Sunday, August 9, 2009

Bongo Drums and Maracas Cake


We were asked to create two bongo drums for a musical 60th birthday party. One drum had red velvet cake with cream cheese filling and the other was a combination of vanilla and chocolate cake with vanilla bean buttercream filling. We also placed two maracas on the cake board to accompany the drums!