Wedding Cakes come in all sizes

Simple can also be beuatiful. This cake illustrates just that. An offset square buttercream cake is adorned with fresh calla lillies and gumpaste flowers. This cake served 30 people. Inside was a vanilla velvet with swisss merengue buttercream and raspberry preserves.

All things Bonn Boni Giveaway

Alas the time has come. I have decided to give a big thank you to all of my supporters who make, making cake a little easier. The prizes are irresistible and I think you would all agree with me.

First Prize: This one is open to anyone anywhere (as long as UPS/FedEx can go). It includes a Frosted Cupcake Apron and a matching set of adorable measuring spoons that I found online. I myself could not bake with something so adorable. This is much better then a blender guys!

One Size fits all, Unisex too :) 

These spoons are just adorable, I know I mentioned that already.

Second Prize: This one is open only to people residing in Spotsylvania or Stafford VA. I will personally deliver 1 dozen delicious melt in your mouth white truffle peanut butter chocolate cupcakes. It's a mouthful but trust me it is one of my favorites. 

  

This giveaway will be very simple....

For both prizes all you need to say is "I want it" or "I need it", "Give it to me", or something to those effects (but be nice) on Facebook. The person with the most likes will win, simple as that. For the second place prize the people with the most likes living in the areas I specified will be eligible.     

80's Toppers

These toppers are self explanatory. The 80s came back in a big way for this birthday party. Although time consuming to make it was quite fun. It made me realize that there are just some things that kids now will never know existed like tape cassettes, Micheal Jackson or pac man. I get requests now for Ni Hao characters or Sponge Bobs for kids cakes. I wonder if when they get older they will want a cake with things like iPhone and mp3 players on it.    

Spring is here

I'm loving the fact that now I can open my car windows and smell the fresh air while I''m driving. As much as I love it I am reminded of how hot summer will be when we have afternoons of 80+ degrees. 

I'm looking forward to kayaking with my husband on the Rappahannock river here in Fredericksburg. On my last outing I had a dragonfly take a long ride with me on my little red Kayak. 

This particular cake was a first birthday cake for a little girl. The cupcakes were meant to match with lilac colors. I included some purple flowers to make the lilac pop more. The monogram was made out of royal icing in the font of the invitations. I sprinkled it with lilac disco dust. It was like adding glitter in kindergarten class, too much fun. The side designs were copied as best as I could from the intricate design on the invitations. 

The cake was a white cake with raspberry preserves and swiss merengue buttercream. The cupcakes were my popular chocolate chip chocolate cake. 

Grand Wedding Cake

The cake was inspired by the brides colors blue and white and the gift box theme she wanted. I wasn't quite sure how the design would turn out even though I sketched out a design prior. Sometimes I go on automatic and I do not stop until I am satisfied with the design. Usually it requires me to add some paint and shimmer to the cake.

My favorite part has to be the bling on the second tier. I just think that the fondant bows surrounding it is just too pretty. The cake serves over 250 people. 6 tiers tall, silver platter making it even taller. 

Overall I am very pleased, and I know the couple was too!!! 

Thanks for an awesome cake design, although hard and verrrrry time consuming the result was soooo worth it. 

Henna Design

I had the great opportunity to take a henna and white chocolate class with the owners of The Sweet Life in Annandale. It was really nice spending the day with people that share in the same interests as me from all walks of life. Norm and Zane were gracious and so helpful in sharing of their cake knowledge and business savvy.

The cake I did was free handed from a few different patterns that I combined together. I love the intricacy of henna. I think from a distance it looks stunning up close you are like what is all this mess. That is just because I am not used to cake having detail every square inch or different patterns to such a degree, but again henna is beautiful to me so it doesn't matter.

I think if it was a red background with maybe gold details it would look really grand. Maybe I will make that my next dummy cake for my next wedding show. Either way this is an example of what I love about desserts in general and I'm sure the same could be said for savory food...that you can dress up a cake in any way you want! Long gone are the days of plastic columns and water fountains with a generic cake topper. Long gone is the generic cake. Please don't get me wrong simplicity and elegance will never be lost, but we have evolved and the creativity involved is what makes me love it and wanting more.  

Happy Sweet 16

This is a full sheet cake that serves about 108 people. The bitrthdays girls colors

were black and burgundy. Every detail on this cake is edible. My favorite part, the picture frame I created was piped in royal icing. Once it dried I painted it in silver. I also created the tiara and writing in royal icing.

When I delivered the cake (downtown Fredericksburg) at their venue, I had the manager help me carry it in, it was way to heavy for me to handle. We went up a very old school elevator (the gated kind). I propped it up with a piece of styrofoam. Once set, guests came to look at the cake including the birthday girl. Once I saw their reactions I knew my job was done :)