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18th Birthday Cake

This pink, black and white 18th birthday cake was a honor to create. The birthday girl has had every birthday cake for all of her 18 years done by me. I have loyal clients but she's the first that I'm not related to that I've been honored to do this for.

Top tier:
Crème Brûlée...Caramel cake filled with fresh caramel & white chocolate ganache.

Bottom tier:
Decadent Chocolate...A divinely decadent chocolate cake filled with chocolate fudge & chocolate-chip mousse.

Dark and Sophisticated 40th Birthday Cake

A masculine and elegant piece for Scott's 40th birthday. Love the contrast of the sugar orchids against the darkness and modern patterns of the cake.

Handcrafted, Sugar Moth Orchids. You better believe it took me several flowers to get it to look as real possible.

Dark and sophisticated.

Tall, Dark and Delicious

Tall, Dark & Delicious. Chocolate cake that's soaked in Milo and espresso is layered with salted caramel, hazelnut praline and chocolate buttercream. A dark chocolate ganache drip and salted caramel popcorn completes this handsome cake.

The caramel popcorn is homemade so I can control the level of sweetness. It looks just heavenly when drizzled with melted chocolate and salted caramel.

Full view of the Tall, Dark & Delicious.

Art Nouveau Vase Birthday Cake

It's a birthday cake! Art Nouveau Vase made of strawberry cake with white chocolate ganache and gum-paste flowers.

Close up of the gum-paste flowers.

Green Tea, Lychee and Strawberry cake

Good morning! Thursday is infinitely brighter with a Green Tea, Lychee and Strawberry cake.

The beauty of this cake lies in the fact that the colors are all-natural. Green from the green tea, brilliant red from the strawberries and a pale pinkish white from the lychees.

Let's slice the cake.

Red Velvet

Red Velvet naked cake with cream cheese frosting, fondant flowers and dark chocolate lace. I always equate red velvet with flamenco dancers... exotic and flamboyant.

Red Velvet cake viewed from the side. I've never wanted to do red velvet cakes because of the insane amount of food coloring needed to turn a chocolate cake red. But this one haunted my dreams for a week! Glad to get it out of my system. Now I see the appeal of this cake - it's lovely to look at and photographs extremely well!

Layers of luscious red chocolate cake sandwiched between rich cream cheese frosting. A feast for the eyes, a treat for the palate.

Watercolor Wedding Cake Design

Nothing like the excitement of a #blank canvas and itchy hands. Can't wait to share with you some amazing cakes I've been working on for this week's clients.

Watercolor art on this spring-inspired wedding cake. The couple wanted a floral theme, without the sugar flowers, and this is what we came up with! I can't begin to tell you how much I enjoyed creating this piece.

Citrus Cake

Lemon cake filled with tangy lemon curd, frosted with lemon buttercream and decorated with candied lemon and orange slices. The sunrise gave me inspiration for this cake.

Decorating with candied lemon and orange slices today. It's been a gloomy week for me so far. Hopefully this cheerful lemon cake will chase the darkness away.

Inside look at the Lemon cake. I decided to tint the cake layers too, to make it extra sunny and cheerful. 

London Fog Cake

London Fog, such a romantic name for a cake! It's a rich chocolate cake with Earl Gray Swiss meringue buttercream and salted caramel drip.

Inside look at the London Fog cake. There are chocolate chips in this Earl Gray infused chocolate cake.

Edgy Themed Wedding

The coupled wanted edge but still a bit elegant. 

It all starts with the sketches.

The you put in the work to bring their vision and the sketches alive.

Top tier:

Almond Mocha latte..moist sour cream pound cake filled with a velvety coffee mocha cream frosted with almond amaretto buttercream

2nd tier:

Our Red Velvet...Moist red velvet cake layered with a mellow cream cheese buttercream and brown butter caramel pecan filling, frosted with cream cheese buttercream.

3rd tier:

The Retro...An update on an American classic: moist yellow cake filled with milk chocolate mousse frosted with Madagascar vanilla buttercream.

Bottom tier:

Classic Wedding White...A classic white cake filled with fresh tart raspberries and a full bodied cream cheese buttercream and frosted with cream cheese buttercream.

Hermes Gift Box Birthday Cake

This Hermes gift box cake happens to be:

Raspberry Cream...rich white cake filled with a tart raspberry cream, frosted with a creamy vanilla buttercream. 

The designer medallions are lemon shortbread cookies.

This second cake is adorned with sugar flowers and trinkets.

Handbag Birthday Cake

This birthday cake handbag happens to be:

Orange Pistachio Cake...Light orange cake filled with both a crushed pistachio filling and orange curd, frosted with a creamy lemon buttercream.

Sweet 16

This Sweet 16 cake was rather simple. 

You start with a sketch for the client's approval. 

Top tier:

Banana Caramel Cheesecake...Banana cake with cheesecake & fresh caramel filling.

Middle tier:

Bananarama...Banana cake filled with caramel, banana crème and chocolate ganache.

Bottom tier:

Banana Split... Layers of banana, cherry, & chocolate cakes filled with chocolate fudge & banana crème.

Green Tea Chocolate Cake

Green tea and chocolate may seem like a strange combination,  but you really should try it. These 2 cakes are for clients who happen to attend a wedoing where this combination was one of the tiers.

The mushrooms are meringue. 

Chocolate ganache has been poured on.

Cookies and Cream

This is made with my vanilla cake recipe and crumbled Oreos.

The outide has both white and dark chocolate ganache to ice and poured on.

Modern Wedding Cake

White Almond Sour Cream 

White almond sour cream cake filled with cheesecake & raspberry puree for the top and bottom tiers and chocolate-cheesecake filling for the middle tier.

Movie Themed Cupcakes

S'mores, movie themed cupcakes. Chocolate cupcakes (tinted green) sits on a graham cracker crust and topped with miniature marshmallows.