Hope all of you had a Happy Labor Day! This past week was a crazy one for me again, but I have some photos for you…some from this last week and some from weeks past. Basically you are getting a random post with lots of photos, so hopefully you like it! First off is a wedding cake I did this past weekend. The bride gave me a basic look and colors she wanted to incorporate and then left the rest up to me. The cake had two different flavors: Red Velvet Cake with Cream Cheese Filling and Banana Buttermilk Cake with Peanut Butter Frosting and Chocolate Ganache Filling….definitely two of my favorite choices! The cake was covered in Swiss Meringue Buttercream and then I piped a shell border and added silver dragees and dahlias to the cake. Overall I liked the cake…simple, yet elegant.
These second set of photos are of two separate cookie orders I recently did. One was for a wedding reception…two tuxedos in a Mexican Fiesta kind of theme. The other order was for a bridal shower in which the theme was the couples travels. Both were fun and different, which is always nice to do.
This last order was for a baby boy’s shower in which the theme was nautical. The cake was a buttermilk cake with raspberry jam and cream cheese frosting. I covered the cake in vanilla buttercream and then decorated it with fondant embellishments. I made little fondant sailboats and then let them dry overnight. I then put different color waves around the base of each tier and added brown sugar around the base to make it look like sand. The title of the cake was “Logan’s Launch”, which was pretty darn cute!
Thanks so much for taking the time to check them out!
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Another gorgeous post. I can’t get over how incredibly talented you are! Your work is so beautiful. Thanks for sharing your talents!
The cake is gorgeous! I just today found a recipe from Bon Appetit for a red velvet cake! Your butter cream filling sounds great! I think the ganache would be wonderful too! Does the recipe you use call for cocoa?
Ciao!
i love the wedding cake! How do you get your buttercream so so smooth! my swiss meringue buttercream never seems stiff enough to go on a cake. any suggestions? thanks:)
Beautifull all of them mel! Good thing that you were busy! The tuxedo cookies are just too funny!
Beautiful as usual! I would love to know the banana cake recipe if you ever want to share…if not, I understand. That is A LOT of work on the wedding cake…at least for me it would be..it seems the ones that look the simplest always end up being the most complicated. Beautiful though…all of them are just perfection.
that swiss buttercream is smooth as silk… and i know how difficult that is. fantastic!
Loved everything. That wedding cake is gorgeous. I have to ask. How in God’s name did you make everything so neat and lined up for the “Launch” cake? Your cake fits your boards perfectly.
As always, absolutely beautiful work! I want to be your apprentice!
Everything you make is beautiful! The cookies were cute but I really loved the cakes. Hope all is well with the new site!
~ingrid
that wedding cake is beyond gorgeous! how do you deliver such a large cake? and the baby shower cake is just too cute.
Great cakes as usual. I always love to see the neat things you come up with. The wedding cake… it’s so hard to believe that those delicious-sounding cakes are contained within that beautiful ‘wrapping!’ And I love how you used brown sugar as ’sand.’ Brilliant!
My goodness, what artistry! You certainly put a lot of love in all your work, I’m sure your clients are delighted.
The cakes and cookies are beautiful. I really love the simplicity of the wedding cake and the nautical cake is adorable.
The cakes are gorgeouis. In wedding cakes, I believe less is more, and you nailed it! I would love to know what recipe of the swiss meringue icing you use though???
The nautical theme cake with the mariners compass on top was to die for cute!!! And the cookies, perfect!
Your blog continues to be a valuable source of information and inspiration! Keep it up!!
They look gorgeous – I’m constantly amazed by your talents!
Your blog makes me want to learn how to decorate a cake. I suck at it.
I want the cake with the Swiss buttercream on it.
The cakes and cookies look wonderful!
i love the purity of that first wedding cake–spectacular! i’m not sure which flavor i’d dig into first. yes i am–it’d be the banana cake with peanut butter frosting and chocolate filling. too good to pass up, that’s for sure.
I love all of your creations! The wedding cake is stunning!! Thanks for sharing all of your photos!! You have been busy!!
Melody, I love all your cakes and cookies! They are beautiful!
I love the simple clean designs of your cakes. They are so elegant!
Oh God…they all look so gorgeous. Nicely done! I especially like the cookies…how unique and personal!
Melody, you HAVE been busy! Lovely white- on-white wedding cake–and it’s not so simple, quite elegant, really. The nautical cake is just adorable, of course I have two boys and can see the appeal of a cake like this. The colors are great and the fondant work really outstanding. Great job!
That first cake is simply gorgeous! I am still amazed at how smooth you can get your icing.
The wedding cake is gorgeous and very original! I also love the baby shower cake; too cute!
I wish I lived nearby, Melody – I would beg you to teach me how to make such amazing things!
Very gorgeous cakes infact they are breathtaking!!
Rosie x
I wish you could teach me how to make these beautiful cakes! I love them, especially the last one – for baby boy’s shower. Great job!
You are such an amazing talent and those Mexican cookies are dang cute!
i am going to have to agree that the sailboat cake is pretty darn cute!
I just love your work and as a fellow cake decorator (albeit only very new to it) I enjoy looking at other peoples creations. Especially the difference between countries.
Beautiful job on all of the cakes. I just made a large-ish cake for the first time this weekend and I have a whole newfound respect for making a good cake.
I still marvel at how talented you are. You must have a lot of happy customers.
Too bad you’re not closer to me and I’d have you do the cake for my baby shower! Love it!
wow you ve been really busy to do all these cakes and cookies. The cakes are really beautful and the cookies are really cute
You are one talented lady, and your creations are a delight to see. Thanks for sharing.
your cakes and treats are looking better and better!! i wish you lived here in nyc, i have a birthday party coming up!!
Lovely cakes and cookies. The nautical cake is my favorite of them all though.
Such a lovely white wedding cake!
Like always, these are great cakes! I wish I lived closer so I could take your cake class. Do you cover the cakes in a frosting before the buttercream? Or is the frosting listed the ‘middle’?
Thanks
So cute. I love the boats.
is the flowers for real??-__-??
it’s amazing cake.