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Bride & Bloom Magazine!!!

Monday, July 6th, 2009

Well, as you can see change has come to the blog! Thanks to my sweet hubby for redesigning my blog to look more like my new website! I can’t believe I have been blogging almost 1 1/2 years now…times flies when you are having fun!

I hope everyone had a fabulous 4th of July weekend! I loved finally having a little free time with the family and tried very hard to keep my mind off the millions of things I need to do for work. Who knew that ordering bakery equipment and supplies could be so daunting!?! I think I have over analyzed every aspect of cupcake liners, packaging design, ovens, and baking racks. I am happy to announce that I placed my HUGE order for all the baking equipment and tried not to look at the price quote when I got it…I simply closed my eyes and signed the check! I have to give a shout out to my WONDERFUL parents who have practically funded my whole dream and decided to jump on board as partners in the business with my husband and I! I absolutely LOVE working with my family and so happy that they will all be surrounding me as I take this crazy journey into sugar, spice, and “hopefully” everything nice!

One thing that has made this journey so sweet has been the amazing vendors that I have met along the way and now I am even lucky enough to call them friends! Carissa from JL Designs has probably helped me more than anyone in the wedding industry and has truly been a blessing in my life! She is the most talented floral and event designer and seriously blows me away each time I see her work! I can still remember the first time she asked me to tag along to one of her photo shoots and I couldn’t believe it! It was so last minute, but I didn’t care…my sister and I busted out 6 mini cakes and a two tiered wedding cake in one night! When I asked who the photographers would be and Carissa said Carlie & Gabriel from Gabriel Ryan Photographers I was jumping for joy! I am in love with their work and was so excited for them to shoot my sweets! They are not only talented, but some of the most fun, genuine, and sweet people I know! We were all also so lucky to work with Allison from Invitation Innovations, Desiree from Wildflower Linens, and Megan from Classic Party Rentals! Carissa’s fabulous publicist Leila Khalil, from Be Inspired PR, landed us in the new issue of Bride & Bloom Magazine and I can’t thank her enough! Here is one of the two shoots we did that day!

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I was so happy with how the magazine spread turned out! Here are a couple of the close up detail shots!

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And here is a photo of Carlie, Carissa, and I…they of course decided they had to taste the mini cakes once the shoot was done!

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I also wanted to share a couple more photos with you from the dessert studio! A lot has happened this past week, but most importantly my front bakery case got put it!!! Thanks so much to Ben Brigham for his amazing custom wood work! I basically told him what I liked and let him do his thing and was so happy with the results! I do have to say the photos are great, but it even looks better in person, so once I’m open I hope you stop by!

Thanks for stopping by the blog!

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Wedding Cakes & Store Photos

Sunday, June 21st, 2009

Hope everyone is having a fabulous weekend! I wanted to share lots of photos with you, since I didn’t get to post too much this week. We’ll first start off with photos of the three wedding cakes I did this weekend. Two of the three cakes were actually chosen from designs that I had already done, with a little tweaking of the colors. I will be doing a tutorial on how to do the first cake shortly!

This last week we actually had a lot of progress with the store and it was so exciting to see things coming along! The flooring and painting got finished and the main signs were put up! I even was able to get some furniture pieces into my office! I took lots of pictures along the way so I could share them with you…thanks for checking them out!

Most of the store was painted in white to keep it light and airy, but for my office I wanted to go with the color scheme of white, grey, and yellow! I found the most adorable table and chair set at Anthropologie for around 50%…woo hoo! I am obsessed with it! The chair cushions are getting a new fabric on them, which with make it look even more cute!

Here is a sneak peak of some of the goodies I bought for the store!

I also couldn’t resist bringing along the cutest models ever to show off my new stuff. Please welcome my gorgeous nieces…Kimberly, Melody, & Brianna!

They had so much fun posing for the photos once we were inside the shop!

And here is a sneak of what I have been doing lately…spending money, money, money on stuff for the shop!!!

Hope everyone is having a fabulous weekend!

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Communion Cake

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

Well, I am sticking to my word and posting for the third time this week…I know…it really can’t be true, but by golly I did it! (I might even try for four posts…I don’t want to get ahead of myself though). This cake was requested by a client of mine for their little boy’s first communion. I sent them a bunch of inspirational photos of cakes that I liked and they fell in love with a design from the Pink Cake Box. Normally I always try to do original designs for the most part, but I also loved their cake design and so I went with the basic look, but added my own little Sweet & Saucy touch to it. Overall I was really happy with how it turned out and I wanted to share a couple details of it with you!

The color scheme was shades of brown, light gold/tan, and white so we decided to color the fondant a light brown shade. The cake was buttermilk cake with lemon cream and fresh raspberries and chocolate cake with chocolate ganache and espresso kahlua cream cheese frosting.

Then I printed the message on edible frosting sheets and applied it to a thin piece of fondant. Then I applied it to the cake. To add a little extra detail I piped on white royal icing dots for the border.

The main detail of the cake was the Bible and rosary necklace. I made the Bible out of carrot cake and iced it with a thin layer of buttercream and then added a strip of fondant for the “pages”. I used a scoring tool to make the page marks.

I then added the “cover” of fondant to the Bible. I again used the edible frosting sheets for the print out of “Holy Bible”. I placed it on a piece of light brown fondant and used a scoring tool to make the etching pattern and royal icing for the mini dots.

I then made the edible sugar necklace and attached a tiny cross to the bottom of it. I laid it on top of the Bible and let it fall down the cake slightly. To add a little more detail to the cake I used small round circle cutters to add some dots around the tiers and then piped royal icing dots. Lastly I sprayed the whole cake with luster dust and viola…it was done!

Now I couldn’t leave without sharing some recent photos of the dessert studio. The hubby and I stopped by today to check out the paint job and I was in the “posing” mood so I grabbed the camera and gave it to him so he could take photos of me modeling my recent kitchen improvements!

The walls all were painted…everything white, except for in my office I wanted 3 out of the four walls painted grey. The color scheme in there is grey, yellow, and white.

Here are some more shots inside the bakery part of it.

The flooring gets done tomorrow! I am going with the polished concrete look…think modern, vintage-like!

And last, but not least is a photo of my amazing assistant! I wanted to introduce her to you and publicly thank her for making my life SO much easier! You’re the best Louisa!

Thanks for stopping by the blog! Hope you have a fabulous week!

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Mermaid Barbie Birthday Cake

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

Children’s birthday parties are like no other event I do…the reaction they give is priceless and they make me love the job I have even more. This little girl in particular really wanted a mermaid cake, but she let her mom know that the mermaid NEEDED to be a barbie doll. She knew exactly what she wanted and her sweet mother made her wish come true….I was just glad I could help them out!

The cake tiers were buttermilk cake with lemon cream and fresh raspberries and buttermilk cake with chocolate ganache, fresh strawberries, and white chocolate ganache. I then buttercreamed both tiers and covered them in colored fondant

The next job was to cover barbie’s you-know-what with cute little shells. I never thought I would be making a shell bra for barbie when I got into this business!

I then made some gray rocks for barbie to sit around and plunged her into the sea of cake. I know that you can buy barbies that only have the top half of their body for cakes, but since I had this new barbie already and she matched the blonde hair and blue eyes I needed I just used her. I did have to give her some nubs and cut her legs off below the knee, but thankfully I was smart enough to tell the mother not to pull Barbie out in front of the kids since I didn’t want them to experience a decapitated barbie!

I made her a green fondant tale and used the sharp part of a round cookie cutter to make the grooves in her tale.

Then to finish off the cake I made little sea life creatures and plants to make it more interesting. To make the cake shimmer I used my airbrush gun to spray pearl luster dust on the whole cake. For the sand I mixed together brown sugar, short bread crumbs, and demerara sugar crystals.

Here are some photos of the cake when I dropped it off and the adorable little girl who got to have it!

This was such a fun cake to make and the family I brought it to couldn’t have been sweeter!

Well, I couldn’t leave you without showing you some more photos of the process of my dessert studio, so here they are! This one is me in my very own soon-to-be office. It is small, but at least it is all mine!

The middle wall has has been constructed, the plumbing in the kitchen finished, the cement poured, and the electrical passed! This happened all in a week and a half…isn’t my dad AMAZING! Thanks to my uncle too for the electrical!