Mobile Bridal Expo

WooHoo!! I'm going to have a booth at the Mobile Bridal Expo on February 22, 2009 at the Mitchell Center at USA.

In addition to the booth, and lots of yummy cupcakes free to taste, I'm also making 5 tier, 3' tall cake that will be destroyed by 4 brides looking for a wedding band that's been hidden inside it. Should be loads of fun!

So, if you're getting married, come check it out. Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door.
Here's the website...check it out!

http://www.bridalexpomobile.com/

Cake Competition II

So, I've decided to compete in the cake competition.

I sketched up a little cake. Ha, I say "little" but it's going to be pretty large, the largest one I've made so far.

The theme is "The Great Outdoors" but as a theme for a wedding cake. I tried to feminize the theme as much as possible so I thought to myself, "What's more feminine than the wedding dress itself?" So, I created a cherry blossom tree (cherry blossoms are pretty big right now) that becomes the wedding dress. The cherry blossoms will be in an ombre pattern so they'll be dark raspberry on the bottom and will fade up to white. There's two lovebirds (haven't decided what color they'll be yet, but I'm thinking raspberry) sitting on two brances coming out of the top of the dress form. The dress itself will be ivory and the bust will be pleated. The entire cake will shimmer.

So, in preparation of the competition, I made the flowers yesterday.

Wait, there's more...

I wonder how many there are...

Fake Cake

Ok. I've been so friggin bored the past couple weeks that I decided to make a fake cake. The fondant is real, but the cake part is actually styrofoam. It's a bit lumpy because of the syran wrap underneath, but other than that, I'm happy with it.

It's not like I don't have prospects for cakes in the future...in fact I received my first deposit and cake contract in the mail yesterday. That was like Christmas morning. But I'm tired of my time being wasted by people who just want to chat about a cake that they're never going to order from me.

Cake Competition

Today I was invited to participate in a cake competition at the end of February.

I'm still debating about whether I want to participate or not. Half of me wants to go see what it's all about and the other half already sketched up an awesome tree dress cake (the theme is "The Great Outdoors").

Hmmm.......

They're gone, they're finally gone!

I was approached last Monday by a woman who wanted a carved Mickey Mouse cake for her son's first birthday....on Saturday. "No problem," I said. It quickly turned into the Mickey cake, 2 dozen cupcakes and a 6" cake shaped like Mickey just for her son. In addition to those I also had a poker table cake due and the same time on the same day. It was a busy week.

If I never see black fondant again, it will be too soon. I spend so much time and effort making tasty, beautiful fondant but everytime I make black, it just crumbles in my hands. This week I had a Mickey Mouse cake and a poker table cake. There's no way to avoid black fondant with Mickey or with a poker table so I had to figure out a way to make it work. Mostly, it just didn't. But, at least the pictures turned out ok...and, they're FINALLY out of my damn kitchen!!