My future sister-in-law's Bridal Shower.

Tomorrow, November 10th 2012...my oldest brother will marry his longtime love, Julie in South Lake Tahoe.

A couple weeks ago Julie's family hosted a Bridal Shower in her honor and of course, I brought the cupcakes.

Chocolate Cupcakes with Salted Caramel Swiss Meringue Buttercream and Drizzle.
French Vanilla Cupcakes with Strawberry Swiss Meringue Buttercream.

So excited for tomorrow!

Very Yummy Cake Pops

Some friends from High School were celebrating an upcoming wedding and wanted some cake pops for the Bridal Shower.

The wedding colors are Black and Teal....just like my favorite hockey team ; )

I completely failed at taking progress photos...again.
Sorry.

I wanted to try a few different designs and was pleased with how they came out.

These are Vanilla Cream Cheese with a Vanilla Shell.
I drizzled them with Dark Chocolate and a small Fondant Flower.

These are Dark Chocolate Fudge with a Dark Chocolate Shell.
I drizzled them with some of the Teal colored Vanilla Coating.

I made these two batches with a flat bottom so they can be displayed on a plate or tray.

These ones are a mixture of both Vanilla and Chocolate and were made to be displayed in a vase or something.

The hardest part of this whole process?
The ribbon! But I think they added a great touch.

Well, actually...it might be a tie between the ribbon and the packaging.
Cake Pops are a fragile treat and once I figured out how to do it, it worked great but it took a lot of trial and error to get there.
I ended up using the bottom of a mini cupcake carrier and some of my Johnny Cupcakes carriers.
I was able to use a regular box for the round Cake Pops and some mini liners to protect the shells from banging up against each other.

Let's hope all this packaging kept these pops safe and sound until the shower!

Congratulations Danielle!

April Showers....and Flowers!

I will be making 50 cupcakes in June for a Bridal Shower and here's a little preview.

This dozen is Confetti Cake with Vanilla Swiss Meringue Buttercream.
In June I will also be making Chocolate & Chocolate and Irish Car Bomb cupcakes for this event.

That's about it for progress pictures...Oops.

Pretty huh?
The flowers themselves were pretty easy but very time consuming since each one required a different tip.

Stay tuned for the follow up to this post in June!

Wedding Week

This past week has been INSANE.

Remember this post? Well, the wedding came and went...and I am still alive.

I was hired to bake a Groom's cake, a 5 tier wedding cake (mostly non-edible, partially edible) and four sheet cakes.

The Groom's cake was to be served at the rehearsal dinner the night before the wedding.
Originally, the Bride and Groom wanted a Sharks themed Stanley Cup cake but this was when the season looked promising for the Sharks.

Well, we all know how that went....so the cake was changed to the Shark Tank.

The cake is white with fresh raspberry filling and LOTS of raspberry swiss meringue buttercream.

A few days prior I had made the nets and shark head out of gumpaste to ensure they were completely dry.

I covered the cake in white vanilla fondant and added the red and blue hockey rink accents.
I decided the cake needed something more to say that it was the Shark Tank so I added the water waves and shark fins around the base of the cake.

I delivered the cake to the rehearsal dinner at Jack London Square in Oakland.
It was great to see the Bride and Groom the day before their big day and also see my fourth sister, Rachel who flew in from Hawaii for the event.

Once the delivery was done, I headed back home to wrap things up with the wedding cakes.

I covered 4 styrofoam tiers in fondant and wrapped them with ribbon:

I baked, filled, frosted and covered 4 sheet cakes in fondant:

Each sheet cake was devils food chocolate cake with chocolate ganache.

I also made the top tier for the display cake for the bride and groom to cut and eat at the reception.

The morning of the wedding, I cut the sheet cakes so they were ready to serve.
I offered this service because I worried the catering staff may not take the time to clean the knife when it got covered in chocolate and that the white fondant would get smudged.

On the way to Oakland, I picked up my friend Amy Steinert who would be handling the flowers for the cake.

All the flowers were placed on the cake on site to ensure complete freshness.

Amy added pearls to the center of each flower which gave them such an elegant touch.

It was so much fun working with her on an order and I hope that we can do it again and again.

Amy arranges flowers for all occasions....holidays, parties, weddings...everything.

Remember, she did the flower centerpieces for our Baby Shower.

Give her a call if you have something coming up!

Congratulations to Tracilyn and Daniel Tegge!!!

We Love Priti Bridal Shower

A customer was throwing an I Love Lucy themed Bridal Shower and requested the I Love Lucy cake for the event, except she wanted it to read: We Love Priti...in honor of the Bride-to-Be!

It is a carrot cake with no nuts, filled and frosted with cream cheese buttercream.


I covered the cake with red buttercream fondant and used a template for the wording. I used the closest font I could find to match the one used for the actual logo.


I poked small holes through the paper onto the fondant, like you do when carving a pumpkin and I used the dotted outline as a guide to pipe on the wording.


And done.

WARNING: Adult Content!!! Bachelorette Party Favors

My sister from another mister, Rachel got married in March and a week before the event, there was a Bachelorette Party of course!

I wanted to bake some cupcakes but was told that someone else was already bringing some, so I decided to make some chocolate suckers...

Turned out the someone else flaked on the cupcakes which was a bummer but I was really happy with how my suckers came out :) I also made some mini chocolate candies to match.


They are made of chocolate, colored appropriately for all preferences...if you know what I mean.


Don't worry, the Bride gave me permission to post her picture!