New Book and Sneak Peak

I was at Barnes yesterday and I passed by this book.  It immediately caught my eye so I sat on the floor below all the cooking books and started going through the pages.  Omggg, this is a great book.  They have really creative cakes and good techniques to know, esp the ganache trick.  I think this is a great book to have and its like $9.98 which is SUCH a great price compared to some of the other cake decorating books out on the market.  I've heard of Planet Cake awhile back and its this company Paris Cutler started in Australia.  Check out their website www.planetcake.com.au

Speakkkkking of websites.....here's a sneak peak at what I'm working all day and all night on. It took forever to make the actual cakes so I'm really excited to finally be able to post them on a site and share them with people.  It still has some more work to be done, but it will hopefully be launched in < 2 weeks!

Bubble Tea Station

I went to a wedding this summer and I feel like the themed stations have been gaining popularity.  I've heard wedding with gelato stations, cigar stations, candy stations, but this wedding had a bubble tea station!  The brought these guys in from Rutgers and of course they had the normal tapioca balls, but these also had these balls that were like a tart liquid encased in a bubble.  Idk how they made them but when you bite down on them they pop and explode all over your mouth.  It was kinda cool.

Wine Label and Grapes

A friend of my in-law's just turned 60 and I had the opportunity to make a cake for his celebration. In collaboration with his daughter, we found it fitting to make a cake in the shape of a wine label because he manages a wine market in NJ. She actually drew up the label and I turned it into a cake. In the end, I realized if I didnt mention it was a wine label, it could be mistaken as a door mat. Hahha Here was some of the process...

It was a choclate cake with chocolate ganache and raspberry filling

Here is the cake covered in fondant, but yet to be dressed.

Here's me painting on the script and cutting something out. Notice I'm in a sweatshirt in the middle of summer because I had to turn on the air to 60-some degrees so the cake wouldn't melt. It was so cold!

Done! Looks like a doormat huh? hahah I guess the grapes help

Making grapes:

Roll little balls of purple gumpaste

Hook onto to floral wires

Mix together purple, blue, and red powders till you find a good color to dust on.

After dusted and dried, start building the shape by attaching the individual grapes to the stem.

Cut out leaves, press into a veining mold and let dry on mounds of plastic wrap to get natural waves.

My New Cake Blog

The beginnings of a cake blog. Yay! My outlook on cakes is that it shouldn't just taste good, but it should also look good. Cakes have really come a long way and now days you see that anything is possible with this medium. Though people go all out with recreating objects and carving them into crazy shapes, my goal is to keep it clean, cute, simple and modern. My inspiration comes from greeting cards, textile patterns, graphic icons, etc. Hope you find them to make you hungry and smiling :) Enjoy!