Stitched Flower Cake and Blog Features

Here are some great blog features for this week:

An InStyle Magazine blogger included us in a roundup of what's now in weddings on the web.

Weddzilla entry by Amy Jean (of Relentless Bride) highlights a few of our cakes and asks what your cake style is.

Merry Poet 

How about celebrating a birthday with one of our cakes?

Here are just a few snippets of the process when I made the stitched flower cake.  I call it stitched because I took a stitching tool to draw lines in the petals/leaves so it would have the effect of felt flower appliques. Happy Friday!

Started with a sketch

Gathered some edible dusts to paint the petal cutouts with: watermelon, carnation pink, and white.

Blog Features

EatCakeBeMerry has popped up on various blogs this week and I wanted to share the links so you can not only read what the bloggers have to say about us, but also visit THEIR awesome sites.  Most are vendors so hopefully you can find these to be good resources as your plan your own wedding! 

SwoonOverIt (TheBlissfulBride)  A modern caligraphy studio in Florida.  Shirts, signs, addressing, maps...she does it all!

Behind the Knot   Passionate wedding blogger also from Florida.  Erinn is so sweet and has a great collection of inspration boards you might want to see.

Amy Atlas Events   NYC event planner who is well known for her signature dessert tables.  You have to take a look at her gorgeous and extensive portfolio!

Maida Vale Invitations   Modern Invitation Designs.  Such clean, simple, and colorful designs!  Check out her etsy shop also.

Wedding Bells  Canadian Bridal magazine.  Posted by Rosie's Ideas.  I think I've seen this magazine in the States also.

Wedding Fresh  Dani is a pro at tailored wedding planning.  She offers a variety of packages to help ease the process of creating a couple's dream day.

Gwyneth Paige  Couture letterpress and very eco-friendly too :)  Can't wait for their main site to be launched!

The Cinderlla Project A great blog dedicated to wonderful wedding inspiration!

Blog Features and Halloween

Some new blog features for this week: From I will to I do is a blog written by the senior editor of Brides.com.  Posted are a ways to get ideas for your wedding cake and links to great galleries.

JolieJolie is an awesome blog written by one of my friends, Lisa, out in Cali.  The catch phrase for her blog is "all things prettiful," which is definitely what you can expect from her entries.  Pretty ideas, products, and images!

Private Receptions is a talented wedding planning and design group in NYC.  For the post, I recommended two important tips for creating a great wedding cake.

Halloween is this Saturday and I made some spooky decorated cookies for the occasion!  Trick or Treat!

Sport Cakes Part2:Basketball

On Sunday I watched the Yankees win their 40th ALCS and later this week they will play in the World Series! Tomorrow is also the start of the NBA basketball season.  To celebrate these two things, I have put together a "sports cakes" feature. (see part 1 entry below for the baseball cake)

This life size basketball cake was made for my husband's 28th birthday!  He loves anything basketball and was even a manager for the University of Michigan basketball team for 4 years.  Go blue!

I started off by making a wood grain base to replicate the hardwood floors of a basketball court.  Then I carved the cake to make a sphere.  Half the cake was styrofoam simply because I only needed the cake to feed ~8-10 people.

I think it took roughly two hours to poke all these little holes.  It's the details that matter!

This is a comparison of the real ball on the left and the cake on the right.  I boosted the orange color for the fondat because I thought the real ball was too dark for a celebration cake.

Sports Cakes Part1:Baseball

On Sunday I watched the Yankees win their 40th ALCS and later this week they will play in the World Series! Tomorrow is also the start of the NBA basketball season.  To celebrate these two things, I have put together a "sports cakes" feature.  (see part 2 above for the basketball cake)

The Yankees vs Mets 360 cake was inspired by the Subway Series, which is when the two NY baseball teams play each other.  Depending on which team your are rooting for, you can choose the front of the cake! 

Making of the gumpaste logos...

Blog Feature

Things Festive has featured us on their blog today.  They sell pretty much anything you could possibly need for a wedding!  So if you are looking for favors, guest books, cake toppers...check out their site :)

D+J Cake

This past weekend, I went to Seattle for a friend's wedding.  The city was so quaint, and I especially loved the Queen Anne area. The views were great, market was fun, seafood was tasty, air was clean, but yes there was a lot of rain.  The wedding itself was fun and it was really good to see another one of our friends tie the knot!  This is the cake I made for them to match their green/brown color palette.  The wedding had a very eco-friendly vibe and so did the new Hyatt Olive8.

For the character toppers, I started with basic shapes to make bodies and heads.

I dressed up the bodies first with a halter gown to match the bride's actual dress shape and a snazzy tux for the groom. I then decorated the heads, added hands, and a bouquet of flowers.

I just had to switch up the heads to have a laugh :)

Exchanging vows and saying I do's

Once I got there, I painted her dress shimmery white and added a veil to her head.  Topped them on the cake and voila!

Congrats David and JiHye!

Blog Feature

Eatcakebemerry is featured on With This Ring blog today!  Check out this blog for great photos of real weddings and inspiration for the big day.