It has been awhile since I designed and created a wedding cake. When my sweet little punks were less mobile I spent many weekends building massive edible sculptures that were destined to be destroyed and enjoyed.
Some were covered in chocolate with torched meringue flames. Others were teal and intricately decorated with chocolate damask. Many were [...]
Category Archives: Cakes
Simple Chocolate Cake
December 7, 2009 – 9:46 pm
Golden Crunch Cake
June 25, 2009 – 7:07 pm
Quite often I break one of the cardinal rules of parenting; “Never wake a sleeping baby.”
After the often drawn out and complicated process of actually getting them to sleep – waking them would be so very wrong. Why would anyone do this?!
Here is why I do it.
Our youngest child came out of the womb as [...]
Winter Wedding Cake
February 11, 2008 – 11:22 pm
I have a love/ hate relationship with wedding cakes. I think it is quite silly to try to create a delicious, moist cake that is vertical and structurally sound. At the same time I absolutely love the challenge.
I always tell my clients that taste comes first. I will never serve a dry piece of cake [...]
A classy farewell to a classy lady
April 13, 2007 – 4:48 pm
Nearly everyday for 20 years my mother walked in the doors of Gary’s (fifteen minutes early of course) and sold beautiful clothing and accessories to the men and women of Bellingham. She would happily dress those who were not quite as fashionably savvy as she was and she took so much joy seeing how her [...]
for thea…
February 12, 2007 – 5:57 pm
Photo courtesy of Gabriel Boone Photography
This post could not have come at a better time. My dear friend Thea sent me an email this morning asking for an “uber-amazing” carrot cake recipe. Well Thea have I got a recipe for you (and everyone else interested in a killer recipe).
In my previous post with the cake [...]
hey sports fans!
February 6, 2007 – 4:06 am
This pig skin looks good enough to eat! The interior is a deep, dark chocolate cake moistened with a coffee syrup and layered with rich and silky chocolate buttercream. That’s enough to get me excited about football!!
The cake itself is covered in chocolate marshmallow fondant that I made and the lacing is white [...]
Wedding Show Cake
January 10, 2007 – 9:44 pm
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Pretty Pink Fairy Princess Cake
November 16, 2006 – 8:55 pm
You can’t get more girly than this cake.
Photos courtesy of GNR Photography
I created this Fairy cake for my three year old cousin’s birthday party. Pink marshmallow fondant covers the cake, edible pearls create a quilted look and gumpaste flowers decorate the top of the cake. The fairy is a finger puppet that I thought my [...]
