Paris Themed Shower

Creative Wedding Favors

Brides are always on the lookout for a creative way to dazzle their guests. Recently I made these wedding cake favors out of stacked sugar cookies for a bride. Teal has been a very popular wedding color this year! These were really fun to make and I think her guests enjoyed them.

A Tale of Two Cakes

March 2013

Ever have one of those days? 

I made a cake for a friend of mine who was hosting a 25th anniversary event. She had no specific design in mind so I took that to mean: experiment. (Bad idea #1). 
I have seen all of these ruffle cakes floating around and thought, I'll try that! I envisioned a ruffled bottom tier and a smooth top tier with a monogrammed plaque rimmed in silver glitter. I used an 050 tip to pipe the buttercream ruffle and I was so pleased the cake turned out as imagined.

I packed it up and sent it off via my husband for delivery. About 30 minutes later, my poor hub called me with a tightness in his voice that I immediately recognized as....STRESS. "What happened?" I asked. "Stuff was falling off!" He was stressing for sure. I felt so badly for him! I told him to take some pictures and send them to me.

My customer had pressed the falling ruffles back onto the cake at this point, but I knew I couldn't let her keep it that way. So I packed up some supplies and drove over to her house to fix it. Poor girl, I got there and took that cake apart right there in her kitchen! I didn't want her to worry about anything falling off anymore that night so I decided to scrape all of the icing off the bottom tier and reapply with a different technique.

After removing all of the icing, I was left with a really. ugly. scary. mess. The thought of photographing it crossed my mind, but I decided it was too ugly to document. 

Putting one foot in front of the other, I was able to finish up this cake in about an hour and I am happy with the result. I think my customer was too. Hub says he likes the second version better, but he's not going to deliver any more cakes!

Final product...IN MY CUSTOMER'S KITCHEN!! :0

All in all, I survived my first major catastrophe, lost a hot delivery guy, and learned a valuable lesson: don't "experiment" on my customers! I'm still not exactly sure what went wrong with this project; at this point I believe it had to do with the buttercream. I will be working on those ruffles soon though because they are too cute to not have in my repertoire!

Thank you, Anna for everything! xoxo
~Summer

Cake #2!...Chocolate Peanut Butter

October 2012
Well, here is cake #2. I told you I was hooked! This was my final cake for my RI flowers class. It looks pretty bridal but I really love white on white. The best part was the chocolate cake and peanut butter buttercream filling inside. On the way home from class I stopped at my friend's house (10PM...her husband wasn't thrilled) and we cut this bad boy up! YUMMO!

RI flowers pre-dragee

Looking back, I guess it could have used some leaves or filler, but I like how simple it is too.

Wedding Cake Cookies

July 2012
Wedding Cake Cookies

I'm excited to send these yummy samples off to a bride-to-be! She is considering them for her wedding favors. I can't wait to see which one she chooses!