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Cookies offered for Weddings and holiday celebrations. They may be purchased by the pound or mixed tray.
Cookies, Cookies, Cookies
Butter
Glob
Cookies offered for Weddings and holiday celebrations. They may be purchased by the pound or mixed tray.
Book Club
Our book club meets from September through April. I hosted our October meeting and of course Halloween was my theme. The wine was an apple cider reduction with heavy spices and a dry wine (fill each glass with equal parts of both. This is from the Food Network October Magazine)
I made a savory pumpkin dip (Food Network October Magazine) served with blue tortilla chips. The sweet, was a cupcake of cinnamon crunch cake and a pumpkin buttercream, the little skeleton was made from small pretzels dipped in white chocolate and hung on a lollipop stick to dry. The head is half a large marshmallow with the face painted on.
I used small plastic vampire teeth as a napkin ring.
My centerpiece is a small tree skeleton with sugar cookies hung on the branches. The cookies are stamped with black food coloring. (I did this a lot when my sons were small for all the holidays. When I was a child my father use to make a jelly bean tree at Easter for me and my sisters. Thanks for the concept Dad, the tradition cares on!)Kaylee and Sean
The wedding budget must be considered when choosing a cake. A top of the line cake can run into the thousands of dollars. Each bride has elements that are very important to her big day. For some is the over the top cake and dress for others its the band and food. Whatever your decision, it is correct for your wedding.
This cake is faux with one real tier for the cutting picture. The second tier from the bottom is edible, it was a 13" Carrot cake with cream cheese filling, all the others are styrofoam (can you even tell). All the tiers were buttercream coated and then wrapped in fondant to recreate birch wood. The leaves were gumpaste.
I love the heart, it sweetly represents the couples initials.
"Are you ready for some football"
Yes its football season in the USA and this bride and groom are serious fans of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
The cake served 250 guest. It consisted of an 18"Chocolate- peanut butter cake with peanut-butter mousse, a 14" Marble cake with buttercream filling, a 10" White cake with strawberry compote and a 6" Marble with peanut-butter mousse. The cake was unique in that the tiers were alternating round and square shape.
The flowers were deep yellow and deep orange Gerber daisies as well as Alstromeria (didn't get a close picture of them) Keeping in line with Steeler colors, the cake was white background buttercream with black piping and gold fondant ribbon at the base of each tier. The reception room was full on Steeler Nation with a Terrible Towel at each place setting!
The couple also had requested sugar cookies helmets for their cookie table.
The NFL is having a bit of a rough patch in this early season with the replacement referees while the professional Referees are locked-out over contract issues, but this couple sure did bring the fun back on their special Day!!!
For the love of hunting
30th birthday milestone for Colt, an avid hunter.
This is a half sheet cake with 1/2 White cake and strawberry filling and 1/2 Chocolate with fudge filling. The frosting is buttercream and the top picture was hand-cut fondant appliqués for a three dimensional effect. I did not get a picture of the the sides of the cake which were camouflage frosting images.
John and Joy's Wedding
The big day has arrived!!
The cake was Red Velvet with Raspberry compote and Banana with Banana buttercream.
The cake was covered in a pistachio green fondant with a brown tree growing up the front. Crystals were added to give the design a little bling. The blue birds represent the members of this new family. The lovely cake stand was purchased by the bride at Home Goods and she trimmed it with crystals.
The overall design is a representation of the brides favorite designer, Vera Bradley.
(I apologize for the poor quality of the picture. Again I forgot the camera so I took this with my phone and as the sun was shining brightly, it washed-out the delicate colors.)
Soccer
In the past few weeks I have had the pleasure of creating cakes for all the events building up to John and Joy's wedding. This soccer cake was for the rehearsal dinner. It was baked in the full size ball pan. It is Hummingbird cake, a very dense banana cake with coconut, pineapple and pecans. It was filled with Cinnamon buttercream and covered in fondant. I scored the cake with a seam marker and painted the black diamonds on. The grass is royal frosting done with the grass tip.Ladies Golf
Grove City Country Club hosts an annual Ladies Golf outing. I have done event cakes for them 4 or 5 times. They are 8" cakes the serve as a centerpieces at each of the luncheon tables.
This year I choose argyle prints for the sides of the cake and each top was a different scene of golf, from the driving range to golf shoes. All the items are made of fondant or gumpaste.
Baby O'Hara
This was unique for a baby shower. The parents decorated the new arrivals room in vintage trucks.
The cake was a 15 x 17 sheet cake for 50 guest, half Banana with Chocolate custard and half Almond with Raspberry compote.
All the vintage trucks around the sides were printed on frosting photo paper. The frosting was buttercream in a stucco pattern on the top. I then airbrushed several layers of yellow and browns, while the color was wet, I used a wet paper towel to lay over the color and lift off some of the color off to give a vintage look. The truck on the top o the cake was done in fondant and again airbrushed to give the antique look.
On a personal note: when I was a small girl my father had a truck just like this one. We called her... Tin Lizzy. My sisters and I had great fun riding in the back (it was allowed back then, does that mean I'm considered vintage now ;)
Elvis has entered the building!!!
While a bride and her parents were looking over ideas for her wedding cake, the father asked if she would be willing to put Elvis on the top of her cake. ...No... 
Well... the brides mom called a few weeks later and said her husband was retiring and she wanted to do the Elvis theme for his cake for his surprise celebration.
The bottom tier was Chocolate peanut butter cake with peanut butter mousse. It was covered in buttercream and the palm trees and Vegas signs were fondant.
The middle tier was marble cake with raspberry compote. On this tier I covered the board with fondant and airbrushed a roulette wheel. The numbers were cut out of white fondant. The cake was covered in buttercream and the card suites were fondant.
The top tier board was covered in a printed fondant to represent Elvis's scarf. The cake was baked in the english pans (giving the curved top edge), it is covered in buttercream and is hand beaded. The Elvis figure was sculpted from mexican paste (I love the curled lip) and the feathers behind him were hot-glued onto the base. The dice used as the separators were 5" blocks of styrofoam covered in fondant.
I finished the overall design with fondant money and poker chips.
Bridal Shower 2
The cake is a 10" square serving 25 guest. It was Raspberry cake with Raspberry Compote. It is covered in sage green buttercream with the bridal silhouette in sage colored fondant. The roses in her hand are gumpaste and the veil is made of sugarveil. The bright poppys' are made of gumpaste. I really love this color combination. Simply elegant.
Hot Stuff
A bride from last year requested a cake to look like a Tabasco bottle. She said it was an inside joke.
I made a cake pan out of a wine bottle by folding aluminum foil around the bottle. The cake was Chocolate with Raspberry Compote. It is covered in red fondant and the label was made with a food color printer. The small chilies around the cake were also fondant.
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