Gold Fantasy Flower Cake

I love finding a cake design that works well in a number of venues, this one does that! I love a good gold accent piece, but really love the way these gold lace flowers look to dress up a cake!

 Even more, I love that it looks good and even a little different in many settings!

 I love how warm it looks in a more rustic amber lighting,

As well as how fun it is pool side with some foliage beside it. The bionic cake design!

Quick Yet Beautiful Wedding

I was so so happy to be able to make this beautiful wedding cake. Long story, short... I was committed to this wedding cake for a date in mid November. I received a call from a friend on Monday ( it was her mother's wedding cake) and they had just found out her mother had been diagnosed with Breast Cancer and would be beginning treatment soon so they had decided to have the wedding that Wednessday evening and was asking if I would be able to do the cake still, but in one day. It was a stressful day but I was so grateful to be have the availability to make it happen. I was so happy with how beautiful the cake turned out. I especially loved the sweet little pink bow for breast cancer awareness around the bottom. I wish her and her sweet family many prayers and best wishes during the coming months.

Mail- Cake Central Red Sequined Fashion Cake

Day 20 of theidearoom.com's photo-a-day theme is mail. Perfect timing because today is the day I can share an exciting email I received back in November! Being a baker my site is mostly an idea catalog for cakes and baked goods that I make for clients and try for myself, so I'm always excited when my work gets showcased somewhere else besides here. In November I was excited to open my email one night and see this memo line from Cake Central Magazine regarding a cake I did earlier in October:

You have been featured in Cake Central Magazine VOLUME 5 ISSUE 4

The Fashion Issue is always an interesting challenge. I was featured in the Fashion Issue last year, see this post, for a somewhat similar style dress. Go figure, I seem to get red cakes a lot, haha! This October when I was sent the invitation to submit once again for the issue, I was sent this dress 

quite an elaborate dress, especially considering the fact that once you receive the invitation you have one week to make, photograph and submit the cake. The deadline for the cake just happened to be the week before our annual Halloween Party for which I begin baking full time about 2 weeks before. I was a little stressed and almost considered not submitting this time due to lack of time, but I knew from experience if you don't submit when they send the invite, it is a LONG while before you receive an invite again. So, I set to work and after hours of making homemade red gelatin sequins and pulled sugar sprigs- I ended up with this cake....

and featured on pages 55-56 (Yay, a 2 page spread!) shown here:

So excited! I love mail! :)

Rustic Baby Wedding Cake

Fun idea for an anniversary- a mini replica of your wedding cake! So cute and tiny, this cake stood 4 inches tall and was topped with yummy chocolate ganache drizzled over the tops of each tier.

And the anniversary couple with their cute little baby cake!

    

Beautiful Summer Wedding

It is so much fun to do the cakes and deserts for weddings, but it is even better when the wedding is for your little sis! For her wedding, she wanted style she wanted to do a simple but classic cake in white buttercream, since neither of them cared much for fondant, and then she wanted to pair it with a desert table featuring some cupcake jars I had made the previous summer and cake pops-which her fiancé loves! Unfortunately the cupcakes I had done were a cream cheese frosting, and the venue didn't have a refrigerator, so we just did a basic buttercream frosting, but they were still yummy! Here are some pics from the beautiful, and yummy day!!

cherry chip turquoise and orange cake pops

Lemon cupcakes with Strawberries n' Cream Buttercream

Mr. & Mrs. Kelsey

Bottom Tier: Cherry Chip cake and Cherry Buttercream
Top Tier: Lemon cake and Strawberry Buttercream
Cake covered in a light Vanilla Almond Buttercream

 

Turtles made by: Top of the Cake

"Love" cake topper by: Better Off Wed Rustics
Photography by: Jaffa Photography
Venue: Millennial Falls
Cake & Treat Table by: padicakes



Bachelorette Cookies

These cute little cookies were made for my little sis' bachelorette party! Her colors were orange and turquoise, very summery! They were an almond sugar cookie with a lemon/vanilla icing.
Lingerie cutters can be hard to find, here is the one I found! The panties are just heart cookie cutters with the bottom cut off!

Springtime Bridal Shower

Spring is such a beautiful time for an outdoor shower! I was so glad that my sister's bridal shower would be able to be held right when the flowers were coming out, but before it got too warm to enjoy being outside for awhile! We were lucky to have such a beautiful day! The color theme for the shower came from her invitations, which were perfect for a springtime theme!

Guests were asked in advance to bring their favorite recipe on a matching card to place in the recipe box we had on the guest table once they arrived. They were also invited to leave a few words of advice for the bride, as well as write an idea for a fun date night activity on a stick for the bride and groom before going to their seats for lunch.

 Guests were then given time to visit and fill out the quick bride quiz and "purse game" questions until all the guests had arrived.

The lunch menu was our Slider Bar and dessert table. Guests created their own sliders, custom grilled by my wonderful husband, nice enough to offer his Saturday for the event, then they were able to visit the dessert table, filled with the brides favorite goodies and treats. Among them were Cherry Chip Cupcakes, Almond Sugar Cookies, Pistachio Macarons, White Chocolate and Lemon Truffle Balls, Cucumber Limeade, Blackberry Mint water and an assortment of her favorite candies.

 

Games, gifts and fun were had by all, and as a parting gift; all guests received either a orange dreamsicle sugar scrub (which smelled divine) or a pink lemonade sugar scrub as a parting gift! What a fun shower to host!



the beautiful bride to be!

 Invitations: Party Monkey

Recipe Box and Advice Book: Bragging Bags

Date Night Jar: Decadent Designs

Host, Décor, Treats and Favors: padicakes

Beautiful Autumn Mountain Wedding

Wedding Cake I recently did for my little sisters wedding. The colors were Black, Silver and White, with flowers done in vibrate autumn tones! I love how it turned out!

Flavors were French Vanilla with Lemon Frosting on 2 tiers, and Lemon Cake with Raspberry Buttercream on the other tier. 

and here are some pics from the beautiful day!

The New Mr. & Mrs. Olesiak

Beautiful Views from the Ceremony Site at Park City Mountain Resort