Wedding Cakes
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Sunday, August 23rd, 2009A 40-year-old woman who has just about everything money can buy decided she wanted a pink handbag cake for her birthday bash at Sapa Grill. She e-mailed me photos of her designer handbags and high heel shoes and even brought me samples that I could work from.
The handbag cake is an actual pistachio almond cake [...]
Gerber Daisies on a Wedding Cake
Monday, August 17th, 2009A wedding cake should reflect the couple’s age and personality. Here is a a fun, youthful wedding cake that works for this couple. They got married at an outdoor ceremony in Riverton.
The couple chose a variety of delicious flavors including carrot cake with cream cheese frosting.
Two layers of the wedding cake were white sponge cake filled with [...]
Wedding Cake at The Grand America
Sunday, August 9th, 2009 Brides who choose to have their wedding reception at the Grand America want a beautiful, elegant cake that fits into the five star surroundings. I started making this wedding cake with the freshest ingredients: whipping cream, belgian white chocolate and strawberries for the filling.
The cake is a three tier round pistachio almond cake. I use rings [...]
Wedding Cake In a Recession
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009This beautiful two tier wedding cake serves forty people but wait there are more guests! The bride and groom also ordered two sheetcakes – mango mousse and chocolate raspberry for their wedding reception. Other featured desserts from my bakery were caramel brownies and chocolate brownies. It was a smart, simple and economical way for this [...]
Our M & M Wedding Cake
Saturday, June 20th, 2009We chose to have a destination wedding where my bride Micaela grew up in Nova Scotia, Canada. That meant dealing with a few logistics – like how to transport the wedding cake thousands of miles without it getting smushed. I chose to make a fake wedding cake for display and a real cake for consumption. [...]
Mango Mousse Birthday Cake
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009A wonderful flavor combination for a wedding or any other special occasion is mango and raspberry. Mango is quite popular among foodies who have travelled to the Latin America and Asia and also folks who are from those regions. For my fiance’s birthday, I made a delicious birthday sheetcake for her party. Her mom is [...]
Got invited to this wedding
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009Most of my wedding cake business is by referral. This bride found us because she was a co-worker of friend. She wanted a grape theme on her wedding cake. The buttercream for the grapes was dyed purple and piped onto the marzipan. I dipped fresh grapes in a simple syrup of sugar and water and [...]
How do you get the ribbon to stick?
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009A bride has been dreaming about this special day for years. Some have bride books. Others bring an array of wedding cake photos from the internet and magazines to show at their initial meeting. For the past few years, a popular trend has been to wrap the cake in ribbon. At this point, the bride [...]
A birthday cake for my daughter
Monday, May 4th, 2009My daughter celebrated her 10th birthday this weekend. As the daughter of a pastry chef, she is used to incredible birthday cakes from Martin’s Fine Desserts! She had a luau themed cake made fresh the day of her birthday. Tropical sugar flowers decorated the cake and the kids sure enjoyed licking the flowers.
My daughter gave [...]
Wedding Cake Enrobed in Fondant
Sunday, April 26th, 2009This weekend Chef Martin made a wedding cake enrobed in fondant while an Italian Cooking class was taking place at the table next to me. Stay tuned for the video later. Anyway, fondant is fairly simple to use – even for a hobby chef. You can buy it at different specialty stores that carry supplies for making wedding [...]
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