Cake Coquette in San Francisco Brides

I've been waiting oh so patiently for San Francisco Brides to hit the stands because one of my favorite cakes of the year is featured on page 26. They did a little interview with me, which is always an honor, and in the article I mention how much I love the gold gilded Marie Antoinette style cakes. I have to thank the super talented Sabine Scherer who helped stage and photograph the cake and of course the editor, Mary Jo Bowling, of SF Brides who found my cake print worthy.

January Cakes

This is a very simple, but elegant, cake for a New Year's Eve Wedding. It's very traditional and romantic. I'm a big fan of full flowers in between columns. Call me old fashioned, but if you fill up the space with a mix of all types of flowers big and small, and there are even sugar flowers in there too, I think it looks full and fabulous.


This was a really interesting cake. The couple wanted the cake to have the feel of rice patties. There was a sort of monument rock as a topper that was flowing water down the mountain. The couple's names were painted on the rock next to two butterflies.



I miss doing florals. This style reminds me of the days at the Cake Divas, since I probably did about 5 a week. I think they are so beautiful and love when I have the opportunity to do my buttercream flowers.

Cake Coquette on Chow.Com

I was asked by Chow.com to create a gingerbread village as a "movie set" for their holiday greeting card movie. They actually even borrowed all my personal Playmobil toys and Brilo train set for the scenes. I spent the day working with the awesome guys at chow as they made this adorable stop motion animation movie. Enjoy. It's so cute.

http://www.chow.com/stories/11994

New York Mets Grooms Cake

This cake came out pretty cool if I may say so myself! A surprise groom's cake that I hope was a home run. Cheesy pun intended.

Ween Cake

This cake was so long over due. My husband has been asking me for a Ween cake for years and last night he finally got it. Ween is a killer rock band and the cake, as you can see, is the album cover of Chocolate and Cheese. They are worth checking out if you haven't heard of them. We've been to many a concert. You can check out Jean and Dean Ween's website Ween.com. Rock on!

A Wedding in Kenwood

Thank you to Bruce Forrester Photography for the gorgeous photographs. This beautiful event was designed by Joannie Liss Events and End Design.

Figurines of our favorite charaters

Today I thought I'd show a few examples of the sugar figures you can do on cakes. In this first example of Dora the Explorer I drew her on sugar with food color. She is what I call a 2D design because she is not sculpted out of sugar like in out next example.

For the Scooby Doo Halloween Cake the gang is also painted on sugar, but scooby, who is hiding in the grass is sculpted out of sugar.

For the full effect of sculpted sugar figurines see The Swedish Chef, Micky and Minnie Mouse and Sesame Street. I know I already posted the Sesame Street gang, but they are just too cute to leave out.

Doing sculpted figurines is a good option if your party is too small to do a sculpture cake(I usually need to work with at least 25-30 servings) or if you don't want to break the bank as sculpture cakes are more expensive.