This was a fun wedding reception that was held at the boathouse at Fairmont Park, Riverside. The theme was the 60's, but not like in an Austin Powers kinda way but in a traditional 1960 genre.

We did these cupcakes on vintage stands adorned in gold and navy blue ribbons. The cupcakes were placed in psychedelic wrappers and were accompanied by mini cupcakes to give the presentation some depth. Flavors included red velvet, lemon, and chocolate.

As the sun set, mini candles on the table and on the stands were lit to give this presentation a warm and inviting feel.

Natural June Wedding

So June 12, 2010 was a wonderful opportunity to do this fun, woodsy cake. The couple liked the idea that my cake batter and frostings are made from fresh, all natural ingredients so they asked me to do this cake using my vanilla bean cake batter and topped it off with a margarita lime frrosting. It was a wonderful pairing of flavors for a hot June day. The bride requested these willow twigs be applied to the cake as birds and sticks were the theme of the reception.

Pretty Princess Party

So, this has to be one of the cutest parties I have assisted in. It helps when you have a totally creative client who pulls out all the stops. My only part in this was the small polka dot cake for the birthday girl and 30 cupcakes (which 3 of them were sacrificed on the drive to deliver them. Some guy pulled out of a local side street and nearly t-boned my car so when I slammed on the brakes, the cupcakes went flying).

The birthday girl wanted all pink cake so everything was strawberry flavor. The frosting was my homemade buttercream and swirled on in a girly/cutesy style and tinted to compliment the party colors. Of course we used coordinating cupcake papers.

The mini cake was a 6 X 4 inch round strawberry cake covered with hot pink fondant and finished off with coordinating polkda dots.

More information on this party can be view on "The Savvy Mom's Guide" blog under the birthdays link.

Purse Cake

This was a purse cake done for a co-workers birthday! It was just round cakes cut in half, frosted with buttercream. The handle is actually a 9" long tootsie roll and the flowers are marshmallows and whoppers. It was a great presentation.

May Cupcake Wedding

This was my first cupcake wedding. It was so much fun assembling this 3 tier cupcake stand with 300 cupcakes! Flavors included triple chocolate, lemon, strawberry and red velvet. Each was topped off with a frosting rosette and placed in a handcup wrapper.

The bride and groom opted for a giant 11" cupcake as their cake to cut into.

The final presentation was fantastic!

April Showers Bring May Flowers

This May Flowers theme birthday party was for my niece's 1st birthday party. It was a flower theme so the cupcakes were adorned with different type of flowers like oreo cookie sunflower complete with m&m's ladybug, marshmallow mums, and candy melts pansies. My nieces personal birthday cake was a 8" chocolate cake covered in buttercream and finished off with her own ribbon maypole. The larger cake was chocolate cake and finished off with buttercream and fondant flowers and balls. The overall presentation was springy and fun and my niece had a blast!

A "Vintage" 50th Birthday

This was by far the best party I have done and the longest in preparation as well. It was done for my brother-in-laws 50th birthday party which was a wine themed party. This job took over 3 weeks to complete but was worth every minute. Everything you see here is edible. The "cheese" wedges are yellow cake covered in fondant, the grapes are rolled up fondant and the crackers are just circle fondant discs. The wine barrel is 6 layers of 2" thick chocolate cake layers shaped into a barrel shape, covered in buttercream and finished off with fondant that was hand tinted and rolled out to mimic wood grain. After applying the fondant, I used a pizza cutter to roll the indent of the wooden slats. After that I added the "metal" straps and topped off with more fondant grapes. The woode wine buckets are gumpaste slats that were adhered to the side of 4 2" layers of chocolate cake. The wine bottle in each bucket is gumpaste formed over a wine bottle and labels from his favorite winery were printed and laminated and added to the bottles for a realistic effect. The birthday boy was quite happy with his cake presentation.