Wedding Cakes

Wedding Cakes
Blue Ivy Cakery Wedding Cakes
Showing posts with label wedding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wedding. Show all posts

Monday, January 30, 2012

Bridal Shower For A Traveller

 

Camera & Orchid Bridal Shower

In December 2011, I delivered this cake for a bridal shower at The Bridge Hotel, in Boca Raton. The bride to be loves to travel and of course her Canon EOS 70 camera, which I tried to recreate using fondant and rice crispy treat. The yellow orchids were made using gumpaste and airbrushed.

Winter Red Roses Wedding Theme

 

Winter Roses Wedding

Wedding cake for Marisa and Joey who are members of our armed forces. Cake was delivered December 2011 to a private home in Davie, Florida for wedding of a bride I did not get the chance to meet, but coordinated the cake through phone calls and emails. The wonder of technology!

Cake tiers were buttermilk vanilla cake filled with chocolate fudge buttercream and covered with white buttercream. The little droplets were covered with Disco Dust to reflect icicles running down the sides of the cake. Red roses and leaves were made of sugar paste and airbrushed in the specific color.

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Wedding Cakes–Summer of 2011

May and June were our busiest months this summer and we had more than enough cakes for our small operation. Can you believe that July and now August we purposefully took less orders in order to get a break? Well, July I took time to spend with hubby celebrating our anniversary as well as taking the time to focus our energies.

Here are a few of the cake we made:

Arriel & Brodrick Henry
Kathy & Marwan Haddad

Ariael & Brodrick’s Wedding - Fort Lauderdale, FL

Kathy & Marwan’s  Wedding - Fort Lauderdale, FL

LaToya & Markis Nancy & Joey's Wedding Cake

 

LaToya & Markis Wedding - Sunrise, FL

Nancy & Joey’s Wedding - Pembroke Pines, FL

White Roses Wedding Cake (S) Kendra & Steven's Wedding Cake

Fireproofing Your Marriage - Calvary Chapel Sawgrass Church, Davie, FL

Kendra & Steven’s Wedding - Boca Raton, FL

 

Friday, March 4, 2011

Bumpy Delivery–Red Roses Wedding Cake

For those days delivering cake when you don’t feel like a Cake Boss!

No matter how you try to deliver a cake in the best condition possible, some times the ride can get really bumpy for delicate cakes.

Last month I worked hard on over two dozen red roses and buds for a wedding cake which was delivered to the quaint Redlands Golf and Country Club down in Homestead, Florida. If you are familiar with South Florida and South Miami-Dade the Redlands is considered “rural” since the area has a number of farms and livestock. Travelling from Broward County we took the turnpike, then west on Kendall Drive and south on Krome Avenue. During our drive I believe I counted us going over three set of railroad tracks! That can’t be good for a stacked three tiered buttercream cake even if I was driving a Cadillac.

About three blocks from the club, the unthinkable happened…one of the dowel skidded on the greaseproof cake board that the bottom cake was on causing the two top tiers to collapse onto the bottom tier. When I asked Rena, my able assistant with this cake delivery, to check on the cake in the back, I went into shock when she shouted: “Oh my! Jeanette…the cake!!!!!” That was enough to cause me to take my eyes off the road and look behind to see the nightmare any cake decorator dreaded happening to them. The smell of sweet buttercream and the aroma of fresh cake mingled with my panicking “Ooohh nnnooooo!!!!” was enough to make me pull the vehicle over, yes on very rough swale, that was . You maybe wondering if I took pictures of the catastrophe…no, I didn’t that was the furthest thing from my mind. All I was thinking about was, how am I going to fix it in time for the wedding. Thank God I usually plug a bit of extra time in the event something like this happens. However, I do have pictures of the cake before the collapse and what I actually displayed. The chef at the club humored me when I was busy patching the two damaged tiers by saying that he felt like he was watching Cake Boss. At that time I did not feel like Buddy but I asked he for two aspirins for the headache (LOL).

This is the cake before we started the drive (below). Notice there are four tiers…

Blue Ivy Cakery Red Rose Wedding Cake

This is the cake we displayed (below). Ooops! We only have three tiers where did the other go? Left in the kitchen to be cut and server. Yes, I know it’s an expensive bad habit I have, but I always make more than enough cake, for this very same reason (LOL).

Red Roses Wedding Cake Since this delivery I am no longer takes cakes stacked before setup unless I am travelling in a hovercraft or we are in the real space age.

Happy caking and baking ‘till next time so walk good…

Jeanette “Baking Jeannie” Jackson