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.
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.
This cake was delivered to The Ancient Spanish Monastery, North Miami Beach, FL for the wedding of Daria & Travis.
Lemon cake filled with lemon curd and Swiss meringue buttercream then covered with fondant. Gumpaste orchids and flowers along with fondant drapes decorated the cake.
This buttercream covered wedding cake was delivered to the Pembroke Falls Country Club, Pembroke Pines, FL for the wedding of Andrea and Christopher. The display was made of champagne and amaretto cakes filled with Swiss Meringue buttercream and covered with American buttercream.
Imagine this: getting a wedding cake order; decorating and delivering the wedding cake without ever seeing the bride or groom! Impossible? Well, in this day of instant messages, text and email it can be done…and in style too.
Each week my mailbox is bombarded with request for wedding or specialty cakes and a few of them are like this “…I need a wedding cake this weekend…!!!” Being a custom cake shop where our cakes are made to order and having a shared kitchen where customers can’t just ‘drop in’ without an appointment, I have learned to find ways to meet my clients needs using the best technology on hand: my Blackberry Torch 9800, QuickBooks and a Dell Inspiron 17R. They are tied to me just like my apron.
So when a client emailed me from the Middle East and asked if I could do her wedding, I was a little hesitant but felt better when I realize it would be in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. However, the wedding was in three weeks and she was going to New York, then California before coming to Florida the Wednesday before the wedding! I was like, “yikes!” We shoot emails, to each other with description of cake, the flavor, the buttercream and where to deliver; send invoice and get paid via QuickBooks within clicks and taps on a keyboard. How easy can that be?
Here the bride and I exercise blind faith and trust in each other. She is trusting that I will do a good job on her cake; where I am hoping I will be paid and the cake is worth what she paid. Anyway, I would not recommend this for all cakes.
Walk good and happy caking.
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The cakes to the left weighed over 70 pounds each! It was a fruit cake covered with almond paste and fondant. Usually I would make the cake myself, but this time the two brides had their mother bake the cakes and had me decorated them. It was a challenge to how much I could lift.
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:
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| Ariael & Brodrick’s Wedding - Fort Lauderdale, FL | Kathy & Marwan’s Wedding - Fort Lauderdale, FL |
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| LaToya & Markis Wedding - Sunrise, FL | Nancy & Joey’s Wedding - Pembroke Pines, FL |
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| Fireproofing Your Marriage - Calvary Chapel Sawgrass Church, Davie, FL | Kendra & Steven’s Wedding - Boca Raton, FL
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