An Art Deco Affair

Inspired by Art Deco architecture, Jeffrey and Romel chose to celebrate their marriage with a sleek, all-black, 5-tier wedding cake at the lavish Whitmoor Country Club last June. The cake featured two tiers covered with edible 23k gold leaf, and was stylized with black and gold decorative, geometric details. The top two tiers featured a series of set backs that created a stepped outline, commonly found in architecture from the Art Deco era. For any cakers wanting to incorporate this look in their next cake, a downloadable template is available here.

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When you see the back of this cake, ‘Miss Mary Mack’ might spring to mind, but those gold buttons down the back hid a gorgeous surprise for two lucky wedding guests!

Not to be outdone by western weddings, this culture-fusion wedding included a Peruvian Cake Pull. Two gorgeous rings attached to ribbons were placed inside the cake and then hidden amongst a flurry of other ribbons. As friends and family gathered around the cake to see if they could pull the rings, the cake cutting ceremony was transformed into a circle of love surrounding the couple. What a beautiful tradition. We love being able to incorporate these special touches into our couples’ wedding cakes.

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Now, one year later, we’ve just had the pleasure of recreating a bit of J + R’s wedding magic in an anniversary cake. Inspired by the design of their wedding cake, this 8 layer feast cake was created using the flavor that they didn’t have time to try on their big day—decadent chocolate cake paired with coffee mocha buttercream and whipped chocolate ganache. In addition to being wrapped in a 3D shell of edible 23k gold leaf with black royal icing details, we were sure to include a hand-painted copy of their custom monogram to tie it all together. Happy Anniversary Jeffrey and Romel, we wish you many years of love, health and happiness. Xx

Let Me Show You the World (in Cake)

One of the emerging trends from 2016 was Cake Trios. That means not one, not two, but three individual wedding cakes designed to compliment each other. WHOA! I know! That's some serious cake love right there. They take a little bit more work, but the effort is well worth it. Take a look at Abby and Troy's wedding cake trio set below and judge for yourself. What do you think, are you loving this trend as much as me? Now, I could be biased, because I'm pretty much gonna love anything blush and rose gold, but I just ADORE this set...and the couple that I created this for was pretty sweet too. Congratulations Abby and Troy—keep showing each other the world.

Sugar Flowers: David Austin Roses done in dusty blush, Dark Dahlias and Black-centered Anemonies.

Gotta give credit where credit is due. We took inspiration from the fabulous Erica OBrien and put a De la Creme spin on this global cake design.

Sweet Pea Petite Wedding Cake

Loved working with Lynn and Ginger to create this petite cake to fit their serving needs while designing to fit their combined sense of style. After all, even the smallest, most intimate wedding, deserves a beautiful cake!

Bridal Gown Cookies

Oh how fabulous! Pearls and pink satin...every girly-girl's dream! We treated these bridal gown cookies as if they were real wedding dresses. Scroll down, you'll see. It's almost as if they're hanging in little tiny garment bags :-)

Harry Potter Spell Book Cake

A Golden Snitch, Harry Potter's wand and a Hogwarts Crest sculpted by hand, were the edible elements that came together to make this spell book cake really come to life for one special young lady who just turned eleven. The worn leather book cover hid a delicious French Vanilla Cake with smooth Chocolate Buttercream. But don't judge me for playing with food...cos I'm not gonna lie, the minute Harry's wand was dry, it was waved once (or twice) while saying "Expelliarmus!" ;-)

Sparkling Celadon Wedding Cake

Every so often, we create a wedding cake so tall (and heavy), that we cannot assemble it at the studio. Jacqueline's wedding cake was such a cake. So we shot each deconstructed tier and then carefully boxed them up for the journey to the venue where we assembled the masterpiece for the first time. Seeing all the planning and hard work come together, and watching the vision finally come to life, I've got to admit, it's a bit a bit of a rush...I think that makes me a bit of a cake-geek, but I don't care, I love what I do!! :-)

Shopkins Lipstick Cake

What a little cutie pie!!! Recreating the Shopkins "Lippy Lips" character out of cake was so much fun. Such a tall, narrow cake took a bit of planning but the finished piece (at almost two feet tall) was totally worth the effort. We made sure to find some extra tall candles that looked great next to the giant lipstick, and what better way to line them up ready for the birthday girl's wish, than in little custom-made cupcake candle holders. Happy Birthday Emina!

Pink + Navy Sugar Cookies

Kerri's bachelorette cookies needed to be extra special, so we designed an extremely glam and girly set using her wedding colors of pink and navy with silver accents. And I must say, I just LOVE how they turned out!!