Sweet Sixteen Masquerade Cake - NJ Custom Cakes

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We created this cake for a very special gal turning 16. Its always fun to design a cake when you have livid colors and a great theme to work with.

Obviously, the theme was a masquerade ball and the colors were purple, jewel green, and gold. The three masks on the cake were fashioned from gumpaste and lots of edible glitter.

Sweet Sixteen Topsy Turvy - NJ Cakes

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Bogota, NJ

This cake was made for a very special young lady for her 16th birthday party in Howell, NJ. We loved the lime green and aqua color scheme she picked out! The little 'buttons' on her cake mimic the buttons on her invitations and just in case someone didn't know how old she was, we made a big gumpaste '16' for the topper of her cake.

In order to please as many palates as possible, both tiers are a different flavor. The top tier is yellow cake with praline filling and the bottom tier is our popular chocolate cake with cannoli filling (see recipe below).

Cannoli Filling:

Ingredients:

• 1 lb. Ricotta Impastata
• 1/4 lb. confectioners' sugar
• 1 tsp. vanilla extract
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon
• 1 oz. chopped semisweet chocolate

Directions:

• Beat the ricotta and sugar until smooth
• Add the vanilla and cinnamon and mix until incorporated
• Fold in the chopped chocolate

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Alice in Wonderland Themed Cake

Happy Sweet Sixteen!!
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What a fun cake this was to make! One of our interns came up with the idea for his sister's sweet sixteen birthday party and we jumped in on helping him to make it. I loved all the design elements he came up with. The hat is several tiers of chocolate cake with a strawberry meringue filling. The cat's body is carved cake and his head and tail are Rice Krispy treats. Gotta love that cat's smile!

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Sweet Sixteen Birthday Cake

This was a really special cake to design and make. The birthday girl received an airbrushed guitar for her big day and her father wanted us to replicate the design. Putting the two masks together was a bit challenging, but, hey, we are always up for a challenge!

Like most sculpters, we just took two sheet cakes and carved away anything that didn't look like a mask (OK - so that one is getting old!). The cake is covered in fondant, airbrushed, and we added lots of black edible glitter to the design.

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