Guitar Cake - NJ Cake Bakery

 

Confectionary Designs

 

Anyone ever play a sugar guitar :)

 

We made this cake for one of our clients who presented it to her boyfriend for his 30th birthday.

 

The book cake contains his favorite quote from John Lennon's lyrics of "Beautiful Boy": Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."  So very true!!

Black and White Birthday Cake - NJ Bakery

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Bogota, New Jersey

Our client came to us requesting a 70th birthday party cake and wanted the following elements incorporated into the design: black and white films, family, sudoku, bowling and gardening! At first, adding all these elements in a creative way was a bit intimidating, but once the creative juices started flowing it all came together in a cohesive fashion.

We used a graphics program to create a simple sudoku and made a black and white film strip with photos of her children and grandchildren. These images were then printed on frosting paper using edible ink and applied to the cake with a few dabs of water.

The '70' topper was made using sugarpaste and an exacto knife several days in advance to allow drying time. Once it was dry we painted it with silver luster dust and sprinkled edible glitter to add a little extra bang! The bowling pins/ball and plunger flowers were also made from sugarpaste.

Overall we were quite pleased with how all the elements worked together in this cake and, more importantly, the client loved it!

A Birthday Bus - NJ Cakes

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Bogota, NJ

This cake was a bit of a challenge like most of the 3D cakes we do. Luckily the recipient provided us with a toy model of his bus for us to work from so we were able to incorporate every little detail, down to the windshield wipers! In order to get his logo exact, we used a graphics program to create the logo and cut it out using sugarpaste on our Cricut.

The cake is a delicious, moist Red Velvet cake with Cream Cheese filling and White Chocolate ganache icing.

From Pencil to Pastry: NJ Birthday Cakes

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Bogota, NJ

When Confectionary Designs first opened it's doors in Northern, NJ, I had a vision we would be the cutting edge bakery regarding technology. After spending over 20 years in the Technology field my thought was "automate everything!" from inventory to finances to customer orders.

So when it came to creating a rendition of a custom cake for the client, I rolled up my sleeves and starting using the latest and greatest graphic program.  WRONG - stop right there!!  My partner pointed out to me that our customers get a special feeling when they see a hand-drawn rendition of their soon-to-be cake.

There is the question whether we are bakers or artists first - in my opinion, neither outweighs the other -  we are bakers AND artists. Our customers know we are making their cakes by hand and so it follows we should also be sketching their cakes by hand and that is the philosophy that our company has adopted.

I enjoy comparing the original sketch given to the client to the finished product. In the Betty Boop birthday cake above there is almost no deviation from the original drawing. This is the case with many of our cakes, but it does happen that as we are working on a cake we just know a banner would look better in 3D, or we need more roses to fill up a section, or a bead border will look better than a shell border, etc... and so we do some real-time design right on the cakes themselves.

Harley Cake - NJ Bakery

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Bogota, NJ

What's better than an real Harley-Davidson motorcycle? How about an edible Harley? We loved making this cake! The cake is made to look like a tire, a royal-icing plaque, airbrushed flames, and a gumpaste Harley for the birthday boy!