Guitar Cake - NJ Cake Bakery

 

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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!!

5 Days of Christmas: Part III

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Here's a pic of our carved Christmas tree cake. Although it looks a bit difficult it was actually quite simple to make once we broke it down. The hardest part of making this cake was going back to high-school math to calculate the angles (yes, my teachers were right when they told me 'you'll use this again!").

Its a three-tier cake with each tier carved at an angle, covered in fondant, and stacked using pillars extending above the tiers (we wrapped the pillars in red fondant). The cake is sitting on a base of styrofoam draped in red fondant for the tree trunk.  

Anyone who knows my decorating methods will recognize my favorite part of this cake - the little gumpaste figures under the cake. I can work on these little things all day!

5 Days of Christmas: Part I

Even though our Bogota, NJ bakery is located 15 minutes from the bustling metropolis of Manhattan, I often feel like I'm working in Mayberry. Bogota seems to have withstood the test of time and everyone knows everyone and everyone is involved in everything.

Our fire inspector, who is also the president of the town's 'Beautification Committee' (I use that term loosely), has taken great care of us along with the rest of his team, and we like to take care of them by delivering bags of goodies every so often to show our appreciation. We are debating the design for this year's Fire Department cake, but last year the following is what we dropped off:

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The cake is made using Syliva Weinstock's Yellow Cake recipe  which we find bakes up sturdy enough to withstand carving yet is still quite moist. Santa and the fire hat brim are made from gumpaste.

If you have any fun cake ideas we can do for the folks at the fire department this year, please drop us a comment.

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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