White and Gold Vintage Elegance {Wedding Cake}

White, gold and elegant. This wedding cake was created for Nichole and Josh for their 2011 wedding at Catta Verdera. The cake has a touch of vintage victorian elegance with some fun whimsical pops of color and non-tradional cake construction. We used a lace stencil, pinched the edge of some tiers and added some molded elements to give the vintage feel. Their florist Blooms by Martha Andrews added the perfect floral accents that made the colors pop and add just the right amount of whimsy. We constructed the cake with a variety of shapes and tier heights to give it a unique look and feel. I love the overall finished look of the cake, the white and gold is classic, the different decorating techniques we applied and the fun floral pops of colors and textures.  

White and gold vintage elegance wedding cake

close-up: love the floral accents, they added a whimsical look especially with the monkey tails in the topper

close-up: love this pics that really shows the lace stencil detail, the pinched edge hand painted gold and the individual gold molded feather trim.

fun angle: this shot really shows off the shape of the petal tier, the floral topper, and the gold feather trim on the bottom tier

Nichole and Josh, all smiles, cutting into their masterpiece.

For more pictures of Nichole and Josh's wedding, her beautiful dress, amazing florals check out

The Goodness's blog feature  or Real Wedding's feature

Thank you:

photos: The Goodness Photo & Design

florals: Blooms by Martha Andrews

Seeing Spots and Polka Dots {styled shoot}

When our friend Beth at True Love Photo asked us to create a cake that had polka dots both on the outside and the inside... we responded "challenge accepted!!". After countless tasty trials we did it, and not once but twice.
We create a bold yellow cake with evenly space blue polka dots and a second one with bright red polka dots. The cakes were then decorated with a matching polka dot pattern.

Yellow and Blue Polka Dot Cake!! 

photo: True Love Photo

Wanna a piece 

photo: True Love Photo

And a yummy slice of the yellow and red polka dot cake

photo: True Love Photo

photo: True Love Photo

 Now a couple of in process pics of how the magic was created:

(sorry for the pics, they were taken from my iPhone and for some reason unknow to me they uploaded upside down)

a cookie scoop was used to make space for the polka dots

after the dots were added a layer of matching color buttercream was added

The second layer of polka dots added to the cake.

 

A huge THANK YOU to:

photos: True Love Photo

Models: Cast Images

Stylist: Poppy

Hair and make-up: I Make Beautiful

Paperie: Honey Paperie

Yellow and Gray Cupcake Display {Wedding Cupcakes}

Gray is the new neutral and yellow is a perfect sunny addition. The color combination looks great used here on this wedding cake/cupcake display. The cake is clean and classic, allowing the yellow ruffle sugar with a vintage gray button flower to be the focal point. The cupcakes are also adorned with a gray vintage button. The white ceramic tree stump stand (from BHLDN) is the perfect piece to display them on. I fell in love with the stand the first time I saw it and felt it would be the perfect addition to a dessert table, used a cupcake stand (shown here), or to display a tiered wedding cake.

Ceramic tree stand with yellow and gray cupcakes

vintage gray button toppers

yellow ruffle sugar flower with a gray button center

the tree stump cake/cupcake stand has great detail on the top and the base

love, love, love this stand :)

Unique Elegance

Come join us at the Carvalho Winery friday evening from 6PM - 9PM as we explore a beautiful night of Unique Elegance. We will be there along with over 30 other vendors to showcase, consult, and provide samples of the services we provide (meaning we will have cake!!!) for those who are planning weddings, anniversary parties, graduation parties or...just plan on partying. Admission is $10.00 in advance (call Marnie at 916 744 1625 EXT 234 for ticket info.) and $15.00 at the door! All event proceeds will go to benefit Kiwanis House, the umbrella organization for Kiwanis services to children. Come taste many samples from local caterers, drink some wine, enjoy some music and sample our cake! The Carvalho Winery is located at Old Sugar Mill 35265 Willow Ave. Clarsburg, CA 95612 and you can also visit them at www.carvalhowines.com or contact them at 916-744-1625. We'll see you there!

Bride's Choice Winner!!! 2010

Sacramento, Ca. – Jan. 19, 2009 - WeddingWire, the nation’s leading wedding technology company, just announced Sweet Cakes by Rebecca has been selected to receive the 2010 Bride’s Choice Awards™ for wedding cakes!
The annual Bride’s Choice Awards™ recognizes and celebrates excellence in quality and service within the wedding industry, as determined by recent reviews and extensive surveys from over 500,000 newlyweds.
Sweet Cakes by Rebecca is among the top five percent of all vendors in the WeddingWire community, which includes over 100,000 wedding professionals across the US and Canada. Awards were given to winners across 19 different service categories, from wedding venues to wedding photographers.
“We are excited to recognize and honor the success of the top wedding professionals within the WeddingWire Community” said Timothy Chi, WeddingWire’s Chief Executive Officer. “The annual Bride’s Choice Awards™ program has given us the unique opportunity to highlight the best wedding professionals in each region as reviewed by brides and grooms who have utilized their services in the past year.” We are happy to announce that Sweet Cakes by Rebecca is among the very best wedding cake vendors within the WeddingWire Network, which includes WeddingWire and Martha Stewart Weddings. We would like to thank our past newlyweds for nominating us for the 2010 Bride’s Choice Awards™.
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Bridal Showcase 2010 - Cal Expo

This past weekend we attending the Cal Expo Bridal Showcase. The day was filled with meeting newly engaged brides and grooms and thier families and friends. There was so mush energy and excitement and our new display cakes were well received.

This year we decided to showcase cakes that have drama and color. We wanted to show want our abilities are with cake and sugar. We avoided the cake styles that we have done in the past with the thought that you can see pictures of cakes with scroll designs, ribbon borders, and quilting on our website. So we created brightly colored cakes, dramatic cakes, grand cakes, complete with a candy and dessert display.

We had 11 cakes on display, ranging in size from a 2 tier for 36 people up to a 5 tier for 204 people. We also brought for display cotton candy mini cupcakes in specialty papers, chocolate cake pops dipped in white chocolate, rice cereal treats covered and drizzled with chocolate and a variety of color cordinated candies. We also showcased our wide variety of cake stands, apothecary jars, dessert trays and custom made dessert tags. But we didn't stop there we also made sure that we didn't leave our visitors with an unfulfilled craving for cake, we provided tasting samples of white cake with raspberry preserves and champagne buttercream and red velvet cake with a bavarian cream filling and vanilla buttercream. Yummy!

rice cereal treats, cake pops on a tray of sprinkles, candy jars, bowls, and some cakes.

The candy and treats smelled great and really stopped people in their tracks, but the cakes were what captivated guests to stay at our table, engage us with questions, take pictures, and of course sample cakes.

There were a couple of cakes that received the most attention for the day. The first being the cake we placed on the front corner of our table.

This a 4 tier square, serves 172 people, covered in ivory fondant and accented with chocolate brown and apple green details. Then it was finished off with green orchids, orange lotus, champagne dusted blossoms and chocolate brown curls. The table was decorated with sola wood balls.

The next best was the Queen of Hearts of cake:

This 4 tier round, serves 204, was covered in a stark white fondant and then accented with black diamonds spaced perfectly around each tier with red hearts. It was then finished with red red roses and white stephanotis. The cake was topped off with a double sided Swarovski crystal monogram, custom made by http://www.verydifferentcakes.com/

Another popular cake was our dramatic showpiece, it was a little bit vintage, a lot glamourous, and had a romantic pirate appeal to it.

This was agrand 5 tier cake with various height tiers, serves 204. It was covered in white fondant and then had one side stenciled with a delicate damask and the other side draped with horizontal pleats. The two sides came together with a ruffle sided strip complete with diamante studed buttons. The entire cake was given a pearl coat so it had a subtle sheen to it. Then the cake was completed with sterilized ostrich feathers, sugar peonies and hydrangeas. It had 3 beautiful plumes on top that made the cake over 2 feet tall. We displayed the cake on top a silver 18" square stand. It was a sight to see. Look to our future blogs for more angles and close-up photos of this amazing wedding cake.

The cakes are not the only thing that makes our bakery different from the others, its our great staff. We are a family owed bakery and so the show was also a family event. My sister Martha, niece Theresa, sister-in-law Violeta, niece Celia, brother-in-law Joe, my mother Marion, and close friends Vermont and Jasmine attended the show to help Hector and I. They handed out cards, helped answer questions, offer samples, bring brides to the table and give the best support. I can't thank them enough.

I'll finish this post with one more photo of the entire both, a sample display of some of the many things our bakery can create.

Wonderland Wedding

When people think of Alice in Wonderland images of the Mad Hatter, the White Rabbit or Alice come to mind. For me I picture the Queen of Hearts and painting the roses red. I drew upon those ideas when I sketched out the Queen of Hearts wedding cake. The black diamonds and red heart accents remind me of the cards and the red roses, well of course they had to be incorporated in the cake. I topped the cake with amazing Swarovski crystal initials and a whimsical heart, all made by http://www.verydifferentcakes.com/

After bringing my vision to reality I began to look for photos to build a collage to show my ideas of a wonderland wedding fit for a queen.

I came across these amazing fashion collages on Polyvore. I think while they are not wedding images they represent the style I was thinking of when I created the cake.

Take Me To Wonderland ! by • Gabby;; featuring Ray

055 by • Gabby;; on Polyvore.com

I have also created the following collage to show how this style can be applied when planning a wedding, such as table cards, shoes, gowns, save the dates, venue decor, and florals.

Here are just a few more images of the cake while on display at the Bridal Showcase.

Yellow and Gray Wedding Inspiration

I have been learning to use Photoshop to make photo collages to help inspire future brides. I have finally figured it out enough to be able to show off a wedding cake design of ours along with other coordinating wedding elements. This inspiration board was created to show one of the latest color combinations for weddings... yellow and gray. We created a 3 tier cake covered in a gray fondant and accented with white polka dots and whimsical yellow flowers. The design is modern and playful. The photos surrounding the cake are great ideas of how to incorporate the color scheme in all areas of your wedding. I really love the idea of photographing the rings on smooth gray rocks wrapped in yellow ribbons and the great gray clutch with the amazing broach.

Here are some additional photos of our cake. As shown the cake serves 74 people.

Black Damask Wedding

The past weekend had a theme to our cakes. We did a custom wedding cupcake tower and 4 tier wedding cake, both with a black damask theme. The differences were so subtle. One was white, hot pink and black the other ivory, pale pink and black.

The cupcake tower was inspired from Vanilla Bake Shop, they make incredible cakes in Southern California. The tower was made from Styrofoam dummy cakes, Masonite cake boards and PVC pipe. My wonderful hubby built it and with a lot of help from my nephew and niece, we made an incredible presentation for the cupcakes. The foam dummies were covered in white fondant and then stenciled with black royal icing, harder than you would think. The other tiers were covered in white or pink fondant. The cake on top was also stenciled with the royal icing.

The wedding cake was designed using the invitations as inspiration. It was 14", 10", 8" and 6" round cakes stacked, it served 152 people. The entire cake was covered in ivory marshmallow fondant and the bottom and 2nd tiers were stenciled with black royal icing. The top tier was stenciled with the motif that was found on the invitations and topped with a pink bow. The 3rd tier was wrapped with a 2 layer fondant ribbon and then in the front their custom monogram was hand painted. The cake was beautiful and the clients were happy, really that's all that matters.

It was full and very rewarding weekend.