Buttercream Rose {Wedding Cake}

Classic and Elegant... A smoothly iced butter cream cake with hand piped roses. The cake was a butter yellow color with bright white roses. The cake was kept simple by finishing the tiers with a simple bead border. It is displayed on a white milk glass cake stand.

This is the perfect example of less is more.

beautiful hand piped rose pattern

Close up: Shows the slight color difference of the piping and the detail of the rose design

Rosettes and Pearls {Wedding Cake}

We created these beautiful buttercream cakes for a wedding at Wine and Roses in Lodi this past weekend. The cakes are decorated with buttercream rosettes with pearl centers, hand rolled fondant pearls, hand piped lace, and pearl trim. A couple of the cakes were embellished with open rose sugar flowers. We set up the cakes in a symetrical layout and used a mix of white and pink milk glass cake stands.


The centerpience of the display was this 4 tier buttercream cake which has mulitple textures such as a smooth finish, piped rosettes, piped lace, fondant pearls and a dusty pink open sugar rose. 

This is one of the 2 tier cakes that were on each side of the center cake. The rosettes are on the top tier this time and it better shows the hand rolled fondant pearls.

A close up: this is one of the dusty pink open rose sugar flowers shown on one of the smaller cakes

A close up: The champagne cupcakes were swirled with a matching rosette and given a pearl center

Another image of the full table display. I'm still learning my new camara and so lighting is something I'm still working on getting right :)

Gumpaste Open Rose

Just Peachy {Wedding Cake}

This sweet peach and white 2 tier round wedding cake was the center of yummy dessert table. (pics to come later of the full table) The bride like the quilted style cakes and the groom wanted something more angular and precise. So we created a cake that gave them best if both. The pleated linear look of the bottom tier satisfied the groom's style while complimenting the more feminine quilted tier. The cake was also embellished with some ruffled flowers. We took an artistic approach to the anemone flower by using a simple gold pearl center. The cake is displayed here using one of our jade cake stands.



love the cake from this angle.



close up of the hand made sugar flowers with a soft gold pearl center.

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

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.

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.