Cupcake Display For the Hope Foundation of Greater Dayton

CH&L loves to help give back to our city, Dayton. We don't know of many people better to partner with to do this than The Hope Foundation of Greater Dayton. We were more than thrilled when they asked us to make a display of cupcakes for their Open House at The Foodbank of Dayton. So, here's what we came up with!

Enjoy, Cakers!

Modern Wedding Cake

I love making cakes. Seriously, there's something about each one that makes it my favorite. This one, though, steals my heart. I love every single thing about this cake. From the poured sugar tiles, to the square shape, to the re-invented poppy flower, this one wins for me. I hope you like it as much as I do!

Cupcake wedding!

I swear this doesn't look like 250 cupcakes, but it is! This cake was great to make because it was CUPCAKES! Cupcakes with hot pink buttercream to boot. Seriously, good times!

Congratulations, Alysha!

India Inspired wedding cake

This cake was SO much fun to research! If you've never Googled Indian weddings, man are you ever missing out on some eye candy.  So, I nearly hopped out of my seat at the chance to get to make something like this. This is an 8" and 6" Chai infused Vanilla cake filled with a Cinnamon Ginger buttercream. I then covered the entire thing in fondant and air brushed it with a deep purple mixed with luster dust to give it some shimmer. Next, I hand piped the design on to the cake with royal icing. And finally, I followed up with a tiny paintbrush and edible paints to give the design the color. It was a blast to make! Enjoy cakers!

Cakers! How are you out there? All sugared up with some yummy CH&L goodies I hope. Here's one of the cakes we worked on this weekend. This is a 3 tiered wedding cake. The sizes are 10" - 8"- 6". The entire cake is covered in fondant and all decorations on the cake are edible - even the flowers. Enjoy!

Jewelry Cake

Hi Cake Nation! This was a super fun cake to make. I love having the chance to make bows and play with luster dust. So, when a customer asked me to make a cake for a girl that had jewelry on it, how could I say no?

Everything on this cake, like almost all the others, is edible. Enjoy!

Book Birthday Cake

      So, along with cakes, I adore books. Naturally, when I received this order, I stood up and did a little happy dance. Well, the happy dance turned into I-hate-this-cake verbal abuse situation about 3 hours into it. The pages were maybe ripped off three or four times before I thought they looked decent enough to go out. I really don't know how my husband stays married to me. Really.

Cakers, here's the book cake.

Don't have a reason for cake?

There's always a reason for Cuppies.

Pink Flower and Bee Cake

Cakers, can I just tell you this cake was almost a disaster. Well, disaster in a cake sorta way. I was zipping through orders this morning and then I got to this one. I had it covered inwhite  fondant sitting as pretty as can be on the turn table waiting to be decorated. I glanced at my notes and noticed ... oh yeah, it's PINK not white. Oi. so, after a quick run (read: one and a half hours) to the cake shop for some pink air brush color, everything came back together. Crisis averted.

So, I present you with the Pink Bee cake.

Brownie from the ... Browns

This cake was for one of my favorite regular customers. She will remain one of my favorites despite her husband being a Cleveland Browns fan. But, I digress. Cakers, this cake is an 8" Carrot Cake with Rum Buttercream. Brownie is hand drawn and colored onto fondant.

Go Bengals! (he he)

iCarly Cake

This cake was one of the most special cake I've sent out to date. I recently joined a group called Icing Smiles, Inc. They allow families of children with serious illnesses to sign up with them to get a free dream birthday cake. Well, I was ecstatic to get the call that there was a family in my general area that needed a cake. The little girl I was baking for was named Brieonna and she was turning 7. Brieonna has a cancer called acute myelogenous leukemia, or AML. I got a few of her favorite colors from her mom and a theme and went to town. 


The cake is a vanilla cake filled with cookies and cream buttercream. If you're a baker and interested in joining Icing Smiles, Inc please click here. You'll help make a birthday that much more special for these amazing families.

Army Cake Order

Hi Cakers! This cake order was for a gal who was recently engaged to Logan. Logan happened to be heading off to Army Basic as well. So, as a surprise she ordered this cake. The only guideline I had to go off of was to include Army green in there somewhere. The cake is a Chocolate Fudge cake filled with Creamy Chocolate Buttercream.

Congrats you two! And thanks Logan for serving our great country.