Monday, October 25, 2010

Caveman Spongebob and the Dinosaur Cake




Some cakes are just plain fun to make. This was one of those cakes. I love when a customer comes to me and says give me dinosaur and give me spongebob. And on one cake. That means it's time to get creative. I especially loved that this cake was for GIRLS. I love cool chicks. Happy Birthday Ladies!

Chocolate Decadence


Sometimes as a cake maker I get so caught up in fondant and colors and all the things that go in to one of the traditional type of CH&L cakes. So, when I got this order from one of my regular customers, I was a little hesitant at first. I mean, hello, where was the skill in this. BOY OH BOY - was I ever knocked down to size by this chocolate piece. Have you ever tried to make really long and tall chocolate curls? Yeah, not really as effortless as they seem to look. At all. The end product was so dramatic and it smelled like a chocolate dream. Happy Anniversary Erinne and Gerry!

I sometimes like getting free design reign on cakes. This was one of those times. I really liked how these cakes turned out for a brother and sister shared birthday party! Happy birthday Holden and Skylar! Hope it was the best day for you both!

Race Car Cake




This was a tricky cake to make. I always offer a discounted price to someone when it's the first time I'm making a certain cake because I never can promise how it will turn out. The client seemed over the moon with the order. I'm loving the Save the Ta Tas logo for the front!

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Marshmallow and Chocolate Popcorn Balls



Bring back sweet childhood memories with these scrumptious Popcorn Balls. They can be made with the color of your choice and with either white chocolate or sweet milk chocolate. Tied off with ribbons, they'll make the perfect treat this Fall.

$4.50 per half dozen or $8.00 a dozen.

Friday, October 8, 2010

Guitar Cake






This cake was great to make. My husband and I listened to great music and painted in to the wee hours of the night. I am very pleased with how this turned out. 

Happy Birthday, Jacob!

Monday, October 4, 2010

Cupcake for a Cure

Cupcake for a Cure - During the month of October, CH&L will be baking support for Breast Cancer Awareness. Our Cupcake for a Cure is a moist Vanilla Cake topped with shimmer frosted White Chocolate Buttercream. $15 a dozen with 25% going to Breast Cancer Awareness.


Wednesday, September 29, 2010

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!

Sunday, September 26, 2010

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!

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

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.

Monday, September 13, 2010

Don't have a reason for cake?



There's always a reason for Cuppies.

Friday, September 10, 2010

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)

Monday, September 6, 2010

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.

Monday, August 23, 2010

Cuppie-tastic!

Good Morning, Cake Nation!

I just wanted to send a little blip out to let you know that CH&L is firing on all cylinders. All Cuppie cylinders that is. For next month, we have over 615 Cuppies ordered! So, here are a few pics of things that have been keeping us busy lately. Enjoy, Cakers!