It's raining babies! Er...It's a baby shower!

Recently I have had a string of referrals that seemed like a game of  "6 degrees of Kevin Bacon"  Or Separation.  Whichever version you prefer. This person had a cake from this party and ordered cupcakes.  This person had the cupcakes from that party and ordered cookies.  This person was lucky enough to have the cupcakes and the cookies and has placed an order for cake pops.  And on and on and on!  How powerful is word of mouth advertising?! Well...I'm beginning to realize it's VERY powerful!  Can you believe I still haven't placed an ad or done any paid advertising since I started this thing?  Crazy.

Anywho, one of those referrals placed an order for a baby shower cake.  We had a few inspiration pictures and decided to use the simplicity of those cakes, mixed with an exact copy of the shower invitation!  I think it turned out pretty well. I just love that little elephant! 

Top view of shower cake

Full frontal of the shower cake

Close-up of the fondant figures.

I have a busy few weeks ahead of me.  Fingers crossed that I remember to update this here blog of mine...  :)

Girls vs. boys...

What a week!  I don't think my mixer or oven were off for longer than a few hours at a time during the last seven days!  I made two very different cakes this week.  One was a girly-girl cake for a baby shower, complete with flowers, butterflies and satin ribbon.  The other was a "Cars" cake with a fondant gas can, tires and traffic cones!  Both had their challenges and had me sweating throughout the process.  However, I was extremely pleased with the end results and am so pleased by the reactions of my clients and their families and friends!


The shower cake was red velvet with cream cheese icing and the design matched the nursery decor.  The cake was dense and moist and the icing was the perfect creamy compliment.  

The "Cars" cake had two tiers.  It was made to look like a racetrack with three sides of a stadium over it.  The top (the stands) was chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream filling and iced in vanilla buttercream.  The bottom tier (the track) was a strawberry cake filled with chocolate buttercream and iced with vanilla buttercream.  The sides of the cake were covered in my home-made fondant-which, say what you want about fondant, this stuff just melts in your mouth!  Much of the other detail (the gas can, traffic cones, tires, checkers, etc.) were all done in modeling chocolate.  The "Happy Birthday" and the cars logo "Ty" were all done in melting chocolate.  The only things that were inedible were the flags on top and the cars!

Thankfully, I attended both parties and was able to sample both cakes! Score!  It's so nice to hear people say such nice things about my work.  It makes all of those hours of standing, mixing, assembling, icing and decorating even more worth it!  I continue to be incredibly thankful for each order and consider it an opportunity to hone my craft while making others happy.  What a great job!  


And next week?  Back to cupcakes.  Tampa Bay Lightning themed cupcakes, to be specific.  Pictures soon...  :)