Bubble Tea Station

I went to a wedding this summer and I feel like the
themed stations have been gaining popularity.  I've heard wedding with gelato stations, cigar stations, candy stations, but this wedding had a bubble tea station!  The brought these guys in from Rutgers and of course they had the normal tapioca balls, but these also had these balls that were like a tart liquid encased in a bubble.  Idk how they made them but when you bite down on them they pop and explode all over your mouth.  It was kinda cool.

Wine Label and Grapes

A friend of my in-law's just turned 60 and I had the opportunity to make a cake for his celebration. In collaboration with his daughter, we found it fitting to make a cake in the shape of a wine label because he manages a wine market in NJ. She actually drew up the label and I turned it into a cake. In the end, I realized if I didnt mention it was a wine label, it could be mistaken as a door mat. Hahha Here was some of the process...

It was a choclate cake with chocolate ganache and raspberry filling


Here is the cake covered in fondant, but yet to be dressed.


Here's me painting on the script and cutting something out. Notice I'm in a sweatshirt in the middle of summer because I had to turn on the air to 60-some degrees so the cake wouldn't melt. It was so cold!


Done! Looks like a doormat huh? hahah I guess the grapes help





Making grapes:


Roll little balls of purple gumpaste


Hook onto to floral wires


Mix together purple, blue, and red powders till you find a good color to dust on.


After dusted and dried, start building the shape by attaching the individual grapes to the stem.


Cut out leaves, press into a veining mold and let dry on mounds of plastic wrap to get natural waves.