Ron Swanson Cake: Give me ALL the bacon and eggs you have.

For anyone who watches the TV show Parks and Recreation, you might appreciate this cake.  Ron Swanson is a monotone, masculine, hunting, and breakfast loving character who is the parks director of Pawnee, Indiana.  Although there are SO many great characters on the show, my husband appreciates the humor of Ron the most.  So for his birthday I decided to make a face cake based off a Ron Swanson halloween mask I saw online, which was designed by Jon Defreest.

You must watch this hilarious clip with one of his most his memorable lines.  "Give me all the bacon and eggs you have."

http://youtu.be/HrIeP798hiQ

Nautical "Just Married" Cake

 The April 2012 issue of Brides Magazine features our nautical banner cake as part of an inspiration page. The featured cake has a compass topper, but here's some photos with a sailboat silhouette topper.  Sailing ropes wrap the base of each tier for that added detail.

Surrealism Cake: New York Magazine Weddings 2012

New York Magazine - Weddings, has an awesome museum worthy cake collection in their current issue!  Each cake is based off of an art movement in history such as Realism, Impressionism, Abstract, Pop art, Cubism, Modernism etc.  I chose Surrealism as my movement.  As you can see, under the fondant layer of this cake you would imagine fluffy layers of cake and buttercream, but instead there is a peek through a curtain that exposes a hard, cold brick wall with a window that opens up to goldfish swimming in the blue sky.  Haha, that is as surreal as my literal mind could come up with :)! See the entire collection @ http://nymag.com/weddings/slideshow/sw12/cakes/index6.html

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Winter Wonderland Cake

Goodbye winter!  Today is officially the last day of winter and to bid it goodbye, here's a huge Winter Wonderland cake that we made for a Sweet 16 party.

After each snowflake was cut out, they were individually piped with royal to add intricacy.

Then each was painted with pearl dust, silver luster dust, disco dust, shimmery sprinkles or clear sprinkles so that no two snowflakes would be the same.  

We made over 120 snowflakes for this 10 tier cake

Goodbye Winter, hello Spring!

Dressmaker Details

Check out our cake in the Spring 2012 issue of The Knot.  The story highlights cakes that have dressmaker details such as embroidery, ruffles, eyelet, etc.  It's so amazing how fabric details can be replicated in the form of cake.  It takes a lot of time and patience to make fondant look like fabric, but outcome is so delicate and beautiful.