Dawn's 40th "Touchdown"!

I've now made 2 Giants helmet cakes, and I wouldn't have expected this, but both of them were for women. The first was a cake for Bat Mitzvah girl Lexa, and the second, shown here, is for Dawn's 40th Birthday. In fact, Dawn had seen Lexa's cake online and loved it, which is how Dawn's good friend Lisa ended up contacting me. The cake was a surprise for Dawn, and I had to deliver it to the Jersey Shore where Dawn and a group of her BFFs were spending the weekend! When presented with the cake at a celebration dinner, Dawn was so thrilled she shed tears of joy, and she wouldn't let anyone near the cake with a knife!! (It is vanilla bean buttermilk cake with chocolate mousse filling and dark chocolate ganache outside, so it should taste pretty good whenever she finally eats it. I delivered the cake a week ago, and heard that as of Tuesday, it was still uncut!) Happy Birthday Dawn! You are blessed to be surrounded by such wonderful friends. And eat your cake!!

Wyatt's Dinosaur

Here's the full photo of the cake for Wyatt, who is turning 3. He's crazy about dinosaurs, and so for his birthday, he got a very friendly dinosaur who's about to take a big bite of the birthday cake! This silly dino is is ready to party, dressed in his converse sneakers and a birthday hat! The dino is mostly edible (there's some support in there so he can stand up) and his skin is modeling chocolate, so he's very sweet too. The tiered cake is vanilla bean buttermilk cake with a chocolate fudge filling and blue vanilla buttercream outside. Happy Birthday Wyatt!!

Tyler's confirmation cake

Tyler's parents wanted to surprise him with a non-traditional confirmation cake.  They wanted to include both baseball and softball as well, since they're Tyler's favorite sports.

I made a figurine of the very athletic Tyler, and he's got a baseball bat in one hand, a lacrosse stick in the other.  His parents loved the figurine so much, they saved it in the freezer!

The cake is chocolate with oreo filling and vanilla frosting.  Peanut-free since Tyler can't have peanuts.

Congrats on your confirmation Tyler!

Graduation for Steven and Ryan

A graduation cake for lifelong friends Steven and Ryan who are excellent lacrosse players. Instead of a traditional graduation cake (a flat cake with a graduation cap on it), I made them a graduation "scrapbook," complete with photos of the boys from childhood through high school, gum paste lacrosse sticks (those were tricky to make, especially in the rainy weather we've been having!), sugar skis and a mountain too. I love this kind of highly personalized cake; it tells a story.
Congrats to Steven and Ryan!! Best of luck to you both in college. And to their parents, who won't get to see them so much any more, if you're sad and missing your boys, there's always cake therapy!

Yankee Stadium Cake

Yankee Stadium for Jonny's Yankee themed bar mitzvah!

Chocolate cake, oreo and chocoalte ganache filling, chocolate ganache frosting, and lots of decorating.  Notice the LED scrolling message board!  

This cake was a home run!

Mazel Tov Jonny!

Claire's Birthday

 This cake is for a very special girl - my baby girl.  She just turned 15.  I'm not sure how that happened so quickly since I haven't gotten any older... well I don't feel any older.  Claire asked for her favorite cake, chocolate cake with Oreo filling, for her birthday.  She requested a cake with ombre - that's the shading from light to dark in the same color.  I made this ruffled ombre cake for her, and put a pretty pink rose on top.   She's a special person and a terrific daughter, and she deserved a cake as beautiful, sweet and classy as she is.

Happy Birthday to Claire, who regardless of her age, will always be my baby.

Strawberries for Saleeya

Saleeya's 5th birthday was coming up.  Despite her young age, Saleeya has a definite sense of style, and knew what she wanted for her birthday.  Her mom contacted me to make a cake that was loosely based on the children's toy Strawberry Shortcake.  She sent me some images to use as inspiration.

This very cute cake consisted of an 8" tier and a 6" tier.  The cake was vanilla yellow cake with strawberry buttercream filling and vanilla buttercream frosting on the outside of the cake.   I also made a dozen cupcakes (vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream) to go with it.   The strawberries and flowers on the cake are all made by hand from fondant.

On the right above is a sketch I had done and sent to Saleeya's mom so she could see what I was I proposed to make for Saleeya.  I was trying a out new drawing app  (I usually sketch out cakes in pencil).  I think it came out okay in the app, but I think I'm sticking to pencil next time.

Below is the finished cake, and the adorable birthday girl herself, all decked out in Strawberry fashion.  I love that skirt!!  Her matching pink, red and green dessert table is behind her with her cake is right in the center.  I think those pink, red and green candies look so pretty.  It looks like it was a great party!!

Happy 5th Birthday Saleeya!!!