Chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream.  Sugar paste decorations.  Buttercream piping.

June 2017

Personalized cupcakes inspired by Dr Seuss "Oh The Places You'll Go".  Vanilla rainbow colored cake, vanilla rainbow colored buttercream frosting, sugar paste decorations.

June 2017

These are various items from the spring 2017 semester of culinary school.  

January - May 2017

A small wedding cake with specific requests by the bride.  Vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream.  Fondant covered with sugarpaste and royal icing decorations.

August 2016

Chocolate cake with chocolate ganache filling.  Vanilla buttercream frosting.  Sugar paste decorations.

July 2016

A first communion cake.  Vanilla cake with marbled colors and vanilla buttercream frosting.  Sugar paste decorations.

April 2016

Kevin was turning 50.  Kevin loves to play guitar.  His wife sent us a couple pictures of one of his favorite guitars and we had a blast making a small replica of it. 

This is 4 layers of vanilla cake with a raspberry filling and vanilla Italian buttercream. Black piping is done in simple buttercream. Decorations are made of sugar paste and fondant.

February 7, 2016

Photo credits: Mariana Dunham

Jennifer entered a cake competition.  The goal was to recreate her own wedding cake which had been inspired by the cover of the Summer 1998 Martha Stewart Weddings magazine. Their inspiration was the techniques used by dressmakers to make flowers from fabric.  

For the wedding in 2002, a local bakery did a great job of making a cake that looked just like the one on the magazine.  Now, 13 years later, it was Jennifer's turn.  

Jennifer received a bronze medal from the American Culinary Federation judges.  

The cake is vanilla, with vanilla buttercream. The cake is covered in vanilla fondant, and all decorations are made of fondant, sugar paste, and royal icing.

December 7, 2015

Violet loves Frozen and brought us the Disney InfINity Elsa character, requesting it be placed on her cake with lots of snowflakes.  Who are we to say, "no"?  Happy Birthday Violet!

August 30, 2015

If you are in the Raleigh, NC area, there is a wonderful place on Glenwood Ave called Fitness 4 Life Training Center.  They do one-on-one personal training, have a variety of fitness classes, and also have a very strong karate program for all ages.  A few students had black belt testing, and we were thrilled when they asked us to make a cake to celebrate the amazing achievements.  Taking the patch they all wear on their uniforms, and putting it on a cake was a lot of fun.  Our staff artist, Sam, did an amazing job on the fist.  We've already been asked to put this on our calendar annually.

August 28, 2015

There's a sweet girl we know named Alex who has a major love affair with Pugs.  So her mom asked if we could make her a cake with a pug on it.  We were delighted.  Happy Birthday Alex!

August 14, 2015

Our own Lucy wants to travel the world some day.  So for her birthday we gave her the world.  We even included a "You Are Here" pin to represent her starting point, and to remind her where to always come back to.  The inside is red velvet.  To represent the lava at the core of the planet, of course.  

August 3, 2015

Apprentice Lucy wanted to try an experiment.  How could we achieve a marbled effect in a cake?  We started with a vanilla cake batter, divided it up between several small bowls, and added our color gels.  We only needed a couple drops of each color.  We then spooned it into the prepared pans in random order and amounts.  "Here's a small spoonful of green.  Here's a generous spoonful of purple.  Here's some more green..." We did that until all the batter had been added to the pans.  We then baked as normal, and you can see the wonderful results here.  As we layered the cake, it reminded us of Rorschach images.  What do you see in the layers of cake?

August 1, 2015

Sometimes we need to just keep it simple.  Well, sorta.  We had a request for 6 cupcakes bringing together pineapple and coconut.  But there couldn't be any actual pieces of pineapple or coconut at the request of the client.   So we made pineapple cupcakes by pureeing and straining fresh pineapple.  (We pushed it through the sieve ourselves to get every bit of flavor possible without any pulp.)  Then we flavored our Italian Buttercream frosting with coconut, getting just the right amount so as to not overpower the pineapple flavor in the cupcake.  Happy Birthday Wendell!

July 17, 2015

We were invited to a Summer Solstice party.  The invite said to bring a side dish or a dessert.  Naturally we chose a dessert.  This was a perfect opportunity to try out some cookie decorating techniques.  Lots of lessons were learned, including how much time is actually in each cookie (a lot!), as well as some techniques for the future to get a smoother surface.  We made half of the cookies as vanilla sugar cookies.  For the other half, we added a lemon flavor.  Therefore we decorated the lemon cookies with... a lemon!  The vanilla cookies received a summer solstice sun with a little sparkle.  They were a huge hit at the party.  The other lesson learned was that we should have taken business cards.  (Doh!)  June 20, 2015

Gabriella had two reasons to celebrate: It was her 21st birthday, and she had just been accepted as a transfer student to NC State University!  She's so humble though, some very dear friends requested the cake to surprise her.  Her favorite flavors are red velvet, and chocolate. So we used Lucy's Red Velvet, put a chocolate mousse between the layers, and covered it in vanilla Italian buttercream.  The NC State logo was so much fun, we became fans for a little while.  June 12, 2015

A little boy shares his birthday with an uncle.  And this young boy is a great Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle fan.  The client overheard a discussion of our Lynnette's Lemon and chose that.  We used our Vanilla Italian Buttercream and tinted it blue for the frosting.  The decorations are all made from sugar paste.  Our cute little turtle heads, peeking out from under the man hole cover, were done masterfully by our art director.  And we just couldn't get enough of the adorable little pizzas that adorned the back of the cake.  June 6, 2015

We had a vendor who actually requested payment in cookies!  So we took the opportunity to practice the piping skills.  (We also paid for lunch.)  This was a lot of fun, and we can't wait to do it again. These are vanilla sugar cookies with a vanilla confectioners icing.  May 30, 2015

For this project we used Lynnette's Lemon cake with a lemon mousse filling and vanilla Italian buttercream.  The decorations are sugar paste and Italian buttercream.  The client is a big fan of the school's basketball program which is represented with the argyle pattern.  May 9, 2015

Kyla loves art.  So we wanted to make a cake to reflect that.  And she loves the colors pink and purple.  The paintbrush is edible.   October 25, 2014

Savannah is a big soccer fan, as well as a University of Miami fan.  Thus the orange soccer ball.  Tripp's mom saw this cake and knew immediately it would be perfect for her own son the following week.  But he wanted the classic black and white ball.  We improved the spacing of the spots, and got a little better at making grass.  These were so much fun.  October 18, 2014

A local family-run business that we have been patrons of since about 2006 was holding a small bake sale to raise funds for one of their staff to get additional training.  So we donated several things, including these adorable blueberry muffins with a confectioners glaze and candied lemon zest.  August 24, 2014

We had a client actually request a small cake covered in sprinkles for his daughter.  Or so he said.  He's a big teddy bear, so we suspect it was just as much for him as it was for her.  And we love that.  August 24, 2014

Lucy got a wonderful idea to have a Bunco themed birthday party.  So we made three dice with blue dots (her favorite color).  August 3, 2014

For this project the client, Courtney's boyfriend, wanted chocolate with a chocolate butter cream for Courtney's birthday.  But he liked the look of the white on white.  So this one is covered in fondant with the words cut from shimmered sugar paste. Rich chocolate cake with a light chocolate butter cream.  June 9, 2014

We had a client come to us with a special request.  They had seen the cover photo of one of the Wilton yearbooks with this castle kit and requested that we make one in pink.  So we did.  August 30, 2013

Kenny was given a surprise birthday party by his wife for his 50th birthday.  Cupcakes were requested with a mix of flavors.  We made vanilla and chocolate with vanilla butter cream and chocolate butter cream frostings.  Each cupcake was topped with a sugar cookie which had been tinted to echo the look of a gravestone.  August 2011