We were so excited to have our first wedding this past weekend! Even more excited to see some of the professional photos from the day. Our first cake was such a fun twist on a traditional wedding cake. We did cake pops for every tier in the colors of the wedding. Kristina O'Brien took this beautiful photo of the cake at the reception site, Grace. We can't wait to see more photos!
Along with this, we also had some fun cakes come out of the kitchen this weekend as well!
I recently had the great pleausre of collaborating with a group of wonderfully talented wedding professionals for a 1950's-inspired, surprise Valetine's Day engagement at my bakery. You may read about the inspriation and story behind the shoot on our amazing designer and stylist, Sarah Goodwin's, blog.
Photography: Meredith Perdue
Design, Styling and Tablescape: Sarah Goodwin: daisies & pearls
Dessert Table and Venue: Jessica Parrott Robitaille: Nothing Bakes Like a Parrott
Paper Goods: Sarah Parrott Bianculli: Parrott Design Studio
Photo Booth: Parrott’s Photo Booth Company
Hair and Makeup: Michelle Wheaton: ENVY Hair Salon
A special thanks to our super cute models, Chris and Lindsey. We had so much fun spending the afternoon with them and loved hearing their love story.
Every year I have the honor and privilage to work with the Noyes Brain Tumor Foundation and their Cooking For a Cure Event which raises money for brain tumor research at St. Jude's Children's Hospital. This year I had a little fun with tissue paper and tasty treats!
I also had the opportunity to create ALL of the centerpieces for the event!
This past weekend I had two bridal shower cakes in which the design inspiration was based on the invitations to the showers. Each invitation as super cute and I was excited to design a cake based on them. I think using invitations as a mode of inspiration for a cake, cupcakes, or desserts is such a great idea because it ties the whole party together.
The first shower cake was great because there was an actual cake on the invitation. I designed the cake using green fondant as the base color of the cake and used white fondant to make the flowers to decorate the cake. I also wanted to integrate the yellow polka dots that made up the background of the cake, so I decided to do that s the bottom border of the cakes.
The second shower cake was a pink and black theme with a pretty and simple daisy. I used pink fondant as the base color of the cake and cut out a big daisy that looked like the daisy on the invite to put on the tiers of the cake. To add the back I rolled out black fondant balls to use the base of each tier.
I love Halloween! It has become such an important part of my life growing up and it continues to play such a happy and exciting part in my life today. Last week I spent a large amount of my time preparing my house for the Robitaille's Halloween Spook-tacular. This being my husband and I's first Halloween Party and having the innate ability to go slightly overboard for holidays I knew this was going to be great!
Our living room turned into a blood splatter, coffin chamber while our dinning room turned into a witch's cabin. I decided I wanted to create a dessert buffet and drink table for all of my guests along with my fantastic decorations!
My dessert buffet included:
My drink table included:
It has taken me so long to post these cakes because I think I am just getting out of recovery from my weekend! After pulling a 40 hour day with a 45 minute "nap" I was able to complete these lovely cakes! I have never been one to pull all-nighters, even in college. I prided myself in getting my work done early because I appreciate sleep far too much to go without it! But when you are working with food, sleep in not a luxury you can easily afford!
The cakes spanned many different elements and were all super fun to make. The cakes included:
Phew! But I survived and ended up with these!
Okay so I am not one for plain cakes - it is just not my style. But just because you are plain on the outside doesn't mean anything about the inside.
I created this cake last week for one of my best friend's 24th Birthday. He has a fondness for rainbows and anything Britney so I thought this cake would be absolutely perfect for him! The pizazz and wow-factor can be found under the tasty buttercream! Seven colorful layers creating a beautiful and delicious rainbow cake!
This cake looks amazing and it is also quite easy to create! All you need is to combine all the ingredients for a white cake.
1. First, divide the batter equally among 6 different bowls. The only real tricky part of this cake is making sure the batter is even.
2. I used a small kitchen scale and you will first need to weigh your mixing bowl before before combing all the ingredients for you cake. Once you know how much your mixing bowl weighs combine all your ingredients, then place the bowl on the scale again. Take this weight and minus the weight of the mixing bowl. Divide this number by six and that is how much batter you will need!
3. Before you place any batter in your six bowls make sure you weigh the six bowls to make sure you put the appropriate amount of batter.
4. Once you have your batter evenly divided place a small amount of appropriate food coloring in each batter.
5. Now your batter is colored use a nine inch greased and floured pan to bake your cake. Do this for every color.
6. Let your cakes cool and then you fill and frost the cakes!
7. Lastly, enjoy! :)
I finished up the cake yesterday that I used the candied raspberries with. It came it pretty cool, I combined the candied raspberries with fresh raspberries and added some sugar roses, daisies, and calla lilies!
