My Sister's Cake

Kate & Nik's Wedding

Sept 5, 2004

Cake Construction:

Lemon Pound Cake with lemon curd filling and lemon buttercream. Champagne colored base with white buttercream border. Fresh Flowers.

Pretty in Pink (continued)

Pretty in Pink

This cake was not for a wedding. It's actually not even a cake! Three tiers of thick styro-foam covered in fondant and decorated in Chef Ricci's Advanced Wedding Cake course at the Harborside campus of Johnson & Wales University.

Airbrushed Sugarpaste Flowers: Roses, star flowers, Cala Lily, trumpet flowers, forget-me-nots, carnations, and matching buds for all (additional coloring with Petal Dust)

Cake Construction: 1st tier uses fondant swag technique and swiss dots, 2nd tier uses ribbon-insertion and brushed embroidery, 3rd tier is same as 1st, pale pink fondant on 1st and 3rd tier, white-white on 2nd.

Tiffany Blue (continued)

Tiffany Blue

Jackie & Joey's Cake

July 7. 2007

Sugar Paste Flowers: Hydrangea, Hybiscus, star flower (colored with Petal Dust)

Cake Construction: 3 Tiers lemon cake with lemon curd filling and white buttercream, 1 tier white almond cake with white buttercream. White-white rolled fondant, Tiffany box top theme, Tiffany blue accent color, sugar paste pearl border, piped lace drape on 3rd tier, Quilt-impression on 2nd tier, Swiss Dot on 1st tier. Fondant ribbon on top

Cascading Orchids (continued)

Cascading Orchids

Jon & Sarah's Wedding Cake

October 6, 2007

Airbrushed Sugar Paste Flowers: orchids, star flowers, forget-me-nots & matching buds

Cake Construction: 2 layer white cake with white American buttercream, vanilla white-white rolled fondant, sugar paste pearl boarder, buttercream embellishment on sides.

Introduction to Blogging

As I have never 'blogged' before, and am not exactly sure what a 'blog' is, I have titled this first attemp as an Intro. This way, if I am a bad first-time blogger, I can blame it on inexperience. Good plan, right? Anyway, this project was created to display wedding cakes in my portfolio. I am a pastry chef with a large hotel company. This keeps me very busy. However, I look forward to wedding season on the off chance I might get a few on-the-side wedding cake jobs. This is my passion, and I hope one day to be able to do it on a more frequent basis. But, for now, it remains a very rewarding and challenging hobby.