Saturday, August 29, 2009

Beach Wedding Cake: Oak Island, NC Carolina Cakes & Confections




Once again, my customers have asked for the Delphinium Blue style wedding cake. It seems to have permanence. Coconut Cream Cake, filled with Dark Chocolate Ganache and Coconut.


Anniversary Cupcakes: Yellow Cakes with Buttercream Icing

30th Anniversary Cupcakes flowers and pearl theme. Perfectly yellow.


Batman Cupcake Cake Carolina Cakes & Confections


Batman Cupcake Cake for a repeat customer. Thank You Blair.

Circle of Friends Bridal Luncheon Cake

Chocolate Cake with Raspberry filling, covered in fondant
Client wanted us to match the "Circle of Friends Cake" The original is flooded with edible ribbon, probably cost way more than my fee.

Friday, August 28, 2009

Grooms Cake: Edible Poker Cake: Carolina Cakes & Confections

Edible Poker chips and Game Cards at Carolina Cakes & Confections

Behind the scenes at the bakery. The gang talked me into painting the poker chips. I could not fit clovers on them just hearts and diamonds.
Painting with edible paints and setting up for delivery.


Sunday, August 23, 2009

Princess Cupcake Tower: Jungle Rapids, Carolina Cakes & Confections

Megan is hard at work making the "Mirror, Mirror's on the Wall"
A beautiful cupcake tower for a fairy princess!

Princess cupcake tower at Jungle Rapids just a few doors down from the bakery. My partner Mandy's sweet little girl Etta had her 3rd Birthday party, and she asked me to create something simple for her baby. She let me loose on this one so we went for it! Oh yes, thank you Lachianti and Megan for all of your hard work on this one.

Saturday, August 22, 2009

Anniversay Cakes, Wilmington, NC Carolina Cakes & Confections

Anniversary cake for last minute surprise. Clients wife loves carnations

Saturday, August 15, 2009

Baby Shower Cupcake Tower: Carolina Cakes & Confections




Baby Shower Cupcake Tower. Includes cutting cake Vanilla Cake with Vanilla Buttercream. Cupcakes are Vanilla & Chocolate with Vanilla Icing

Baby Shower Plate


Baby Shower Plate
Originally uploaded by CupcakesTakeOn
Baby Shower Plate

This is the plate which I was asked to match for the Baby Shower. I had a side by side view which would not pull up... Sorry

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Beach Wedding Cake... The Oceanic: Wrightsville Beach, NC CarolinaCakes & Confections


Congratulations Jennifer on your new marriage. Jennifer chose a 3 tiered Red Velvet Cake with our Vanilla Buttercream Icing. I actually suggested the cream cheese icing to her but she was adamant on getting our signature icing. I'm glade she did because I think that under this heat that we had today that it would have melted. Jennifer, thanks so much to a beautiful bride.

Beach Wedding Cake Wilmington, NC Carolina Cakes & Confections
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Sunday, August 9, 2009

Baby Shower Cake "Baby Bump Cake" Carolina Cakes & Confections


Press: Our baby shower designs have been featured on
Baby Shower Cakes a publication which features
unique baby shower cakes. We are happy to have
been chosen for their acticle again.

It's baby time at the Bakery. Here we have created a Baby Bump Cake with Chocolate Cake and Chocolate Pound Cake filled and covered with Vanilla Cream and wrapped in Chocolate.
Our new customer Alex, called as a few days ago to order a cake for the owners of Dock Street Oyster Bar. He had said that he had heard great things about our bakery, and wanted a carved cake that was somewhat sexy for an expectant mother, so I got to work. I sent him an e-mail explaining that I've not ever done a cake like this before, and he put his trust in my bakery. I'm mentioning this because as a pastry chef, I can assure you that everything will taste unbelievable, but as the stakes get higher in the bakery world because of the Food Network, or even The Cake Boss more pressure gets put on the neigborhood bakeries. Sometimes I don't know if it helps bakeries or hurts them, but this is my chance to tell Wilmington, we may not get your request right evrytime if it's our first time making it, all we can do is try. Well it seems like we got this right the first time. Thank You Alex, for giving us this opportunity. We hope more to come.


Monday, August 3, 2009

Oreo Cookie Wedding Cake, Shell Island Resort Wrightsville Beach, NC Carolina Cakes & Confections


We received a request a couple of months ago to compose a wedding cake for an Oreo cookie lover. This cake was great to make and also a learning process over all. Over time I have made a Gazillion ice cream cakes with ice cream sandwiched in the middle but never a cookie novelty cake. We had hotel guests follow us to the banquet room to watch us set it up, it was such a great feeling. This cake was created with Chocolate Pound Cake as the tops and bottoms and vanilla cake centers. We iced up each layer in Faux Oreo Cookie Icing, which we created to compliment the cake. It really does look and taste like the real thing.

Baby Choir Boy

Baby Choir Boy
"Oh Holy Night"

Anniversay Cupcakes

Anniversay Cupcakes
One Cupcake Meant for Two

Beach Theme

Beach Theme
Christopher's 7th Birthday Party

Pampered Pink CupCakes

Pampered Pink CupCakes
Pretty In Pink Party