So by now you’ve probably seen the amazing Stormtrooper cake we made last week for the Arisia sci-fi convention.  Unfortunately, due to all the craziness associated with just trying to complete the cake, we didn’t have a chance to shoot any video.  We did however get a TON of really cool photos.  In fact, we got so many photos that we were able to stitch together this pretty sweet stop-motion gif of how the cake being cut up and eaten.

So, without further ado, I give you a little animation we like to call “How to eat a stormtrooper.”

This may be the world’s most epic cake.

This beautiful cake was created for the hungry patrons at the Arisia Sci-Fi Convention in Boston, MA.  The stormtrooper stands at 6 feet 4 inches tall, weighed at least 300 lbs, and fed nearly 600 hungry conventioneers!

The building of the Stormtrooper cake was an epic event in and of itself.  It took our entire wonderful crew of ten people two full weeks of to put this guy together (although the cake wasn’t added until 2 days before it was to be served).  Along the way we even had to invent completely new cake making methods so it could be put together modularly onsite, hold its fondant over long vertical stretches, and stand on two beautifully sculpted Rice Kripsy legs that supported his 300 lb body –all while keeping every bit of cake tasting light, fluffy, and delicious!

It was a challenge to say the least, but we’re all incredibly proud, as we think it is perhaps the greatest sculpted cake ever created.  A bold statement for sure, but we think think that the photos speak for themselves.

Check out the pictures below to see how it all went together!

http://imgur.com/a/lQpF0

Update: We made a pretty cool animated gif of the cake getting sliced and eaten!

Today is the day! We deliver our most epic cake ever to Westin Waterfront for the Arisia Sci-Fi Convention where it will be on display today and then devoured tomorrow!  The only way to see him assembled is to be at Arisia : )

Of course we’ll post process pictures for those of you who are not able to make it.  So check back after a couple days for that.  Here are a couple teasers for now.

Yes, his brains are made of delicious cake. 

This make-shift robo-krispie box trooper is hanging onto our stormtrooper’s arms until he’s ready for assembly.

Sexy Stormtrooper legs…mmmmm.

Stormtrooper cake progress update! For those of you who haven’t heard yet, we are making a life-size Stormtrooper out of cake. It will be on display (and for eating) next week Jan 13th and 14th at Arisia Sci-Fi Convention at the Westin Waterfront Hotel in Downtown Boston.
You gonna want to be there

Here’s a couple photos of our progress so far.

Here is his skeleton so far.

It looks like we’re not having any snow for Christmas in Boston this year.  Good thing we got some fabulous, wintery, snow-filled Christmas cake orders in to fill that void.  Enjoy a few of the cakes we made this weekend and Merry Christmas from the entire crew at Amanda Oakleaf Cakes!

Gumpaste snowflakes with edible glitter fall onto an icy blue, shimmery fondant covered cake.

Our sugary, sweet version of Frosty the Snowman, constructed out of both cake and rice krispie treats, stood about  2 feet tall.

A winter wonderland for those of you who have your birthday mixed in with the holidays.

Ski Slope complete with with its very own lift.  These sugary slopes are suitable for both the beginner and advanced skier alike.

Christmas time is our favorite cupcake and cheesecake time!  These are just few of the offerings we’ll have available through the rest of the month. Give us a call and we’d be happy to customize any flavor combination for your special holiday party!

First off, our December flavor of the month: Gingerbread!  We have both cupcake and cheesecake versions of this scrumptious flavor.  The buttercream is sweet molasses buttercream and they come topped with a homemade, mini gingerbread man.

Our full-size gingerbread cheesecake is just as adorable and delicious.  It’s available in both 7″ and 9″ rounds.

Hot Chocolate isn’t just for your mug anymore.  We got both hot chocolate cupcakes and cheesecake, and yes, they come topped with marshmallows.

We’ve also got Bailey’s Irish Cream Cheesecake with a chocolate shortbread crust.  Available both in full size and cupcakes.

Our most popular cake flavor translated into our most delicious cheesecake: Red Velvet cheesecake with a Red Velvet cookie crust.

Classic holiday flavor, Chocolate Peppermint: chocolate cupcake with swirled peppermint buttercream, sprinkled with candy cane crumbs.

Classic egg nog cupcakes.  Yellow cupcake swirled with thick and creamy egg nog buttercream and dusted with cocoa.  They’re even better than the real thing.

We had way too much fun making these special edition rudolph and reindeer cupcakes!  They are chocolate cupcakes with chocolate fudge buttercream, pretzels, cookies and m&ms.  Gotta love the salty-sweet combo of fudge and pretzels!

Another translation of our most popular flavor, Red Velvet whoopie pies.  Available in both red and green for the holidays, filled with marshmallow cream filling.

Be sure to pre-order your gingerbread gourmet cake to make sure you get the size and decoration you want.

Any of our regular gourmet cakes, available in yellow, chocolate and red velvet cake, can be customized to suit your holiday party needs.

Our friend Elyse Walters has her own business where she creates handmade cards for all occasions. She does beautiful, intricately detailed work.  Her cards are always available in our store and for the next two weeks we have a selection of her Christmas cards available for purchase.  Perfect addition to your gift box of cupcakes wouldn’t you say?

Yes, we are making a life size storm trooper cake.  It will be on display this time next month at the Arisia Sci-Fi Convention at the Westin Waterfront Hotel in Downtown Boston.

More updates and details to come.  We just wanted to announce that we are making a life-size storm trooper out of cake!

Last week we made an exciting cake for a couple getting married who are both animators, for Dreamworks no less.  It was such a fun cake to design and decorate that we documented its entire creation.

Hope you enjoy some behind the scenes shots of one of our biggest, most detailed cakes ever.

The order form and sketches.

Ashley baking.

Cake is baked, ready to be stacked.

Tim sculpting the bottom tier.

Amanda and Tim crumbcoating other two tiers.

Cake has been fondanted and stacked.  Ruler measures the approx height of the castle.

Kat airbrushed, and is almost finished painting.  Tim gets ready to stack the castle on top.

All the fondant leaves, trees and bramble are ready to go on.

Amanda piping thorns on the bramble.

Ta Da.  Finished cake complete with figurines.  The forest scenery, princess and dragon is all from Sleeping Beauty.  Then we add Shrek and Donkey who are running up to the castle to fight the dragon to save the princess.  Classic.

Because this cake is all about the detail a couple close up shots are in order.

This was one of our favorite cakes because of all the layers of complexity: it was  airbrushed, painted, fondant decorations were stuck on, we then painted and airbrushed on the fondant decorations and then stuck on 3D figurines all on a topsy-turvy, spiral road cake with a castle, princess and a dragon on top.  Annnd we delivered it to an actual castle.  Pheww that was fun!

It’s a costume contest, and the winner gets a really cool cake!

The Contest:

1. Upload a photo of your (or someone you love’s) most awesome Halloween costume to our Facebook fan page:http://facebook.com/oakleafcakes. The costume can be from Halloweens past or present, just so long as it is of a PG-13 nature.
2. Our Facebook followers, as well as your friends and family, can then vote on who has the best costume by either “liking” your photo (which is worth 1 point) or by “commenting” on the photo (which is worth 2 points).
3. Also, remember that in order to vote on your photo, a person must first “like” (AKA “become a fan of”) Amanda Oakleaf Cakes on Facebook.
4. Please, only one photo allowed per user!!!  Multiple submissions will be deleted.  Also, only one “like” or “comment” on any single costume photo per user as well. Multiple comments will not be counted in the final tally’s.
5. Voting to take place from October 10th-24th, with the winning cake to be picked up @ our shop sometime between October 24th- 31st.  Winner can call us to work out pick-up details.

The Prizes:

First Prize: A free two-tier custom cake (serves 25 ppl) decorated to match your costume with a hand sculpted sugar figurine of you in your costume on top of the cake!

Second Place: Gift certificate for a free 9″ Gourmet Cake

Disclaimer: This contest is a fun way for us to do something nice for our loyal customers.  That’s it.  No tricks or gimmicks.  No purchase of anything is necessary to enter the contest, and Amanda Oakleaf Cakes reserves the right to cancel or modify any element of the contest at any time for any, or no reason.

Best of luck!

Happy Haunting!

A while back we were asked by Duff Goldman to make a cake for his product release/signing event at the Weymouth Michael’s.  This was super exciting for two reasons.  One, who doesn’t love Duff Goldman and two, they sent us free Duff brand cake decorating supplies to use to make this cake!  They sent us everything from fondant, to stencils and sprinkles.  It was like a cake Christmas.

It was over a week now since the event but we finally got around to posting some pictures.  Enjoy!  Also, check out our facebook page for additional photos of the day.

Kat, Tim and I on cake Christmas.

Finished Duff cake.

Closeup of the sugar Duff figurine.

The entire Oakleaf Cakes crew with Duff.
Left to Right: Brian-dishwasher/aka Dr. Fresh, Kat-figurine master/decorator, Davis-dishwasher/janitor, Duff, Tim-sculptor/decorator, Me, Alyssa-office assistant/frosting maker, Julie-office assistant/decorator.
Front row: Ashley-baker, Elizabeth-cupcake master/decorator, Tyler-c0-owner and engineer/designer.

Duff with our mascot Dr. Fresh.  Oh ya!

The whole crew once again after the event.  If you love the Dr. Fresh t-shirts let us know.  We have them for sale so you can be just as stylin as we are : )