Occasionally, on our extra busy weekends we need to stay late to finish our custom cakes.  Late night cake decorating means that we’re working a 12-14 hr day.  After that many hours of cake us decorators get a bit loopy and a little silly and sometimes quite insightful.

Last weekend while making a figurine of Michelangelo’s ‘David’ for a Florence themed cake due the next day I had a thought.

There is no way Michelangelo would have ever been able to conceive of artists in the future (that’s us) recreating his masterpiece sculpture using sugar to then be put onto a custom cake.  I highly doubt that anyone in the early 1500s would have any comprehension of custom, sculpted cakes and sugar figurines.  Then, my next deep thought.  What sort of medium will future artists invent and use to recreate our art?  It would be a medium that we can’t even comprehend, that we could never imagine (maybe edible, maybe not) and would use it to make simplified versions of our masterpieces that are used simply to entertain and perhaps even consume.  Weird right?

The above photo is a little weird if you don’t know how this guy fits into an actual cake design.  This is a cake ordered for a spouse who loves the city of Florence, Italy and all the art and architecture that it has to offer.  Thus, the Florence cake: Duomo, David and Ponte Vecchio over the river.

We made a Futurama Spaceship this past weekend.  This was a surprise groom’s cake that was ordered earlier this year before the announce of the canceling of the show, and before we knew Fry and Leela were getting married. How cool. The spaceship is mostly cake with its underside being rice krispie treats. The figurines are hand-sculpted out of fondant and gumpaste. As for size, the cake was made on a 3 1/2 foot base and stood about 1 1/2 feet tall.

This shot shows the inner structure that made up the spaceship.  The underside is rice krispie treats, because we all know cake does not hang onto the underside of things : )

Inside was yellow cake with strawberry buttercream on the top half of the ship.

It took three of us to cover the cake in fondant.  All 6 hands were necessary to get the single sheet of fondant carefully wrapped around all wings and onto the underside.

  Closeup of the figurines which we hand-sculpted out of fondant and gumpaste.

 Finished cake.

Recently we made a wedding cake for a couple who are huge astronomy enthusiasts who got engaged while at a viewing of the Venus Transit last year. It is where Venus crosses in front of the Sun and only happens every 100 years, a once in a lifetime event. The figurines of these stargazers as well as their historic telescope are all made from fondant and gumpaste.  The galaxy effect, or ‘space dots’ as our decorators jokingly call them, was created using airbrushing .  If you look closely you’ll find a few constellations which we’ve hidden in the stars.

The New York Times even picked it up!

A really fun cake and a great example of how to tie in your own personal story into your custom wedding cake!

Every once in a while we get feedback from happy customers in the form of a photograph, which as we all know is worth a thousand words.  This is one of those cakes.   The birthday girl wanted a princess cake but also loves her scooter so we made her into a sugar figurine with her wearing her favorite princess dress and riding her favorite scooter.

Cake:

Figurine:

Adorable Reaction:

Notice the scooter in the background.  Love it!  Thanks to Mom for sending us this photo, it made our day!

Latest wedding cake design: I had been wanting to do a warm neutral color palette for a cake for a while.  The embroidered fondant flower appliqués were inspired by a lovely dress I came across in a magazine, see below.

Below is the magazine page that served as inspiration for the cake.  I had wanted to do some gold sponge painting but wanted it to be different than the usual designs I had seen.  So I used a similar technique with a swirly flower foam stamp I had and after a few trial and error practice runs on scrap fondant this is what I came up with.

We’ve got all the sweets your sweetheart deserves this Valentine’s Day.  Gourmet cakes just waiting to be personalized.  Available in Red Velvet, Chocolate and Vanilla frosted in our Vanilla Italian Meringue Buttercream.

A wide assortment of Valentine’s edition cupcakes and whoopie pies including dozen roses cupcakes frosted with raspberry buttercream.

Whoopie Pies!

Cherry Valentine cupcakes with candy hearts.

In addition to these Red Velvet Cheesecake Cupcake beauties we also have Vanilla and Oreo cheesecake and cheesecake cupcakes.

This trio of wedding cakes was designed for and is on display at the Boston Bridal Lounge on Newbury Street.  The Bridal Lounge is place (more like a wedding library) where engaged couples can go and the wonderful ladies there will hook you up with fabulous wedding vendors who match your style and needs.  We always have one of our cake designs on display there along with samples over the weekend.  Anyone who’s newly engaged and completely overwhelmed and unsure of where to start, start at the Bridal Lounge.

Thanks to the Boston Bridal Lounge for this wonderful photo of the cakes in their shop.

This is the photo we took in our shop.  Far left cake was inspired by lace on a wedding dress.  Middle tier of middle cake has a hand-painted design to match a fabric swatch.  The far right cake was inspired by ruffles and vintage jewelry.

The fun part about these cakes is that they totally go together as a matching set but they also stand alone, each having it’s own unique design.

The inspiration for these cakes came from their showcase dinning table which they have decorated in a vintage, chic farm motif.

Recently we did a photo shoot with Blue Ivy and Forevercandid Photography.  They did all the event styling and we provided the centerpiece cake.  We love working with these ladies whenever we get the chance, our styles fit so well together.  Enjoy these great photos from the Winter Romance wedding they created and set up in wine cellar.  So lovely.

Styling by Blue Ivy and Photos by Forevercandid Cake by us: )

Almost half of our cakes include 3D decoration of some sort in their design.  The most popular of our 3D decorations is our custom people figurines.  Our sugar figurines are hand-sculpted out of a fondant gumpaste mix which allows us enough time to sculpt with but will dry hard within a few hours to be able to stand on it’s own.

Just for fun, here is a variety of a few of our favorite, recent figurines.  The best part about these figurines is that even though they’re edible (not quite as tasty as the cake however) they’re more fun kept as keepsakes.  As long as you keep them dry and out of the sun they’ll last a long time.  This is especially neat for wedding cake toppers, they become unique memory of your special day.

Stay tuned as we will be adding a Sugar Figurines Class to our class schedule soon (sometime in March).  Let us know if you’re interested.

We’ve been having the most fun with our latest cake design.  Arctic and antarctic creatures co-existing on their very own ski slope.  To give an idea of scale this cake stands about 2 1/2 feet tall.  All decorations are made of sugar, royal icing, fondant and gumpaste.  The ski lift supports are not edible but they are covered in sugar : )

Here’s some close-ups of the cuddly animal figurines that are all hand sculpted out of fondant and gumpaste.

Penguin snow ball fight!  I’d say the green scarves are winning.