We thought we’d spread a little holiday cheer this year in the form of cheesecake. Purchase a cheesecake for dessert at your family get-together this holiday and a portion of the proceeds will go towards to donation of a cheesecake to the Lynn Shelter Association, specifically for Veterans where they serve daily hot meals. Check… Read more »
Yearly Archives: 2010
Deck the blog with Christmas cakes…fa, la, la
Box o Christmas bulbs cake we designed for Christmas this year. All the bulbs are hand-sculpted out of fondant and painted. Back view of our box o Christmas bulbs and our friendly mice. You may remember these mice from our Halloween post. They were so cute we thought be better keep them around all year…. Read more »
WGBH Holiday Auction
You can have your cake and eat it too… or at very least have your cake and help support the important work of public broadcasting at WGBH Boston. As part of their annual holiday auction they have put together a “Twelve Days of Christmas” package of awesome gifts to bid on. We come in on… Read more »
Pumpkin Pie Cheesecake!
With Thanksgiving less than a week away we have a feeling you’re too busy to prepare dessert. That’s why we’re here to save the day with our Pumpkin Pie Cheesecake! This amazing cheesecake consists of a shortbread crust topped with creamy pumpkin cheesecake accented with cinnamon Italian meringue buttercream and drizzled in caramel. Our baked-from-scratch… Read more »
Transportation Weddings
This is a cake we did last weekend. It’s for a couple who met at a cocktail party aboard a cruise ship and wanted us to create their wedding cake to celebrate this meeting. Instead of a gown and tux we dressed the couple in cruise ship appropriate casual wear, holding drinks of course. Below… Read more »
Creepy Cakes
Lately, we’ve had our share of creepy cakes. We really enjoy creating the super-elegant wedding designs but it’s a good break to occasionally create something that doesn’t have to be perfect. It may not look appetizing but it sure does taste good. All of these cakes were red velvet cake with vanilla buttercream filling… Read more »
10 Wedding Cake Tips (that wedding cake top 10 lists get completely wrong)
Bridal magazines love their “Top 10” lists. Most of them are good intentioned enough, but we’ve found that in their rush to constantly find new “tips” and “tricks” to push into publication, some semblances of reality seem to get lost in the wash. In response to the magazines, we thought we’d lend our own “Top… Read more »
Spooky Treats
Happy Fall! We’ve created a couple dummy cakes (fondant decorated styrofoam) to get into the fall/halloween spirit. These pumpkins and their mice are living in our shop’s windows. Pass by at night and you’ll see the jack ‘o lanterns flicker. Mice figurines are all made of sugar. These trick-or-treat monsters are super fun. The birthday… Read more »
3 Dog Weekend
This last weekend we had 3 sculpted dog cakes in two days. Sculpted dogs are one of our most popular cakes, close in number to car and purse cakes. First off is Riley, an Alaskan Malamute. She was a surprise from mom for the bride and groom at their rehearsal dinner. Notice how she signed… Read more »
Cake Answers – How to Buttercream a Cake
In this little video Amanda walks through how to quickly and easily buttercream a cake. Big fun!
Guess The Cake!
As many of our Facebook and Twitter followers already know, we’ve been running a super terrific, awesomely fun competition for the last three weeks. We call it “Guess the Cake!” The idea is pretty simple. We post a picture of an unfinished cake on our twitter and facebook pages You guess the cake on facebook… Read more »
Just for fun -Cake Box Info-graph
Last weekend Tyler got yelled at by a customer because his cake was just too large to safely put into a box. Rather than blow up at the guy Tyler channeled his anger into this hilarious, if not somewhat passive-aggressive, info-graphic. We love our customers, but yelling at us, after we just spent 5 hours… Read more »
Press: Amanda Oakleaf Cakes featured in Sioux Falls, SD’s Argus Leader
Amanda Oakleaf (and Tyler) were both born and raised in a small town outside of Sioux Falls, South Dakota called Hartford. After the airing of the Food Network Challenge we got in contact with Sioux Fall’s local newspaper the “Argus Leader” and they did a really nice write-up about Amanda and our cake business. Check… Read more »
Making of Cookie Monster – Cake Answers
We made a Cookie Monster cake today, and we decided to video tape it so you could see in very simple terms how we go from structure to completed cake. ommmm nommmm nommmm nommmm!!!!