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 »
Monthly Archives: August 2010
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!!!!
Free Cupcake for first 500 Twitter followers!!!
Amanda Oakleaf Cakes has a new twitter account where we do cool things like post photos of cakes we’ve decorated, hold “Guess the Cake” competitions, and best of all, talk directly with you – our most favorite people! So in celebration of this, and to get the word out, the FIRST 500 people to follow… Read more »
Cake Answers PT 1 – Making Fondant
For those of you who’ve ever seen our cakes and wondered: “how do they do that?” we give you our new, most awesome video series called “Cake Answers.” Today, in part 1, Tyler and Amanda show you how they go about making our super-delicious marshmallow fondant. Yum!
Follow us on Twitter!
Today we finally broke down and decided to try out the twitter. Soon our lives will be full #computerized @gibberish and cutesy-bird-related words, but if it provides a better way for us to share our awesome cakes with you all, then more power. Follow us at: http://twitter.com/oakleafcakes or, if you’re already a tweet-ier-twit-tweet-er-whatever @oakleafcakes …technology… Read more »
SUNDAY! SUNDAY! SUNDAY!
Let the count-down begin! Now only 3 hours to go until the Food Network Challenge! Watch it @ 8pm EST and Pacific, and 7pm Central, on the Food Network. On a more personal note: Myself, Tyler, Alicia, Liz, Julie, Alyssa, & Brian -really want to thank everyone for all of the support and good wishes…. Read more »