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… Read more »
Yearly Archives: 2011
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
It’s a costume contest, and the winner gets a really cool cake! The Contest: 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. Our Facebook followers, as well… Read more »
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… Read more »
On Sunday, September 18th from 11-6pm you can visit us at the Wedding Swirl event in the Artists for Humanity Center in Boston. We’ll be there with wedding cakes on display, samples, and a decorating demo. We’ll even be conducting tasting/design consultations. In order to reserve a spot in our schedule for an tasting appointment… Read more »
We Will Be Closed This Saturday 08/20/11 From Noon – 3pm
This Saturday we will be closing down the shop from Noon-3pm so that our entire staff can travel to Weymouth, MA and meet with Duff Goldman (of Ace of Cakes fame). He will be at the Weymouth Michaels store promoting his “Duff” line of cake decorating supplies for which we’ve been asked to create his… Read more »
Troubleshooting Cake
Before I started my own bakery I used to wonder why everyone didn’t just make good cake. It’s not like the high quality recipes that we use at our bakery are some big secret. Sure, we’ve spent years perfecting them, but the basics of making a good cake are readily available to anyone with access… Read more »
So it’s July and we’ve been trying to spend as much time as possible on the beach. However, sometimes orders stack up and we gotta find a way to bring the beach to us. And the only way we know how is cake! First off is a 5 year old riding a wave which is… Read more »
This past week we’ve had an unusually large amount of movie themed cakes with figurines. Here’s the Hulk bursting through the cake and smashing the number 40. The Terminator And finally, Starwars with the birthday girl dueling with Yoda.
Since baseball season is in full swing we felt we needed to post about the cakes we’ve done about the two most rivaled teams of the game. The Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees. First off, for our home team, the Red Sox. Yes, this cake is bigger than the next because we’re slightly… Read more »
3D Tour of the Bakery!
Take a 3D tour of our storefront online! And here’s the Baking Area! And last but not least, the Decorating Area!
We’ll be open this Sunday the 24th from 11am – 3pm. We’ll be open with a display full of cupcakes for your Easter celebrations. Be sure to pre-order your cupcakes by Friday if you need more than a dozen : ) Above are our easter bunny cupcakes along with our Peeps inspired cupcakes which have… Read more »