Yearly Archives: 2011

Free cake for our 1st Anniversary

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Posted on April 14, 2011 in category: Cake Adventures

Free cake celebrates our first year! This Sunday, April 17th, marks our 1 year anniversary in our new shop!! Hurrah!! Thanks to all of our fabulous customers for supporting us and our way awesome crew.  Help us celebrate by stopping by our shop this Sunday for free cake samples all day long.  We’re using this… Read more »

Howcast videos!

Posted on March 8, 2011 in category: Cake Adventures, Press, Videos

Last month we got a call from Howcast.com asking us if we’d do a set of cake decorating videos for their “Expert” series.  The video producer they sent out (Keith McKellar) did an amazing job, and the tutorials look incredible.  So now, in addition to simply seeing the finished products, you can also see the… Read more »

Long Distance Valentine

Posted on February 17, 2011 in category: Cake Adventures

This Valentine’s Day we got a unique cake request from an Army soldier who is currently overseas.  He is currently deployed in Afghanistan and wanted to send his wife a cake with a figurine of himself holding a bouquet of roses delivered to her on Valentine’s Day. We delivered to cake to the unsuspecting wife… Read more »

TLC Fabulous Cakes

Posted on February 1, 2011 in category: Announcements, Cake Adventures, Press, Upcoming Events

Original Air Date – February 8th 2011 @ 10 pm EST. Last weekend (Nov. 2010) the film crew from TLC’s show fabulous cakes came by the bakery to follow us around for three days while we decorated a beautiful cake for a wonderful event.  And that’s about all the information we’re allowed to give until… Read more »

Cutest Pet Facebook Contest!

Posted on January 13, 2011 in category: Contests

This Valentines Day we’re giving away a free sculpted cake of your pet! The Contest: (Now Over) Upload a photo of your (or someone you love’s) pet to our Facebook fan page: http://facebook.com/oakleafcakes. The pet can be any type of animal: dog, cat, fish, etc… as long as it is domesticated and owned by either the… Read more »

A Sweet Family Portrait – In Sugar

Posted on January 8, 2011 in category: Cake Adventures

As a gift for my family for Christmas I recreated everyone, including Abby the dog, as a sugar figurine.  Using gumpaste and fondant I arranged my family into a shadow box topped off with all the holiday trimmings.  What is the significance of ‘Squish Loudly” you might ask?  It is an inside joke created when… Read more »