Hi folks! We’re back at it again with our latest epic cake! It was not one, not two, but THREE sculpted building cakes! PHEW yeah, we’re tired just thinking about it. So let’s take a look at how your friendly bakers and decorators here at Oakleaf Cakes, took 1,000 servings of sugar, flour and butter… Read more »
Topic: Epic Cakes
Constructing a giant sculpted building cake…just another day at the office! You’ve probably stumbled upon these blog posts in the past and wondered to yourself, “Who are those cool cats behind these fantastic cakes?” We’re so glad you asked! Let us take this opportunity to tell you about our most recent sculpted endeavor: recreating a… Read more »
We were honored to create a very special cake to commemorate Keith Lockhart’s 20th Anniversary of conducting the Boston Pops Orchestra. I have to say, as a former band geek, this is by far one of my favorite cakes. Bernadette Peters was the special guest vocalist for the season opener concert on Wednesday. Before her… Read more »
It’s been a month now since we completed the enormous replica cake of Brown University’s University Hall. Enormous was an understatement as it feed 1,300 people and weighed about 500-600 lbs. We’ve finally compiled our photos and fun facts for this cake to share with you. Cake Stats: 72 sheet cake layers of… Read more »
Every once in a while a cake order comes along that is so epic, we can’t help but out-do ourselves. That’s definitely what happened when we got a call from the wonderful people at Irrational Games. Their hit video game Bioshock Infinite has done pretty well for them this year, winning them over 100 awards,… Read more »
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… Read more »
Last weekend we were honored to create a cake for the USS Constitution having it’s 215th birthday celebration in Boston. The Constitution is the world’s oldest commissioned naval vessel afloat. It is most famous for the War of 1812 where it earned the nickname “Old Ironsides” after enemy fire bounced off the wooden hull of the… Read more »
When we got a call from the nice people at iRobot looking for an amazing cake to celebrate Roomba’s 10th birthday, we knew what we had to do. Long have we fantasized about taking off for cocktails on the beach while a team of happy little robots came in to finish our work. So we… Read more »
I’m sure you remember the life-size Stormtrooper cake we created for Boston’s Arisia SciFi Convention back in January of this year. Well, the news spread quickly to the 501st Legion who asked us to create a life-size cake to be a part of their 15th Anniversary Celebration in Orlando, FL. Thus,we present to you Dark… Read more »
Last week we made one of our most detailed cakes ever. We wanted to share a couple photos of our process. Three different flavors made up the entire 200 servings of this cake. Lots and lots of buttercream. At this point we couldn’t help but think it looked like a manta-ray-like submarine thing. 🙂 After… Read more »
So by now you’ve probably seen the amazing Stormtrooper cake we made last week for the Arisia sci-fi convention. Unfortunately, due to all the craziness associated with just trying to complete the cake, we didn’t have a chance to shoot any video. We did however get a TON of really cool photos. In fact, we… Read more »
This may be the world’s most epic cake. This beautiful cake was created for the hungry patrons at the Arisia Sci-Fi Convention in Boston, MA. The stormtrooper stands at 6 feet 4 inches tall, weighed at least 300 lbs, and fed nearly 600 hungry conventioneers! The building of the Stormtrooper cake was an epic event… 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 »