Katie & Blake's Lemon Berry Cutting Cake

First of all I would just like to thank Katie for choosing my absolute favorite flavor combination. - lemon with lemon curd and fresh berries. I almost made extra so that I could make a little cake for myself too. Luckily, we did have a little extra lemon curd and raspberries, so I got to enjoy it after all. ;)

Katie and Blake were planning on serving bundt cakes to their guests, but they still wanted something a little more traditional so that they could do a cake cutting (which I would love to see some pictures of *hint hint*).

For that, they came to me. :)

I custom made a little 7" cake top and piped a lace design to around the sides to match Katie's dress. I'm pretty happy with how it came out and I think they were too!

Before I added the topper and the florist added baby's breath

A couple different views after we flowered and topped it. How cute is that topper? 

I know you've seen the cake now, so what more could there possibly be to see? Well, I thought the display they had set up was really adorable, so I thought I would share a couple shots I took of that too...

I just love the "Sweets" sign and the chandelier. Super cute.

Thank you so so much, Katie & Blake! I am honored and proud to have been able to make the cake for your wedding! Congratulations! 

Kim & Will's Wedding Cake * Professional Photos *

It feels like I've been waiting forever for this, but really its only been a few days. Emily, the incredibly talented photographer at gem photo agreed to send me some of her images of the cake I made for Kim & Will. They came out so much better than I ever dreamed. I am so happy and so thankful to have such a beautiful collection of images of one of my cakes. 

Thank you, Emily. These make me so happy. Thank you thank you.

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Kim & Will's Winter Wonderland Cake

This is the wedding cake I made for Kim & Will’s snowy Lake Tahoe wedding. The top tiers are Chocolate with ganache and raspberries and the bottom tier is Boston cream pie. 
I had a really tough time finding those pine cones, but it turns out, if I had just waited until we got to Tahoe, I would not have had to think about it at all. 
I also had some pretty phenomenal assistants in the kitchen with me, threatening to eat all of my ingredients. 

I am so happy with how this cake turned out. I wish I could have stuck around to eat some of it. 

Oh, also, the lovely and talented Emily, over at gem photo, has offered to send me some of her absolutely stunning photos of this cake. I am super excited about this. It was sort of the catalyst for redesigning my blog since I wanted a blog that was pretty enough to put professional quality photos on. 

Cake Tasting!

It was a long time before I was able to have a chance to tell you about my first wedding cake tasting. :)

Kim, her fiance, mom and sisters came over to try a few different methods for boston cream pie.  Their other flavor is Chocolate with chocolate ganache and raspberries, but since they’d had it before, they just came over to help me determine the best way to make boston cream pie cake. :)

A Wedding Cake...or Two

That was exhausting. The flowers were actually easier than the white detail. Next time I have to make one with fondant. I have a feeling that will have a much cleaner look. 

I looooved making the different flavors and stacking them. That was a blast. I made three different kinds of cake - almond cake with champagne buttercream and toasted almonds, chocolate cake with chocolate ganache and raspberries, and lemon cake with lemon curd and strawberries. The lemon was my favorite, hands down. Although, next time I make a wedding cake just for fun, I will have to substitute the strawberries with raspberries. Raspberries and lemon just go so well together. 

Flowers!

White on White