Sweet Sixteen

Welcome back to another crazy busy week!  The kitchen in Manassas is busy producing all things graduation for Friday.  We have some fantastic graduation cookies that have been flying off the shelves.  Centreville just created a new sponge cupcake, it tastes like velvet, butter and air wrapped up in a cupcake!  They are only $1 each, but if you mention our blog through Friday, June 10, we will share it with you on the house, and we will make sure our Manassas location has some starting tomorrow (Wednesday).

I thought we would feature a recent sweet sixteen birthday cake we made a few weeks ago.  I received an email about two months ago from Nanci about planning her daughter's 16th birthday party, to be held at a restaurant in Fair Oaks. They were looking for a showstopper that was friendly on a budget.  The first picture they had in mind was a three-tier topsy turvey cake, but that did not fit within their budget.  So I asked what elements from the cake they liked, and we went from there.  The birthday girl was very flexible and loved hot pink, zebra print and black.  So we sketched out a tall two-tier cake, with the bottom iced in hot pink buttercream with a black fondant ribbon band around.  The top tier was covered in a zebra print with a small row of hot pink dots to tie the two together.  To finish it off, we made a 16 out of hot pink fondant and outlined it in black then added in little dangling balls of black, white and hot pink to complete the fresh and young feel for the party.  Nanci was excited when she saw the cake. 

The cake was iced completely out of vanilla buttercream, with just a touch of fondant for the ribbon bands, 16 topper and colored balls.  Our decorators do an amazing job of making cakes look glass-like smooth without the use of fondant.  So come on out and visit us at either location.  If you need to cool down, we have plenty of bubble tea and smoothies to help you out!  Until next week.

Emily