Follow the Yellow Brick Road

OK, we know Tuesday has passed so we are a day late, but we wanted to write about the fantastic cake we made for a client today.  The client came in to us on Saturday wanting a cake with red ruby slippers for a little movie her daughter loved named The Wizard of Oz!  Well, we are HUGE fans of the movie.  Victoria and I always seemed to catch this movie every year on television in December as we put up our Christmas tree.  Timing was always funny, it seemed that no matter when we bought the tree, early or late December every year, this movie happened to be on television the night we decorated the tree.  So we have very fond memories of The Wizard of Oz and the famous yellow brick road!

The client was not as familiar with the movie, but her daughter really wanted ruby red slippers.  So we told her not to worry, we would make her daughter proud.  We knew she had to have the yellow brick road on the cake and thought it would be fun to add in the grass and flowers all around, after all, Munchkinland is beautiful and colorful.  We also knew we had to craft the ruby slippers and flowers early so that they would have time to dry and set.  This morning, we came in to ice and decorate the cake and add some embellishments.  In order to create the yellow brick road, we took a sheet of yellow fondant and found a handy little brick impression to make it look authentic.  We then cut it and laid it down on the cake.  We piped green grass all around it and added in the sugar flowers and two large ones to write Happy Birthday Margaret for the special birthday girl.
We had a fun time making this cake today.  I just wish I could put up my Christmas tree tonight and watch it, but I may have to settle for some good a buttery popcorn, followed by a really big chocolate chunk cookie!  Well, we are off to create some more treats in the kitchen.  And when Victoria and I recuperate from the hundreds of cupcakes for cupcake weddings this weekend, I am sure we will have some more fun stories to share!  In the mean time, please visit us at either location for a complimentary cupcake in honor of our busy weekend through Friday, May 6.

Strawberry Shortcake

Wow, who can believe how quickly time flies by???  We can't believe Easter just passed and another Tuesday almost slipped by!  So, we went into our photo gallery to find one of the most fun cakes we have made recently - Strawberry Shortcake's house!  This cake was for a very special first birthday girl, and her mother really loved the details.  We had everyone in the kitchen making little flowers, strawberries, and gift boxes.

Now, we pride ourselves in making all of our designs from cake.  We do not venture into the plastic pipes, metal or wood-working shops.  So we often have gravity challenges.  In this case, it was all about the strawberry house.  We decided this time, due to weight, we would try to make it out of rice cereal treats.  Now, all of us love eating these treats, so we made them just like always, nice and gooey.  Well, on our trial run, the house only lasted two hours before the treats started sagging - and Strawberry Shortcake can not live in a less than perfect house!  Our other option was to make less gooey treats, but who wants to eat those bricks?  So the kitchen munched on a house full of delicious rice cereal treats and decided to go back to what we do best - CAKES!

The cake was made in two parts the morning of the party.  One part of the staff took care of the base of the cake, making it the most beautiful pink cake abundant with flowers, strawberries and presents!  They also had to hand cut all the letters for the the name - they were quite busy.  The other part of the staff took charge of the house.  We learned that we can work with cakes in any shapes or forms, so we took out with some round cakes and started carving.  After a little while, the house started to come together with some icing, red fondant, green leaves and a stem.  All the windows, doors and flowers were hand made.  If you look closely at the photo, the windows even have curtains!

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