Brooke and Eric's wedding

Here's Brooke and Eric's wedding cake from today. Let me just tell ya, Brooke is going to have one beautiful wedding. She was getting married in her parent's backyard in Bondurant. Their home and land is just stunning!!!

Brooke chose brown and green as her wedding colors, very earthy tones. She brought me a picture of a cake that had a chocolate wrap with various shades of brown and greens for me to use as inspiration. It was a difficult job putting on all the individual fondant stripes, but I did that so it would have a 3d look to it and not flat. Brooke and Eric chose the flavors of german chocolate and butter for their cakes.

I think it turned out great!

Up and coming creations

These next few weeks are going to keep my busy. First, I have a 3d sculpted cake of a giraffe for Kelsey on the 24th. Brooke's fondant brown and green striped wedding cake will be for the 27th. Then, I have a few days off until July 4th for Ankita's ornate Indian ispired wedding cake. I am soooo excited to do this one. It will be 5 tiers and the colors will be reddish orange, lime green, turquoise with gold accents. It will be inspired by the gorgeous pillow wedding cake from Cake Lava that was posted on MSN as one of the most fabulous wedding cakes. This cake gave me the excuse to buy some new fancy gumpaste molds and a new cake level from Agbay (which is like the Cadillac of all levels). Also around the 4th will be a ladybug inspired first birthday cake for Jessica's little girl.

Cindi's daughter Delaney will receive a 3d carved hula girl for her birthday on the 10th. Also on the 10th will be a 3d sculpted horse cake for Layla's 6th birthday and her brother Alex will receive a 2 tiered Thomas the train cake. On July 11th Nicole is going to have 200 cupcakes for her wedding. On July 24th, Rebecca is going to have an under the sea mermaid cake for her daughter's birthday. This will be cute because I'm going to make a gumpaste figure of her daughter as a mermaid. On July 25th I will be making a classic and elegant wedding cake for Nicole.

ONly 3 weddings scheduled for August right now and I'm going to keep it that way since I will be gone a week to Hawaii. I am so ready for that trip.

As you can see, I am keeping fairly busy with this cake business and I love it!

Hello to my potential brides!

Just wanted to make a shout out to my potential brides (and grooms too) that I met with this week. I met with Krystal, Anna, and Lyndi this week. Krystal was inquiring for May 2010 and Anna and Lyndi are September of this year. Between the three of them we tried white almond sour cream (my favorite and most popular flavor), red velvet, darn good chocolate cake, Italian Cream (another favorite), amaretto (you can never go wrong with a little amaretto to get you going, and Madagascar vanilla. This profession is hazardous to my diet!

Upgrading website

It's come that time where I'm getting the idea to re-d0 my website. Currently I have flash template from Winklet Web Design (portfolio 25). Paula has a new gorgeous template I can buy, number 30. All these templates are totally customizable and so easy to use.

On the other hand, I am interested in a flash template from Blu Domain. I really like the Madison template.

Right now I am weighing my options of which one to do. I'd really like to get a Blu template and host with them also, since I've been having so much trouble with my previous hosting company (which I won't name, but would really like to). However, I'm paranoid about having any downtime, or something go wrong if I change servers.

Changes to come soon!

Laura and Kobi's wedding

Here's the wedding cake from today, June 13, 2009. Today is Laura and Kobi's wedding, with a reception out at Hickory Hilltop Center in Ames. I truly love this design. Laura entrusted the details to me and this is what I came up with. The sizes are 6, 8, 10, 12 and 14 and everything is covered with my special fondant. The one layer tiers are Kobi's groom's cake and it's mint chocolate. The other tiers are my popular white almond with raspberry mousse. The colors matched Laura's decor perfectly.