Going Green - The Incredible Hulk Cake

We had a lot of fun at this wedding. A standing up sculpted Incredible Hulk groom's cake and a blinged out pretty pink wedding cake, what more could we ask for! Our bride Porsche secretly ordered a groom's cake, which, if memory serves, was a Star Wars themed cake. Over the course of the months we were working with Porsche, the cake was changed to an Incredible Hulk, which Rick and I were both excited about. Making a standing up Incredible Hulk out of cake, with his gigantic muscular body, and hands big enough to strangle you wasn't easy, but this was Rick's third standing sculpted figure in the course of a month and he was ready to take on the project. This cake was pretty enormous and definitely commanded attention when we brought The Hulk into a beautiful reception room completely filled with pink, flowers and bling. We both had a chuckle when Rick ever so carefully placed the Hulk cake on the shantung pink linen table designated for it. Each time a guest or vendor walked into the room, eyes widened and jaws dropped. Porsche selected our Peanut Butter Fudgey flavor for her fiance's cake, which we hear was a huge hit with the groom. Congratulations to Porsche and Micah!

WordWorld Cake

It's one thing to make a birthday cake with pigs, bears, sheep and dogs, and quite another to have the shapes of those characters and their environment be made out of words. When we got the order for the PBS Kids "WordWorld" cake, we knew it was going to be difficult because each character's body contains the name of their species. The pig character has the letters "PIG" forming the shape of his body, the bear has the words "BEAR" and so forth. On top of the cake, Rick put the red barn, which from far away looked like a barn, and up close spelled the word "BARN." Making a multi-tiered cake with the different characters set in a scene was a time consuming design, and to have it on the same weekend as the Incredible Hulk and other difficult cakes was certainly challenging. The WordWorld Cake was totally adorable, and the presence of the word factor added that level of geekiness that made it even more endearing. Our client was blown away by the cake and we were really happy with it too.


Aloha, 'til next time!

Playful Jungle Animals Cake

The ever popular jungle animals theme always makes for a fun cake . Each time Rick does it a little differently and for this design, he went with the dimensional animals playfully placed on the tiers. He drew inspiration from our client's party invitation, handcrafting animals with a similar look and adding his own unique touches and style to the cake. The animals on the cake were adorable and our client loved it!


Until next time, Aloha!

This Book is So Money!

"The Wealth of Nations", is the title of the masterpiece written by Scottish economist and philosopher Adam Smith. First published back in 1776, the book advocates a free market economy and is considered to be the basis for modern economic theory. When we received the order for this cake, our client explained Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations" was her husband's favorite book and she would be purchasing the cake as a surprise for his 36th birthday. She told us her husband is the CFO at a large hospital and deals with money all day long. There are many different versions of the book available, including the softcover book that has a profile of Adam Smith, but she liked the look of the earlier editions that are bound in leather, and would it be possible for Rick to integrate the two? That wouldn't be a problem. She requested for the book to be made in shades of green, the color of money. Rick sculpted the book and handpainted the cover. We don't use computer print outs, he did it the old-fashioned time consuming way, appropriate for a book published in the 1700's. Thankfully, the book is generally referred to by its shortened title "The Wealth of Nations", and not its original title "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations", which would be a whole lot of fun writing onto a cake! Happy Birthday, Paul. You're So Money!

Aloha, 'til next time!