Baby, Life's a Beach!

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Living in Hawaii, you can imagine how popular the beach theme cake is.  The tropical beach theme cakes are always fun to make and are a great crowd pleaser too.  Rick has made countless beach themed cakes and hundreds of palm trees and surfboards since cakelava opened and we never get tired of looking at them.   The cake above was made for Sophia's first birthday party.  For Sophia, at our client's request, Rick used pastel colors and gave everything a cute, rather than more realistic appearance.

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For the beach themed baby shower cake above, Rick chose to use only white and shades of blue, which made for a nice contrast.  The client had requested for the beach theme to be done in "baby style" and had wanted to emphasize the beach and surfing since the baby's father owns a surfing company.  Around the cake he placed handcrafted beach toys, shells and marine life.  Cute baby faces were placed on the side of the cake and on top he created a scene with a "BOY" sign, surfboards and a sweet blue crab.  Inside the cake was bright layers of our signature Rainbowlicious flavor.

Seaside Sweets on Brides.com

If May was the month of May-hem, June keeps getting sweeter by the day! We have quite a few new cakes to share which we will do starting tomorrow, but we're also super excited about some of the rockin' publicity we've received in the past few days, including this fabulous feature on Brides.com! Brides.com needs no introduction. It's the website affiliate of BRIDE'S magazine and a fantastic resource for any bride planning her wedding. When one of the Editors at Brides.com approached us looking for ocean or beach-themed wedding cakes for their upcoming summer wedding package, we were very excited and sent in several of our designs in this theme. It wasn't long before we heard back from them and found out they were interested in possibly featuring a few of the cakes, but we wouldn't know which one(s) actually made the cut until the feature was released online. You can imagine how happy we were when we saw the feature, which was just released on Brides.com, and saw 3 of our cakes in it! We were thrilled about our cakes, and for our 3 couples -- Janet and Todd, Bonnie and Chris, and Reiko and Jason, whose wedding and groom's cakes were featured, and for our awesome photographers REDHEARTPHOTO, VISIONARI and Michael Sendrey Photography who provided the images.



To see the "Seaside Sweets" cake feature click here or the photo above.

We thought it would be fun to show some images from one of the couple's weddings whose cake is showcased in the feature. Reiko and Jason are an adorable couple who had the wedding cake on the site with the small fish and bubbles pattern. VISIONARI had shared with us these beautiful images of Reiko and Jason's wedding shortly after the celebration and we've held onto them for the perfect opportunity. It seems perfect right about now. Enjoy!

All images courtesy of VISIONARI






Special thanks to the Editors at Brides.com, Reiko and Jason, Janet and Todd, and Bonnie and Chris, as well as their photographers, VISIONARI , Michael Sendrey Photography, REDHEARTPHOTO!

Come back tomorrow to see some of our latest work! In the meantime, check out our portfolio of cakes on cakelava.com.

A Day for the Turtles

If you weren't on Oahu over the weekend, you sure didn't miss much. It was the first weekend in ages where it poured rain all day Saturday and Sunday. Usually, if it's raining in Kailua where cakelava is based, we drive elsewhere on the island and it's perfectly sunny. On Saturday we took an hour and fifteen minute drive in the rain out to the North Shore to deliver our clients Janet and Todd's turtle/ocean themed wedding cake. It was still raining when we got there and our couple had decided to move forward with their outdoor wedding at Turtle Bay Resort. I cannot think of a more appropriate venue for a wedding with a turtle motif, and the staff at Turtle Bay seemed to think so too. For Janet and Todd's wedding cake, we chose a cream fondant base color with fern green turtles and "Aegean" blue wave pattern. It turned out very cute, even if the weather was no day at the beach. They chose our Rainbowlicious and Hawaii Five-0 flavors, rather than the obvious match, Totally Turtle. This was a wedding in Hawaii afterall. When we arrived, the guests tables were being set up and we took the photos below, because it tied in so well with their turtle/beach theme.



On our drive back to our studio, I was thinking of Janet and Todd and hope they had a wonderful wedding despite the rain. We'd like to wish them the best on their new life together and a safe flight back to San Diego.

See Janet and Todd's wedding cake and many other recent new cakes on cakelava.com coming soon!

** Update on our December Featured Wedding couple. Couple #4 Leslie and Sam are your current favorites, but we are accepting votes through October 31st. Please vote by adding the number and name of the couple you would like to be Featured in the Comments section. If you are reading this via a subscriber such as Google reader, you'll need to visit the blog directly to vote. The nominees are:

#1: Renata and Rocky
#2: Jennifer and Andy
#3: Karla and Jason
#4: Leslie and Sam
#5: Reiko and Jason

To cast your vote, and "meet" our couples, visit this link:

http://www.cakelava.blogspot.com/2008/10/we-want-you-help-us-choose-our-december.html

Cheers!