cakelava: blue cakes

Friday, July 25, 2014

Feeling the Blues

It wasn't long ago that I read a tweet by a popular wedding site announcing that blue wedding cakes are trending. It was a timely announcement because we had made 2 blue wedding cakes that week. I had noticed we've been making more blue colored cakes both for weddings and birthdays in 2014 so I figured it must be a trend, and now I had validation from the wedding powers that be, we will probably be seeing more of them! The cakes posted here were made this year.

For the cake decorators out there, are you also getting requests for blue colored cakes? What other color trends have you been noticing in 2014?

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Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Michele and Guga's Awesome Blue Cake

All photos and slideshow courtesy of Monique Feil Photography

Last year, when Michele contacted us about her and her fiance Guga's wedding cake for their 8-8-08 wedding, we were already booked for the time she would need to have the cake delivered, so she requested an earlier delivery time but no such luck. We wanted to be able to offer her delivery, but her wedding was out at Hale Kimo, an estate on Sunset Beach on the North Shore and we didn't have the time. She would need to come and pick it up. We've had very good luck in the cake-pick-up department. Never has a cake been destroyed from a client pick-up and we felt that if she provided the right vehicle and a very COLD climate in the vehicle, and avoiding any potholes along the way the cake would be okay. At the scheduled pick-up time, two of her friends showed up with a van, and we knew the cake would be just fine for the nearly hour and half trek out there. By looking at the shape of their wedding cake, it wasn't THE easiest cake to deliver all the way out there, but it wasn't the most difficult, and they did a fantastic job treating Michele and Guga's cake with kid gloves.

During the rest of our weddings that day, we breathed a sigh of relief -- no phone call -- which meant the cake obviously arrived intact. Recently, their photographer, Monique Feil, who does spectacular work, by the way, shared with us these BEAUTIFUL cake images and that was all the evidence we needed that the cake was well looked after and enjoyed by Michele and Guga. Monique was sweet enough to include a slideshow of images she compiled of her wedding that we could post for our readers to see the rest of their wedding. It appears from the slideshow the couple had quite the cake cutting ceremony. A big Mahalo to Monique Feil for sharing such beautiful work with us!

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See Michele and Guga's awesome blue cake and many more on cakelava.com. New photos will be posted soon!

Labels: blue cakes, cakelava, cakelava Hawaii wedding cakes, Michele and Guga's awesome blue cake

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Hello! We're Rick and Sasha Reichart, owners of cakelava, a Las Vegas custom cake studio that specializes in scratch-made wedding cakes, celebration cakes and 3D sculpted cakes. Prior to opening cakelava in Sin City in 2016, we had a sweet little cake shop for 10 years in Oahu, Hawaii. There we had a loyal following from residents, visitors, and the media and won many awards. Sasha runs the business side of cakelava and Rick, our cake designer, has 25 years experience in cakes and is known internationally for cake design and instruction. Before moving to Las Vegas, Rick made cakes in L.A., Seattle and Hawaii. In addition to having their cake shop, Rick and Sasha are the authors of EXTREME CAKEOVERS (Clarkson Potter/Publishers).