Celebrating the Big 3-0!

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We often notice that our cake orders follow certain trends, and last weekend we had three brightly colored, wonky, and slightly over-the-top cakes to make. We posted one of the three cakes on our Facebook page, a crazy Dr. Seuss themed birthday cake, which you may have seen. The next night we delivered this 30th Birthday cake to Mercedes, who was having a pajama party that was just for the girls. Mercedes gave Rick free reign to design her special birthday cake. She wanted something fun, brightly colored and topsy turvy, and requested for any or all of her favorite colors to be included in the cake: Magenta, teal, blue, green, yellow, purple and dark pink. We knew she desired patterns on the cake and plenty of color. Rick didn't know what he was going to do until shortly before he was working on the cake, but decided to use all of her requested colors!

Mercedes and her guests practically squealed when they saw the cake. It made our night to see her so happy and everyone appreciating all the hard work put into the cake. Happy Birthday to Mercedes!

Blue Daisies Baby Shower Cake

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You wouldn't know from looking at the cake above that it was made for a baby shower. There was no baby props -- no rattles, blocks, bottles or teddy bears to be found anywhere on the cake.  Our client chose 10-10-10, one of the biggest wedding dates of the year to celebrate the upcoming birth of her baby.  This was the third cake Rick designed for Leilani and her family and each has been drastically different from the next.  For her baby shower, the only requests Leilani had were the colors of blue and grey to be used in the cake, to make it fun and whimsical, and to omit the baby props.  Rick made pretty handcrafted daisies combined with a playful print on the cake and ramped up the WOW factor by adding interesting shapes to the cake.  The cake had a lot of attention when we delivered it.  Our pregnant client came over beaming and expressed how much she loved her cake, as did several of her guests.  We loved the cake too and were thrilled to be part of such a joyous celebration!

Candy Cake, Wonka-Style!

February was a month of insanity, ending with a weekend to trump other weekends in terms of difficulty of designs and volume of orders. Working on less sleep than usual and doses of caffeine, we got through the February 28th-March 1st weekend of cakes, and we would be kicking back on our lanai celebrating right about now if it weren't almost time to leave for a wedding tonight. During this week, we will be revealing a number of these cakes made over the weekend and not one of them is simple. Case in point, this birthday cake took the candy theme and wonky to another level and really capitalized on what Rick has become known for, truly custom, artful and unpredictable designs. Putting the entire design into Rick's hands, our client gave us her colors and let his imagination run wild. You'll notice the butterflies on the cake because the birthday girl's theme was candy and butterflies. What good is a candy cake if you can't indulge in everything on it. All components on this cake were handcrafted and completely edible, and no butterflies were harmed in the making of this cake. The inside of this wonky candy cake was just as scrumptious on the inside as it was eye-catching on the exterior, with her chosen flavors of Peanut Butter Fudgey and Bananarama. Hopefully this whimsical FUN cake will bring an evening of sweet dreams to birthday girl Gia!

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