Lela New York is couture invitation and stationary studio in NYC. They have amazing and fancy design! Check their stuff out at Lela New York I was featured on their blog today and wanted to share the Q&A that was posted. Find it at Lela New York Blog
Alight, flying out to Seattle for a friend's wedding!
Check out today's blog feature on both Brooklyn Bride and The Inspired Bride!
My friend from college has an awesome wedding blog/website http://everthinemineours.com/2009/10/09/eat-cake-be-merry/. Such a great resource for inspiration and ideas! Today she was kind enough to write an entry about eatcakebemerry! So exciting. Check it out!
This past weekend marked the 6th year of RWC so I got to make a small cake for the celebration.
I blew up the image of their logo which was a leaf and cut out a template as well as a base. Filled it with raspberry preserves and vanilla buttercream.
Covered it in white fondant, then cut out a green gumpaste outline as well as letters in two different fonts.
Ok all done, ready to go get eaten!
The best part of this whole cake though?? I forgot that I left the fridge setting on HIGH max so the cake would chill faster and that evening....BOOOM there was an explosion in my fridge! The diet Pepsi's in the back couldn't handle the cold :) Lets just say I had to clean out every nook and cranny of the fridge that evening.
I went to Mitsuwa (awesome japanese grocery store in Edgewater) yesterday to grab some lunch in their food court and I scanned the beverage isle to find something to quench my thirst and I saw the weirdest thing. Green Tea Coca Cola....
I wasn't brave enough to get it because when I imagined the flavor combination in my mouth, it didn't seem so tasty. Has anyone tried this? I might have to go back and get it because I'm just way to curious. Who knows I might be pleasantly surprised. It's a pretty advertisement though!
WAHOOOooOO! The website has officially been launched! Check it out : EatCakeBeMerry.com
I saw this image of a birthday banner ( I think Martha Stewart) and I thought the colors and string banner idea were cute, so I decided to translate this to a cake.
First, I made orange and pink disks and punched two holes on the top with piping tips. Def two holes, not one, so the disks can lay flat against the cake. Then I cut out letters using Tapp-its to spell out Happy Birthday.
I also made a larger disk for the top.
Once dry, I strung all the disks together with a ribbon.
Here its all connected
I glued the circles to the side of the cake with royal icing and put little bows on the corner. Finished it off with a big #5 on the top.
Done Done Done and photographed with a nicer camera :) Enjoy
I recently made a cake for someone I know who wanted to treat his wife with a special cake for her birthday this year. It was a simple and small cake that I made for their family, but it came back with so much gratitude. As a baker, it made me so happy to know that something as simple as a cake can make a person feel special and appreciated.
I made a bunch of blossoms, large and small. I dried them on a cookie rack so they they would maintain their cupped shape.
Then I dusted them with petal dust in various colors.
I was at Barnes yesterday and I passed by this book. It immediately caught my eye so I sat on the floor below all the cooking books and started going through the pages. Omggg, this is a great book. They have really creative cakes and good techniques to know, esp the ganache trick. I think this is a great book to have and its like $9.98 which is SUCH a great price compared to some of the other cake decorating books out on the market. I've heard of Planet Cake awhile back and its this company Paris Cutler started in Australia. Check out their website www.planetcake.com.au
Speakkkkking of websites.....here's a sneak peak at what I'm working all day and all night on. It took forever to make the actual cakes so I'm really excited to finally be able to post them on a site and share them with people. It still has some more work to be done, but it will hopefully be launched in < 2 weeks!
I went to a wedding this summer and I feel like the themed stations have been gaining popularity. I've heard wedding with gelato stations, cigar stations, candy stations, but this wedding had a bubble tea station! The brought these guys in from Rutgers and of course they had the normal tapioca balls, but these also had these balls that were like a tart liquid encased in a bubble. Idk how they made them but when you bite down on them they pop and explode all over your mouth. It was kinda cool.
