Jessicas Cakes

Be Inspired by the Independent

I will be in Chicago so I won’t be displaying at this event but it’s going to be wonderful. We just keep getting better.

Be in(dy)spired……..by the Indies themselves.

Sweet Dreams

Baby Lance is going to have the sweetest dreams once he has arrived. His mom ordered this darling cake for the baby shower. The soon to be Grandmother picked it up and shared that it was her birthday! What a great belated birthday present he’s going to be.

Simply Succulent

I am currently a big fan of succulents. The living variety because they are very hard to kill as house plants. The gumpaste variety just because they offer an avenue of creativity and imagination.

This cake was designed for the November Unveiled Wedding Event.

An Arthopod With Your Cake Anyone?

I have had more and more birthday orders by the person celebrating the birthday. So far all women, they are not going to wait around for someone to buy them the “perfect” cake, they are going to do it themselves.

This most recent cake was for, you guessed it, a Scorpio. We made the cake red velvet, her favorite flavor, and then matched the design to the cakes pretty red color. Both 2 and 3-dimensional, the design was definitely eye-catching.

Sugar and Spice and Everything Twice

Linda and I met well over a decade ago when she referred me to her husband’s accounting firm. He’s been my accountant ever since. She called me a few weeks ago t order a baby shower cake for a friend.  They are expecting twin girls and that popular saying “Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice, That’s What Little Girls are Made of ” is stenciled on the nursery wall. The cake was to be a surprise so to add that little extra piece by repeating the saying made it even better. My favorite part was the cheerios spilling out of the tupperware container.

Winter Green

I worked with Blair when we designed her boyfriend’s birthday cake: the great Viking Ship I posted a few months ago. It was so exciting when she called to say he had proposed and they’d set the date for early December. Her colors were going to be green, black,  and white and she was ready to set up a tasting appointment. White and Chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream for two of the layers to please most guests and then spiced apple with caramel buttercream because she loved that combo! (Me too)

It was decided that to save costs on delivery, the cake would be picked up and driven to Wisconsin by a friend of the couple. That meant the cake needed to be very stable and the gumpaste flowers able to travel without being damaged.
The flowers and berries were botanically correct in 3 shades of green from the sample image she sent me. I gave the cake a little shimmy and bump before boxing to be certain nothing would knock together or rattle in travel.

Pretty and clean for a winter cake with green.

A Mad Tea Party

This was such a fun cake to make this week. Basanti wanted to create the perfect birthday cake for her sister. The them just in case you missed the hints, is Alice in Wonderland. I pulled images, colors and ideas from Tim Burton’s movie,  assorted blogs and websites, line drawings I found while searching for tea cup and key shapes. I stayed away from Disney except for Alice’s white stockings and shoes. Those are rather iconic.

A fairly small party as carved cakes go, this slender creation is only to feed 15. There’s always something that ends up being my favorite detail. Today it’s Alice falling into the rabbit hole and Cheshire Cat.

They say “its all in the berry”

If you visit the Ciroq website, the quality of the vodka is purported to being all about the berry distilled. I took the words right from their website.

Honestly, I had never heard of Ciroq vodka much less the Red Berry Ciroq until Monique called to ask if I could make a cake to mimi the bottle. Now I”ll have to try it in it’s original, Red Berry or Coconut variety.

I think I captured the sleek, contemporary look of this high end vodka. Looks drinkable to me.

Fall, Glorious Fall

Fall weddings have their own kind of beauty. Brett and Megan took full advantage of the season’s colors and textures when they chose the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum for their reception site.

They decided to have a buffet of cake and miniatures to maximize their ability to mix and match a large of flavors instead of being restricted to just two or three as they might have been with a tiered cake.

Cara from Le Petite Fleur and her assistant Jessica did their usual magic with flowers and props appropriate for a nature focused celebration. I know that Cara’s photos will showcase her work, but I am still adding a shot of one of her table arrangements so you get just a hint of her talent.

The Bride Wore Black

The bride wore black.

The entire wedding party did, come to mention it.

It was a perfect fall day for a Halloween wedding at the Wabasha Street Caves. Already atmospheric and perfect for a themed event, Halloween music playing throughout the Caves in preparation of the ceremony and reception later acted as a background to my delivery yesterday. The cake went on the table next to the candy buffet where guests would later be encouraged to fill themed cello bags with sweet loot.

Nicole was an easy bride to work with I have to say, bringing in a pile of cake images to help explain her idea about color and style. Since we were working with Halloween as the event date, giving a nod to Corpse Bride was a no brainer. The colors were bone white(get it, “bone” white?), blood red and black with a subtle play of luster dusts to add depth and age to the corset layers and fondant roses in her topper.

Rebecca from Liminality Photography got some great shots, but for now here are just a couple from me.