The “Life’s a Beach” Cookie Bouquet Class is less than 2 weeks away!  Here’s a sample of what we’ll be making:

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We all know the old saying, “The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.”  And what Dad would turn down a yummy treat like a cake!  Here’s a cake I created for my Dad with lots of hidden inside jokes. Don’t worry though, I’ll share all of them with you. *wink*

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We are pleased to announce that we are offering a cookie bouquet class on Saturday, June 30th!  The bouquet will be summer-themed and will include at least 5 cookie shapes, like a sand castle, seashell, beach bucket, beach ball, and sunglasses.  And the whole thing will be sitting in a beach bucket filled with candy!  Yum! Continue reading →

I’ve never been much of a fashionista.  Heck, any spare change I have, I’d quickly spend on a new cake decorating toy or at Joann’s Fabrics so I can make something for my daughter.  So when Kim asked me to make a Tory Burch handbag cake for her niece, Amanda, my first response was, “Who’s Tory Burch?”

Luckily there’s this great thing called a Google Image Search so I was no longer in the dark about what she was talking about.  Together, Kim & I picked out this one to make a replica of:

But no purse is complete without all the crucial accessories!

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As you already know, we participated in the Taste of New Tampa last weekend.   We had a great time and met so many friendly & interesting people!  And right in the middle of the event, we were approached by one of the event coordinators who told us that there was going to be a Taste competition.  Surprise!!!

We were asked to provide a sample of our choice to the 2 judges.  Since we figure you can best judge a cake vendor based on their basic flavors – chocolate and vanilla – that’s all we had with us.  So we gave the judges a slice of our vanilla cake.

And the results were just announced.  We came in 2nd place for the desserts category!  Heck, for a surprise competition and only having basic cake flavors at the ready, we’re thrilled!

See the full post and other Taste competition results here: http://www.tasteofnewtampa.info/taste-winners-announced/

Were you there on Sunday?  What did YOU think?

Last Thursday, we had our office party debut!  Affiliated Engineers, Inc. has recently moved their office from North Tampa to Harbor Island and wanted to celebrate with an open house party.  And no party is complete without a cake so they called us!

I won’t lie.  It was hard to come up with a creative and fun cake design for an engineering firm.  Engineering is full of straight lines, calculations, and precision.  And, in the past, our cakes tend to be a little whimsical, fun, and colorful.

But, after a full day of brainstorming, here’s what we came up with:

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