Drip It Like It’s Hot

Drip cakes are here to stay! What started as a trend on dessert cakes has quickly become mainstream with drips made from ganache and more! Party cakes…wedding cakes…ALL CAKES love the drip!

The cake below was for a wedding at Glass Chapel in Broken Arrow, OK. This dessert table was overflowing with deliciousness with cupcakes, fruit and flowers! This ganache drip served as an accent and a garnish with cake, buttercream icing and fresh fruit. PC = Andi Bravo Photography

The cake above was for a wedding at the newly updated Harwelden Mansion in Tulsa, OK. This cake featured horizontal textured buttercream making the drip a little more difficult. This drip was made from white chocolate. Once the white chocolate is heated and thinned, it is dripped around the tiers. Once it sets, it’s then hand-painted with an edible gold paint.

The cake below also featured a sporadic gold drip, but this time it was over a nearly naked buttercream base. The flowers and fresh fruit were added atop each drip giving the illusion of luscious dripping fruit. This cake was for a beautiful wedding at Greenleaf Barn in Broken Arrow, OK.

The two cakes below were for twins and were dripped in white chocolate, which was then painted rose gold. And the pink rosette cake was for a photo smash session. It featured white chocolate that was tinted pink and then dripped, so no painting was required.

Clearly there is a drip style for everyone! What can we drip for you?

In The Jungle…

We are always excited when someone orders a jungle themed cake because there are so many decorating possibilities and this one for Baby Franklin certainly didn’t disappoint!

This cake started with a buttercream iced base, on which we added an ombre effect in baby green. Once smooth, we chilled each tier of cake so they would be ready for stacking. For the animals, we hand-sculpted those with our favorite fondant – Satin Ice fondant. We made the bodies and then added arms, legs, heads, ears and tails. Once the animals were dry, we dusted their rosy cheeks and added shading and detail.

Once the animals were complete and the cake was stacked, we were able to assemble and complete the cake. We added some leaves, vines and flowers to coordinate with the invitation. “Welcome Franklin” was added and painted gold. The overall look of the cake is fun, whimsical and perfectly captures the theme of this shower…Welcome Baby Franklin!!

Anchors Aweigh!

Themed baby showers are so fun to be a part of! This one was themed: Ahoy – It’s a Boy!

We started the theme with the cake, which was the centerpiece of the dessert table. The party host chose a 2-tiered cake to serve 26 and we kept it simple in design with horizontal stripes on the bottom tier. We added a name plaque outlines with a rope accent to help welcome baby Sahil. For the top tier, we cut out two anchors in fondant and let them dry. We then painted them gold and added fondant rope accents. These were placed against the solid blue base of the top tier.

For additional servings on the dessert table, we added nautical themed cupcakes. We started by cutting out our 2″ blue discs in fondant and let them dry. We then added gold buttons, anchors and ring buoys. We piped a buttercream rosette on the cupcakes and then placed a decorated disc on each one. They coordinated the cake perfectly!

The dessert table also included nautical themed cake pops. For the cake pops, we cut out small anchors in red fondant. We then dipped our cake balls in white and blue chocolate and then attached an anchor to each one. We also created sailboat sugar cookies and iced them in red, white and blue royal icing. The cookies are not pictured individually, bu can be seen on the dessert table below.

We were thrilled to be a part of this baby shower welcoming baby Sahil! Congrats to the entire family on your new addition!

Sassy Class

Our Girly Cookies Class was such a hit! We had a blast making everything black, white, pink…and leopard print!

For those of you who haven’t been to one of our classes, they come in all shapes and sizes! We offer classes for cookie decorating as well as cupcakes, cakes, cake balls and more. This class was a 101 level class for beginners and each student did great! Not only that, but many of the students cake with a friend or family member and enjoyed some quality time. Nothing beats an afternoon working on a creative outlet with a loved one…so special!

In all of our classes, all tools and supplies are provided. For this class, each student received 12 cookies to decorate along with all the royal icing. We use tipless bags and squeeze bottles to learn piping techniques. We outline, flood and decorate with 3D and wet-on-wet designs. There is ample time in each 2 hour class to complete your project, so everyone goes home with decorated treats.

We hope you’ll check out some of our upcoming events…see you in class!

For The Love of Gold

We love delivering to Dresser Mansion. It’s old worldly charm is felt right when you walk in the door. Dresser is right off Riverside Drive in Tulsa – so close to the Gathering Place!

This particular set up allowed the cake to greet each visitor right when they entered the mansion. The gilded monogram on perfectly smooth buttercream is the first thing that catches the eye. It was made from a custom template and cut our of fondant then painted an antique gold. The same gold was painted on imperfectly around the base of each tier.

Once at Dresser Mansion, we were able to place the fresh flowers. We love when florists leave us a variety of sizes and colors to play with on the cake. We opted for two bundles staggered on the cake and we then added pops of greenery to give it a more natural look.

Fresh flowers in a variety of sizes.


Finally, we added the ‘Happily Ever After’ topper that we painted in an edible hold paint to match the rest of the cake.

This cake was so fun to create and presented beautiful at the venue! We wish the happy couple a lifetime of happiness!!

Somewhere Over The Rainbow

I don’t think there is anyone out there that won’t recognize the theme of this cake!  The Wizard of Oz is a classic that has definitely stood the test of time.  This 1939 film is a favorite of this birthday girl, so it became the theme of her 60th Birthday Party!

This cake included all the iconic elements of the film including the yellow brick road, witches hat and striped tights, ruby slippers and the rainbow, of course.  Happy 60th!!

LOL Surprise!

So….for every Fortnite cake we do for the guys, we do an LOL Surprise cake for the gals!  These cakes are super fun and fiesty with lots of colors and spunk!  This week’s LOL cake was iced in hot pink buttercream with turquoise blue accents.

We added lots of toys to this cake since these characters fall under copyright protection.  We also added these adorable fondant letters that stood upright on the front of the board.  It’s like seeing Leighton’s name in lights!  The swirly suckers, ice cream cone and other accents made this cake bright and sweet.  Happy 6th Birthday, Leighton!

Battle Royale…Again!

The Fortnite trend is not going anywhere anytime soon!  My house is filled with sounds of people playing it and even at work I can’t escape it…which isn’t a bad thing at all.  We love making Fortnite cakes and this week we made several.  They were all different sizes and a bit different in design as well.

 

The first cake was a single tier cake to serve 16, which was iced in lime green buttercream.  We then added fondant accents including dog tags, scenery and V-bucks.  For the toppers, we added a grenade, treasure chest and llama, which were all hand-sculpted from fondant.  The llama is especially fun to make with its layers of fringe in purple and blue.

The second and third fondant cakes were two-tiers to serve 25-30.  These cakes were both iced in buttercream, with the one for Cash having a camouflage effect on the bottom tier.  Both cakes had fondant accents  – some were 2D and some were 3D like the med kits, llama, bullets, treasure chest and trees.  We had a great time creating these cakes…Happy Birthday Boys!!

Sweet Sparrow Wedding

If you haven’t been to Sparrow in Stillwater, you have to make the trip!  This venue is about 90 minutes from our shop in Tulsa, but totally worth the drive!

For this wedding cake, the bride chose Vanilla Cake with Cream Cheese Mousse Filling for her guests, although her anniversary tier was Red Velvet…yum!  We did four stacked tiers of buttercream iced goodness.  We alternated with rough and horizontal texture.  At the venue, fresh flowers  and greenery were added to pull the bride’s colors into the design.

The overall look was romantic and dreamy…we are in love!

Congratulations Kelsey & James!

Meeker Wedding at Camp Loughridge

It was the first gorgeous Saturday in a long time.  After weeks of cold and rain, the sun was out and it was a perfect day for a March wedding and we loved delivering these desserts!

For the main cake, the bride chose a simple 4-tier, all buttercream stacked cake.  We added a horizontal texture to give the tiers some dimension.  The inside of the cake was a mixture of our most popular flavors with an Almond, Vanilla and Chocolate tier with Raspberry Filling.

At the venue, we added their gorgeous flowers and adorable topper.

For additional servings, the couple added brownie bites, some of which we topped with a Peanut Butter Buttercream…delish!  We also did a really fun cake for the groom, who loves to fish.  This cake was Strawberry Cake with Chocolate Buttercream Filling.  We create the cake to look like a fishing hole with edible rocks, grasses and cat tails.  We then sculpted a bass fish from Rice Krispie Treats and covered then in fondant.  We added fins and other markings to make it look realistic.  We then airbrushed it and added eyes and final details.

All the details came together perfectly for this Camp Loughridge wedding!  We can’t wait for the next one!