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It’s hard for me to remember what I had for dinner last night, much less remember which cake I delivered one year ago.  But when it’s a New Year’s Eve cake as beautiful as the those we’ve delivered the past two years, it’s not so hard.

Working in the cake biz means working on a lot of the major holidays.  People tend to gather to celebrate on these occasions and New Year’s Eve is one of my favorite holidays to deliver on.  For the 8th year in a row, I found myself delivering a wedding cake on December 31st.  And this year’s cake didn’t disappoint!

This cake was for a NYE Wedding held downtown and coordinated by the fabulous Mary Fencl Events.  This cake was delivered to a series of connected tents in the Deco District of Tulsa’s downtown.  We provided cake for 300 including this main cake.

This four-tiered cake was covered in white fondant and embellished with a variety of black and gold fondant accents.  We created patterns and fans to coordinate with the Art Deco theme that was present throughout the reception.  We bordered each tier with gold fondant pearls to finish the look.

For NYE 2017, we delivered a similarly themed cake to The Springs near Skiatook Lake.  This one was also black, white and gold for a Gatsby themed wedding.  This cake, however, was iced in buttercream and embellished with black and gold fondant accents. The border on the bottom tier was my favorite part with piped buttercream, edible pearls and fondant flourishes.  The fondant starburst on the top tier was also fun to create, which was accented with wafer paper feathers.

I can’t wait to see what I’ll be delivering on December 31, 2019!

Making cakes is pretty much the best job ever.  You get to play with your food and create something that will make people happy.  For the most part, the occasions that we get to be involved with are cheery ones.  From weddings and birthdays to baby showers and graduations.  These are festive events where people are surrounded by those who matter most and we are thrilled to get to be a small part of those occasions.

When you do hundreds of cakes each year, it’s hard to pick a favorite or select one that meant the most.  But anytime you get to create a for your mom, it’s extra special.  And this year’s cake for my mom was just that.

My mom’s birthday falls on Christmas, so I work hard to help her have a good birthday that is separate from the hoopla of stockings and presents and anything red and green.  My mom is very creative and expresses her creativity through different forms of art including drawing and knitting.  One of my favorite forms of her drawing is zentangle.

Zentangle is a form of doodling that creates really cool works of art through drawing different patterns and my mom is really good at it.  So for her birthday cake this year I took her love of zentangle and combined it with her favorite color and a few of her favorite things.

I started by baking her favorite cake flavor: LEMON.  I layered the lemon cake with a lemon curd filing and crumb coated the cake to lock in the crumbs and let it chill.  While the cake firmed up, I mixed up some buttercream in four different shades of her favorite color: YELLOW.  Once the cake was chilled, I piped each of the four colors onto her cake in bands or rings starting with the darkest at the bottom and ending with the lightest on top.  Then I smoothed the cake, which created an ombre look.  Once smooth, I put the cake back in the fridge to chill some more.

For the decoration on the cake, I found zentangle images of her favorite things: her dog, her cat, her chickens and her favorite hobby – knitting.  I also found a “Happy Birthday” zentangle image for the topper.  I printed each of the images on edible paper and mounted them on fondant.  I set them aside to dry and I cut her grandmother name, Yaya, out of fondant.  To assemble the cake, I put her name on the board and the images around the sides of the cake attached with buttercream or piping gel.  I then added skewers to the topper and inserted in on top of the cake.

This cake was small, but the amount of love it was created with was definitely not.  Happy Birthday, Yaya!!

Big News!  All Things Cake is moving!  Even better news…it’s just four doors down from where we are now, so you won’t have to search for us in a new part of town.    The best part of the whole move is that we will be doubling our space.  We currently have 2200sf and will be moving to 4400sf of retail supplies, classroom space, bridal consultation, baking and decorating!

With the move, we will have the ability to have larger parties and our students will appreciate being able to spread out during their classes.   We will also be adding story hours for pre-schoolers and open decorating blocks where kids of all ages can come and decorate their own cupcake to enjoy!

Our bridal consultation area will be an area where engaged couple and their families can dream up the perfect cake for their big day with lots of example cakes around them for inspiration.  This area will be in the front of the space, where passers by can take a peek as well.

My decorators are most excited about the separate baking and decorating areas.  The heat from the ovens can be unkind to buttercream icing on a cake, so these two areas will now be separate.   Decorators will have state-of-the-art work stations will all their favorite tools at their fingertips.  And our thousands of cutters and molds will just be a rolling shelf away.  Special areas for airbrushing, rolling out cookie dough, and photographing our cakes are just a few extras for which this larger space will allow.

If you can’t tell…WE ARE EXCITED!  More space more of your favorite products, more space to learn, happier employees and an overall better experience for our customers.  We are scheduled to move late May, so stay tuned for progress shots and updates!

This is our new space – gutted and ready to be transformed for us!

Framing for office and kitchen walls has begun!