Sweet Celebrations

Lindsey

2012-01-18T16:01:00.000-08:00

Feminine Babycake

Grace

2012-01-18T15:58:00.000-08:00

Breanne

2012-01-18T15:56:00.000-08:00

Beautiful ribbon-inspired wedding cake.

Ashley

2012-01-18T15:52:00.000-08:00

Hallie

2011-06-20T16:14:00.001-07:00

Mini desert table for my daughter's 4th.

Nate

2011-06-20T16:10:00.000-07:00

Buttercream basketball cake and corresponding cookies with all the teammates names and jersey numbers.

Breanne

2011-06-20T16:00:00.000-07:00

I just recently finished a dessert table for my cousin's wedding. Everything was made by myself or my sister. Photo courtesy of RLT Photography

Zoo Animals!

2010-11-14T22:08:00.000-08:00

MJ

2010-11-14T22:02:00.000-08:00

Tara

2010-11-14T22:00:00.000-08:00

Dessert Table Website

2010-07-21T14:38:00.000-07:00

Hi, everyone! I have started making dessert tables professionally! I will be posting all of my dessert tables on www.whipperberry.com where there will be a daily post. Feel free to follow the blog as we post about wedding, dessert buffets, design, food, and anything creative. Thanks for stopping by!

Dessert Table

2010-06-13T22:20:00.000-07:00

I decided to take a trip into the world of dessert tables (inspired by the amazing Amy Atlas). Here's some photos of the baby shower.

photography by Heather Thoming

I had such a wonderful time creating this table and look forward to being able to do more in the future!

Patty

2010-05-23T20:05:00.001-07:00

Lynsey

2010-05-23T20:03:00.001-07:00

Ladybug Cake

2010-05-23T19:52:00.000-07:00

Custom BabyCakes

2010-03-28T21:06:00.000-07:00

Miniature cakes, or BabyCakes, can be made custom. Here are some of my latest custom BabyCakes.

Staci

2010-03-28T20:55:00.000-07:00

Julie

2010-02-27T15:30:00.001-08:00

Buzz Lightyear Cake

2010-02-27T15:30:00.000-08:00

Poor Buzz is suffering from a little lopsidedness here, but it's a kind of hard to keep yourself balanced on the moon. Buzz and spaceships made of gumpaste, yellow cake with cream cheese frosting and covered in fondant.

Ahh, that's a little better :)

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Las Vegas Cakes

2010-02-02T16:04:00.000-08:00

Hallie

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Buttercup

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Ashton

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Greg

50th birthday cake for the marathon man!

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Wii Miis

Wii Cake for my brother-in-laws 15th!
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Alec

I watched the third Harry Potter movie to get some inspiration for my Harry Potter cake. I've read the books, but I needed it fresh on my mind. I didn't take anything from the third movie directly, but it got the wheels turning. Harry travels to and from Hogwarts every year with a rather large and old suitcase, and I wanted to replicate that look. I learned that the best way to make fondant brown is to color it with cocoa powder, NOT to add brown food color (you have to add A LOT of brown to get the color this dark, which alters the taste and texture of the fondant). The books... Magical Me and Potions... were just made in a simple 9x13 pan, trimmed to the size I wanted. The Harry Potter lettering was made with gumpaste and then painted with my new airbrush!! That's what gives the lettering the 2-tone effect. Finally, Harry is made of gumpaste with a glass globe (from a light fixture) around him to give the "Divination" feel. I found the fabulous cake board at Roberts Craft Store. I just love the wood edge. The cake is a simple cake from Martha Stewart and the filling was buttercream and a strawberry cream cheese frosting (just use strawberry cream cheese instead of the plain kind)... yum!!
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Anne

Inspiration for this cake came from Real Simple Weddings. The cake turned out beautiful (I thought). The fondant draped over the cake perfectly, the ribbon cooperated, and the flower, which was made of gumpaste, turned out awesome. However, the cake itself... chocolate with buttercream filling... was way dry. I checked out my trusty cake book and found that if you brush your cake with a simple syrup before freezing it, the moisture stays in the cake much better! I tried this technique on the Harry Potter cake and it worked great! It can really add a lot of sweetness to the cake though, so you have to balance the syrup with the sugar content of the cake so that it's not too overbearing.
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Madison

Coconut cake with raspberry filling and buttercream frosting.

This was my first cake where my client wanted buttercream instead of fondant (the coconut cake was BC, but any flaws were easily covered by the coconut!). She wanted a look that was as smooth as fondant, which can be REALLY hard to do. I made sure to practice a lot before I did the real cake, and after trying multiple buttercream frostings, techniques in applying the frosting, etc., I finally figured it all out. I found my buttercream frosting on youtube and I frosted my chilled cake (chilling the cake is very important!!) with an offset spatula and smoothed and leveled the frosting as best as I could with my bench scraper. It's very important to get a crusting buttercream (frosting that gets semi-hard... a little crust on the outside) and chill the cake in between each round of smoothing. The last step is to use these fabulous paper towels...

Don't try to use any other brand!! Viva paper towels are the only thing that work. You can also use a high density foam roller brush, and I usually use a combination of both. Instead of describing how to do it, I'll just post a couple of videos that I found really helpful.

The Upside Down Method
Edna's Method
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Carly

I made this cake in just 3 hours! The stripes aren't perfectly straight, but for a rush job, I thought it turned out decent. Lindsey was throwing a baby shower for a friend, so I thought I would whip out something cute really quick.

This was definitely a trial and error cake. The "straws" are made of white chocolate... they break really easily! I wouldn't recommend trying to make a cake like this unless you REALLY love the look.

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Jane

I love this cake. Green and white is my favorite color combination. The piping was a lot more fun than I expected and turned out pretty well!

The flowers for this cake were inspired by some of the flowers in my Simplifying Sugar Flowers book, although I did improvise quite a bit.

The inspiration for the lattice pattern came from a fabric swatch from Ballard Designs.

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Nathan

This is a birthday cake of the late Jacob's Field in Cleveland, Ohio. It is made of gumpaste, fondant, and royal icing.
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Cara

4 tier coconut wedding cake in buttercream. Top tier is coconut cake with strawberry filling. Rest of cake made of styrofoam dummies.

This cake was a lot of work. I had never peeled my own coconut before... and by the time I figured out where to buy big coconut flakes, it was too close to the wedding (not to mention the insane price). So I hauled myself down to the store, bought seven coconuts, and started hacking away with a hammer. The best way to open a coconut is to let it sit in a 400 degree oven for about 10 minutes. Take it out and push on the coconut's eyes to find the softest one. Pound a decently thick nail into the softest eye with a hammer and shake the coconut milk out (I use the coconut milk in my coconut cake, just make sure you boil out the impurities and strain out any skin that might have gotten mixed in there!). Then wrap the coconut in a hand towel (to prevent coconut from flying all over the place) and smack the coconut hard with a hammer. Take the wrap off, and WA-LA, a beautiful white, meat filled coconut awaits your peeling. I just use a regular ol' potato peeler. With the coconut warm, the meat should peel off a little more easily. The more pieces of coconut you break your coconut into, the easier it is to peel due to its concave nature.
The cake here also has regular long (or large, depending on the store) coconut shavings on it as well.

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Mario
I made this cake for my husband's birthday. It was a lot of work, but I loved making it! It is entirely edible... the bottom layer is a strawberry cake with cream cheese frosting. The top tier is a funfetti cake, also made with cream cheese frosting.

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Noel

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Kelsey

This light pink cake is covered in fondant. The branches are made of floral tape and wire and the flowers are made of gum paste.
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Rebecca

This cake was created for my parent's 25th wedding anniversary. The cake itself is vanilla with cream cheese and buttercream cream frostings. The cake is covered in fondant and the fruit, leaves, and flowers are made of fondant as well. It was a hit!

Sundae

2010-01-31T20:29:00.000-08:00

"Ice Cream Sundae" made of chocolate base, cake balls with cream cheese frosting, covered in white chocolate and topped with a fondant cherry. Cute!

Contact Me

2010-01-23T16:06:00.001-08:00

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Flavors

2010-01-23T16:05:00.004-08:00

Basic flavors

White Butter
Chocolate
Moist Yellow
Marble
Red Velvet
Devil's Food

Specialty flavors (additional cost)

Coconut
Almond Dacquoise
Lemon Poppyseed Pound Cake
Almond Hazelnut
Carrot
Apple
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip
Strawberry
Banana

Fillings

Buttercream {Vanilla, Chocolate, Raspberry, Pistachio, Coconut, Custard}
Cream Cheese Frosting
Caramel-Cream Cheese Filling
Caramel Filling
Apricot Filling (in season)
Chocolate Ganache
White Chocolate Mousse
Seedless Raspberry Jam
Strawberry Jam
Lemon Curd

So, what's the price of a cake?

2010-01-23T16:05:00.003-08:00

There's a lot that goes into the cost of a cake! With so many different sizes, flavors, fillings, and detail on the surface of the cake, things can get very complex. I cannot give exact quotes on a cake unless you provide a photo of the exact cake you want, along with your flavor and filling choices. Otherwise, an exact quote will be provided at your free consultation. Despite these limitations, I can provide estimates based on the size and details of your cake.

Round/Square Tiers*	Number of Servings	Basic Price	Complex Design and Flavor
6” x 4”	12	$35	$75
8” x 4”	24	$60**	$110
10” x 4”	38	$85	$150
12” x 4”	56	$110	$180
14” x 4”	78	$135	$215
16” x 4”	100	$160	$250

*all dimensions are diameter x height
**all prices are for ONE tier only

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BabyCakes

BabyCakes contain 2-3 servings per cake.

All of the same Flavors and fillings apply to BabyCakes and specialty flavors cost $1 extra per cake.

Pricing for BabyCakes are shown below:

Julie.............. $29
Sundae......... $13
Rachel......... $27
Belle............. $ 25
Lucy............. $25
Staci............. $27

Custom BabyCakes are also available for an extra $5 (no matter how large or small your order).

Orders of 10 or more BabyCakes will be delivered anywhere in the Las Vegas valley free of charge. Otherwise, delivery will be charged at $0.75 per mile round trip.

BabyCakes

2010-01-23T16:05:00.001-08:00

BabyCakes are miniature versions of regular cakes. They can be used as gifts, party favors, individual desserts, or as centerpieces for your tables. For $1 extra, you can have your BabyCake packaged as shown below.

Rachel

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Belle

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Lucy

Hallie

2010-01-22T23:02:00.001-08:00

Buttercup

2010-01-22T22:59:00.000-08:00

Ashton

2009-10-22T22:32:00.001-07:00

Greg

2009-10-18T20:35:00.000-07:00

50th birthday cake for the marathon man!

Wii Miis

2009-09-11T14:50:00.000-07:00

Wii Cake for my brother-in-laws 15th!

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

2009-05-26T21:57:00.001-07:00

Please forgive me while my blog is under construction. I'm trying to make the blog a little more interesting for any viewers, as well as to answer common questions I have about my cakes! Thanks for your patience, it should only be a few days!

Alec

2009-05-16T21:40:00.001-07:00

I watched the third Harry Potter movie to get some inspiration for this cake. I've read the books, but I needed it fresh on my mind. I didn't take anything from the third movie directly, but it got the wheels turning. Harry travels to and from Hogwarts every year with a rather large and old suitcase, and I wanted to replicate that look. I learned that the best way to make fondant brown is to color it with cocoa powder, NOT to add brown food color (you have to add A LOT of brown to get the color this dark, which alters the taste and texture of the fondant). The books... Magical Me and Potions... were just made in a simple 9x13 pan, trimmed to the size I wanted. The Harry Potter lettering was made with gumpaste and then painted with my new airbrush!! That's what gives the lettering the 2-tone effect. Finally, Harry is made of gumpaste with a glass globe (from a light fixture) around him to give the "Divination" feel. I found the fabulous cake board at Roberts Craft Store. I just love the wood edge. The cake is a simple cake from Martha Stewart and the filling was buttercream and a strawberry cream cheese frosting (just use strawberry cream cheese instead of the plain kind)... yum!!

Anne

2009-04-12T20:06:00.001-07:00

Inspiration for this cake came from Real Simple Weddings. The cake turned out beautiful (I thought). The fondant draped over the cake perfectly, the ribbon cooperated, and the flower, which was made of gumpaste, turned out awesome. However, the cake itself... chocolate with buttercream filling... was way dry. I checked out my trusty cake book and found that if you brush your cake with a simple syrup before freezing it, the moisture stays in the cake much better! I tried this technique on the Harry Potter cake and it worked great! It can really add a lot of sweetness to the cake though, so you have to balance the syrup with the sugar content of the cake so that it's not too overbearing. Happy baking!

My very favorite cake website

2009-04-07T17:29:00.000-07:00

I just thought I would share with everyone my very favorite website for cake ideas.

Madison

2009-04-03T14:53:00.000-07:00

Coconut cake with raspberry filling and buttercream frosting.

This was my first cake where my client wanted buttercream instead of fondant (the coconut cake was BC, but any flaws were easily covered by the coconut!). She wanted a look that was as smooth as fondant, which can be REALLY hard to do. I made sure to practice a lot before I did the real cake, and after trying multiple buttercream frostings, techniques in applying the frosting, etc., I finally figured it all out. I found my buttercream frosting on youtube and I frosted my chilled cake (chilling the cake is very important!!) with an offset spatula and smoothed and leveled the frosting as best as I could with my bench scraper. It's very important to get a crusting buttercream (frosting that gets semi-hard... a little crust on the outside) and chill the cake in between each round of smoothing. The last step is to use these fabulous paper towels...

Don't try to use any other brand!! Viva paper towels are the only thing that work. You can also use a high density foam roller brush, and I usually use a combination of both. Instead of describing how to do it, I'll just post a couple of videos that I found really helpful.

The Upside Down Method
Edna's Method

2009-04-01T23:31:00.000-07:00

The white chocolate straws are made with an old fashioned cheese grater, like this one...

The wire kind (the kind you'll find in most stores these days) won't work...

Get some white chocolate chips and slowly warm them up in the microwave in 30 second increments. Spread them over a cookie sheet to form a nice, even layer. Wait for them to almost completely harden and start peeling with even pressure. If it comes off in chunks, it's still too soft. If it just flakes off, it's too hard. It really takes a lot of practice to master, and I highly recommend freezing the straws right after you peel them so that they don't melt. When applying them to the cake, the faster you work, the better. They're fragile and they melt really easily!! Like I said, you have to really love the look to have the patience for it. I don't think I'll ever do another one unless a client wants it!

Jane

2009-03-04T12:04:00.001-08:00

I love this cake. Green and white is my favorite color combination. The piping was a lot more fun than I expected and turned out pretty well!

The flowers for this cake were inspired by some of the flowers in my Simplifying Sugar Flowers book, although I did improvise quite a bit.

The inspiration for the lattice pattern came from a fabric swatch from Ballard Designs.

Nathan's Birthday

2009-02-08T11:32:00.000-08:00

This is a birthday cake of the late Jacob's Field in Cleveland, Ohio. It is made of gumpaste, fondant, and royal icing.

Cara Wedding

2009-01-23T13:49:00.000-08:00

4 tier coconut wedding cake in buttercream. Top tier is coconut cake with strawberry filling. Rest of cake made of styrofoam dummies.

This cake was a lot of work. I had never peeled my own coconut before... and by the time I figured out where to buy big coconut flakes, it was too close to the wedding (not to mention the insane price). So I hauled myself down to the store, bought seven coconuts, and started hacking away with a hammer. The best way to open a coconut is to let it sit in a 400 degree oven for about 10 minutes. Take it out and push on the coconut's eyes to find the softest one. Pound a decently thick nail into the softest eye with a hammer and shake the coconut milk out (I use the coconut milk in my coconut cake, just make sure you boil out the impurities and strain out any skin that might have gotten mixed in there!). Then wrap the coconut in a hand towel (to prevent coconut from flying all over the place) and smack the coconut hard with a hammer. Take the wrap off, and WA-LA, a beautiful white, meat filled coconut awaits your peeling. I just use a regular ol' potato peeler. With the coconut warm, the meat should peel off a little more easily. The more pieces of coconut you break your coconut into, the easier it is to peel due to its concave nature.
The cake here also has regular long (or large, depending on the store) coconut shavings on it as well.

Mario!

2008-12-18T20:30:00.001-08:00

I made this cake for my husband's birthday. It was a lot of work, but I loved making it! It is entirely edible... the bottom layer is a strawberry cake with cream cheese frosting. The top tier is a funfetti cake, also made with cream cheese frosting.

Holiday Cake

2008-12-17T15:18:00.001-08:00

Dummy Tiers

Some of the cakes I make, including the one below are made on styrofoam "dummies". Some people prefer dummies because they lower the overall price of the cake. Some people just don't care for cake much, but feel obligated by tradition, so the opt for the dummy tiers. I recommend practicing fondant on dummies before making your first cake. Fondant alone is hard enough to work with, and cake can be very tempramental.

Kelsey

2008-10-05T11:29:00.000-07:00

This light pink cake is covered in fondant. The branches are made of floral tape and wire and the flowers are made of gumpaste. How did I make the flowers?? With a little help from this book...

And these tools...

I really thought I could get by without the tools. However, if you want to make your flowers look realistic, you HAVE to have this stuff. Otherwise they'll look fake.

25th Wedding Anniversary

2008-10-05T11:21:00.000-07:00

I used petal dust with the following cake to add some shine to the daffodils and leaves. It's fun stuff, but it takes some serious practice!

This cake was created for my parent's 25th wedding anniversary. The cake itself is vanilla with cream cheese and buttercream cream frostings. The cake is covered in fondant and the fruit, leaves, and flowers are made of fondant as well. It was a hit!