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Our bride Eileen and her fiance flew all the way from Anchorage, Alaska to Oahu to celebrate their pretty pink wedding last weekend. It was clear when we walked into the reception room that Eileen adored the color pink -- beautiful big pink and whi (read full article)
Hulk photo above by cakelavaWe had some fabulous cakes to make over the weekend, and one Incredible cake! This was Rick's second standing up sculpted cake of The Hulk and it was just as massive as the first one. Combined with a number of wedding ca (read full article)
Image courtesy of Rachel Robertson PhotographyIf you are an avid reader of Cake Central Magazine, you'll recognize Rick's gothic-inspired purple, black and silver wedding cake, featured in the August 2010 issue. One of our favorite recent cakes, we w (read full article)
Happy Friday Everyone! Fun loving Elmo is an appropriate character for any day of the week, but he works especially well for a post on Friday, when we're all thinking about our weekend and how much fun we plan to have. For those of you who are work (read full article)
Images courtesy of Rachel Robertson Photography In late June we announced that Rick Reichart would be making his teaching debut at Icing Inspirations in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada in March of 2011. Four days later, the first class sold out and a wai (read full article)
The Force was definitely with Rick last week, as all the stars in the galaxy lined up and granted him one of his cake wishes -- to make a full body STAR WARS Yoda cake. Rick has been wanting to make a Yoda cake for a while. He's come close a number (read full article)
Our calendar is full of weddings this week and next and romance is in the air! Pretty handcrafted flowers are currently being made in our kitchen along with other custom pieces that will adorn our couples' wedding cakes. Being that we are surrounde (read full article)
On the day after Food Network Challenge - "SpongeBob Birthday Cakes" aired for the first time in April, we were contacted by a woman whose daughter saw Rick on TV and wanted to order a special cake to celebrate their family vacation to Hawaii. She t (read full article)
Yet another cake in our list of "favorites" for the month of July. This cake was made for the wedding of Sayaka and Grant, who were married on the same day we delivered the 4 and a half foot tall wedding cake! The towering white and silver cake wil (read full article)
Last Saturday morning, we posted a photo of our Avatar cake on our facebook page. It was newly completed and not even the client had seen it yet. Therefore, we only showed the back of the head of the Avatar figure (see below). We didn't think at t (read full article)
Image courtesy of Rachel Robertson PhotographyAbout a week ago we announced we would be making a big announcement soon. On Monday, June 28th, Rick's first class "Discover Your Inner Artist" at Icing Inspirations in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada was ann (read full article)
You probably wouldn't be surprised to find out one of the flavors for Laura and Justin's Hawaiian sunset wedding cake was Rainbowlicious, a cakelava signature flavor and one of our most colorful options on the menu. There wasn't an inch of this vibr (read full article)
We've been loving the diversion over the past week with the interviews, but ultimately it's all about the cakes and our portfolio has been quickly accumulating with new designs to share. Some of our favorite new cakes are being featured in upcoming (read full article)
Last week was "interview week" at cakelava. In the early part of the week I was finalizing my interview with Sophie and Katherine of Georgetown Cupcake, stars of TLC's new show, "DC Cupcakes" which premiered on Friday. Did everyone watch? We certai (read full article)
All images courtesy of TLC and Georgetown CupcakeGeorgetown Cupcake dishes on their new TLC show "DC Cupcakes", their most bizarre creation and the popularity of Salted Caramel. Part 2 of our interview. To read Part 1 on yesterday's blog, click h (read full article)
All images courtesy of TLC and Georgetown CupcakeFor sisters Sophie LaMontagne and Katherine Kallinis, life is about to get a whole lot sweeter. Two years after opening their wildly successful Washington, D.C. cupcakery, Georgetown Cupcake, they are (read full article)
Last night after delivering our Australian couple's wedding cake in Waikiki, we headed over to Barnes & Noble and grabbed one of the last remaining copies of Your Wedding Day (YWD) Magazine, Spring/Summer 2010. We were thrilled to have found it (read full article)
It's been months since our last Interview in the "Interviews from Cakeland" Series on the blog and I miss doing them. Cakes have happened, Life has happened, we can all relate I'm sure. My latest interview practically fell in my lap, courtesy of Ric (read full article)
For the past week we've been running all over town delivering wedding cakes and each one has been drastically different than the next. The cake above was made for a couple married earlier this week at the JW Marriott Ihilani Resort. They had a vi (read full article)
The first time Food Network Challenge: SpongeBob Birthday Cakes aired was on Sunday, April 4, 2010. It was Easter Sunday and we had a private viewing party planned at Tiki's Grill & Bar in Waikiki. The last thing on our minds was marshmallow ch (read full article)
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