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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)
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)
We were so excited when we got the order for the Dr. Seuss and Cat in the Hat themed birthday cake! We had worked with the client before on an Elmo and Sesame Street cake for her other son and wanted her to be just as happy with this one. We knew f (read full article)
Last weekend we made a special cake for my cousin Maya's 18th birthday/high school graduation party at Tiki's Grill and Bar in Waikiki. Tiki's with its Hawaiian tiki theme, yummy food, and amazing views overlooking Waikiki Beach is the perfect spot (read full article)
It was the perfect request, really. A Las Vegas themed cake for a 77th birthday party. The client fell in love with our Las Vegas cake with the sculpted dice on our website, and wanted her mother's cake to be made similarly, incorporating the numbe (read full article)
The theme of today's blog is "pretty pastels." These cakes are a sweet symphony of soft pinks, purples, yellows and blues. As we prepare to officially welcome Summer next week, we're enjoying the fond memories of Spring celebrations.A pretty pale y (read full article)
Every now and then we have the opportunity to make a cake for someone celebrating a truly significant birthday. All birthdays are significant of course, but when you reach the elite 90 years old and above club as our client's mother has, they deser (read full article)
I feel like I'm saying the statement "one of our more unusual requests" with more frequency lately, but in the area of unusual requests, this adorable distressed Barney doll and chinese noodles cake, may just take the cake. At least for now. It is a (read full article)
Last week our clients Muriel and Tony got married and had a family birthday celebration while they were vacationing in Hawaii. Rick designed an elegant cake for their wedding and for their nephew's birthday several days later, Muriel asked for a Spo (read full article)
When we're given a theme as popular as the safari, Rick always looks for new, creative ways to provide our clients with their own unique design, so it's not just "a safari cake" but rather, their safari cake. This colorful cake with whimsical animal (read full article)
This bold and playful 50th Birthday cake was ordered by our client as a surprise for his wife. Other than a few small requests -- fun shapes, purple and yellow colors and possibly orchids integrated into the design -- he gave Rick carte blanche on h (read full article)
We're loving that people are requesting bright fun cakes with wild themes for 50th birthdays. We'd like to think that 50 is the new 30, but perhaps that is because it's only a decade or so away for us. You know how when you're 20, anyone over the (read full article)
It's one thing to make a birthday cake with pigs, bears, sheep and dogs, and quite another to have the shapes of those characters and their environment be made out of words. When we got the order for the PBS Kids "WordWorld" cake, we knew it was goi (read full article)
The ever popular jungle animals theme always makes for a fun cake . Each time Rick does it a little differently and for this design, he went with the dimensional animals playfully placed on the tiers. He drew inspiration from our client's party inv (read full article)
"The Wealth of Nations", is the title of the masterpiece written by Scottish economist and philosopher Adam Smith. First published back in 1776, the book advocates a free market economy and is considered to be the basis for modern economic theory. (read full article)
This super funky, topsy turvy animal print birthday cake was made for Tomi's 27th birthday. She requested to have both zebra and leopard prints integrated into her cake and also a "POP" of pink. She loved Rick's leopard print "Cake gone wild" desig (read full article)
For Vanessa's 21st birthday, she could legally consume her alcohol and have her cake-filled liqueur bottle too! This sculpted SOHO Lychee Liqueur bottle cake was ordered by our client as a surprise gift to Vanessa, who loves the liqueur and thought (read full article)
We had a great weekend with some very fun cakes! Saturday's birthday party at the Waikiki Aquarium could not have had a cake that was a better match than this colorful under-the-sea cake. Our clients rented out the Waikiki Aquarium after hours and (read full article)
Nicole's giant sculpted cupcake wasn't the first one we've made, but the first one that had been ordered for the purpose of a child's photo shoot. When this adorable little girl's parents called us to place the order, we were told that they wanted t (read full article)
By nature, anything having to do with babies is cute. The zoo animals theme is a popular request and each time Rick does it a little little differently. Sometimes the animals are done more realistically and other times, like in this case, they are d (read full article)
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