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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)
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)
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)
The way the hot tub wedding cake evolved was an interesting process. Miwa and Darnell originally wanted a traditional wedding cake with a tropical design. They requested to have the cake be mostly white with some plumeria flowers. We came up with (read full article)
It was merely a coincidence that just days before the release of the new iPhone we would be making a wedding cake in the same theme. Our couple got married last weekend and had two cakes, an elegant fondant wedding cake with handcrafted flowers and (read full article)
I can always tell when a cake is being made for a collector by the way the order is placed. For the cake above, the client requested "I would like a cake in the shape of an M1 Garand". She didn't say "a cake in the shape of a gun" or "a cake in the (read full article)
June has been one big amazing blur of cakes! One of those months where we're constantly looking at the calendar trying to remember what date it is. If the dates weren't defined by the cakes we have, we might never know what day it is! According to (read full article)
This golf ball groom's cake was made last week for a couple who flew in from the East Coast to get married. The bride requested "I can't wait to be your wife!" to be written on the cake and was very excited when she and her family came to pick up th (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)
This sculpted Hawaiian tiki with a surfboard cake was a special one to us. It was ordered by a man for his wife in honor of her birthday, a day they would be unable to celebrate together because she was going on deployment. Rick chose to make this c (read full article)
Call it Volume 2 of our Harry Potter Cakes. First there was the "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" groom's cake, and our latest version is "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" sculpted book cake recently made for a girl's 18th birthday party (read full article)
We had a lot of fun at this wedding. A standing up sculpted Incredible Hulk groom's cake and a blinged out pretty pink wedding cake, what more could we ask for! Our bride Porsche secretly ordered a groom's cake, which, if memory serves, was a Star (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)
It was exactly one month ago that we delivered the standing up sculpted "Ramses" UNC Tar Heel groom's cake. Ramses was big and masculine and ready to kick ass and take names. Last weekend we went in a completely different direction for the standing (read full article)
It seems lately the lines between wedding cakes and celebration cakes are blurring. A wedding cake no longer needs to be tiered up or even look like a traditional "wedding cake." We've always attracted clients wanting something unsual, but recently (read full article)
You don't know til you make one of the most difficult cakes you've ever made, what it is going to look like. We now know what one of Rick's most difficult cakes of his career looks like, and it is a sculpted Rameses, the University of North Carolina (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)
One of our most recent cakes was this sculpted clownfish made for our client Masaki's birthday. Last year Rick designed an amazing big jungle cake for his son, and this year, his wife decided to surprise him with a beautiful birthday cake of his own (read full article)
We live for celebrations like last Friday's Doggie Rescue Party. Parties with a purpose filled with creativity and of course, a super fun cake! Our client's daughters are crazy about dogs. They own two adorable Shih Tzu's "Issa" and "Jazzy", and bo (read full article)
This past weekend the theme was LOVE and romance, where every cake made, except for one was a wedding cake. This sculpted dog cake was the exception, but even as a birthday cake it was still a romantic gesture because it was ordered by a woman for h (read full article)
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