Tuxedo Chocolate Orange Cake
People often ask me about my favorite flavor of cake. 11 out of 12 months of the year, anyone would be hard pressed to get a straight answer out of me. I love ALL of my children flavors equally, and each one has a different occasion and purpose during which they best shine. I like […]
The Bear Necessities: It must taste good!
Client: My son’s favorite toy in the world is his teddy bear. Can you make the bear into a cake? Me: Will he be traumatized when the cake gets cut and served? Client: This will not be a problem. Me: Then yes, I can do that! I cannot count how many times I have delivered […]
Adventures in San Diego: My Renaissance of Process
I was never competitive as a kid. I didn’t play sports, or participate in the spelling bee. Even sibling rivalry seemed pointless. I never felt threatened by my little sister’s academic achievements, artistic talent, or the time she spent with Mom and Dad. We were different enough (with the exception of our ridiculous sense of […]
Return of the Ninja
I could go into a hundred reasons why I stopped posting here, but none of them are good reasons. So instead of trying to justify it, I’m choosing to simply accept that it happened and move forward. There have been many cakes in my life since my little hiatus. And while unfortunately, I cannot give […]
Niki and Patrick’s Santa Cruz Ocean Wedding
Niki was my perfect college roommate. No one else (except perhaps my own mother) would have put up with my shenanigans the way she did. We gossiped and adventured our way through our first and second years at UC Santa Cruz. We were a slightly peculiar duo that had somehow been matched together through the […]
Vegan Engagement Cake
Vegan chocolate cake with chocolate coconut mousse filling, covered in chocolate ganache. Oh, and a marzipan banner. Omnomnomnom!
At the Copa! Copacabaaaanaaaaa…
Her name was Lola. She was a show girl. With yellow flowers in her hair, and… Huh? Oh, sorry. I’m sure you all know by now that when someone from my culinary school asks me to make them a cake, part of me (metaphorically) dies a very happy death. Why me out of all of […]
Dia de los Muertos Cake
Halloween has always been my favorite holiday. This year, all of my creativity went into putting this cake together instead of into a costume. (I’ll spare you all the bright orange pictures of me dressed up as a traffic cone…) The round base and the large skull on top are chocolate cake with ganache filling. […]
Sam and Kasia’s Peacock inspired Wedding
Ever since the birthday cake I made for Sam’s mom, this bride and groom have had a particular fondness for my chocolate/almond/apricot cake. This was to be the featured flavor of the cake for the cake cutting ceremony at their otherwise cupcake wedding. This cake was covered with marzipan. The details were also marzipan. […]
Wizard 101 Birthday Cake
I am not familiar with the game, but my heart simply began to melt as I was I constructing the charming, cartoon-like characters on this cake. Gluten-free chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream. Tiger Lily. Broom Shroom. Fire Peas. I forget this one’s name, but he reminds me very much of Audrey II from Little […]