Giraffe & Koala Proposal Cake
“Floyd the Giraffe” (aka Aarash) loves his “Koala” (aka Leona) and asked for a cake to help him propose. Almond cake, apricot jam and chocolate buttercream. The animal figures are sculpted out of rice cereal. A little extra structural support for the ride across the bay to Oakland. These guys traveled separately from […]
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. […]
My Working Weekend: Part one of many…
My new job at Waterbar in San Francisco has blessed me with a Chef who understands that it is sometimes necessary to take on outside gigs in this industry. That being said, just because I had a 3-day weekend away from my job doesn’t mean I had 3 days off from work. But the work […]