Will's first cake!

Two weeks ago we had Jennifer and Brent's lake baby shower. It was so much fun. I did a cake for baby Will (his first Cajun Cakery Cake). It was a chocolate fudge cake with oreo buttercream filling. There was lots of food and plenty of games. Here are a couple of pics of the event.

This week I will be working on Will's Cake for Jennifer's Orlando shower. It will be a combination of modern circles to go with her invitations and baby animals for Will's room.

Sneek Peek:

Dragonfly Baby Shower

This is by far one of my favorite cakes that I have done. It was alot of fun to create and to execute. I did it awhile back and forgot to post it! It was for my friend Amie (one of my biggest supporters) so I am guessing that it was a Choclate Butter Cake with Raspberry Filling and Vanilla Buttercream. Its her favorite! Here are the pictures! Enjoy!

Purse Cake

I was excited to get to make Amber's 21st Birthday cake. It was a great challenge and a great experience to take on her Louis Vuitton style cake. The cake was vanilla with a vanilla buttercream. Hope you had a great birthday Amber!

Farm Animal Cake

Liz and TJ are having a baby!! Colton is due in April and all of us at the Lake are really excited. The baby shower was perfect. I did a farm animal cake for Liz since she is a vet and works with horses! Both tiers are Vanilla with Chocolate Fudge Filling! MMmmmmm!

Engagement Cake

This is the third cake for the Blankenship family and I was very happy to get to do Courtney's Brothers engagement cake. The Bottom tier was Vanilla with Raspberry Filling and the top layer was chocolate with Raspberry Filling. The design was based off of this invitation. Congrats to the happy couple!

Valentines Cake

Here is a special cake I did this week for the special ladies of Lake Placid. This two tiered cake was a chocolate fudge with a vanilla buttercream that has been accented by hearts and roses! Hope you ladies had a great day!!

Xbox Cake

This week was a fun one. This xbox cake was made for a husband who is a avid gamer! The Video game console is made all out of cake as well as the controller. Its a Vanilla Butter Cake with a Chocolate fudge filling. Happy Birthday J-Lethal!

Lilly Pultizer Cake

This cake was designed after designer Lilly Pultizer's new patterns. It is a Chocolate Fudge Cake with Coconut Pecan Filling and Vanilla Buttercream. The Palm tree is made out of Fondant!

Take Me I'm Yours Cake

The take me I'm yours cake came about when our clients sister lost her top tier for her wedding cake. The couple loves the band Squeeze. They followed the band throughout Europe on their 1st anniversary of dating, on their 10th they saw them in Ireland and he proposed to her! He even sang it to her in his vows. HOW CUTE!





That is where the inspiration came from. She wanted all white yet not plain. The cake is Carrot with Cream Cheese frosting. They will freeze it (like they would have their real wedding cake) and eat it at their 7 year ich party (still trying to figure out exactly what that is)!

Beer Bottle Cake

This was by far the most fun I have had making a cake. It took quite a bit of time but I think the effort was worth it. This is a vanilla cake with Beer Buttercream Filling. All of the decorations are madeout of sugar.

 
The beer bottles are made with poured sugar into latex molds (I will be posting the tutorial on this one later), and the ice cubes were made from poured Isomalt (a sugar substitute that does not yellow).

The labels were printed on edible paper with edible ink. I hope that we get more orders for items like this! It was an adventure and I love trying new techniques!

Golfing Cake

Tera came to us for a simple buttercream cake for her boyfriend Matt. Matt had just passed his golf test!! Congrats Matt!! The cake was a chocolate fudge with a vanilla buttercream.

Justin Turns 30!

My friend Amies husband is turning 30! Happy Birthday Justin! I did the cake for their James Bond Casino Roayle party. They had a vanilla card table and a chocolate roulette wheel. Both were filled with vanilla buttercream! This was such a fun cake to make!

 

Even the sturdiest cakes cant take rough car rides and slamming breaks! :)

Jen and Brent Got MARRIED!

I think that I have been looking forward to this cake for...well almost a year now. When Jen and Brent got engaged we celebrated with lots of key lime pie! So naturally when they asked me to do the grooms cake I knew exactly what it was going to be! I had so much fun making this monster key lime pie cake with a red fish tail topper. I was very honored to be at their wedding! I love you guys!

Hannah's Birthday Cake

Hannah's grandmother wrote me and explained of her love of cake! Said she loved watching the cake show's on TV and wanted a small cake that was girlie and simple. This is a vanilla cake with orange scented buttercream filling. Happy Birthday Hannah!

Baby Shower Cake

This cake was made for a friend of mine who was throwing a baby shower for her best friend. It was a really fun cake to do and was fashioned after the theme of the shower.

The cake was a two tier vanilla cake with a fresh raspberry filling.

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Tier of Red Velvet Cupcake by HarryLimPhotography.com.

Last week I was fortunate enough to have a little bird tweet in my ear out about a charity cake tasting event at the Vixen Lounge in downtown Orlando. All the money raised at the event went directly to the Second Harvest Food bank of Central Florida, so after a Bikram yoga class my friend Michelle and I quickly prepared to eat cake, be merry, and do some donating to charity.

Sarah Mason, the cake artist of Cajun Cakery, contacted the Second Harvest Food bank to find out more about how she could help and from that act of social awareness Sarah and the representatives from the food bank organized the cake tasting event raising $475.00 from the door and raffle ticket sales. $475.00 provides 1,900 meals to the Central Florida community and a bevy of beautiful cakes for the attendees to try!

Instantly after passing through the door, I went for as many tiny cakes as I could possibly hold in my hands while trying to also photograph the beautiful spread. As you can imagine my excitement raneth over as my eyes feasted only moments before my taste buds on the following Cajun Cakery specialties:

Red Velvet Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
Fresh Raspberry Buttercream with Vanilla Butter Cake
Cream Cheese Buttercream with Orange Zest with Chocolate and Vanilla Butter Cake
Key Lime Buttercream with Vanilla Butter Cake
Peanut Butter Mousse with Chocolate Cake
Mint Buttercream with Chocolate Cake (pictured below)

Tastings of Mint Buttercream with Choclate Cake by HarryLimPhotography.com.

And of course, cake balls. Cake balls are an ingenious invention Sarah concocted with leftover scraps of cake post a carving and buttercream. She rolls the two together, then rolls the balls in another layer of buttercream, freezes them to firm, and finally dips them in either white or milk chocolate for a small, sweet treat. I am a firm believe in waste-not, want-not so Sarah got a gold star in my book for her conscientious ways. The cake balls were an excellent party favor to bring home to loved ones, but the cake was for tasting then and there! Being a southern straight from Louisiana Sarah’s Red Velvet cake was on point fulfilling all decadent red velvet expectations. Following stuffing a whole Red Velvet cupcake in my mouth in under five seconds, all of her fruit flavored confections were my favorite to taste with the Fresh Raspberry Buttercream with Vanilla Butter Cake topping the list with it’s zing of berry straight to the palette!

A grand time was had by all, and even if I didn’t win the raffled tickets to the Taste of the Nation dinner in two weeks I enjoyed every morsel of cake and every introduction made at the event. Sarah Mason’s bubbly energy is contagious and her talent for cake artistry un-deniable. After the event I was able to interview Sarah about her cakery ways.

Did you attend culinary school and if so which? Or, are you self-taught and if so, can you describe a bit about your personal training?

No I did not attend culinary school but I have always wanted to. I love food and love the Food Network. I always watch the cake challenges and one day while watching one I pretty much decided, hey I can do that. So I purchased a Kitchen Aid Mixer, made some fondant, and the rest is pretty much history. I have taught myself by watching others, reading blogs, and trial and error.

Do you consider yourself a pastry chef or a baker and why?

I don't really consider my self either, more of a cake artist. Yes baking and creating flavors is a main component and a big one but the thing that draws them in is the visual aspects of the cakes. That is also the part that takes the most time. Sometimes a cake can take a week or more from start to finish to complete.

Do you bake outside the cake box? Meaning, do you enjoy crafting cookies, breads, tarts, etc?

I love all sweets but mainly stick to cake. I would love to start doing more decorated cookies just haven't really found the time.

Have you found Orlando is receptive to the custom cake market?

My business is still new so I'm not really sure. I guess we will have to wait and see what happens J

How did you select your flavors for the tasting?

Most of the flavors I selected were for really selfish reasons. I wanted a bit of me to come out in the event so I sat down and just thought, "If I were to eat cake right now, what would I want."

What happened to the enormous multiple-tier cake with Second Harvest logo after the event?

HAHA! All of our cakes at the event were display cakes (meaning made out of Styrofoam and not real cake) all of the decorations were made of sugar, using the display pieces helps when doing events of this magnitude and the displays last for quite a while.

Peacock Cake by the Cajun Cakery and photography by HarryLimPhotography.com.

For more info: To find out more about Sarah and her Cajun Cakery, check out her website www.cajuncakery.com. To find out how you can follow her example and work with or donate to the Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida, please also visit their website at www.foodbankcentralflorida.org. If you also adored the photography, please visit Harry Lim’s website at www.harrylimphotography.com.

A couple more photos from the event!

Here are a couple more photos from Harry. As soon as I have the event pictures from Melissa I will post those!

Harry Lim Photography

So the event last night was a success and I will post about it later but I wanted to take a moment to tell you all about a wonderful photographer that I met. Harry Lim is amazing. He was going to attend the event and offered to take a couple of photos of the cakes. I took him up on his offer not knowing what incredible work was coming my way. Here are a couple of shots he sent me. For more information on his services and to see some more pictures from the event go to www.harrylimphotography.com

Cake Tasting TOMORROW...Final Preview!

OK so here it is, The final set of shots before the actual event tomorrow. I hope y'all are as excited as I am for this event. Its going to be great and for a great cause.

Here is a little more info about Second Harvest!

Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida is a private, nonprofit organization that collects, stores and distributes donated food to more than 500 partner agencies in six Central Florida counties: Brevard, Lake, Orange, Osceola, Seminole and Volusia.

You won’t find lines of people stretching around our warehouses waiting for food assistance. What you will find instead are representatives from more than 500 nonprofit feeding programs in our area who are picking up the food their programs need to keep helping our neighbors.

More than 500 nonprofit agencies in six Central Florida counties receive much of the food they serve or give to their clients from Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida.

The types of agencies served by Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida are:

• Emergency food pantries
• Soup kitchens
• Homeless shelters
• Shelters for battered women and children
• Residential treatment programs
• Transitional housing
• Low-income day care centers
• Low-income youth activity programs
• Kids Cafes
• Summer camps
• Meal sites for low-income seniors
• Disaster relief agencies
• Group homes
• HIV/AIDS programs
• Other nonprofit agencies that serve our neighbors in need

Approximately half of our partner agencies provide bags or boxes of food for clients to take and prepare at home.

If you or someone you know is in need of food assistance, please contact us for a referral to one of the agencies we serve. We’ll be able to guide you in contacting a feeding program near you for help.

See y'all tomorrow!

Sarah

OMG 2 More Days...Preview #4

Last nights journeys took us deep into the jungles of Windermere (hahaha I crack myself up) where we met up with Alfred the Elephant...

He wanted me to let y'all know that he will be at Vixen this weekend and he hopes to see you there...

Here are a couple other snapshots for you to think about! Its getting close and I am bringing in all the troops tonight to help. Thanks Ben, Kelly and Ms Donna for helping me ;)

Sarah