Posted by: Jen on: July 6, 2008
As with most of my days “off”, I spent this past Friday making another SweetElement cake! While I throughly enjoy making cakes for commission, the joy of making cakes for friends and family that leaves me total creative control from start to finish is something that just can’t be matched. The inspiration for this cake [...]
Posted by: Jen on: March 12, 2008
Here’s one of the latest SweetElement creations I made for my cousin’s wife’s baby shower. Growing up my cousin Greg’s favorite character was Winnie the Pooh, so I thought it might be a cute idea to replicate a pooh cookie jar I had seen with him digging into his favorite treat – Hunny! In addition [...]
Posted by: Jen on: July 9, 2007
Even after the hat disaster and the general difficulty of working with fondant and large cakes in extremely humid weather … I think this latest groom’s cake came out fairly well. The best (& worst) part of the whole order was delivery though. While I was walking to the church with this 50-60 lb cake [...]
Posted by: Jen on: December 4, 2006
I know I’ve been absent from here a *lot* lately … have been going through a rough patch and feel totally not myself. I’ll explain further in another post soon … promise. It was nice to get to actually make another commissioned cake though – especially when I got to go to the event and [...]
Posted by: Jen on: September 5, 2006
“Pig Over the Coals” Seems I’m looking for excuses these days to make fun cakes … and a pig roast we were attending this past Sunday gave me the perfect excuse to attempt Pig Cake I. It didn’t come out exactly as I had hoped, and it was more a design that Jay wanted than [...]
