Archives for October 2010

Fall Inspired Cake

Posted on October 21, 2010 by Erica OBrien in for the baker, for the bride | 2 Comments

Last July, I went to a birthday party and saw a little girl wearing this adorable Gymboree dress:

Obviously, I was left with no choice but to make it into a cake: a fall cake with edible miniature fruits and matching mini loaf cakes, and accompanied by the gorgeous blooms of Honey and Poppies. (If you notice a slight change to the colors, you can thank Megan, my creative yet bossy co-conspirator from Honey and Poppies. She didn’t like the blue and made me change it.) This shoot was featured on The Wedding Chicks. Special thanks to April and Amanda from April Smith & Co. Photography for their skill with a camera.

cake with marzipan apples pears cumquats Chocolate fondant with fall fruit

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Dandelion Cake

Posted on October 15, 2010 by Erica OBrien in for the bride | 3 Comments

It’s always interesting when a couple comes to me with a collage of cake photos to use for inspiration. My challenge is to find the common design element that links them all together. Sometimes, the commonality is a color palette. Other times, there is a design theme, and still other times it’s a combination of the two. Devin and Brian brought these cakes to me. (All photos courtesy of http://www.theknot.com/).

Initially, I was stumped. Then I saw their invitation suite:

Mystery solved! Most of the cakes in the collage contain the same sage green found on their invitations. Devin was also really drawn to the birds on the second cake and wanted to incorporate them into the cake design. Here’s the sketch we agreed on:

And the final cake design:

Congratulations Devin and Brian!

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