Snowflakes

Sometimes it is great to get in the holiday spirit!

Christmas time weddings are so much fun!!

This one was my favorite!!
The best part of my job is that I get to create things I dreamed of as a child. And I now have the skills of an adult.

Amy

My old friend Mark-who has helped me immensely with my cake business-got married! He married a beautiful lady named Amy. The fact that Mark is a very successful caterer and his wedding was a cooperative effort of the best vendors in our area, was no reason for this humble baker to be nervous-no! I was not- well, OK, I was, a little, but once I decided on the design, I was full steam ahead. Mark wanted something local and seasonal and I loved the design of Amy's invitations so.... The cake was vanilla chiffon soaked with cognac, filled with fresh pumpkin mousse and pecan praline and iced with maple buttercream. The design piped on the outside was little allium flowers from the invitations that were doing an intimate dance. The tan creamy color of the buttercream matched the burlap on the service tables and the log cake stand mirrored the grounded elegance of the affair and the bride and groom. Congratulations Mark and Amy! I was so proud to be there and be part of it! May your life be full of sweetness!

Annee

Annee is not the bride but the mother of the bride. Her daughter and son in law are in the military and were in Iraq and then New Orleans helping with the floods during most of the planning. So, Annee did the decision making. I secretly love Annee, she was so great to work with, and because after my own wedding which I planned on my own to my discredit, I wished I had left it to my parents. To acknowledge the wonderful job she did and because I love her name (although I can't figure out how to type the accent over the e), she gets the honors. She chose this design after seeing the Lindsey. The cake is vanilla chiffon filled with triple cream filling and fresh strawberries, blueberries, blackberries and raspberries. The icing is white chocolate buttercream. It is difficult to tell from the picture but the flowers are miniature red calla lilies and red rose petals. So elegant!

Monica

Monica and Michael were married in the elegance of an old Virginia estate. The designs she chose for all her decor fit perfectly with the style of the home. The pale blue we tinted her vanilla buttercream matched her invitation and the linens. The pattern on the side is piped with royal icing and then hand painted with edible silver luster dust. Michael loves carrot cake, so that's what we made the middle tier (filled with cream cheese icing, of course) and the other two are vanilla chiffon cake soaked in framboise, triple cream filling and fresh raspberries. The painting was great fun and gave the cake the feel of fine china.

Alissa

Alissa, Phillip and I had a great time at their cake tasting. They tasted all different types of icings, fillings and cakes in seemingly endless combinations and created a new favorite. So simple, just my dark chocolate sour cream cake soaked with Framboise and spread thinly with raspberry jam, four layers cake and three of jam in each tier. The icing was vanilla buttercream. Their wedding was at a winery in full fall color and the room was the most beautiful fall display I have seen. The square cake accented with dark brown ribbon and decorated with orange, yellow and burgundy flowers fit right in. The piping design Alissa chose reflected well her and Phillip's light spirit.

Kristin

Kristin and Brady were married at a winery in the fall. Raspberries, champagne and concord grapes, and figs were at the peak of ripeness. I crystallized the grapes and accented with goldenrod from our farm. Their cake was yellow chiffon with dark chocolate cream and fresh raspberries for the filling and vanilla buttercream.

Bridget

Bridget married Ben in April. Their flavors were almond layers with double whipped cream filling and because he is from Vermont, maple buttercream. Maple buttercream is made from all maple syrup, no other sugar, and melts in you mouth like maple candy. Since it was spring she chose newly emerging ferns and grasses as a theme and we carried this through to the cake. Dogwoods and lilacs added the perfect spring feel.

Lindsey

Lindsey and Andrew's wedding showed how elegant simple can be. She told me exactly what she wanted the cake to look like and she said I delivered!! A three tiered cake with pearls. The flavors were vanilla chiffon layers filled with the triple cream (an extra rich whipped cream, very lightly sweetened, and a touch of vanilla and liqueur) fresh raspberries and vanilla buttercream. The wedding was so elegant that Brides Washington will feature it in spring 2009!

Maria

Maria was married on top of a mountain with fourteen of her most beloved. A perfect June evening with a long table under a shade tree with a view of the whole valley. Down below was mist from an earlier spring shower. When I delivered the cake I was speechless and so honored that this cake was able to be part of the affair. Her cake was vanilla chiffon, filled with lemon curd, glazed with dark chocolate ganache and iced with vanilla buttercream. The floating dots piped on the sides and a pale celery green. I did not have the honor to meet Maria, she is a bit of a mystery to me. But her cake choices tell the story of a lady light and easy on the outside, and daring and sensuous on the inside! The decoration on the outside is my variation of the classic swiss dots. Inspired by my love of bubbly wine, I call this Swiss bubbles.

Sylvie

For some ladies, a traditional cake just won't due. Sylvie's theme was daisies and she loves raspberry, so we made lemon cupcakes with raspberry buttercream and decorated them with sugared daisies and candy pearls. Everyone had fun with their pink mustaches!

isaac

My boy turned one in May! He didn't get to have any cake, but the rest of us enjoyed the dark chocolate sour cream layers stuffed with fresh strawberries picked that morning and the triple cream filling. The icing was vanilla buttercream. I am afraid next year's will have to have a tractor!

Golf Guys

After a long day of golfing for a great cause, and you are blurry eyed from trying to find the little white ball on all that green, you deserve a dark chocolate cupcake with colors that fit right in. Gotta love the grass!

Leila

Leila and Peter had a perfect Nelson County wedding, apples and all! Their cake was chocolate chiffon, filled with my special triple cream and fresh raspberries in two of the layers and mocha cream in the other and iced with vanilla buttercream. The tiers are separated to give more room for the beautiful flowers.