Rustic Cakes

A couple of "rustic" cakes for this week.

One is a Kahlua Raspberry Chocolate cake, for a couple's 1st anniversary. This is something we do, instead of you saving that top tier in a freezer for a year (ick!), we offer a complimentary cake for your first anniversary! This is valid on any wedding cake over $150, and requires pickup.

The other is a Lemon cake. Lemon Chiffon cake, with a lemon curd fillings, and lemon buttercream. It smells amazing. This is for a friend of mine.

Happy Thanksgiving! I have several events that I still need to share, meanwhile checkout our Facebook page, Adair Weddings for the most up to date information!

Taking limited bookings for 2013, so call or email early.

Cheers!

Julia

Cake Tastings

Are always complimentary! I offer custom tastings for events over $300, but for those under, I keep it simple.

2-3 choices, in cupcakes of whatever I am currently baking.

This one is my white chocolate and double chocolate. Mmmmm

Book now, 2012 is quickly becoming booked solid!

Cheers!

Julia

Cupcakes!

Black & White (chocolate cake with white chocolate buttercream) and Peanut Butter Cup. Mmmmm

Yummy!

Large cupcakes and mini cupcakes!

Cheers!

Macarons!

Mmmmmmm

We have a new bakery here in town, and they make yummy cupcakes, and? French Macarons!

They are delicious!! Margarita (owner and baker) is a trained pastry chef, and it shows in her work, both in presentation and taste!!

Here's a link to their facebook page www.facebook.com/mcupcakesnpastries

Their website isn't up quite yet.

Go see them! M Cupcakes n Pastries on Roy Rodgers Drive in Victorville, Ca.

I'm going to go enjoy my 3 lovely Macarons. Vanilla, Chocolate & Peanut Butter!

And dream of the Almond one I had last week! (she was just making them, perhaps another trip later this week!!)

Cheers!

Julia

Quinceañera Masquarade Cake

I did this HUGE cake back in the beginning of March. The girl's theme was "Masquarade". The hand-painted masks are made of gumpaste, with edible glitter. The cake is covered in White Chocolate fondant, with fondant and gumpaste accents.

Cake flavours were

German Chocolate w/ Chocolate Buttercream

Pumpkin Chocolate w/ Dark Chocolate Ganache & Cream Cheese icing

Carrot-Walnut w/ Cream Cheese Filling & Icing

Double Chocolate & White Chocolate Cake w/ Strawberry Filling & Vanilla Buttercream

Gorgeous cake! I had alot of fun with this one.

More to come, lots of recent work I haven't posted yet.

Cheers!

Julia

Cupcakes and Ice Cream!!

I got a call from a good friend of mine, she wanted cupcakes for invitations. Hrm. Shipping cupcakes, maybe not. SO, I thought, hey, cake ball cupcakes!



So, I took the tutorial that Bakerella has (her blog BTW, FANTASTIC. Thats where my baking inspiration started!!) on her blog, made it my own, and off I went.

THEN, because I didn't have peanut butter cup candy molds, and they were on sale (yay!), I bought these really cute dessert cordial cup molds. They kind of look like miniature ice cream cones.

Ice Cream Cake Balls!!!

Here's the two different ones side-by-side.

I don't "play" around that often, so this was really fun. Usually I'm running so many different directions, I do what's on the order sheet, and I'm done. So, it was a treat to "play" this morning!!

And the "sprinkles" I used are actually edible glitter. I get SO many requests for this stuff!

Still trying to update all the things I've been making lately, still behind. But this is a fresh post, as in, I finished the ice cream cones, took pictures, and here I am posting! It's a first! =)

Oh, the cupcakes are a Double Chocolate cake with Chocolate Ganache. Dipped in white & milk chocolate.

The Ice Cream Cones are Mocha Cake, with a Dark Chocolate Ganache, MORE Coffee to strengthen the flavor, and dipped in white chocolate (cone) and Dark Chocolate (top)

They are the BEST Mocha Cake Balls I'd put together to date!

Here's some updated Flavors you can order from us;

Dipped in White Chocolate

White Chocolate

Strawberry Cheesecake

Lemon

Red Velvet

Amaretto

Bailey's Irish Cream

Almond Flavored White Chocolate

Dipped in Milk, Semi-Sweet, or 60% Cacao Dark Chocolate

Double Chocolate Cake

Red Velvet

Mocha

Red Velvet with Cinnamon

Rum

Chocolate-Coconut

Pumpkin Chocolate Cheesecake

Cheesecake Brownie

Grand Marnier

There are SO many possibilities!! These are just some of the flavors we've created, contact us if you have a special request!

Please note, we do request a week's lead time for a special request. Sometimes we are able to accommodate same-day requests, but please call for availability. We are not a regular shop, but a made-to-order specialty bakery/flower shop.

Now, I'm off to have a wee taste of my new creations. Isn't that my job? To taste them??

Cheers!

Julia

Quinceañera

I had the recent chance to do a 4-tier cake for Lizbeth, for her Quinceanera. Kaylin was by my side to accomplish the feat of this enormous cake! (it probably weighed 50+ pounds! All the fondant!!)

What I did was take photographs of the dress, and then took aspects of the dress and incorporated it into the cake. It's wild, crazy, and just "WOW". I used a ton of edible glitter in Gold, Teal, Electric Blue, and Silver. The flowers are all hand-painted, as is the entire cake. I used different colors of luster dust over a navy blue base. (I tinted the fondant, and then painted over it to give it a different effect.

I HAD intended to make the topper from Gumpaste, but it wouldn't set. So I went with my backup plan, which were wooden letters spray-painted gold with navy blue crystals.

All in all, it's probably the most time I have EVER spent on a cake. But it came out gorgeous!! I am still making everything from scratch, including my fondant! I use a marshmallow-white chocolate base for my fondant, and kneed in sugar to make it the right texture for the cake design I am working on. (if that makes sense?) I am not a fondant fan, simply because it usually tastes HORRIBLE, but I have to say, the fondant that I make is quite yummy! My children like to eat the scraps! As they are spoiled when it comes to cakes and sweets at this point, I figure if those 4 like it, I've done a good job!

Keep an eye out, I'm still trying to update with recent work. I've fallen far, far behind in my blogging!

Cheers!

Julia