Ward-Huffine Wedding

I had the pleasure of doing the flowers, the cake, cake pops and miniature cupcakes for this gorgeous wedding!!!

The bride did SO many details herself!!! Very rustic!

A shout out to Bethany Belle Photography, she took some amazing pictures!

Congratulations to Autumn & Austin, may life be filled with much love, laughter, and many travels!

Cheers!

Julia

Pooh Bear & His Honey Pot

I received a call from a lovely couple a few weeks back, and they were planning their son's 1st birthday party. It was between Barney and Winne the Pooh.

When I met with them, I had pulled different ideas from the wonderful world wide web. Both Barney & Pooh Bear cakes. But there was one Pooh Bear cake that truely stood out. And they decided to go with something along those lines.

Sooo, I give you MY version of Winnie the Pooh & his Honey Pot! Yes, those ARE sugar bees! Everything is made of some sort of cake or cereal treats. I sculpted the head by hand (I do not use molded pans!), and used cereal treats for his arms & legs. I was getting close on the weight limit for the cake board!

The entire cake was Lemon with Lemon Curd filling & Lemon Buttercream. Of course topped with my homemade White Chocolate Fondant. Yummy!

I did a matching smash cake out of White Chocolate Cake. Upon request, we will always provide a complimentary smash cake for birthday cakes! No extra charges! (and that applies to ANY birthday, not just 1st birthdays.)

Up next, a gorgeous backyard wedding with a TON of D-I-Y! Hard to believe the bride packed all her arts & crafts into 2 months of wedding planning!

Cheers!

Julia

Mountain Lakes Wedding Association Wedding Tour 2011!

I'm going to plug the Mountain Lakes Wedding Association here for a second!


This coming Sunday, September 18, 2011 they are hosting their annual Wedding Tour! This year it's an exciting event, you travel from location to location, meet with different vendors, and best of all, see the GORGEOUS Mountain Lakes area! It's fall, the mountains are GORGEOUS!


Unfortunatly due to a huge scheduling conflict, Adair Weddings is unable to be a vendor at the tour this year. (hopefully next year!) However, we are offering couples who are registered or who walk-in on September 18, 2011 a special deal!


Free Tasting Box (no matter the size of your potential cake!)
10% off your order
20% off your order if you use Adair Weddings for Cake & Flowers for your Mountain Lakes Wedding (or special event)

AND

A special surprise gift from Adair Weddings on your wedding day.



Wow, you can't beat that. So, hop on over to www.lakearrowheadweddings.com and check it out! And if you see LouEllen Whitton of A Guiding Light Affaire, tell her Julia @ Adair Weddings sent you! She's fabulous for putting together amazing wedding packages.


Stay Sweet!

Julia

Tasting Box!

Just to give you an idea of what our "Tasting Box" looks like!

It includes 2-3 types of cake for you to try, covered in our delicious White Chocolate Fondant, and possibly a treat tucked in, cake balls or cake pops, depending on what we have going on that week.

Our Tasting Box is FREE if you are booking through the Mountain Lakes Wedding Association, or if your potential cake order is over $300. Otherwise, we offer it for purchase for $20 (cash only please), and that $20 goes towards any cake order over $150 if you choose to use Adair Weddings for your special occasion cake!

This is not something we deliver "just because", it is intended to existing or potential clients who want to taste & see some of our work.

Remember, we do more than weddings! Birthday Cakes, Quincenera Cakes, Anniversary Cakes, the crazier the design/idea, the more excited we get about it!

Stay Sweet!

Julia

We also do a traditional tasting, without all the special bells and whistles, please inquire.

Cupcakes!!

Recently, I have been receiving many calls about cupcakes. Regular cupcakes, miniature cupcakes, FILLED cupcakes! It's been fun to experiment with some new things, baking candy into the cupcakes, icing flavours, and the best part? It's so easy, NO cutting required (great for venues with cake-cutting charges), and you can have so many different flavours!

My current cupcakes prices range anywhere from $15-$25/dozen, and can go higher depending on the design. You get a discount on a sliding scale when the amount of cupcakes you order increase. I can even box them individually and put stickers with your company logo on them! (great for corporate parties, party favors, etc)

So, enjoy the eye candy, and let me share MY favorite cupcake with you.

My scrumptious Double Chocolate Cake, with a Peanut Butter Cup baked INTO the cupcake. THEN, I top it with my to-die-for Peanut Butter Icing.

Let me just say, those of you who have met me in person, I don't eat alot of cake. Yes, I taste everything that leaves my kitchen, I'm the ultimate quality control, because I am SO SO SO picky.

But my Peanut Butter Cupcake? I ate a whole one. And considered a second and possibly a 3rd. They were THAT yummy. And yes, I can SO do a cake!

And yes, I can do them in regular size, OR miniature cupcakes! So, call me (or email!) and let's get you an order of some FABULOUS cupcakes! And if you want my Peanut Butter Cupcakes, well, I'll give you a super special discount, just mention you saw it here on my blog, and you want to order Julia's Favorite Cupcake of 2011 (so far!)

With fall coming, I have so many ideas for new flavour combinations! Stay tuned!! I'm excited for the upcoming season!!! Can you say, Christmas?! Yes!

Stay Sweet!

Julia

Adair Weddings

760.812.0574

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Pine Rose Cabins Wedding

Back on April 15th, 2011, I had the honor of crafting not only 180 yummy cupcakes, but also a lovely 2-tier gluten-free cake, AND all the flowers for a lovely couple who choose to get married in a simply gorgeous spot, the Pine Rose cabins up in Twin Peaks, CA.

A mountain wedding is SO much fun. You have gorgeous scenery, the weather is amazing from about March-October, and it's a destination wedding that doesn't involve sea, salt, and sunburn!

The Mountain Lakes Wedding Association (www.lakearrowheadweddings.com) is a fantastic resource for those wanting to whisk their friends and family away to the beautiful, and cool, mountain lakes area!

Pine Rose Cabins is simply a lovely place to have a wedding, they have this gorgeous area for your ceremony & outdoor reception. It's very rustic and elegant all at once. Sarai is there to help you through the whole process!

Pine Rose Cabins 909.337.2347 or www.pineroseweddings.com

Cupcakes, Gluten-Free & Sugar Free Cake, this wedding truely tested our skills and gave our kitchen quite a run! But everything turned out lovely, and if I do say so myself, my Gluten-Free Chocolate Cake is just as moist and yummy as my full-of-gluten Double Chocolate Cake.

Mmmmmm.

And now, I want cake.

Stay Sweet!

Julia

Adair Weddings

760.812.0574

AdairWeddings@gmail.com

Cake Balls vs Cake "Flops"

Good Morning!!

I have an order pickup today, so I decided to dip the cake balls first thing this morning (7am!) so they would be super fresh and extra yummy!!

Of course, we are having the strangest weather, it's chilly for summer, which means, open up the house, let all the lovely air in!!

But it doesn't bode well for happy cake balls. I had a few more "flops" that usual (for summertime anyway)

So, I had a grand idea! Cake Flops!! I did a candy bar for a birthday party recently, and instead of regular Jelly Belly Jelly Beans, I found Belly Flops, and just thought they were adorable. (it looked cuter on the hand-made sign)

So now, I present to you, Cake Flops!

You can see the difference between the two pictures. The ones displayed prettily on the plate are smooth, round,

and decorated to the max. Shimmer & glitter.

The "flops", well, they are still smooth, the chocolate, but they cracked right down the center!

I still applied shimmer to them, as it helps ME to identify which is which without putting my hands all over them, but I omitted the glitter on top.

I got to thinking then. When I do huge Cake Ball orders, I tend to have a dozen or so of these cracked ones. My family loves it, they get to eat them. Or, if I have a cake tasting scheduled within the week, I use them for that. (it's quite easy to slice the flops in half to serve on a tasting plate!)

But why not offer them for sale? Facebook and Twitter are such instant communication places...I can offer them, and first come first serve. They aren't PRETTY, per se, but if you are crazing a cake ball, they WILL fulfill it!

So, cake flops. Coming soon to Facebook & Twitter. Half price of current special cake ball pricing. PICKUP only on these, unless I am already delivering a full-price order. Buy one, two, or whatever I have available!

Off to post these ones on Facebook now...although I'm sorely tempted to KEEP them...they really are soo yummy when they are fresh. Mmmmmm.

Happy Cake Balling!

Julia