Our Fluffy Thoughts

Leopard Print Cake!!

2009-11-02T17:15:00.001-08:00

A stylish cake for a true Fashionista!! Cake is a topsy turvy three
Tiered cake with a leopard print painted on the cake. Its an apple
pecan spice cake filled with caramel and cream cheese! Happy Birthday
Elle!!

Happy Halloween!

2009-10-31T15:41:00.001-07:00

Cake is a stack of pumpkins with the bride and groom painted on one of
the tiers and the couples initials are carved into the bottom tier.
The cake has sugar leaves and branches and vines. Congratulations to
Jen and Aaron!

Free Wedding Cake for Washington DC-Area Military Men and Women

2009-10-20T12:14:00.000-07:00

Fluffy Thoughts Cakes are offering a free wedding cake to a member of our armed forces serving in the Washington, DC metro area. Fluffy Thoughts Cakes will be accepting entries for the free wedding cake beginning now through November 1, 2009. The recipient will be selected on Verteran's Day November 11th, 2009.

To qualify, the bride or groom must be a member of the military and must be getting married in 2010 in theWashington, DC metro area.

To enter the give-away, the applicant should send an email to Fluffy Thoughts Cakes at lara8@aol.com including the following contact information: Name, Phone Number, Wedding Date, Location of Wedding. Additionally, please include: why you should win a free wedding cake and a photo of the couple.

New York Mets cap!!

2009-09-28T07:37:00.000-07:00

This grooms cake was made for a huge Mets fan!! It was a marble cake
filled with chocate ganache, vanilla buttercream and crunchies!

Cupcake Wedding Cake!

2009-09-28T07:33:00.001-07:00

Cake is covered in Ivory fondant with sugar roses and cala lilies on
top. Cake is also topped with cupcakes! Cupcake are chocolate filled
with raspberry buttercream and topped with coconut buttercream. There
are also yellow cupcakes filled with chocolate buttercream and topped
with orange buttercream! Congratulations to Ali & Crystal!!

Cascading Petals

2009-09-21T12:51:00.000-07:00

We made this cake for the wedding of Tara DiTrolio and Brian Campbell
at the beautiful Oxon Hill Manor! The cake is made of over 1000 sugar
rose petals that gradate in color as they cascade down the cake. The
topper is also made from sugar with gumpaste petals wrapped around the
letter C!

Damask Cake!

2009-09-21T07:19:00.001-07:00

Cake has damask work on the outside made from Royal Icing with a sugar
ribbon and beautiful Charlotte roses on top!

Monkey Cakes!!

2009-03-29T21:11:00.001-07:00

Monkey themed birthdays are all the rage! Last week we were asked to make two monkey cakes. The first was a 6 inch cake with a monkey standing on top and cupcakes with chocolate monkey faces on each one. The second was a chocolate monkey sitting on the edge of the cake holding a number one candle.

We made the monkey out of Modeling chocolate. He was modeled after the birthday invitation.

We placed him on the cake. Each chocolate monkey on the cupcakes was custom made by us using chocolate. Happy 1st Birthday Milo!!

We made a chocolate monkey and sat him down next to a number 1 candle. the plaque was made out of chocolate! Happy 1st Birthday Benjamin!!

Hail to the Redskins!!

2009-03-29T20:51:00.000-07:00

Last weekend was Redskin cake weekend! We were asked to make a Groom's cake with a chocolate Redskins football and a Jersey coming down the side of the cake. The second cake was a Birthday cake with a chocolate Redskins football on top. We love making the footballs and can paint any team logo on top.

We start 0ff by tempering chocolate and making the chocolate football in a mold

I sketch out the logo with a food color marker

Then I paint in the colors

The final colors and details are painted on last

Here is the football on the groom's cake! Congratulations Meghan and Pat!!

Here is the other football on the Birthday cake! Happy Birthday David!

Wedding Cake Chat!!

2009-03-04T09:46:00.000-08:00

Check us out as I answer your questions on the live online chat at Washingtonian.com, tomorrow March 5th at 11 AM!!

Submit your questions today!!

DJ Lance Cake!! Yo Gabba Gabba!!!!

2009-02-17T07:21:00.000-08:00

My little one turned two this weekend since her favorite show is Yo Gabba Gabba, we had a YGG theme party for her! Her favorite character on the show is DJ Lance Rock, so I made DJ Lance and his Boombox out of cake.

The Figure is made from cake and Modeling chocolate and the boombox is made entirely out of cake with fondant on top and airbrushed silver with fondant details.

The cake flavor was a White cake with caramel, milk chocolate ganache, vanilla buttercream and candy crunchies between the layers. Needless to say she loved the cake and we even made it onto the Yo Gabba Gabba fansite! Check it out: gabbafriends.com

We didn't cut DJ Lance for fear of traumatizing the little ones at the party :-D

HAPPY 2nd BIRTHDAY CHLOE!!! Mommy and Daddy Love YOU!!

Amina & Khadijah's 13th Birthday Cake

2009-02-15T22:14:00.000-08:00

Back in October of 2008, I got an e-mail from Amina asking us to make her and her friend's 13th Birthday cake on February 7th, 2009. She had a sketch of her cake with all the specific colors that she wanted on the cake. I drew a sketch for her with the colors and it was set, the girls were really happy with the final cake. The bottom tier was yellow buttermilk with alternating layers of Chocolate and Raspberry Buttercream. The top tier was alternating layers of chocolate and Red Velvet cake with Cookies and Cream Buttercream. I got an e-mail from one of the girls at the party the day after that said "the red velvet cake was so good I was having trouble contemplating reality!!"

Amina's sketch

Our Sketch for Amina and Khadijah

The final Cake!!

Happy 13th Birthday to Amina & Khadijah!!!

Eric and Ellen's Carrot Wedding Cake!!

2009-02-09T20:14:00.000-08:00

We got a picture from one of our favorite wedding planners, Terri Eaves of Bash, of Eric and Ellen's wedding cake that we made for them in November 2008 at the beautiful Woodend Sanctuary in Chevy Chase. Since I had forgotten my camera, the only pic I had of the cake was this awful fuzzy one taken with my phone. So, needless to say, I was really excited to get such a wonderful image taken by Michael Bonfigli.

Cake was a 4 tier Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting. Cake had a sugar ribbon border
with Swiss dots that were painted with a pearlized color to give it some shine!
We added some baby roses at the reception.
Congrats to Ellen & Eric!!

Louisette and Nevardo's Wedding Cakes!!!

2009-02-06T08:23:00.000-08:00

Back in September of 2007 we made a wedding cake and a bunch of mini cakes for two of our favorite clients Louisette and Nevardo. We had done several cakes for them in the past and we were honored when they asked us to make their wedding cake(s). They wanted a main wedding cake and several small cakes, which they displayed on the Dessert Buffet. Each mini cake reflected something about the couple and their family. Christine Godsey from Soco Events sent me these wonderful pictures of the wedding cake and cake cutting. We love getting pics from event planners and photographers, because they always look a million times better than our
pics :-D

The cake is covered in Ivory fondant with chocolate fondant swirls and a royal Icing border
painted gold. The cake also has fuchsia sugar orchids cascading down the tiers.

The beautiful couple cutting their cake!

The Battling Baron of Bethesda Chevy Chase High School where the couple met
Baron is made out of sugar.

A tribute to Puerto Rico with the flag and a coqui, the national animal of Puerto Rico.
Flag and Coqui are made of sugar and painted with edible food color.

A tribute cake to Louisette's grandparents, something they aspire to have 52 years of marriage.
Picture is an edible photo on a golden sugar frame.

A medical cake representing Louisette's career in medicine.
Stethoscope and bandaids made from fondant and painted with edible food color.

Football Cake representing Nevardo's love of the Giants. Football made from chocolate
with handpainted logo and New York Giants symbol made of sugar.

Flor de Cana a Nicaraguan Rum to celebrate Nevardo's home country.

A baby carriage cake representing their future together!

Congrats to the Happy couple and thanks so much for making Fluffy Thoughts part of your special day!

Inauguration Cupcakes!

2009-01-27T22:14:00.000-08:00

We can finally breath a sigh of relief, last week was one of the craziest weeks in DC not to mention over here at Fluffy Thoughts. We had over 400 cupcakes to make, each one topped with a handmade piece of chocolate made to resemble our 44th president.

The process is time consuming but the end result is worth it. We start by outlining the president's face with dark chocolate, then fill it with white chocolate that has been tinted red and blue. Most of the cupcakes we made were red velvet with cream cheese frosting, many had a filling of milk chocolate ganache. Some other popular flavors were chocolate cupcakes with Raspberry buttercream, and white cake filled with pineapple curd and topped with coconut buttercream.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!

2008-12-30T15:25:00.000-08:00

Here are some cupcakes that we made for a Deloitte Xmas Party! They were red velvet cupcakes filled with Milk Chocolate Ganache, topped off with Vahlrona crunchies and Vanilla Buttercream. Each cupcake has a holly and berry gumpaste piece on top. Happy Holidays from everyone at Fluffy Thoughts!!

The Head!!

2008-12-22T11:52:00.000-08:00

So we had a client come in and tell us that her husband has always wanted a bronze sculpture of his head. The price for that was a little outrageous, so she settled on his head made out of cake and painted bronze. The cake was about a 18 inches tall!

We started by carving the head out of two round cakes stacked on top of each other.

Then we covered the cake in fondant.

We added some facial features, such as the eyeballs, hair and ears.

Finally we painted the head Gold. The party guests loved it and took lots of
pics with the head! The head was a red velvet cake filled with chocolate
ganache and blackberry buttercream. Don't you love going to a party
where your friend's head ends up being dessert? :-D

Engagement Cake!!

2008-12-18T08:16:00.000-08:00

Last Week we made a cake for the engagement ceremony of Mona and Zulfi at the Belmont Country Club. The cake was a 3 tier round and square cake covered in buttercream with Blue buttercream dots going up the side of the cake. The dots got lighter as they went up the cake. The cake had a blue hydrangea cake topper made from sugar paste.

The cake is as good as it looks! It was filled with different flavors! The 10 inch cake was a white cake with Passionfruit and Blackberry Buttercream, 8 inch was a white cake with Orange and Lemon Buttercream, and the 6 inch cake was a white cake with Lemon and Raspberry Buttercream.

Here are some pics of the cake and the beautiful couple cutting the cake...More pictures from the ceremony are featured in the Saturday Post. Check them out at http://www.thesaturdaypost.com/pr_159_mzengagement.htm.

Congratulations to Mona and Zulfi!! Thanks for making Fluffy Thoughts part of your special day!

Bloomingdales and Dummy Cakes!!

2008-12-14T12:15:00.000-08:00

We had a great time at the Bloomingdales event yesterday!! Thanks so much to Joanne Owens at Bloomingdales Registry on 3rd (If you need a great Make-Up artist she is fantastic, Miss Alicia Keys thinks so ;-).

Black and white poppy cake.
Cake has a hand painted poppy detail with black and white sugar poppies on top.

Ribbons and Ranunculus cake.
Green and pink sugar ribbons adorn this beautiful springtime cake along with clusters of sugar Ranunculus.

Piping a chocolate branch onto a dummy cake.

Adding the floral detail.

These are the sugar cherry blossoms that we demonstrated to the crowd!

Clustering the flowers together using brown floral tape.

My awesome assistant Val handing out Cake! Everyone loved the cake samples, our passionfruit blackberry cake was the most popular!

Fluffy Thoughts First Blog!!

2008-12-11T18:31:00.000-08:00

We are super excited that our new website is finally up!! Thanks sooo much to Mike Lewis at http://www.mikostudio.com/. He did such an amazing job!!
This Saturday we are having a wedding cake demonstration and tasting at Bloomingdales in Chevy Chase, MD @the registry on 3rd! If you are getting married and want to check out some cool cakes then stop by. Some flavors to try are:
-White cake with passion fruit and blackberry buttercream
-Almond Cake with Raspberry buttercream and almond meringues
-Chocolate cake with hazelnut and chocolate buttercream and caramelized hazelnuts
-Red Velvet cake with milk chocolate ganache, vanilla buttercream and Vahlrona candy crunch

We are going to be demonstrating some sugar flowers, and piping on a cake. You can also check out Bloomingdales awesome bridal registry department while you are there!
We will be updating this blog weekly showing our latest cake creations and demonstrating different cake decorating techniques.

Thanks so much and stay tuned....

Peace...

Lara