HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!

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!!

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!!

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!!

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!!

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