Super Bowl iVillage Feature

I was contacted a couple of days ago by iVillage about featuring one of my stadium cakes for an edible football stadium article they were running.  Of course, I said "Yes"!  It wasn't until the feature went love that I realized I was featured right next to Bakerella!  What an honor!

It got me thinking about all the football cakes we have made in the past, and even though we aren't "football people", we always have a great time making them.  In fact, I usually only watch the half-time show during the Super Bowl, if we even watch that.  Chaddy and I are much more at home watching The Puppy Bowl!

So without further ado, here's some of the more awesome football cakes we have made in the past.  Just think of it as a clip show of one of your favorite TV shows!  Just click on the caption if you want to see the original post!

 

 

 

UGA Sanford Stadium Groom's Cake

UT's Neyland Stadium

Alabama's Bryant Denny Stadium

University of Auburn Football Helmet

Have a great weekend!

Golden Fork Award - Best Bakery in Dalton!

A couple of weeks ago I received a call from the fine folks at Dalton Magazine and they informed me that we had been voted the "Best Bakery in Dalton" by the readers of Dalton and Whitfield County.

I remember reading about it several months ago and I even put the link on Facebook and asked my fans to vote for us but I had all but forgotten about it until they called. 

We appreciate all the comments and compliments we get about the looks and the taste of our cake, but for our customers to vote us all the way to the top during this inaugural contest really means the world to us.

If you would like to read the issue, you can click here to see an online version.  Even though the issue is all food-related, I don't think any of the Golden Fork winners were featured.  Another bakery in Dalton got a nice article in this issue, so don't confuse her with me!

I know the blog has been a little light on cakes recently, but this has been a low-volume time for the bakery and I really don't think you want to hear about my year-end paperwork, organization, and tax preparation, right?  Well, things are picking back up and I'll have some new cakes to show you next week - PROMISE!

Cricut Cake is on the way!

Well, Wednesday was the big release of the new Cricut Cake on HSN and since I have been salivating over this thing since I first saw it a couple of months ago, I went ahead and bit the bullet and purchased one.

I have been watching YouTube videos from some of the folks that had advanced access to the machine and it looks very impressive and it looks like it could really cut a lot of labor time off of certain types of wedding cakes.  Also, I want my bakery to be known as staying on the leading ledge of technology and offer my customers the very best (that's what I told my husband.... shhhh)!

I promise to give you guys a proper rundown and evaluation as soon as I get it in and get it unpacked.  Maybe even a tutorial if you're interested?

UPDATE: My Cricut Cake arrived on Tuesday (4/20), so look forward to my thoughts on it real soon (maybe Tuesday).  So far, I LOVE it!

Chattanooga City Scope Magazine

A couple of months ago I got a call from the nice folks at Chattanooga City Scope magazine.  They were putting together a wedding issue and wanted to do an article on this season's trends in wedding cakes.  After a short interview they asked if I would send in some hi-res pictures that were representative of those trends.  Chad and I immediately went through all our wedding cakes and sent them more pictures than they could ever use.

Several days later I got a call that really made my day.  It was City Scope magazine and they were asking if several of my cakes were buttercream or fondant.  They thought it was buttercream, but they were so smooth they thought it could be fondant.  Now you all know that I go the extra mile to make my buttercream smooth as silk so I was especially glad that their staff noticed and felt the need to confirm.

So over the weekend I get a copy of the magazine in the mail and they did feature one of my cakes.  They also post their issues online, so if you would like to read the article, just click here.

Thanks for stopping by!

DeLorean Cake Featured on GreatWhiteSnark!

Last week, we had the great honor of having one of our cakes featured on another blog, GreatWhiteSnark.com!  If you're not familiar GreatWhiteSnark, they feature cool things that are "geeky" in nature (Star Wars, Star Trek, etc.).  A while back, we blogged about the DeLorean cake we did for our friends wedding.  Chad submitted it to GreatWhiteSnark and they said they would love to share it with their readers.

Click here to see their blog post, but I wanted to share a little more with my readers.  I dug through the Cup a Dee Cake Archives and found a few pictures of the DeLorean cake "in progress".  Without further ado, here are some pictures you won't find on GWS, they are a Cup a Dee Cakes exclusive!!

 

At this point the DeLorean has been carved and coated in buttercream, with modeling chocolate on the hood, top, and back.

Here's the car after it had been covered in fondant and most of the car's lines scored into the cake.

And this is the DeLorean in it's final stages.  At this point,  the windows have been exposed, it has been airbrushed silver, and placed on the cake board.  There is a small styrofoam riser that lifts the car off the cake board to accommodate the wheels (which are still MIA in this picture).

Well, that's it for now.  Stay tuned... you never know where you'll see our cakes turn up next!

My Happy 101 Award

Several days ago I received notification that I received a blog award from Sweet Elegance Cakes and Pink Little Cake. I have been super busy with a bridal show this past week, but I finally got a chance to sit down and figure out how to take care of my award's responsibilities.

* The rules of the award are:

1) Copy the award image into a post.

2) List 10 things that make you happy.

3) Tag 10 bloggers who brighten your day.

4) Put in a link to their blogs.

5) Notify the award receivers.

6) Recipients to link back to the sender's blog.

* Here are 10 things that make me happy:

1. My Husband

2. My Kitties

3. My Family

4. Watching Birds

5. Making Cakes

6. Making my customers happy

7. Working in my yard/garden

8. Cooking for my family

9. Going on Cruises

10. Making my house pretty

* 10 Blogs that ALWAYS Brighten my day!!

1. Cake Wrecks

2. Sweet Things

3. Pink Little Cake

4. Sweet Elegance

5. Crazy Cake Company

6. Cake Fixation

7. Fresh Local and Best

8. My Creative Way

9. Rafael's Cakes (this guy's only 16!)

10. Bakerella
 

Thanks so much for reading and for bestowing this award to my little blog! Pop back in on Tuesday for more cake action!

Wedding Filmed By TLC!

Faithful readers of my blog will surely remember that just last week I mentioned that one of my weddings was being filmed by TLC's Say Yes to the Dress. I made the delivery on Saturday and everything went off without a hitch, but I am sad to report that I did not get to meet any of the TLC staff or see any of their crew. As usual, everyone's off getting married while we were setting up the cakes! I did hear back from a friend of mine that attended. She said that the cakes were filmed and pictures were taken. I usually only hope my cakes don't end up on the floor; now I have to worry about them ending up on the cutting room floor! TLC told my "insider" that the episode should air in late September to early October. I will let you know more when I find out!

My bride in this wedding was in a wheelchair and thus wanted to make sure the cake did NOT tower over her, so we opted to do a small 8" cake on each table and then a smaller bride's and groom's cake as the main centerpiece. It was held in the ballroom at the beautiful Sheraton Read House in Chattanooga, TN.

The groom was a big LSU fan, so we recreated the LSU Eye of the Tiger Fleur de Lis just for him. We cut the shapes of the fondant and pieced them back together like it was a big cake jigsaw puzzle. It was very difficult to do, and sometime around midnight we began to kick ourselves for going that route, but when it was finished we were glad we went the extra mile.

I must admit that with a total of 31 cakes to deliver and setup that it was definitely the most complicated setup I have had to date. It took us 2 hours to get everything setup and JUST right. Even logistically getting all those cakes there (in one piece) was a feat.