Chevron Wedding Cake

It's wedding season!  Wedding season seems to be a year round' event now, but spring always brings out the brides.  I love going to weddings just to check out the cakes.  Jeff hates weddings.  I always drag him along and point out everything I would have done differently or blab on and on about how beautiful the cake was  and brainstorm how they did it.  I like a challenge and trying new techniques and this next cake was just that!

When my friend Jessie text me examples of cakes for her sister's upcoming wedding, I immediately fell in love with the chevron cake. The original concept is by one of my favorite cake designers  Erica O'brien Cake Design.  We changed the colors a bit and the flower arrangement but all in all it's pretty close.  The sugar flowers are all handmade, talk about time consuming!  I can't take credit for all of the flowers, I had some help from a talented lady in Michigan, Sandy.  She has been making sugar flowers for years and can make the most beautiful, realistic flowers I have ever seen.  The top and bottom tier are white almond cake with cookies and cream filling and the middle tier is chocolate fudge with cookies and cream filling.  She also ordered two coordinating sheet cakes which I decorated with the same chevron print but forgot to take pics!  This is by far one of my favorite cakes I have made, it's so modern and fun!

Pink Floyd

For my brother in law's big 30th birthday I knew I had to come up with something cool!  I was stuck between Family Guy and Pink Floyd.  He loves "grown up" cartoons but is also an awesome guitar player and huge fan of Pink Floyd, ultimately I chose to represent his talents.

Any Pink Floyd fan would understand the design for this cake.  I tried to incorporate a couple different album covers into the cake.  The white brick detailing mimics their well known album "The Wall"  and the white light into the pyramid represents the iconic album "Dark Side of the Moon".  The famous Pink Floyd pig actually has a pretty cool back story.  In 1976 they had planned to fly the forty-foot helium filled pig over a coal-fired power station in London for a photo shoot.  A strong wind broke the pig free and it disappeared.  It was seen after by airline pilots 30,000 feet in the air!  Flights were cancelled because the pig flew through the path of an aircraft over the English channel.  Later that night it finally landed near a small farm.  The incident received massive amounts of attention and ever since they have used the flying pigs during concerts, floating them above fans, displaying political rants.  The pig is my favorite part!  I sculpted it out of rice cereal treats, covered it in fondant and hand painted all the details.

I actually made cupcakes to go along with the cake, German Chocolate, Key Lime and Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough.  The lighting wasn't great so I didn't get very good pics.  Each cupcake was topped with a fondant guitar pick.  Turning 30 is a big milestone around here and we celebrated it right with family, friends, pizza, pool and LOTS of beer!

I am so excited to finally have a blog to show you all my latest cakes and adventures! Now that my little guy is more predictable (if that's possible) I am ready to start caking and baking again.  I have LOTS of cakes I haven't posted yet so stay tuned for more.  Every now and then I plan on posting a tutorial as well.  Follow by email to get each new post sent to your inbox.  Thank you so much for all your interest, I love to read your comments!

This cake was made for an old friend, Whitney.  We were buddies in Elementary school and lost touch when I moved to Mountain Green.  We reconnected through Facebook a few years ago and she contacted me when she was planning her mothers wedding.  We went over her budget, theme and colors and came up with a beautiful and unique design.  She chose 3 delicious cupcake flavors:  Chocolate Fudge, Vanilla Bean and Key Lime.  I loved the end result and was grateful for the opportunity to see Whitney and her family all grown up!  Thank you.

Soon I will be up and running,but for now check out my cakes page and contact me at bakedblissut@gmail.com with any questions. Thanks!