I've Got Papers

In my eternal quest to learn EVERYTHING and become a full fledged "celebration specialist" I can now officially add CERTIFIED WEDDING/EVENT planner to my roster of awesomeness! I am soooo excited. Parties and food have always been best friends in my family growing up so it only seemed natural when people would ask me to help plan stuff for them (and I think being kinda OCD made me good at it). My love of throwing (and attending!) parties is actually what spawned my dessert company. Now as a graduate of The Sheffield School I am officially a planner. I can't wait to offer this new service to my clients.

Mardi Gras in Jersey

Time for some brutal honesty (as if that's anything new):

THIS POST HAS NO PURPOSE OTHER THAN I FELT LIKE PUTTING UP A PHOTO!

You may now return to your regularly scheduled browsing.....

Can you ever have too much CAKE?

Ace of Cakes, Cake Boss, Amazing Wedding Cakes, The Next Great Baker, The Ultimate Cake Off, Fabulous Cakes, Cupcake Wars, DC Cupcakes......

It seems like everyone and their mother has a cake show on TV or an undercover black market cake shop on the internet. Not to mention the billions of people that suddenly decided to get in on the hype and pick up a spatula. But is oversaturation cutting the quality? Better yet, is it killing the originality that made all of these sugar sculptures so friggin' SICK in the first place?

I think so.

Why come up with an original design or learn a new technique when all you have to do is Google "________ cake" and you have a thousand photos of cakes you can copy? My work has been cake jacked* three times already in the 2 years we've been officially open!!! What happened to the concept of ORIGINALITY and CUSTOM work?

Don't take this as knocking the people that take the time to be creative and dare to push limits; to be different. That's what I love most about the concept of food art, creating the unexpected. This isn't about you. This is about questioning the fact that if anyone can slap some icing on something anykindaway or cake jack someone else's hard work then what's the point. And don't get me started on subquality baking in the first place...

Yes, I am venting but sometimes there is such thing as too much of a good thing.

*In case you had no clue what I was talking about lol.
CAKE JACK: To steal cake photos, concepts or designs from another artist and claim them as your own original work.


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It's Official! CAKEDDS.com is up!

One step closer to awesome.....

We took the free route. We did the Facebook page and obviously we did the blog. Now the official CAKE! Dessert Design Studio website is alive and kicking.

Here you'll get a little taste of the personalities behind the company as well as a peek at some of our work.

On a completely unbiased note, I find the site quite sexy!

Stop in, have a look around, peruse some contraband and enjoy the deliciousness that is CAKE!

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A Penny For Your Thoughts

Stressed spelled backwards is
D E S S E R T S.... Think on that one.

It's definitely a love/hate relationship.

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Bronwen Webber Comes to NYC!!

Have I told you how much I LOVE Meetup? Well the New York Cake Decorators gave me two more reasons this past Sunday when they brought Bronwen Webber and her husband Francois Long all the way from their shop Frosted Art in Dallas, TX for a full day workshop.


The topic of this 8 HOUR extravaganza was airbrushing and cake carving and who better to learn from than two of the best doing it? Exactly....

After some extensive discussion and practice on the art of airbrushing we started carving our cakes into Geishas. Yes, I said it CARVING A CAKE INTO A GEISHA!!!! C'mon how difficult could it be? (Insert dripping sarcasm here). As if we didn't already know, this is where the class discovered just how SICK this woman is when it comes to caking. She was able to do hers in like 30 minutes while the rest of us cried, threw temper tantrums or just stood there dumbfounded. I'm pretty sure I performed some strange combination of the three.

We were all so into our cakes that the majority of us ran out of time before we could finish. Bronwen's was GORGEOUS of course. Mine, not so much.

To me it ended up looking more like an angry samurai than a demure Geisha. (Remember that whole PRACTICE thing I talked about earlier? Yea, gotta do that.) It's a work in progress....



At the end of it all it was well worth fighting the ridiculous NYC traffic (stupid street fair) and the heat and parking in a pile of glass so I didn't have to spend more money for a garage (in Jersey we have these things called parking lots and they're FREE. Somebody wanna break the news to New York?) to learn from these great artists. And yes, I'd do it all over again if they decided to come back hint, hint...


Obviously this was pre meltdown lol. Ok, it was more like a very frustrated drip.


Anyway, follow Bronwen on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/pages/FROSTED-ART-BAKERY-STUDIO/164192857668?ref=ts&v=wall

Or visit her website at http://www.frostedart.com/


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CAKE! Loves the Kids

On Friday June 4th Julius Bellamy, co-owner of CAKE!DDS spoke to 2nd graders from Lincoln Elementary School for their annual career day. According to the teachers the purpose of career day is to give the students a chance to familiarize themselves with various career and begin to think about what they would want their ideal career to be in the future.

Mr Bellamy spoke about the art of cake baking, design, and the fun of being your own boss. The kids were more than ready for him with questions ranging from food allergies to what's the craziest cakes to his marital status. The presentation finished up with a mini slideshow of some of CAKE!s favorite creations and cookie samples for everyone.

Rumor has it the kids voted it as their favorite presentation!