Looking For Lucky #500

On our way to 500 likes! To sweeten the pot our 500th "liker" ( is that even a word lol?) will receive their choice of goodies from CAKE!

Tutorials

While CAKE! is under construction I've been appeasing my creative bug with knitting and crochet projects. I'm thinking of posting some cake/dessert, event and craft tutorials. My question is where do I start. Any suggestions?

Under Construction

Things around the studio have slowed down considerably now that we're going through a massive overhaul. Not only are we renovating and updating our kitchen, but we're creating an imaginative show space for our event planning consultations and dessert events. Along with creating a new space CAKE! will be getting a bit of a makeover itself. How exciting! Here's some photos of the work in progress.

Welcome Hubert Bertram!

Here is the newest arrival over at CakeDDS. This baby shower cake came out so cute we decided to name him lol.

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.


Stay Cakin'