Strawberry Short Cake

When Felicita's mom asked me to make this birthday cake for my long time friend, I was so excited to be making her cake.  The challenge is that it had to be gluten free.  While it look me a bit to get the recipe just right (2 cakes were involved) she loved the final product with strawberries and cream filling.
Cake is gluten free yellow cake with whipped cream and strawberry filling, buttercream frosting, chocolate hand dipped strawberries and chocolate letters.

Jonas Brothers Cake

Alexandra is my little sister, and in honor of her 12th birthday we threw a surprise party for her, and boy was she surprised.  Hiding a cake this size from your sister who's house you were using to bake and decorate this cake is no easy task.  Luckily, the surprise went on without a hitch and everyone was able to enjoy the Jonas Brothers in cake form.
Cake is marble with buttercream frosting and buttercream fondant.

Give a Gift!

This was my first cake with fondant.  It's what we learned to make in the second Wilton Cakes course.  If you'd like to learn how to decorate cakes, those courses are great for any beginner.  You will probably look at this cake or others and wonder how you'll do it, but it is easier than it looks.  Give the gift of cake and it will be a delicious memory.
This cake is chocolate with buttercream icing and buttercream fondant.

Sunflower Surprise

When I was told it was our neighbor's birthday, I knew I had to make her a cake.  But what to make?  I decided that everyone loves a sunflower and so this idea was born.  I photographed the process step by step, to show how the cake was filled with chocolate ganache.  The recipe was yellow cake with the ganache filling, buttercream frosting and the sunflowers have chocolate ganache centers.
Terry was surprised and that's a good thing!

Winter Wonderland

This was my first cake order.  It was for a little girl's winter wonderland first birthday.  The colors for the party were ice blue, white, and silver.  Although I was intimidated at first, I'm so happy with the finished product.

I met with the mother and grandmother of the birthday girl for a cake tasting and boy was I nervous.  It was a big undertaking just to do the cake tasting.  I baked a couple dozen cupcakes in different flavors and filled them with an array of fillings.  Then I frosted them with different icings.  Finally we had their selection of vanilla cake with butterscotch frosting.

I worked on this cake, little by little, over the course of three days.  The fondant snow flakes and chocolate snowflake topper were made a couple days in advance.  All the baking was done the day before, and decorations and final touches were completed the day of.

Once this cake was delivered and I saw the excited faces, I was able to let out a sigh of relief.  The first order was stressful, but I think it was worth it!

Welcome!

Welcome to my blog, where I plan to chronicle some of my baking exploits, customer orders, and offer tips and tricks for you to try at home.  You can find out more about me by checking out my profile and of course I'm available via email philadelphiacakes [at] gmail [dot] com.

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