Philadelphia Weddings 2011 Spring/Summer

Next time you are at a local magazine stand, be sure to pick up a Philadelphia Wedding Magazine!!!!

Cakes by Suzy was honored to be asked to do a second cake for the magazine (the first was fall/winter 2010). This issue, the theme was to match certain china patterns. My cake was the first cake in the issue! Check mine out as well as the other gorgeous designs in the center section. Please excuse the watermark on the picture, it was my amateur freebie way of converting the .pdf to a .jpg..... obviously I need to find a new way!!!!

Each small square of fondant was hand cut and placed in the basketweave pattern individually.....

Brides, be sure to book a tasting with me soon for your 2011/2012 wedding dates!!!!!

2010...out like an....elephant?

In light of the awesome blizzard the east coast got yesterday, I'd say 2010 is going out like a lion!!!! But MY last cake went out like....well....and elephant and a gorilla. :-)

This cake was done to fulfill a charity certificate I had donated last year, that expired the end of this year. The customer had a brother arriving home from Rwanda, and decided to celebrate with a custom Rwandan-themed cake, with red velvet cake and cream cheese filling:

Both figures were completely handmade out of white gumpaste, and then hand tinted with dry colored dusts and then airbrushing.

And...on to 2011!!! I hope you all are staying warm and dry...that you had a very Merry Christmas...and that you will have a VERY happy New Year!!!!! And check back the weekend of January 8th because the first cake of the year will definitely come IN like a lion....big project!

Take care, everyone!

I'm Back!!!!

Well, the past two weeks have been pretty crazy! But I'll spare you.....

This weekend I'm uploading a cake from last weekend, as well as two projects from this weekend.

This Alice in Wonderland cake was actually for a Thanksgiving birthday party, and was picked up the day before. The figurines are mostly toys (except the caterpillar/mushroom, and card guys, which are gumpaste) but everything else is edible (except the wire in the tree):

I totally had "We're painting the roses red" stuck in my head for a whole day and a half with that cake!!!!

The next was a project that I ended up doing for a wedding planner I know....they were going to order an entire cake from me but due to some changes in plans, someone else had already ordered the cake...but they still wanted me to do the topper. They sent me a photo of a similar topper made from clothespins for a wedding...but they wanted it done in gumpaste, and for an "Up" themed baby shower. So this is what I came up with, for this little couple, a soon-to-come baby, and their little white dog:

Lastly....an "Atlantis" themed cake (not Disney, but just the mythological city itself). This theme was just infinite...I could have worked on this for a MONTH if I had the time. There were so many details that could have gone into this but staying with time and budget (and room on the board!), this is what I ended up with:

Due to space restraints (the actual cake only serves about 20-25) I was not able to make a large temple to the scale of the people....but I put a smaller one there to represent the temple and other hints of things that would have been in and around the city.

I hope you are all having a GREAT December so far!!!!