I recently got to revisit the Golden Flower cake when a client requested the same cake for a 70th birthday celebration. I tweaked the design around a bit to include a third flower on the bottom tier. The client chose a neapolitan flavor combo of vanilla, chocolate and strawberry layers of cake. This cake’s design mode would also work well as a wedding cake.
While I don’t make a Buche de Noel every year, I have made it quite a number of times since I was 13. I like to try something different usually like a Paris Brest. For those of you not familiar with a Buche de Noel; it is french for Yule Log. This is a traditional Christmas chocolate jelly roll cake in France. read more »
Always a dilemma–the simply masculine birthday cake. I was told the color scheme was black, gold and silver. It is always a challenge to design a masculine cake when you have been stripped of all possibility of 3D ideas or themes. No falling on the usually crutches of bows, flowers, etc. My next thought was to use fabric patterns. My client wanted simple so I couldn’t get all crazy either, however, I still wanted the design to standout as unique. I finally decided to let the “30″ stand out as my focal point, which worked. This was a really good exercise for design. Not the greatest photo, but here it is, folks! We have now done a simple masculine birthday cake.
I wanted to share a couple of baby shower cakes I recently got to create, because it branched into an area I rarely tread–human figures. I, personally, find the thought of cakes shaped into people or having edible human figures on cakes a little off-putting. I know it’s a crazy psychologically thing, but it’s still disconcerting for me nonetheless. read more »
We always have to eventually come back to this subject again and again. For those of you who have never made macarons, it’s an obsession for those of us who are in the game. Even if you don’t particularly love to eat French macarons, there is an indescribable satisfaction to see these guys come out of the oven perfect and then sandwiched with some delectable filling… but mostly we do love to eat macarons. There is also a determination we all have to regain our macaron mojo if we haven’t made them in a while. It’s a disease. The simple (and yet horribly troublesome) recipe allows for virtually an endless number of combination of flavors… so here we are again with macarons on the brain. Also, I get orders. read more »
Being the perfectionist that I am, I am was not completely satisfied with the last recipe. I found that if flipped over too soon, some crumbs would stick to the pan. Furthermore, it worked horribly with oil-based cake recipes, which just seemed to cling to the cake and ended in some near or complete disasters. read more »
Here a more uncommon choice a client made for her daughter’s birthday cake. She asked that I make the cakes the letters of her name. We added all kinds of cute and whimsical items to make it as girly as possible. read more »
I frequently get asked if I can copy a cake someone has seen on online. Sometimes clients feel as though the cake they saw was the perfect cake. However, at Brooklyn Cake, our goal is always to create unique and original designs for our clients. When it comes to copying, I usually encourage clients to change the color scheme, flowers, decorations, number of tiers, etc… vary it. I recently had a client who wanted a replica. read more »
I get inquiries now and then for birthday cakes or baby shower cakes for twins. I wanted to share these cakes because my client wanted to stick to the theme of mini for her children’s birthday. read more »
