Art Deco Cake - Citizen Hotel

I have the most creative and amazing clients! Valerie and Alex came to me with their beautiful, dramatic wedding at the Citizen Hotel. I was already excited. This couple was absolutely charming, both Italian and both had a very clear picture of what they wanted. After we worked out the flavors of their cake (the most important part!) we took a little break while they picked out their invitations.

Here is their invite, beautiful, simple, and PERFECT for the Citizen!

Now it was my job to turn their invite into a sketch. They decided to make their colors black and cream, so it was pretty easy to translate the colors. Here is the sketch...



Finally, it was wedding day! I oh so carefully transferred the pattern to the cake, and then finished the little details on-site. This was a 3 chef coat day! Boy that black buttercream was sure a challenge, but the finished product... GET OUT OF TOWN! No cake topper, just the image, simple, classic, beautiful... and exactly what Valerie and Alex wanted.

Side note: I got the nicest call from Valerie a couple of days after the wedding. Poor kid only got her little piece of cake that Alex fed her... I've already got her on the books for the same cake for their First Anniversary!

Cake flavors... I almost forgot! Traditional carrot cake with two layers of cinnamon buttercream (YUM!) and one layer of traditional American cream cheese buttercream and Vanilla bean buttercake with two layers of espresso buttercream and one layer of marsala mascarpone mousse... YUM! Yum!
A HUGE thanks goes out to Beth Baugher of True Love Photo... she had several weddings to process ahead of this one, but she still dug out this picture for me... LOVE that woman!

Rehearsal Dinner - Dessert Bar

It was another busy weekend. Thursday rehearsal dinner dessert bar at the Citizen Hotel downtown, sculpted shoe cake on Friday, and INSANE detail wedding cake at the Sutter Club.

Yesterday was also family picture day... Mom and Dad with the boys, Mike and I, and our goddaughter's three month pictures. Those pictures will come soon, but you'll just have to wait!

For now I only have pictures from Thursday, but I promise more to come from the other events!

Let me begin by saying that I like to think I play well with others, well, a girl has to draw a line SOMEWHERE... I do not EVER again want to share my dessert table with the coffee station. It looks, well, not to put too fine of a point on it... LIKE CRAP! Of course the desserts were still tasty and my couple did like them, it just wasn't the look I was going for. Dang.

Special thanks go out to Brandy Sommer Photography for coming at a moments notice to take pictures! I'll also be getting pictures from Allison Stahl Photography, but we'll have to be patient on those.

The close ups are so much more picturesque!

Chocolate Eclairs... with the cutsie white chocolate hearts!

Ubiquitous vanilla bean creme brulee... how can you argue when it's so good and sooo popular!??

Fresh fruit tart... all berries this time... Aren't those golden raspberries to DIE for???

If you haven't figured it out by this point, I ADORE gold... leaf, dust, flecks... all of it. I'm a glitter girl, I can't help it. Everything in my nature screams MORE, MORE, MORE! I have to intentionally put my instincts in check some times!

Last but not least are these yummy triffles. This one is similar to the ones I did last weekend for the bridal shower, except that they have raspberries inside! White Chocolate Mousse, Passionfruit Curd, Red Raspberries and White Chocolate shavings all layered together with vanilla bean butter cake. So many textures and flavors, and so so yummy!