Archive for October, 2008

Island Harvest Taste of the Harvest Celebration

Thursday, October 30th, 2008 by admin

Long Island Harvest Bulldog

Well yesterday was the 15th annual Island Harvest “Taste of the Harvest Celebration” at Crest Hollow Country Club, Woodbury, New York. It was great, it was a fund-raiser to raise money for the hungry on Long Island. While turn-out was a little low (we surmised it was because of the economy), there were some interesting guests. I know the Rechler family was there, one half of the God Squad (actually they both might have been there) and even Produce Pete (never saw him, although I didn’t look that hard). And do people listen to Jim Douglas and Kim Berk on KJOY? I don’t know, but they were there, and they auctioned off some gifts for charity.

All in all, it was fun event that was for a noble cause. Turn out was fine all things considered, and some of the gifts auctioned off were interesting, such as tickets to the new Citi Field and even a Bill Clinton’s signed necktie.

And as promised, check out our Yale Bulldog redux! We decided on modelling chocolate. We’ll get a cleaned up image up soon and will link to it. By the way, we thought it would be cute if the guy was leaning on a cake instead of the “Y”. It’s like he’s saying, “you know what, I’m so rock-solid, I can even lean on this cake!”

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WOW… It’s a World of Warcraft cake!

Sunday, October 26th, 2008 by admin

Sculpted Cakes - World of Warcraft Bride and Groom Check out this cake. It was definitely a challenge but I think it came out great. The figures were made with modeling chocolate. And mind you this was made on a 90 degree August day! It was definitely a warm day, and the ride over to the New York Botanical Gardens, where the wedding was held, was challenge #2 for this cake. The cake was ordered by a bride who’s husband-to-be was a big World of Warcraft (WOW) fan. It was their second weddings so they decided to have a little fun with their choice of cake. Honestly, I don’t remember the WOW characters’ names. Come to think of it, I don’t remember if I ever knew them! Anyway, they were fun to make, and I hope the couple enjoyed their World of Warcraft groom’s cake.

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Yale Bulldog Mascot

Monday, October 13th, 2008 by admin


This cake was made for a dear friend of the family. It was a graduation cake for their daughter who started at Yale University this September. What can we say other than Congratulations!

We thought you guys might enjoy a look into how exactly something like this was done. How can that be made out of cake?? Well, with a heck of a good support system. We used a combination of PVC piping and MDF. I believe half of the budget was spent on getting the armature correct because if you don’t get it right in the beginning, you’ll never be able to fix it. And not did the cake have to stand, it also had to withstand the car-ride from our store in Levittown to Muttontown, Long Island. Let me tell you I certainly wasn’t as confident as the bulldog looked, but the cake’s structure was definitely strong, and I guess I didn’t have anything to worry about.

We loved the cake so much that we decided to recreate the as a display cake to keep in our store. We also have an upcoming fundraiser event for the Long Island Harvest on October 28th, so we thought we’d love it if Yale Mascot #2 could be done by then. We’ll probably cover the cake in modelling chocolate this time instead of buttercream, but I’m not sure yet. They both have their pros and cons, but modelling chocolate by far has the most potential. Now that I think about it, we haven’t really ruled out fondant for the cake yet either so… who knows! Check out the blog as we should have pics of the new version up within a week or two.

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The site’s up!

Saturday, October 11th, 2008 by admin

cakesbymona.comThat’s right…the site’s up! We still have the old site up at cakesbymona.com, so that will still be the main site for the next couple of months or so. Once we have all the content we’d like on here, we’ll take the plunge and make cmnycakes.com our official website. Look for that to happen around January 1, 2009 Q4 2008 *edited 11/1/2008*. Until then, be sure to stop by anyway as we will be adding a ton of cake demonstrations, tips and advice, as well as random posts about our cakes as they happen.

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