October 30th, 2008
rsokhi
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!”
October 26th, 2008
rsokhi
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.
October 11th, 2008
rsokhi
That’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.