CMNY Cakes

We were contacted by a PR agent who came asking for a cake for his client. We of course wondered, who could it be? It turned out to be for Vashtie Kola’s birthday party extravaganza to be held at the Santos nightclub in Manhattan. I was floored because I knew her as the Downtown’s Sweetheart, video music director/New York City fashion icon. Her agent walked in with an Air Jordan sneaker and asked us to recreate it in cake. Check out how it came out:

And here’s a shot with Vashtie and some of her friends in front of it:

You can also check out Vashtie’s website for more on her and her birthday celebrations.

Check out our latest Star Wars cake! It’s Yoda! A lady from the City contacted us about a birthday cake for her son and I guess he was a big fan of Yoda and Star Wars. When we dropped off the cake, we found that the birthday was being held at a school, and we were greeted by a Stormtrooper who directed the way. It turned out that all the kids were dressed up as Star Wars characters…how cool!

OK, so we haven’t posted much in the last couple months…but it’s been really busy…I’m sorry! Anyway, we thought we’d get back on track with a montage of cakes, all with sports as the center-theme, especially since baseball season is back. These are great ideas for birthday cakes…boys and girls alike. Now of course, you might be muttering to yourself as you look below at all the New York franchises…but hey…we’re in New York after all! And that said, we do get many cakes for teams all around the country…so don’t worry. And we thought we’d mix up the sports a bit too, so we even have some golf and snowboarding. Enjoy!

So this woman contacted us looking for a cake for her boyfriend. She booked a trip to Las Vegas for his birthday…and even rented him a Lamborghini–all of this a surprise! So what could she give him as a birthday cake? Why a Lamborghini made out of cake in front of the Las Vegas Marquis sign of course.

We’ve had such a busy month with the launching of the new website and of course, the actual cakes that we make(!), that we haven’t had much time to post most of the pics of cakes. Looking back, this Louis Vuitton handbag was made for the customer’s 23rd birthday three weeks ago. She knew exactly what she wanted, and called us periodically to ensure that we knew it! Here is how her birthday cake came out:

I guess they liked how it came out (besides their reaction when they came to pick it up), because her grandmother ordered another cake, which is to be picked up today. It’s another Louis Vuitton handbag cake, but this time, in white with colored LV symbols. We’ll take a snap and post as soon as it’s done.

Besides the Batmobile birthday cake we put together this week, here were some of the highlights of the rest of the cakes our staff put together:

This cake was a first birthday cake for dear Ava, and was actually a vegan cake. We specialize in all sorts of specialty cake flavors and fillings, most notably vegan, organic, eggless and low-sugar or sugar-free. This ensures that our cakes are accessible to all your guests, and that the cake you order can be as healthy as it can be!

The next cake for the International Federation of Accountants. The thought the cake came out really cute!

We received a request for a Batmobile cake and were thrilled to learn that the client wanted a cake of the latest one–the Tumbler.

That was, until we got a closer look at what exactly the Tumbler looks like! Of course we love a challenge, and we realized this was not going to be an ordinary car cake. We settled on a design that incorporated both fondant and gum-paste to recreate the numerous panels of armor. We also decided that since this was a birthday cake for a five-year old, we would wrap the car in yellow/orange windows. An all black cake comes out pretty boring anyway, and a lot of the detail tends to disappear.

So how did we do?? We sure love the result!

We took some action shots of the work. The first image below shows how we started–with essentially sheet cakes that are eventually carved into the shape that’s needed, as you can see in the second image. The third image shows how we cover the final shape with fondant. There was a lot more work involved, of course!

The client Vanessa wrote a lovely blog-post about the cake so we thought we’d link to her:

http://paperchick.blogspot.com/2008/12/cakes-by-mona.html

Here’s a shot of the Minnie Mouse birthday cake we created today. Happy birthday!

Boy this was a busy Thanksgiving weekend for cakes! Cakes due in the middle of the week is never easy, and when you get a number of them due that way, it definitely challenges the staff. There’s no time to recuperate from the previous weekend, and you know you still have to be on time for the cakes due the upcoming weekend as well!

This time is was no different, except there were three cakes due in the middle of the week, and not exactly the easiest ones possible. Below was a surprise birthday cake for an individual that owned a trucking company. What’s more fitting than a cake of their newest purchase - a tractor trailer! We definitely wanted the cake to give that heavy feel of a tractor trailor to the viewer, with the big wheels and monstrous–everything. Proportions were critical. Not only that, 18-wheelers with the trailor behind make for really long and narrow cakes. An 18-inch long cake would mean the cab width would be just 2-inches; exactly the behemoth we wanted the cake to come off. We ended up going with a length of around 3 feet.

The next cake was also due on Thanksgiving. The customer wanted to present a bouquet of flowers to her mom at the family dinner that night. Why not make it out of cake?? (Note: this was the second basket of sugar flowers in a month!)

Sigh…now to finish the cakes due this weekend!

Boy it was a busy Saturday morning! I don’t know why it was, but almost all our cakes were due by about 12pm yesterday. Friday was I guess too early to party and Sunday too late perhaps. We’re proud of all the cakes this week, but we thought we’d share a few with you.

Mona and I just love how the flowers came out. They were all hand-sculpted sugar flowers (made with gum paste). The delivery was a bit tricky as it was very impractical to arrange the flowers on-site. The delivery to Massapequa, Long Island wasn’t too bad though.

This next specialty cake was for a sweet-sixteen at this fascinating place in New York City called “Pressure”. It’s a hippified bowling alley in downtown Manhattan.

This was a surprise groom’s cake for both the groom AND the bride! The groom own’s a 1968 Dodge Charger R/T and his coworkers thought a cake of his beloved car would be a great idea.

This was a gorgeous cake for Cassandra. The requirements were to come up with a design with bright orange, green, lavender and a BRIGHT pink bow.