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.