CMNY Cakes

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 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

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.

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.