CMNY Cakes

Fresh out of the oven: CMNY Cafe!

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We would like to thank everyone that was a part of this. As some of you may have noticed, the blogs have been a little quite lately. Well, not only are we super swamped making many of your cakes, we’ve been focusing on the next logical progression of our business–a cafe! Adjacent to our shop location, there has always been a cafe–first called Amazon Cafe and then Perk Place Cafe. Now it’s CMNY Cafe!

The cafe will showcase the culinary and baking talent of our staff. While that may sound vague, the menu is still in the works!  Of course, we will HAVE to have a whole host of desserts, including something I’m enjoying right now–our Decadent Chocolate Cake! No loungy cafe is complete without a complete list of coffees, teas, capaccinos, and espressos. Gelati (plural for Gelato in case you’re wondering) will also be served, as will various sandwiches and paninis.

We’ll be opening the cafe July 1, 2009!

Note that nothing about our specialty cakes will be changing. Both the specialty cakes side and the cafe are located at:

2945 Hempstead Tpke.
Levittown, New York
(between Bally Total Fitness and Petco)

Last Cake Standing: Elopement

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So are we the only ones loving the new Food Network show “Challenge: Last Cake Standing”?? It’s great! The show is almost identical to the traditional FoodTV Challenge format, except that it melds it with the reality show format–complete with the ability to vote one another off–as in last week’s episode. The series started out with Elisa Strauss, Bronwen Weber, Mary Maher, Courtney something (can’t remember her last name–that’s terrible especially since 1. I should know it and 2. I could easily google it), James Roselle, and Michelle Bommarito–all great cake artists…and Food Network Challenge veterans. Jealous? Of course not! Oh…and by the way, definitely spoiler alert if you haven’t already seen the latest episode but intend to.

Wow…I was definitely yelling at the TV…”Mary no! Bad idea to get out of the limo so early!”. The cake artists were put in a limo to find out what the bride and groom wanted as their wedding cake–for THAT evening–and the cake artists decided when they felt they had enough info. The way I saw it, staying in the limo an extra ten minutes or whatever is not gonna just kill your schedule, so at least find out what the client wants before you leave! And at the end, I guess I was right because Elissa Strauss, who jumped out of the limo second, ended up being eliminated (albeit partially for not meeting the height-requirement–don’t get me started about the height-requirement–sheesh).

I’ve gotta say…I was definitely bummed to see Elisa go… she does some incredible work and comes off incredibly sweet. But then again…Bronwen is great too! So how do you choose? Well…I guess basically the way to choose is: if you don’t perform well today, you can easily be gone by the end of it.

Great show…can’t wait for next week’s…

Congratulations Barack Obama

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While it is not our intention to endorse one candidate over another, I would like to congratulate Barack Obama on a gracious and historic victory.

Island Harvest Taste of the Harvest Celebration

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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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