A Vintage Winter Wedding

With Christmas around the corner, the decor for this wedding couldn’t have been more appropriate.  Beautiful old books with lace and gold accents adorned the room.  The florals consisted of winter white ranunculus, roses, pine needles, and pinecones.

Rachael and David had a classic white cake with gold piping at the base of each tier.  Rachael found a beautiful hand-painted cake stand that matched everything perfectly.  We finished it off with a single white ranunculus with pine accents.

Top tier: chocolate cake with chocolate fudge filling, Bottom tier: Vanilla white cake with strawberry buttercream filling, Outside: Classic vanilla buttercream

Isn’t this adorable? Rachael is from California and David is from Australia!

Small Tarts for a Sweet Cause

This year was the 2nd annual Dinner for Good charity to raise money for camp for orphans in Ukraine. Our dear friend Annie ministers in Ukraine as part of Open Arms Ukraine. Many of the orphans in Ukraine end up in prison, prostitution, homelessness, or death. Open Arms Ukraine gives these young people the tools they need to prepare for life outside the orphanage by helping provide for them physically, educationally, emotionally, and spiritually.

We had the privilege of partnering with our talented friends to create a wonderful evening of food and fellowship. Please check our Open Arms Ukraine and follow this amazing ministry!

 

*All photos from Breslow Imaging

We had a delicious dinner provided by Salt House Pop Up!

Left to Right: Paul (Smalltown Society), Cathy (Petal and Posie Cakes), Annie (Open Arms Ukraine), me, Kensey, and Spencer (Salt House Pop Up)

Peachy Pink Peony

It was my goal to make a peony sugar flower during my time off while I’m in between jobs.  After finally getting all the supplies (cutters, veiners, celboard, floral wires, floral tape, etc.!), I finally made my first peony!  The center of it isn’t exactly “anatomically” correct, but once I get the right stamens, I’ll definitely try it again.  The next step will also be to add some leaves.  This flower took me about 3 hours per day over a period of 3 days to complete, and it was SO fun!  I can’t wait to make more!

Peonies are one of my absolute favorite flowers along with dahlias, gerbera daisies, orchids, and ranunculus!  Hopefully I can learn how to make my other favorite flowers someday! :)

-Cortney

Peach and pink petal dust was added to make the flower look more lifelike.

Floral Heart Cake 2.0

One of our most favorite designs is the floral heart cake inspired by Rifle Paper Co.‘s floral heart print.  We first came up with the design copying the Rifle Paper colors in a previous post, but got a request to do the same cake to match the beautiful color palette of a wedding.

 

When Kristy sent me the color palette (navy, light pink, dark pink, and gold), I got so excited!  It reminded me of something you’d find on a Kate Spade print.  Plus, anything with a touch of gold automatically makes it awesome.

I loved the gold scallop cake board with it!

 

Detail shot. My favorite were the little gold flowers. :)

Shades of Pink

If there’s one cake trend we’ve absolutely fallen in love with, it’s the ombré cake trend!  In French, it literally means “shaded”!  Beautiful gradients of color can be both whimsical and sophisticated.  We’ve had the pleasure of being able to create two ombré cakes recently: one for a gender reveal, and one for a wedding.

For the wedding cake, we made both the inside AND the outside ombré.  Unfortunately we didn’t get to see the inside of the wedding cake, but hopefully we can get a picture of what it looked like once it was sliced into.  The bride and groom picked out these beautiful rice paper butterflies from Etsy which added movement to the cake.

The flavors of this cake was pink velvet (gradients of pink inside) with a cream cheese filling, and vanilla buttercream on the outside.

For the gender reveal cake, the outside was frosted plain white and revealed a ombré of coral and peach inside to tell their party guests that they were having a girl!

Getting just the right colors was admittedly harder than we thought, but the payoff was so worth it!  The gender reveal cake was made with a simple white cake and vanilla buttercream.

We had SO much fun making these cakes!  Thank you to the expecting couple and the newlyweds for letting us bring out our girly pink side to creating these lovely desserts!

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