This is one of those cases where the picture does not properly convey how large the cake is. So I’ll preface this post by stating the cake is 3 feet long and feeds 100 people. So keep that in mind as you read this

The story behind this cake is that it represents a model of a plane the birthday boy wants but does not have yet. The cake includes models of his dogs, his company’s logo, LED lights and a grammy. We delivered the cake to Atlantic City, NJ. Inside the plane was marble cake with oreos and cream buttercream.

Happy 50th Birthday Gary!

Here’s a video I shot at the shop:

Can’t wait till Nancy sends us the professional photos. I agree with her -- the picture doesn’t do it justice…

Dear Anne -- Thank you, thank you, thank you for the unreal cake. The picture on your web site doesn’t do it justice!! Everyone was totally blown away by the cake and most importantly, my husband flipped over it!! Every detail was perfect and the addition of the lights was awesome. I can’t wait to get the professional pictures back (not that yours weren’t professional ) -- the cake lit up was especially dramatic in the dark club. I will forward them to you when I get them. It is so true that you can’t appreciate the shear size of it. Of course the cake tasted wonderful!

Again, thanks so much and I look forward to working with you again in the future.

Nancy

So every year, I like to make my one-and-only bro a birthday cake. Well, this year had to be extra special because he was turning 35! To commemorate this mid-decade milestone, I thought it would be fun to make a bust of Serge. I knew this was going to be a difficult undertaking, seeing as I’ve never sculpted a head out of anything, let alone edible materials. But, I knew if I could even sort of pull it off, my brother would think it was really funny.

Well, here it is. It is funny. And sort of creepy….:) Happy Birthday Serge! I love you and don’t think you are creepy ( even though your head made out of cake is ).

His body is made of cake -- chocolate cake filled with peanut butter cup and chocolate peanut butter buttercreams. His head is rice krispy treat and modeling chocolate. Then it was covered in fondant, airbrushed, painted, etc.

Here’s a video I shot at the shop. It also includes my brother’s reaction to the cake:

The famous bull and bear which represent the ups and downs of the stock market are perfect themes to help celebrate the retirement and 70th birthday celebration of a life-long Wall Street employee.

The entire bear is edible with a combination of modeling chocolate, cake and rice krispy treats. The bull represents the famous bull down on Wall Street in battery park.  The bull is also edible with the exception of his legs which are made of PVC pipe covered in modeling chocolate.

The bear flavors included chocolate cake with raspberry chambord while the bull was red velvet cake with vanilla buttercream.. We delivered the pair of cakes to Lucky Strike on West 42nd St in New York City.

Here’s a video we shot at the shop:

These cakes were definitely a labor of love, and what made it all worth was this wonderful note of appreciation we received from our customer:

Dear Anne,

You are a true artist and should be very proud of yourself. You created a work of art that exceeded my expectations. The guest did not even realize they were cakes .They all know that I take sculpting classes and they thought these cakes were my latest works. I had to tell them all that they were not sculptures and were indeed cakes. The bull was anatomically correct in every way. Great fun .The cakes were remarkable and it was very painful to have to cut into them, but once we did they turned out to be equally good on the inside as they were beautiful on the outside.

I gave your company name to everyone who requested it and I hope you eventually get a lot of business from it.

Thank you so much for realizing my vision to perfection.

Arlette

This 3d sculpted purple chair cake was created for a bridal shower.   Laying on the chair is one large lime pillow with a purple bow and a couple of sugar magazines.

The whimsical feel of the chair reminds me of the Burton’s upcoming version of Alice in Wonderland – which by the way looks incredible! You can watch the trailer here.

Here’s another incarnation of our popular dress form cake. Atop this fancy Bat Mitzvah cake are sparkly twirly decorations and a single gold fabric rose. Pleated sugar fabric runs along the top while sequins and crystals were hand placed along the waist of the dress. The skirt includes a gold painted damask pattern. Towards the bottom of the dress cake are ruffles hand painted with gold edges.

Around the back of the dress we included more gold fabric roses with a blue sash and more sugar sequins.

Here is a closeup of the sequins and crytals placed along the dress’s waistband:

From the video:

We’ve got a fancy schmancy bat mitzvah cake here. It’s a dress form and at the top we have these sparkly twirly things and cool gold fabric roses.

We hand placed each one of these sugar sequins sequences and crystals. The skirt was hand painted with a gold damask pattern..painstakenly!

And then the base is on a metal pole with a single sugar rose at the bottom.

We delivered the cake to the Four Seasons Hotel in Philadelphia, PA.

Jodi left us this FANTASTIC comment:

I don’t even know what to say!!!!!! No one has EVER EVER EVER EVER seen a cake like this. My daughter, who just had her Bat Mitzvah this past Saturday was the one who found pinkcakebox last year when she was googling cakes…….and what do you know….a YEAR later…….and the MOST TALKED ABOUT CAKE EVER!!! Not only was this a TRUE SHOWSTOPPER but DELICIOUSSSSSSSSSSSSSS…..one friend ate 6 peices before his wife had to tell him to stop!!!!!

Read the rest here

This sculpted cake was fashioned after the groom’s cat.  The cake is complete with it’s own “I Love Dad” t-shirt and bright blue eyes.  Sitting at the base of the cake is the cat’s favorite toy -- a golf ball. The cake flavors included red velvet cake with vanilla buttercream.

Here’s a video I shot at the shop:

The birthday boy for this cake apparently always joked he’d love a bushel of fifty dollar bills for this birthday. So we were happy to
oblige… The fifties were made out of sugar with edible images. The brown barrel is covered in fondant and airbrushed. Happy Birthday!

See more of this sculpted cake in the video I shot at the shop yesterday:

Carol left us this wonderful blog comment!! Thanks Carol we are glad you and your husband enjoyed the cake:

When asked, “what would you like for a gift?” my husband always replies, “just give me a bushel basket of fifties.” The cake you designed to depict that for a very big birthday of his went above and beyond. It was sensational! Not only did you far exceed what we enivisioned, but the cake was delicious as well! It was so cute to see the children take a slice of cake with a $50 bill as a side. Thank you so much!!!

This 3d sculpted nut-free golf bag cake is filled with chocolate cake and oreos and cream buttercream. The bag is covered in blue and gold fondant and includes a Fighting Irish Man to round out the Notre Dame theme. We delivered the cake to the Lake Mohawk Country Club in Sparta, NJ.

Lindsey reached out to us back in August and asked us to create this MH-60 Sierra helicopter cake for her fiance who flies for the Navy. We incorporated his squadron’s emblem on the door of the helicopter along with the navy star on the body.

The cake included chocolate cake with oreo buttercream. The helicopter was delivered to the Crystal Plaza in Livingston, NJ.

This picnic basket cake was created for a 40th anniversary surprise party. The party had a barbecue theme and the cake included a basket complete with watermelon, barbecued chicken leg and a small little ant stealing a piece of cheese.

Inside the basket included red velvet cake with one layer of vanille buttercream, one layer of raspberry buttercream, and one layer of hazelnut buttercream.

We delivered the cake to Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, NJ.

Renee left us this email after the party. We look forward to seeing her pictures:

Dear Anne & Crew,

The picnic basket cake for my parent’s 40th anniversary was amazing. (July 18th) My parents loved it – and so did all of our other guests. It had a room to itself! Hope to send you a few pictures in the next day or so.
Thank you for all of your hard work for us!

Sincerely,
Renee