This castle cake was designed for a princess and it matched the color theme of the birthday girl’s party. It’s vanilla cake with chocolate fudge filling.

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This White cake with raspberry chambord filling was delivered to the Essex Fells Country Club in NJ.

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This wedding dress inspired cake is a rich chocolate cake filled with oreos and buttercream in the first tier, moist white cake with raspberry chambord filling in the next two tiers, and chocolate with peanut butter filling in the top tier.

Here is a shot of the wedding cake setup at South Gate Manor in Freehold, NJ.

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The bottom layer is chocolate cake with oreo and cream filling and the top layer is white cake with raspberry filling. The zebra print matched the birthday girl’s dress.

These cupcakes were included along with the pink designer bag cake for a bridal shower in new jersey.

Both cupcakes are vanilla cake with a combination of vanilla and raspberry buttercream.

White cake with raspberry chambord buttercream

I recently got this question from Michelle:

I love to bake and i think i have tried every cake and cupcake recipe out there. Do you have a good cupcake recipe you can send me? Also, my cupcakes never get that dome pretty look. How do you do that? Mine get all crispy on the edges and are flat. Do you have any suggestions? And finally, do you use foil cups or paper cups? Which one is better? Thanks soo much..

Hi Michelle,
Thanks for your email! I recommend getting Rose Levy Beranbaum’s Cake Bible. It’s a great book – and explains a lot about the science of baking. My initial reaction to your problem is possibly that your recipe has too much baking powder in it – try reducing the recipe by 1/2 tsp to 1 tsp. Often sunken cakes are a result of too much baking powder. Also it’s possible the cupcakes are overbaking or you may be overmixing your batter.

The Cake Bible is a really good asset because it explains a lot about why these factors affect your outcome. I hope this helps! Also, to answer your last question, I use paper cups. I like the way they look and I don’t think the cake sticks to the paper as much as it sticks to the aluminum foil.
Good Luck!
Anne

Yellow cake with Vanilla Custard for a Bat Mitzvah

These cute vanilla cupcakes with vanilla buttercream were done for a baby shower in Bridgewater, NJ

This 4-tier cake was for an Asian themed sweet 16 birthday party. The gold letters on the front were crafted to match the style of the birthday girls name on the invitations. (The dragon represents the artistic rendition of the “S” in Asia). The two middle layers are red velvet with cream cheese filling, while the outermost layers are white cake with vanilla buttercream.

We delivered the cake by car to the enormous Great Wolf Lodge in the Poconos Mountains, PA. I’ve never stayed at the lodge, but it looks like a fun place for young kids, and is right nearby camelback mountain for skiing.

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