The Cake Blog

Oh puns. You so funny.

This 12" Chocolate Devil's Food with truffle and mousse filling and a coffee buttercream is covered with ganache and has teal fondant waves around the sides with fondant starfish, shells, seahorses and coral.

~Joe

Here is a slightly different take on the barbie doll cakes we have done in the past.

It's Ken, yes, he is naked in all his plastic glory. That tie is totally made to scale.

7" x 7" White cake with strawberries, mangoes, and grand marnier whipped cream filling. Made extra tall to hold Ken's 7" of leggy wonder. Covered in red buttercream with green (lime green) pink (bright pink) and yellow (golden yellow) fondant stripes on the sides and red fondant "bursts" surrounding Ken.

~Joe

This cake was made too mimic the design aspects of the invitation to Sarah's 30th Birthday Party.

It's an 11" Chocolate Raspberry Mousse Torte with vanilla buttercream and bright pink polka dots with smaller lime green polka dots made out of fondant.

~Joe

Here we have a tiramisu cake for 20 people that has been cut into the shape of a karate gi.

Covered in fondant and then a black fondant belt was added.

~Joe

Im gonna end (or start depending on how you look at it) today's posts with a cake my sister designed. I think it's fantastic. And it really shows her improvement over the last year. I mean look at the detail work and the precision in all the fondant shapes she cut out (like a puzzle) to make it all fit.

It's awesome.

11" Devil's food cake with raspberry preserves.

Fondant overalls.

~Joe

For some reason this cake reminds me of those video game markers that tell you which way to go. You know, it's usually a big arrow at the top middle of the screen showing you where the next checkpoint is.

Only this one is for finding a certain French tower.

Ah, France, I was willing to just run away and get lost there and never look back. Once and long ago.

Anyway, this is an 11" Chocolate Strawberry Fraisier with chocolate ganache.

Eiffel tower is piped on a triangular piece of fondant.

~Joe

And here is the pizza cake all done and finished.

10" White cake with chocolate mousse filling and buttercream frosting.

The "red sauce" is a piece of red fondant with some grated white chocolate fondant for the cheese. The tomatoes, green peppers and mushrooms were all made out of fondant and hand painted to look like their respective vegetable counterparts.

The crust is some rolled fondant.

~Joe

Really cute and simple piggy cake.

Pink fondant ears and nose (and curly tail)

black fondant eyes and mouth.

And ta-da. Piggy!

~Joe

Anyone? No? Ok.

13"x13" Tuxedo Cake with Chocolate Ganache.

Pink Fondant stripes and dots with pink buttercream border.

~Joe

11" Triple Vanilla cake with baby decor in a neutral teal/greenish color.

Triple dot design on the sides.

Not a whole lot more to this cake.

~Joe

Dear Lani (from Lima),

Hey, if you are reading this, please email me

sales@margaretsfrenchbakery.com

Would love to chat about Peru and pastries.

Thank you

~Joe

Three princess cakes. Pretty simple and standard as far as our princess cakes go.

If you dont know already:

Princess Cake: vanilla or chocolate genoise filled with seedless raspberry preserves and Chantilly cream (Amaretto whipped cream) and frosted with Amaretto whipped cream, Amaretto buttercream or vanilla buttercream

Of you can look in my profile to see all the other flavor descriptions, if that's your cup of tea.

I do believe these are vanilla genoise princess cakes with tea green, raspberry punch red (?) and golden yellow marzipan covering.

~Joe

Top tier 4"x4" = Red Velvet
Middle tier 7"x7" = Red Velvet
Bottom tier 10"x10" = Red Velvet

Purple buttercream with a lavender ribbon and yellow henna design scroll work.

Purple loop ribbon with yellow loop ribbon acents

~Joe

PS - oops, almost forgot. For 100 people at the Grace Bible Chapel.

Top tier 4" = Triple Vanilla with Strawberries
Middle tier 7" = Lemon Torte
Bottom tier 10" = Red Velvet

Medium blue buttercream painted with super blue and pearl luster dust with white bead borders.

Triple tear drop design painted pearl with fuchsia and green dendrobiums in a full cascade.

For 50 people.

~Joe

PS - I do believe the couple who picked this up cried when they saw this cake because this is the cake they wanted for their wedding that didnt get made. I could be confusing this with another cake, but Im pretty positive this is the one.

~Joe

Living in perfect harmony.

Or something like that I really like the juxtaposition of the white on chocolate for this cake. It makes the decor really pop (IMHO)

Top tier 6" = Mocha Torte
2nd tier 9" = Tiramisu
3rd tier 12" = Carrot Cake (YES!)
Bottom tier 15" = Truffle Torte

Delivered to Nestldown in the Santa Cruz mountains for 150 people.

Dark Chocolate buttercream frosting with white piped scroll design and the initials of the Bride and Groom.

~Joe

I think the cake topper is almost as tall as the actual cake. And I think I actually kind of like this cake topper too. Im not much of a cake topper kind of guy. And now I think Im just going to see how many times I can mention the words cake topper in this post.

Cake...

Top(per) tier 6" = Chocolate Raspberry Mousse Torte
Middle tier 10" = Orange Almond
Bottom tier 14" = Strawberry Grand Marnier

Covered with Buttercream and the champagne bubble design with a sage green ribbon at the base of each tier.

For 100 people at the Adobe Lodge at Santa Clara University.

~Joe

PS-Cake Topper.

Top tier 4" = Tiramisu
Middle tier 7" = Tiramisu
Bottom tier 10" = Orange Almond

Covered in Buttercream with burgundy swiss dot design and pink cymbidiums and green dendrobiums in a cascade.

Delivered to the beautiful Hakone Gardens in Saratoga for 50 people.

~Joe

Im back and Im feeling great. The trip was amazing as previously posted, and Im currently on Day 6 of 14 sorting through the photos. yay. Good times.

This cake was for 100 people and delivered to the Hayes Mansion.

Top tier 4" = Strawberry Grand Marnier
2nd tier 7" = Strawberry Grand Marnier
3rd tier 10" = Princess Cake
Bottom tier 13" = Truffle Torte with Raspberry

The cake is covered in buttercream with a scroll work/swiss dot design.

~Joe

PS-Missed you guys.

Actually I've been back since Saturday evening, but I've been recovering.

Anyway, Im doing well. Peru was amazingly fantastic I cant even begin to explain, but I'll try after I finish sorting through photos.

And I took a lot of photos, around 1500 of em.

It's good to be back and in my own bed. Those hotel beds get kind of stiff after awhile.

Well, not to leave you without anything, here is a picture of me in my new sweet (and by sweet I mean totally awesome) leather jacket I bought in Cusco.



Enjoy, and hopefully I'll have some more substantial cake/peru related posts within the next day or so.

~Kiyoshi

PS-how is everyone on the home front?

Here is something I worked on today.

Unfortunately you wont see the finished product until the 30th of March.

Why so long you ask?

I'll be in Peru for two weeks exploring the ruins of Machu Picchu, hiking through tropical rain forests, perusing quaint vendor booths on the streets of Lima, Rafting on Lake Titicaca.

So yeah, there will be a drought of cake until I'm back, and I apologize for that. It's actually been quite a hectic and trying month for me (I havent been in town once on any of the weekends, so I have had to bust my ass and finish everything during the week then take off), so I haven't been able to work on this blog as much as I would like. I do hope you are all doing well though.

I hope you all have a great end of March, including St. Patrick's and Easter.

Cheers, and take care everyone!

~Joe

PS-and yes, that is all edible and all for a cake.

PPS-expect lots of photos from Peru.

10"x10" Square with buttercream and real ribbon bow with pink and lavender fondant dots and a lavender fondant banner.

White cake with chocolate mousse and vanilla buttercream.

We got this order at 4 in the afternoon for the next day and we were done by 6 (along with all the other cakes we had to make for that day)

~Joe

Well, they are made when a mommy cake and a daddy cake love each other very much, then a few hours later, a baby cake comes out of the oven. They grow up so fast though.

9" White cake with vanilla soaking solution and hazelnut buttercream with ground hazelnuts and hazelnut paste (they like hazelnut apparently) and chocolate mousse filling.

Pink buttercream frosting with fondant drawing of stork holding a baby bundle.

~Joe

14" Strawberry Shortcake with buttercream frosting

Pink, lavender, green and yellow dots scattered randomly around the cake.

Every piece of Pooh was made separately and so I had to put them together in order for things to "mesh" well. As we used to say when I worked for an architectural firm "massage" them.

Pooh is made of fondant (9 pieces of fondant to be exact)

~Joe

Here is the finished with flowers version of this cake.

The bride and groom wanted us to see it finished so they sent us a picture, how awesome is that?

~Joe

Top = 6" Hexagon Carrot Cake
Middle = 10" Hexagon Orange Almond
Bottom = 15" Hexagon Chocolate Raspberry Mousse Torte

Delivered to the Royal Garden Seafood Restaurant for 100 people

Buttercream frosting with ribbon base and pearl bead boarders with pale pink tea and spray roses.

While I was delivering this cake, I had to keep walking in and out of the front door, and the guy who was watching the door asked me "Done yet?" every single time I went through the threshold. I found it kind of funny.

I also had no storied for the previous (post?) posts because I was driving all over California at the time.

~Joe

Top = 5"x5" Truffle Torte
2nd tier = 7"x7" Orange Almond
3rd tier = 10"x10" Red Velvet
Bottom = 14"x14" Neapolitan Torte

Delivered to the Palmdale Estates for 110 people

Sage green buttercream frosting with chocolate brown ribbon at base of each tier with large ivory dots and smaller white single dots.

~Joe

Top tier = 5" Carrot Cake
Middle tier = 8" Princess
Bottom tier = 11" Triple Vanilla

Delivered to the Hotel Los Gatos for 60 people

Buttercream frosting with cream colored ribbon at the base of each tier with bead borders on the top and bottom of the ribbon edge.

~Joe

Top tier = 6" Triple Vanilla
Bottom tier = 11" Truffle

Cut to be skewed on both the top and the sides of the cake.

The top tier has a pale pink fondant base color with dark pink and blue circles and dots. A pearlized "2" made from white chocolate with gumpaste twirls rests on top.

the bottom tier has a pale green fondant base color with yellow diamonds cut out of fondant with green fondant mini dots.

Along the base of each tier are pearlized fondant balls.

~Joe

Devil's Food cake covered with pink buttercream and chocolate brown fondant dots around the side with a chocolate brown fondant ribbon (and pink fondant dots) on top.

~Joe

It's hard enough to deliver a wedding cake to San Francisco, let alone a cake of this magnitude. It's really more of the shape being a problem than the size. I was worried that it would collapse over every little bump in the road after about 45 minutes of driving. But I got it there in record time and in one piece.

Top tier 6" Strawberry Grand Marnier
2nd tier 8" Strawberry Grand Marnier
3rd tier 10" Devil's Food
Bottom tier 12" Strawberry Grand Marnier

Top tier has a base coat of pearlized fondant with navy blue stripes and gold fondant ovals.

2nd tier has a quilted pattern on gold painted fondant.

3rd tier has a sand colored fondant base with pearlized flowers and navy blue stems.

Bottom tier has a navy colored fondant base with white diamonds and sand colored dots.

All tiers are cut at angles both on the sides and the top and have pearled fondant balls on the borders.

Delivered to the Argonaut Hotel in San Francisco for 120 people.

After this delivery I went to Japan town, yay!

~Joe