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PLAY-IN-SUGAR...BIRTHDAY BLESSINGS!

My business, Blue Ivy Company & Cakery added a new service called Play-in-Sugar. It's my friend, Chef Deloraine Wellington of Delicious Blessings and I teaches cake decorating at children's party. Deloraine has the experience on a larger scale doing children's parties of this sort, while I on the other hand have taught the children in my Children's Church class baking and decorating cookies. The youngsters loved decorating the cakes and were just having a blast especially when we have the challenge.

Last month we had one of our largest group of about 35 girls and boys at the party of Deloraine's friend, Ayda daughter. Below is a video of pictures we took of the "decorators-in-training."

BIRTHDAY BLESSINGS!

Want to book your party with us? Go to my website Blue Ivy Company & Cakery and go to Play-in-Sugar to book your party. There will not be one dull moment at your next party and the kids will have a BLAST!!

Garth & Tiffany Parke Wedding Cake

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This cake for Garth and Tiffany Parke I made and delivered to the beautiful  Wyndham Sea Gardens Resort, Pompano Beach, Florida for a wedding ceremony on the beach and reception across the street at the resort. I never thought this would have been one of my most bespoken cakes because of the sugar orchids and hibiscus cascading down the side of the cake. I think I got carried away with the flowers compared to the picture Garth sent me for inspiration. The couple wanted a yellow cake with American butter cream. I made shells using white chocolate and white candy melts, then dust with pearl luster dust. The final touch on the cake was airbrushing cake with pearlized color to give the dewy and shimmery look.

The lovely couple and mother of the bride were very happy with the result. I met Tiffany in December 2009 when I attended the wedding of her sister Tangella, whose wedding cake I also made and was a big hit too.

Healthy Eats » Archive » 5 Ingredients: Mustard Roasted Salmon

I came across this recipe from Healthy Eats, and it looks just 'delish!' This is a must try.

Healthy Eats » Archive » 5 Ingredients: Mustard Roasted Salmon

Post and let me know how it turned out.

Walk good,

Jeannie

Garth & Tiffany's Wedding Cake

I got carried away making orchids and hibiscus flowers! I was experiencing one of those 'spiritaul moments' beacuse I felt Him working through me to create another sugar-art masterpiece (see picture posted above).

This cake I made for our nephew's sister-in-laws. The wedding was on the beach and the reception held at the Wyndham Seahorse Resort, Pompano Beach, Florida.

The cake was a yellow cake filled and covered with American buttercream which I airburshed with Super Pearl Sheen. The shells were made using white chocolate and white candy melts then dusted with Super Pearl. The orchids, hibisus and filler flowers made using gumpaste. I was really happy how this cake turned out. I did not wait through the whole wedding, but before I got home, I received a text of "Thank you..." and how well it was received.

If the bride and groom are happy, then I'm happy.

Walk good till next time...

Jeannie

Baby Noah

This cake has been one of my most popular piece of art. Yes; it is a piece of art. Because every forming, molding, shaping and colouring, for me, is an expression of the creative essence that God has placed in me. If I should never earn great wealth doing cake decorating, I will still have joy because I feel I am doing and using what God has given me to make others happy.

In the way Noah received the promise from God after the flood subsides; I see my rainbow in the sky too...what a wonderful God we serve!!

Remember: baking is a science; cake decorating is an art...

Happy caking and walk good till next time...

Jeannie

Orchid for Wedding Cake

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I'm really excited about this wedding cake I'm doing for an in-law! Here is one of the orchids I will be using to decorate the cake.

Happy caking and walk good till next time.

Jeannie

Showtime Birthday Purse

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I made cake for my neighbour, she saw a previous cake I made and could not believe it was a pocketbook. I did not dry shoes well, so the heel started to shrink. Held it ups with chocolate. I hand painted the Gucci pattern, airbrushed cake with Super Red.

Happy baking and caking. Walk good 'till next time...

Jeannie

Lichelle Farmer - October Wedding

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A dear friend called and me on "hump day' (Wednesday) said she needed a cake for "last day" (Saturday). Could not resist the sugar fix. Oh, did I mentioned it was a wedding cake?

Thanks for looking, walk good until we meet again.

Jeannie

Nico "The Diver"

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My first diver. Got ideas from a few cakes I found on Flickr. I cut sea creatures using a cutter. Cake is a double chocolate cake with chocolate cream filling. TFL

Open Door Ministries - Open Bible

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I made this cake for my SIL pastor's ordination service. It's 2-11x15 cakes next to each other. One cake a coconut cake with cream cheese-coconut filling, the other a red velvet with cream cheese filling. Cake(s) covered with fondant. The writing on scrolls done with photoimage using edible ink. Scrolls were made using cardboard center form parchment paper roll (cut in half) and dowel inserted in the center the covered with fondant. TFL

Walk good untill we meet again,

Jeannie

Baby Shower

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This cake was for a baby shower cake for a young couple expecting their first child (a boy). Invitations had buttons and foot prints. Gumpaste baby in cot. I removed the block the cot stood on and placed it on a gold plate instead. Forgot to take that shot.

This is my first attempt at making a cake and cupcakes to go along. I really enjoyed doing this cake for Lisa. She asked me to do it for her son and daughter-in-law, Alvin and Janice. I had ample time to make the baby, cot and decorative pieces.

Thank you for looking and walk good untill we meet again,

Jeannie

Blame The Baker

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I made this cake for Kena who is not a pole dancer, but does pole fitness. It's a new fitness routine which is gaining popularity. She said since she started doing pole fitness, she has toned and gain strength in her upper body. She wish I would stop baking such delicious cakes so she could better shape her lower body.

Yeah! Blame the baker.

Happy caking, and walk good...

Jeannie

Garry A Yankee?

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This cake was a gift to my BIL (brother-in-law) since he and my sister are huge New York Yankee fans. As a matter of fact, I have a strange feeling, they maybe ghost owners of the ball club...I'm just saying...'cause if a good portion of your wardrobe has NY on it; you jewelry says NY, your shoes says NY...there is a patters here.

Apart from he and my sister Yankeeness, he was so surprise when I showed up with the cake. Happy (now belated) birthday Garry!

Walk good...

Jeannie

Happy Birthday Mommy!

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To celebrate her special day, I made a cake to tease her because these are some of the stuff she shouldn't eat. As you can see, it's still in the box and I have the cake in my office so she has not seen it yet!

She is going to be shocked! Worse, I forgot my camera and had to take picture with my cellphone. Snap!! I'll post a picture of her face when she sees it.

The cake is a chocolate cake I have been baking which she just loves; another thing she should not be eating also. Anyway, it's her day to celebrate and birthdays you have once each year.

Walk good, and happy caking.

Jeannie

April Shower

About one week ago I made this cake for Lesley's bridal shower. I was inspired by a cake I saw on Cake Central:

It was a lemon cake with raspberry filling covered with buttercream and fondant. This weekend is her wedding. I am so happy for her...she asked Lizca and I to do her wedding cake!

Walk good and happy caking!

Jeannie

The Shoes are Made for Eating

This is a true statment: "Women love to buy shoes, pocketbooks (handbags or purse) and articles of clothing." The reason I said this is true, is lately I have been getting a number of request from friends to make them a pocketbook cake or a cake with a pair of shoes on top. Sometime, the party has both - pocketbook and shoes!

This is Apryl's birthday cake. It was my first of this type (animal print and shoes)

This is also Apry's birthday cake. The pocketbook is similar to her baby bag. I just left off the baby stuff since it was a "birthday cake".

This cake is for my friend, Linda. A yellow cake covered in buttercream and a pair of shoes. The cake was for her Bible Study group. Lois was celebrating her 80-something birthday!

I have four more cakes to do around Mother's Day. So Mom, you will have a pocketbook you can eat.

Walk good and happy caking,

Jeannie

Cupcake Craze

I have Bible Study tonight and what better to share other than cupcakes? Last night I knock-up these yellow cupcakes; cover them with buttercream (not Swiss Meringue Buttercream - it was almost as fluffly) and fancy them with fondant/gumpaste decorations. I was in "sugar heaven." Check them out:
By the way, I made 12 cupcakes...the cupcake caper strikes again!
Walk good and happy caking...


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Dol-fan Cake

Have you ever heard of a “Dol-fan?” Well a Dol-fan is a diehard, win or loose, hands down, supporter of the home team, The Miami Dolphins kind-a-fan. In other words, this is the unofficial name for my nephew, Michael – he is a Dol-fan.

So it was no surprise for his birthday cake he wanted a Miami Dolphins theme cake. A few years ago I made him a Miami Dolphin cake for his birthday and ended up having to make a New York Jets cake for his older brother, Dominic, two months later. I am sure he thought I was going to make a sheet cake and put the Dolphin logo in buttercream on the cake. I surprised him with this cake gift: 

Michael was turning 11, so I placed it above the Dolphin on the helmet. He plays Impact football and his number is five, so the five yards line fell right in place. The Dolphin I drew on sugar paper and coloured with gel food colour. He wanted a chocolate cake, so I made a cake filled with whipped chocolate cream filling and covered with chocolate Swiss Meringue Buttercream then covered with fondant.  The biggest challenge was stacking and carving the cake; plus making the grill out of gum paste. The grill broke and I had to patch it (forgot to make an extra one) in a number of places – oops!

My sister told me that he said, if his NFL career does not take off he would like to become a baker. Sweet! We have another baker in the family.

Walk good and happy caking!

Jeannie

Cheetah Cake

In January I had a special request for a birthday cake from my niece, Lady Katherine. That request was for a “Cheetah Girls” theme birthday cake. Well, I was up to the challenge, because that’s exactly what it was – a challenge to my cake decorating skills. I got a few ideas from a few bakers from one of my favorite addiction: Cake Central.

The cake was a French Vanilla cheesecake-flavored yellow cake with cheesecake filling and Swiss Meringue Buttercream. The cheetah print was on sugar paper along with pictures of the group on the side. Additional decorations were done using fondant. Lady Katherine was so thrilled! She said the cake was so delicious. With this cake I scored extra “Sweet Auntie Brownie Points!”

Walk good and happy caking. Sweet!!!