Liliana's Birthday

This sheet cake was made for Liliana's Birthday. The design request was for pastel polka dots & "springy" since her birthday was also on the first day of Spring! It was a white cake w/ fresh strawberries, whipped cream filling & icing & buttercream & colored whipped cream details.

"Hi Leah,

Just wanted to say thank you again for Liliana's cake. It was exactly what I wanted it to be in terms of flavors, texture and looks. It was perfect and everyone enjoyed it!!! I will definitely recommend you. Thanks again!"

-L

Grooms Cake

This grooms cake was a surprise for Mary Benton's fiance! It was a chocolate cake w/ chocolate buttercream! The fondant details were all little parts of the groom's life!

Tennis Bday

This cake was made for my awesome graphic designer Talya's mother in law. She requested a tennis cake with bright colors & flowers!!

It is a chocolate cake w/ ganache filling, buttercream frosting & fondant details!

More Birthday Cake

This sheet cake was for Mike & Telzey's Birthday!

It was a white cake, with ganache filling, whipped cream frosting & buttercream details!

"Leah! The cake was fantastic! I gave out all your cards, everyone was very impressed!

Thanks again, the cake was great! Do you have a spot for recommendations on your website?"

-T

Princess Cake

These cakes were made for Ava's first birthday! She had a pink and purple "princess" themed party! They are both white cakes w/ white buttercream filling. The 6" Cake has a fondant bow with fondant and buttercream details.

"Hi Leah,

Thank you so much for Ava's cake. Everyone at the party raved about how beautiful it was. And also it was delicious!!! I gave out a few of your cards and I am telling everyone about you. I m looking forward to having another special occasion to order a cake from you.

Thanks again, "
AD :)

Birthday Cakes!

This birthday cake was made for Jonathan's 18th Birthday. It is a white cake w/ chocolate fudge filling and chocolate buttercream icing. This was my artistic buttercream interpretation of Camouflage :) He loves fishing and hunting!

This bright & funky cake was for Karisma's 39th Birthday! It is a chocolate cake w/ white buttercream filling, and buttercream & fondant details!

"Hi Leah!
The birthday cake was a HUGE hit!! It was fabulous and delicious! I can guarantee more customers coming your way!!! Thank you so much!!! "

-S

Vegas Cake & Cupcakes

This Cake and Cupcakes were made for an auction for a Walnut Creek Elementary school. The theme of the night was "Viva Las Vegas"! I didn't get a picture of the cakes & cupcakes together and set up because they had to be kept in the fridge since they would not be up for auction until the end of the night. If you can't tell the cupcakes spell out Viva Las Vegas :)

The cake was a checkerboard chocolate and white cake (when you cut into it it literally looks like a checkerboard) with buttercream filling & fondant details on the outside of the cake. The cupcakes are a delicious southern red velvet recipe (with my SECRET ingredient) and a fluffy cream cheese buttercream w/ fondant letters!

"Hello Leah I just wanted to thank you for the fabulous cake last

night. We bought the cake and everyone at the table had nothing but

great things to say about your cupcakes. They were moist and pretty

and tasted fabulous. I personally loved your cream cheese frosting.

We were all fully impressed with the fact that the cake looked so

smooth and beautiful without being covered in a full sheet of fondant.

Just thought I would let you know that all you time and effort was

apreciated. And we will remeber you for our future cake needs."

-C

Semifreddi's Bday Cake

This sheet cake is for another Semifreddi's employee birthday celebration.

To be honest, sheet cakes are the hardest thing for me to do!! Not because they are technically "hard" in fact, they are probably the easiest thing to do! And that's the problem! A sheet cake is a sheet cake is a sheet cake, and to make it look fun, modern & exciting and not like a boring ole grocery store sheet cake is actually kind of hard!

Anyhow, I think this one has some flair for a sheet cake! It is a chocolate cake, w/ espresso buttercream, whipped cream frosting, and buttercream details!

German Chocolate

This German Chocolate cake was a surprise birthday cake!! It is a traditional German Chocolate cake w/ a little twist- the cake is made with egg whites folded in- giving it a light and fluffy texture! The cake is actually also covered in a chocolate buttercream underneath the traditional gooey yummy caramel/coconut/pecan frosting for even extra YUM!!

Neighborly Love

Boy do I have lucky neighbors! Whenever I have leftover goodies (Come on I can't eat all the leftover cupcakes myself!!!) I always pass some out to my neighbors! These were double chocolate w/ cream cheese icing and PARTY sprinkles!!

If you know me- you know I love to live my life ~colorfully!~ if it was up to me my whole life would look like these cupcakes :)

Kinsey Cupcakes

These funky little cupcakes were for Kinsey's 7th Birthday! They are double chocolate cupcakes w/ white buttercream & fondant details!

Baby Shower Cupcakes

These cupcakes were for a baby shower. They were a mixture of both mini and standard sizes. The blue sprinkle balls were carrot cake w/ cream cheese icing, the chocolate sprinkles w/blue circle were strawberry w/ cream cheese icing and the white sprinkles were white cupcakes w/ chocolate buttercream!

Jenna's Fairy Cake!

This beyond cute fairy cake was for Jenna's 4th Birthday!

The bottom tier: was chocolate with buttercream

Middle tier: White with buttercream

Top: Yellow with chocolate buttercream.

The cake was covered w/ pink buttercream, airbrushed, buttercream detail and fondant details!

What a precious cake, birthday girl & party!!

"Leah - thank you so much for the delicious and beautiful cake. Jenna loved

it and we got SO many comments on it.

I am going to send you some pictures soon, but wanted to really thank you

for such a great job - it really made the party!"

Katrina

Holiday Treats!

Here are just a few of the Holiday Treats that were made this season!

These were 24 Mini Eggnog Loaves. They are much like an eggnog flavored pound cake. All the cards were decorated and ribbon wrapped by hand- what a fun and festive gift for neighbors, coworkers & friends!

These were just a select few out of the !!hundreds!! of "Great Grandma Holliday's Christmas Cookies" Yes, my great grandma's last name really was Holliday and yes, they really are a secret family recipe ;)! They are decorated with a delicious sour cream icing and sprinkles.
This Christmas Cake was a 9" White & Chocolate 4 layer cake- but the secret surprise was that the white layers were colored red & green so when you cut into it the inside was even more festive than the outside! ((Pictures of cut cake to come soon!)) It had a chocolate buttercream filling with crushed holiday chocolate candies in each layer! The outside is decorated with buttercream and fondant details.

Mini "white on white" cupcakes

White mini cupcakes w/ buttercream balls and white sprinkles for an AuPair Care event in San Francisco!

Holiday Carrot Cake Cupcakes

These festive cupcakes are carrot cake with a cream cheese icing!

Month of November

Boy have I been busy the past month (and out of town!) Well, the holidays are a time for family- and that is what I have been up to! Today I am going to feature some of my sweet treats that I have been sharing with my family and friends from Halloween, Thanksgiving, a trip home to TX, and more!

Here is a picture of Robbie, 10, one of the kids I babysit for enjoying a pumpkin & cream cheese cupcake on Halloween!

Although you can't see the actual treats-- Let me tell ya they were yummy!!! The first was a mini pumpkin pecan loaf with a brown sugar streussel, and the second- pumpkin sour cream bars with chocolate chips, walnuts & a brown butter icing.

Here is a picture of me with my apple raspberry pie before it went in the oven! It was made with a cinnamon crust & a turbinado sugar glaze!

Here is the pie on Thanksgiving- so crispy, flaky & delicious!!

This is a (poor) shot of the most delicious pumpkin pie I have ever made/eaten!! It was a cream cheese pumpkin filling with an almond spice whipped cream.. MMMMMM!!Here is a picture of my Dad & I during my trip home to TX. It was his birthday-- he is a chocolaholic can you tell???
It was a chocolate cake with chocolate cream cheese fudge filling, ganache & semisweet chocolate chunks on the outside!
Unfortunately my trip home was because my beautiful mother was diagnosed with breast cancer in October & was having her surgery. I made her these cream cheese sugar cookies with Royal Icing!!

Watch out for HOLIDAY TREATS soon to come on the blog!!