CakeDreams

Saturday, May 15, 2010

Celebration Cookies!

This is the season for showers...all kinds of showers!

Babies, weddings, and birthdays present wonderful occassions for cookie favors!

Baby Onsies Cookies for a baby girl's shower

Pink Martini Cookies for a bridal shower.

A "Perfect Pair" bridal shower cookies

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Johns Hopkins Hospital Retirement of 35 Years

This Cake was inspired by the Johns Hopkins Hospital Emblem

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Baby Girls and Butterflies

This is Eliana's First Birthday Cake!
A lemon cake with vanilla buttercream
and fresh raspberries. The little cake is for
Eliana to enjoy (her smash cake).

Thursday, March 25, 2010

An Officer Retires!

A sheet cake to honor a law man of 37 years!

Smith Island Cake

This is my version of the famous
Smith Island 10 layer cake!

Spaghetti Cake!

Spaghetti Cake for my lovely

Italian principal's 60th Birthday!

We celebrated at an Italian restaurant.

What better for a celebration like this

one then a large bowl of Italian Spaghetti!

Sunday, January 17, 2010

A very nice family contacted me recently
requesting a cake for one of their favorite
relatives. The cake request was for a 50th
birthday, and the family described the birthday
girl as very "girly" and that she liked "bling".
I found inspiration for this cake from several
sources. I knew I wanted to include some jewlery
accents and a hat box/jewlery box theme.
I was excited by the result!

Setting up the cake at Amicci's retaurant

The backside of the cake...

Bows and brooches...

Gumpase brooch.

Jewels and 50th plaque...

Cake was vanilla butter cake with vanilla buttercream

and white chocolate ganash...

What Clients Have to Say...

A Very Girly Birthday Cake...

Tara, I couldn't wait to come home to email you about this cake. It (and you) were the hit of the party. That is literally the conversation I had over and over with everyone. The main comment was "This cake is so Celeste!" and beautiful. The only regret I had was that I did not have your card to hand out. Everyone wanted to know all about you. It not only was perfect in every way, it tasted phenomenal! Celeste, my cousin, just loved everything about it. She really did not want me to cut it, but I assured her that we had pictures and that the guests wanted to taste it. Again, it far exceeded every wonderful expectation I had, which made it more than wonderful Tara! Really great....

Thanks,

Kelly Keh

Shoe Cake...

The cake was the focal point of the evening. We were absolutely amazed at the design that you came up with. The name in the shoe!! That just "took the cake"!! The colors and detail were so so cute! And then there was the eating of the cake. So many of our guests said that when a cake is decorated so beautifully as yours, often the taste is just so so. We had people asking for a second piece. We were positively delighted with everything, Tara. Your excellence is such a reflection of the God who you serve. Congratulations on the creative genius which you so generously share with us. We love you and thank you for everything.

Gift Box Cake...

YEY for the cakes in Tara's dreams!!! What a hit the package and the doggie made. When people saw it their jaws LITERALLY dropped. Everyone asked about you and your business. The carrot cake and buttercream was superb. My aunt absolutely loved the package, the bow, the flowers, the beads, the signage, the colors, and the westie. Tara, it made such a big hit. Everyone with a camera took photos of the cake! You deserve another giant hug and great big THANKS. Thank you for the wonderful work of art you prepared for us. Everyone cringed when the cake got cut but Betty Jean has all the commemoratives that you made: the lid, the flowers, the doggie, etc. as a forever keepsake. You did good, Girl!!

LOVE and thanks

Calla