A Sweet Life Cakery

Ok, so Nicholas had a huge bash this weekend.  He happens to be the son of Ralph Giordano from Giordano's Floral Creations.  My sister is the manager at this floral shop and is so amazingly talented, it blows my mind. 

The cake created for this event was OVER THREE FEET TALL!!!  Whoot-Whoot, Nicholas had a blast at his party and was blown away by the cake because he didn't expect this type of cake.  Dad told me to just do a couple of dice but I cou...

It's been quite busy at A Sweet Life Cakery.  Between cake orders, wedding shows and getting ready for a fantastic full page ad in The Knot magazine and getting photos ready, it's been hard to keep up.  My trusty assistants Amy and Arielle are really such a help and help me keep my focus.

Here are a couple of pictures from the recent show we did in West Palm Beach at the Marriott.

Please see the forum page on this web site.  We are making strides toward getting a Cake Club up and running on the Teasure Coast which may include video conferencing if I can figure out how to make the program work for that. 

There is so much going on in the world of cake and sugar art.  The goal of the Treasure Coast Cake Club will be to meet with other cake junkies to have a fun time, meet&...

I recently had the opportunity to make a wedding cake for Tara & Ganett's wedding.  The only thing is I am in Florida and they are in Minnesota.  Tara is a cousin so I had to volunteer to make the cake when I heard she was getting hitched.  Little did I know what was involved in taking a cake from Florida and flying with it to another state.  I'm sure I'm not the first and certainly not the last to do this but the key is to really plan well.

As the m...

I can't stop talking about the amazing past few days I have spent learning from such amazing talent.  Every now and then I need a mental break and have to take time away from everything and everyone so I can regroup my thoughts and revitalize my inspiration.  I spent the past three days, Friday through Sunday in Orlando at a continuing education class with Marina Sousa.  Those of you familiar with Marina's work know she has been on several Food Network Challenges and has held h...

Part of the reason I love doing cakes is that it brings joy to someone else.  Who ever heard of someone being sad at receiving a cool cake.  While this blog is a little delayed, I didn't want to fail posting it.

In March I had the pleasure of creating a cake for a special person, Brent.  His mother had been here for him for such a long time as he underwent personal trials in his life.  Brent had been undergoing such a severe form of cancer that it was l...

Just a quick note regarding the ICES Day of Sharing held this past weekend.  If you are not familiar with ICES, it is an amazing organization of cake decorators, professions, novice sugar artists and everyone in between.  If interested in further information visit www.ices.org.

I was amazed how many people are into creating cakes.  The room was packed with people of all skill levels.  It was nice to sit amongst othe...

Thanks Danielle for allowing me to make this for you.  I always enjoy creating new and interesting designs in cake.

The cake is a marble cake with a layer of buttercream and ganache.  The cakes were stacked and then carved to give it somewhat of the shape I needed.  I then iced with ganache to give it a smooth finish.  I then covered with fonant and embelished with all the do-dads that are typically on a Camaro. 

When creati...

I had the pleasure of creating a very special grooms cake which was a total surprise to the groom.  The cake dawned a working LED light, O'Bryan's signature Firefighting Irish patch and lucky green clover on the back of the helmet.

Here are a few pictures to share of the cake in a couple of angles and the groom afterward with his cake...............

So I had a friend request a cake to look like Jonas Brothers but the request was changed and she later asked for Zac Efron.  I had to think about this because it's really not always easy recreating someone in cake.  This is a brief glimpse into another method I used to do a Cake Face.  This is the other method I came up with by making it out of cake unlike the Cake Face 101 version which is crispy treats.

I started with one of those styrofoam heads ...

So, this turkey sandwich cake was created for a really cool person, Diane M.  She is a phone warrior at a law office and the girl means business.  All day Di' handles an obsene amount of phone calls and scheduling for multiple attorneys.  She is the pitbull of scheduling and she always gets the job done.  The first time I me her she had really long hair and would wear these Oakly sunglasses which made her look like someone you would not want to meet up with in a dark ...

Ok, so this isn't really cake but edible it is.  I can't say I have seen any instructions on the web for creating fondant heads so here is a glimpse into what I do in creating cake faces.  As long as you have an imagination, you can create any type of face you want.  I don't have any formal sculpting classes so I do what comes to me naturally and just keep playing with it until it comes out the way I want it.  I will say, however, it is helpful to look at books with instru...